Jill's Journal: ‘I’m a list for a list person’
By:
Jill Meier, Journal editor
I’m one of those people. I’m a list person.
And sometimes – on those really busy, hectic days – I’m a list for a list person.
What is that, you ask?
It’s just that. I have a master list, and on occasion, that list constitutes another list – most often, one I can carry with me as I prance from one appointment to another.
Take last week’s first day of school for example. It was a busy day that started with those always-precious first day of school photos between 7:30 and 8 a.m., followed by a committee meeting at our local Chamber of Commerce office. An hour later, I was scheduled to meet with Tony Bosch and the gang in an office at Sunshine Foods to talk about, as you saw on page one, Tony and Pam’s exodus from the grocery and catering business that’s been a way of life for the large majority of their married life.
Then it time to check in at the office, and with a few hours’ break before meeting with Howard Brown to learn more about his 36-year career at the Brandon Post Office, I sold advertising, answered emails and gobbled down a quick, late lunch before heading to Steve Tripp’s insurance office for yet another meeting that day.
As I jumped from one appointment to another that day, the handy-dandy list that I’d scribbled on a piece of scratch paper tucked inside my pocket for quick reference, the list allowed me to be at the right place at the right time.
Following a busy day of running here and there, I must admit that I was never so happy to cross off the last few appointments of the day from my list: a haircut, dinner, and a few minutes to scratch out the next day’s list.
