medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture From: Diana Wright <[log in to unmask]> > Ordinarily I would agree, & perhaps in your house, but the other person got to the house 40 years before I did & has pretty well done for the stair space, especially as his study is half-way up. i think that C.T. was thinking of using the stairs to "organize" papers you've written using the old-fashioned "gravity" method --starting with a stack up at the head of the stairs and giving it a Good Hard Toss. certainly worked for me whenever i had to grade student exams. simple. swift. efficient. and, above all, "Fair" c > Cecil T Ault wrote: > > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > > > The staircase is really exellent for organizing papers, especially if > > you have a very tall house. yrs, t. ault > > > > > > On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:23:05 -0700 > > Diana Wright <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and > >> culture > >> > >> This question is for the rest of you who are NOT librarians. How do > >> you organize your files -- notes, offprints, photocopies, notebooks, > >> etc. -- & still keep things handy while you are writing? I think I > >> have reached some kind of tipping point. My ideal space would have a > >> couple of very long, parallel tables for stacking & spreading, but I > >> am pretty well limited to a small desk in a small bedroom for the > >> files and papers, although books are allowed all over the house. [It > >> was quite a struggle, though, to get them out of the bathroom closet, > >> but after a good pout they settled onto the staircase.] The issue > >> here is all the non-book stuff. > >> > >> > >> DW > > > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html > ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html