Aristotelian or Platonic Office Space?

My workplace office is Aristotelian, but my home office is Platonic.

At work, everything is tethered to reality that can be categorized and linked logically. For example, I advise about 185 English majors, and I often determine which students need what messages according to categories such as emphasis areas, anticipated graduation date, likeliness to be in academic jeopardy, and so on. I have to keep meticulous records of registration information, progress toward graduation, etc. I have come up with systems of categories to help me revise or refine lists and stay current and efficient.  My books are shelved thematically, and sometimes chronologically; folders are color-coded and labeled; the stapler, pencil sharpener, hole-puncher, and telephone are lined up neatly; and I have a dual monitor computer for better functionality. 

Furthermore, at work, I tend to approach the psyche in terms of capacities, or what it can do. I tend to see spaces, people, texts, and objects mostly according to their utility. And, people tend to see me according to what I can do, which I don’t begrudge in that space. Categorization and utility, after all, are part of the commonplaces of work spaces.

My home office certainly that must, by requirement, occasionally be Aristotelian, but it is mostly Platonic. There, my thinking is often dualistic, trying to reconcile the real with the unreal, the knowable with the unknowable. And, in my home office I am free to think circuitously and contemplate almost endlessly. I am able—however, rarely and only briefly—to step outside the cave and see the sun.

My home office is also my bedroom, so in that way, we could say that at least my bed is Aristotelian in one sense: There, my brain is a grey lump of useless matter.