Checklist


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                                            RD: That spaghetti was great! I'd definitely crash that buffet one more time.

                                            TS: It sure was! Although with the way you were eating, I'm not sure they'd let you back in.

                                            RD: I was hungry! Gotta get those carbs to recover, you know what I'm saying?

                                            TS: Ah, excuse me. (teleports checklist in) Lunch with Rainbow Dash, check!

                                            (pause)

                                            TS: What? Spike's out helping Rarity find gems. Stop looking at me like that.

                                            RD: So you're just gonna teleport that thing everywhere you go?

                                            TS: That thing is a checklist! It's very important to me!

                                            RD: Heh, at least I know you're always gonna be more of an egghead than me. I can't imagine checking off every little thing I do throughout the entire day. Bust some clouds, check. Flight practice, check. Lunch, check. Take my afternoon nap, check. Re-read Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone for the seventieth time, check. I don't need a list to tell me what to do.

                                            TS: Oh, shows how much you know. The merits of checklists are endless! Reliability, motivation, self-accountability, defining the scope of work, documentation… Wait!

                                            (RD: You've got to be kidding me…)

                                            TS: I feel a song coming on.


                                            Sun shines in, cast the blanket off, much to do

                                            I've gotta get my hooves to ground

                                            Gonna make the best of sixteen hours now

                                            Sorting the books out,

                                            Make time for lunch with Dash and study too

                                            Practice my spells, teleportin' with the groceries


                                            Maybe I can keep it all

                                            In my little unicorn head

                                            Clever pony's what some said

                                            But I know

                                            There's always some times that we forget

                                            Then I'll wish I'd had a


                                            Checklist

                                            All the tasks that Twilight's plannin' to get done

                                            I'm talkin' 'bout my checklist

                                            Itemized discretely, step through one by one


                                            (OK, this is a whole new level of eggheadedness.)


                                            Books profuse,

                                            Haycartes, Neightzsche, which is next to peruse?

                                            Buffet line prioritizing

                                            Thinking on my pasta ambiguously


                                            Attention is a scarce resource

                                            You've got to prep, commit to ink

                                            There's no time for makeshift plans

                                            You'll be sure

                                            When it's listed out in rows to read,

                                            Then you'll understand my


                                            Checklist

                                            Nothing holds direction like the written word

                                            I'm talkin' 'bout my checklist

                                            Even if somepony's calling you a nerd

                                            Checklist

                                            All the tasks that Twilight's plannin' to get done

                                            I'm talkin' 'bout my checklist

                                            Itemized discretely, step through one by one


                                            A friend to any mare so she won't forget

                                            Among the many merits not listed yet, the ability to document takes spot to be the topper if your process has a lot to it and smooth it's how it's gotta run

                                            To refer,

                                            What's to do, what's been done, and what's deferred, ha!

                                            if you ever wondered what you did the day before,

                                            The prior written checklist, babe you can't ignore

                                            Twilight stands to utilize the written word,

                                            A hand above the inveterate herd

                                            It doubles as a cylinder, when trouble comes up looking for, just roll it up and smack 'em with the list

                                            I tell 'em this, explicitly, the checklist gives to me, close capability

                                            and still make time for tea, the list is all I need, the list is all you see


                                            A wise book I came across once read

                                            The future is writ within boxes and checks

                                            And frankly boss, your hesitancy to adopt has got me at a loss

                                            'cause with a checklist even you would remember to floss.


                                            Checklist

                                            Nothing gives me quality of sleep

                                            Checklist

                                            Walking down that line of checks so neat

                                            Checklist

                                            All the tasks that Twilight's plannin' to get done

                                            I'm talkin' 'bout my checklist

                                            Itemized discretely, step through one by one


                                            RD: Well, that's nice and all, but I can feel my nap coming on. Gotta go…