Read the title again. It does say "hoarder" not "hoar" or some other weird, misspelled version of "whore". I'm not here to tell you about what a fantastic slut I am (which, incidentally, I am not). This is about WORK and lecture notes and other serious sh*t.
OK no, maybe not too serious :) but I have come to the realisation that my hoarding habits are not as terrible as I've always been led to believe. For those of you who are now confused, "hoarding" refers to keeping loads of old junk that you don't actually need but are far too clingy and pathetic to part with. I am an absolute nightmare when it comes to these things; I still have notes that my friends wrote to me in Grade 6 (I may actually also have my grade 5 NS notes floating around somewhere at home...). Why? Because I convince myself that I might need it again someday. It's the You-Never-Know-Syndrome, and it's a bitch when you're trying to keep your room clean. My cupboard at home is filled to the brim with old stationery, files, notes, space-cases and other random crap that I just can't bring myself to throw away. Last holiday I finally got around to clearing away all my old soft toys, and instead of throwing them out or giving them away I put them in a plastic bag in the cupboard. Along with the plastic bag filled with stuff that my ex gave me, the files filled with my recorder music from Grade 5 and the box with random bits and pieces that I didn't want to toss out because hey, you never know.
By now you're probably thinking "Where is she going with this? How is this relevant to Rhodes and my life as a partying, drinking, falling-down-and-passing-out, occasionally studying student?" Well, today I found out that my hoarding skills can be a huge advantage when it comes to certain varsity-related problems. Example? Yesterday my law lecturer emailed us our tutorial exercise for today. With it was a list of two chapters that we were meant to read and a number of questions to answer about rights and legal subjectivity. Did I have the chapters? Nope. Would I have read them? Probably not. But as I flicked through the endless list of questions (OK there were only...hang on, let me count them...8 of them) I felt a growing panic. My tut starts at 16:05 today. It was about 13:45 when I first opened the file and had a good look at the exercise. Where was I going to find the information I needed??
The brighter cookies among you will be going "Well she's on her blog now...so she must have found a way to do her tut quickly and effortlessly!" Bingo. Some of the material that the questions covered seemed vaguely familiar, so I dug through the mass of crap that I've collected over the years and blew the dust off my file of law notes from first year. And right there among my messy handwriting and crumpled assignments I found a set of notes that had the information I needed. I answered the theory questions in under 20 minutes, all because I had had the foresight (or desperate, obsessive-compulsive need) not to throw out my old notes. Now I have finished my tut with plenty of time to spare! (Admittedly, I only did one of the application questions. But my lecturer will never know that!) And so, my dear Rhodents, by hoarding old and supposedly useless crap I have won myself an hour in which to take a quick and much-needed nap before my tut begins. Because I'm cool like that. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
PS: As usual, apologies for not having posted in a long time. I'm running out of ideas regarding post material. Any suggestions are welcome! Hit me up on Facebook (those of you who know me) or leave me a comment on this post. :)
