Clutter brag

I just have to say that I spent about 45 minutes getting rid of a medium sized bag of PAPER. Yes, that is right. They were miscellaneous papers, mostly from Library School. I kept some assignments that I had completed and some syllabi, but said goodbye to most of the articles that I had printed, and tons and tons of powerpoint printouts. I had been keeping them partly for sentimental reasons, and partly because I have this fear of "what if I lose my job, and I have to find another job, and I have to review my old notes from library school on Digital Libraries, User Instruction, Information Technology..."
Well, do you know what? I am a Librarian, gosh darn it! If I have to find information about any of those topics, I think I have the skills to locate more relevant, more timely articles! So take that, clutter! What is really sad is that if you know me at all and were to walk into my home, you wouldn't even know that a dent had been made in the clutter. That bag of paper might as well have been air for all the difference it made in how good my house looks. But *I* will know. I will know that today I took a step in the right direction to part with some things that I didn't really need. I have plenty of fond memories from library school without having to read the lecture notes. I am patting myself on the bag because I want to feel really good about what little thing I have done, so that next time I am sitting around thinking of what I should be doing, I can actually get the motivation to get up and de-clutter some more. So GO ME! *cheer*