Self-Organized Criticality

So, on my mid-life crisis world tour, I’ve decided that I REEEEALLLLLY need to get organized. I like to think (or bluff my way out of) that I am organized…to an extent. I know where the general location is of the form I was working on is in a PILE on my desk/coffee table/floor next to my bed/yada yada yada. In my head, I’m pretty organized. On my desk, not so much.

Thus, in my quest to find a definition of organized, I found this term “Self-Organized Criticality.” Sounds like it might apply to me. Read on for the definition:
“In physics, self-organized criticality (SOC) is a property of (classes of) dynamical systems which have a critical point as an attractor. Their macroscopic behavior thus displays the spatial and/or temporal scale-invariance characteristic of the critical point of a phase transition, but without the need to tune control parameters to precise values…SOC is typically observed in slowly-driven non-equilibrium systems with extended degrees of freedom and a high level of nonlinearity. Many individual examples have been identified…but to date there is no known set of general characteristics that guarantee a system will display SOC.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organized_criticality

Huh.

Here’s MY definition:
In Rosabella’s physical [and emotional] life, self-organized criticality [SOC] is a property of her dynamic system of welfare which has a critical point [midlife crisis] as an attractor. Her macroscopic behavior thus displays the spatial [desk/coffee table/floor next to bed] AND temporal [brain function filing cabinet] scale-invariance characteristic of the critical point [again, midlife crisis] of a phase transition, but with the need to tune control parameters to precise values [based on her own sorting and understanding]…SOC is observed in her slowly-driven non-equilibrium life system with extended degrees of freedom [from daily life obstacles] and a high level of nonlinearity [that would really be easier to do if life was more linear]. Many individual examples have been identified [SHEs, Emilie Barnes, OrganizedHome.org]…but to date there has been no known set of general characteristics that GUARANTEE a well-received organizational system will display SOC in Rosabella’s life.
[Parentheses and italics and bold font are mine]

WTF?

According to wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn , organized is defined as: “methodical and efficient in arrangement or function; ‘how well organized she is’; ‘his life was almost too organized’”

Yeah, right. Like I’ve heard that before.