I've succumbed

When I was in high school, I used to print out (usually in 3-month batches) calendars that I used to keep track of my commitments (usually baby-sitting jobs). I stopped doing this when I went off to college because I was always able to keep all of my deadlines in my head. That worked for 10 years: But it has stopped working. Over the last month I've found that I simply cannot keep all of my deadlines, SCA events, travel, and concerts in my head at once. I tend to compartmentalize: I can keep all my SCA events from conflicting, and all my conference traveling from conflicting, but then suddenly I find I've actually scheduled one of each at the same time... So just now I finally broke down, and printed off a calendar for 2010. Part of me feels like a slacker, giving up. But the sane part of me knows this is a good idea so that I don't suddenly wake up one morning and realize I have a talk to give in the afternoon that I haven't prepared for!