Innerzone, I am crying with laughter reading your post. At the same time as planning this study trip and the whole course, I am waiting for some big financial decisions (Total and Permanent Disability Claims) with will influence whether I can buy a small home. I am planning my move to another town two and a half hours away and I have researched everything within an inch of it's life. All the relevent Favourites are all organised in their relevant folders on my Internet Browser, I have a hard copy file to match, I search and research about relevent properties and everything I can think of about this town.

And for my trip next week I have a harcopy file all done with all the maps printed out from the Net, all the accommodation material, the course material, it goes on and on and on.

But I think kept in a managemable framewrok like you said, it is really helpful for me to do these things in advance for when my ineviable plunges into depression and the profound lack of function that follows. I don't have a single soul in my daily life to help me with this stuff, so I DO need to be super organised. What you said about you boyfriend and his response to it made me laugh out loud too. You see, the only people who know how I operate like this are you guys on mental illness support sites and my psychologist and psychiatrist. I think I'd scare a guy off!! "Normies" have the luxury of "going with the flow" and not having to plan so much in advance. In corporate lingo, it's a "risk management strategy".