In which I am so far behind I am about to come around again

Seriously, there is a strange Mobius effect going on right now where I am so far behind on so much that I suspect it will all come around again and I will be completely caught up. (Yes, I know there is supposed to be an umlaut over the "o" in Mobius, but if I go look up how to insert an umlaut on blogger, I will fall even MORE behind, and honestly, nobody wants that.) My e-mail inbox is now into multiple pages of unanswered mail, and we will not speak of the gajillion other things I need to get done. At this point I'm just jotting things onto to-do lists in my iphone and never reading them again. I have one titled "Spring Cleaning" with notes to myself about relining the linen closet with fresh fabric and purging the photos on my hard drive and organizing the ones I keep. These are things that are NEVER going to happen. They should, but they won't. Thursday is my deadline for The Book That Would Not Die (catchy, don't you think?) and I have one last killer proofread to do before I send it off. Once that's done, I can start on the list of Crap I Should Have Done in April, and bring a semblance of order to my little corner of the world just in time for the End of School Goat-Roping and Extravaganza--the four week push in which every conceivable concert, program, project, and ceremony must be concluded, parental attendance falling somewhere between mandatory and completely essential. Just thinking about it makes me want to go lie down with a cool cloth on my head and a glass of something fruity. (I bought sangria in a box this weekend. From Target. If I had standards, believe me, they are LONG gone.)

But it occurs to me that I may have a solution to my woes. Legend has it that Napoleon never answered his correspondence immediately; in fact, he didn't even read it immediately. All written correspondence was left on his desk for three weeks before he opened it. His reasoning was that if it was really important, someone would let him know by courier, and if it wasn't important, someone else would probably have handled it in the meantime. Apparently, it really boosted his productivity. And I figure if it can work for someone waging epic land wars in Europe, surely it can work for me.