Flowers for the weary!

Mark knew I was sad from the gloomy days so these appeared in my bathroom last week! What a man, what a very good man!

Google Docs

Google Docs are cool! This is a terrific way to give patrons & librarians more options! a) leading patrons to this resource at our Internet stations will be great! b) I could post documents on line for my board members especially when I am asking them to revise/edit a piece. I am definitely stoked about the possibilities. Highly distractable as I am, I "ate dessert first" and got up to level 6 in excit. I feel like I have a new lease on life! I've been playing more games this year (on-line) than I ever did as a teenager! Ha! (Facebook is nutty!) Okay, here is a document I've been practicing with.

p.s.

So, I now have Windows Live Messenger and that was easy enough to set up--and it is fun to find out others are on-line at the same time that you are! I have set up a Meebo account and a widget on this blog. That was easy, too. I am rethinking my "control" issue vented in the previous post. I see there is control here, too. If you are offline you just catch up later when you are online. That is a good way for me to set up boundaries for myself that I feel necessary for sanity! I like to chunk similar tasks together and do all my on line work in a set amount of designated time. It is too simple to become addicted to this medium! I have to watch it!

Project Play is Back!--Instant Messaging

Yeah, this is cool and fun but I don't think this is my thing, personally. I am discovering about myself that I like time delays! I like time to think things through. I embrace voice mail & texting & e.mail because they give me the control of responding when I feel like it. I am already totally distracted when a phone rings or that little window flashes up saying that I have e.mail. It's worse now because the e.mail itself actually is open as it flashes up! Sometimes I have to close e.mail or I would be off on tangents all day. (I guess I'm saying that e.mail and instant messaging are almost the same in my mind) I'm not very disciplined so it takes all my willpower to stick with my to-do list! However, the times when I think it would be beneficial for the library: A) As described, for doing reference work--yes, perfect. B)If I was working on a project with a friend elsewhere and I didn't want to commandeer the phone (which I hate doing at our library because we only have one line) I think IMing would be effective. Similar to a conference call from the past? Are there are others of you out there who feel as bombarded by information and requests as I do? Sometimes I feel completely overstimulated!