If only it was possible to creep back in time, back to the elementary days when spiral stacks of rainbow tinted paper and Transformer Trapper Keepers were all you needed to appear self-assured.

For Lamelle, planner time-travel is a snap-she keeps a collection not only of old planners but also journals.

"I find it's useful to look back and see where I've come from, because I know I will be a completely different person by the end of the semester," she says. "It's a really interesting journey."

There's a reason marketing geniuses long ago termed them "diaries"-beyond the daily block of hourly entries, of section meetings, meals, errands and miscellaneous thankless tasks, a year unfolds as effortlessly as pages turned by the wind.

For Lamelle, the wind seems to be whispering election, but septanote pages for December are, unfortunately, mum.

"For now I'm perfectly happy," says the political powerhouse, with a satisfied tone that barely betrays the chaos of appointments she has so carefully arranged like David Copperfield's indestructible house of cards. From the Council podium to administrative lunches and back to dinner in Adams house, Lamelle and her septanote have got it covered.

So, what do you have to do today?