This could be messy, but you don't seem to mind...

Found this in the newspaper, in an article about how being messy isn't such a bad thing.

Seven Reasons you should stop worrying and learn to love your mess.
1) Studies show that messy desks are the vivid signatures of people with creative, limber minds.
2) Studies show that owners of messy closets are better parents.
3) Studies show that messy people are more able to improvise solutions to unorthodox problems.
4) Messy people are more realistic. ("It’s chasing an illusion to think that any organization – be it a family unit or corporation – can be completely rid of disorder on any consistent basis." Said Jerrold Pollak, a neuropsychologist. "And if it could, should it be? Total organization is a futile attempt to deny and control the unpredictibility of life." )
5) Messy people are more life-affirming . ("Order can be profane and life-dimishing," says Rabbi Irwin Kula. "It’s a flippant remark, but if you’ve never had a messy kitchen, you’ve probably never had a home-cooked meal.")
6) Mess has the dividend of adding time to you day.
7) Remember that is was the overall scumminess of Alexander Fleming’s laboratory that led to his discovery of penicillin.

So, there! To all of you who have made remarks about my messy apartment! It just shows that I'm creative, realistic, life-affirming, able to think outside the box, and I'd make a heck of a parent, with lots of free time. Also, I guess it means I've probably got an anti-biotic growing somewhere in my bathroom, but it's best not to dwell on that one.

POLT

I'm a big boy. Some would say a very big boy. - Emmett, Queer As Folk