Calendar Girl

You know you need a bigger calendar when...

1. You come to realize that, at least for now, you're not going to be working in the same place every day.

2. You receive your theater subscription tickets and have a sinking feeling that all the dates will be in direct conflict with school events or with the hours you are working on any given day (see #1).

3. You receive your children's school calendars and realize that there are no dates yet in conflict with the theater (see #2), but that each child has different half days and an immense number of functions requiring family attendance.

4. You have completely lost track of when any holiday falls, and you hope you postponed your jury duty to the week you intended.

5. You start thinking about family trips, even though you won't really plan anything until the last minute, when it's more expensive, and by that time it won't matter that you've looked at a calendar, since there'll be no time or no money (or both) to go anywhere.

6. You are still extremely good at keeping dates in your head, but you realize that "in your head" doesn't mean "in anyone else's head." Maybe you need multiple larger calendars.

7. The days go way too fast for one of those daily calendars, and are generally far too busy for reading the witty things on those daily calendars.

8. The school year is upon you, and while in the summer, it was okay to be loose, now it will matter where everyone is at any given time (and it will take far more than just a big calendar to keep it all straight).

Quick, turn the calendar page. September, here we come....