While normally I try to keep my desk quite neat, both at my home office and at my campus office, I always need to spend some time cleaning up, organizing and rearranging my stuff before the new semester starts. I do this as well every time I finish a writing piece. I need to reorganize everything and always start with a clean slate. This is my office after the clean up.
Unfortunately, as you can see, the number of books I have has now officially outgrown the space I have available on my bookshelves. So now I need to ask my carpenter to build me another bookcase. Yikes. Before the semester starts officially (we come back to work on Monday, but I start teaching August 17th).
Dear Dr.Pacheco-Vega, thank you so much for your posts. I keep reading them and try following the advice. Have you ever thought of publishing a book with a collection of blog posts from your website as they are? I am a very tidy person myself and like to keep my readings categorized and sorted. When reading your posts (which I find very useful), I regret that I cannot save them and print them so I could refer to them as my desk book. I am a first generation PhD student, I am learning everything from a scratch, so refer to your posts very often. Your blog is like a safe lagoon where I find similar attitude to the organisation of things.