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Productivity Television

Why I Love Spring

Lots of times in the early morning I put on The Weather Channel, ostensibly to see the day’s weather, but partly because the morning anchors are kind of ridiculous, in the best tradition of morning anchors. Anyway, they kept promising to show a segment called “Why I Love Spring”, but I never saw it. They kept putting it off to talk about blizzards and floods in the Plains states. So I will have to make my own list:

  • Even if I might have not been doing such a good job with my productivity system last week or so, spring cleaning gives me a new influx of procrastinatory projects
  • I am busy at work now. This is great for my morale.
  • The light later in the evening makes me excited to go see friends. Thanks, Daylight Savings Time.
  • Since I wasn’t prepared for local eating (which I only got excited about in November), and it’s pretty much in between seasons now, I’m taking a break from trying to do that, and eating zucchini, butternut squash, new asparagus, and frozen peas all in one meal. (The peas were heated up.)
  • Even though some TV shows are getting close to season ending cliff-hanger territory, America’s Next Top Model is only getting started.

I promise to write a post that doesn’t involve the unordered list tag soon. I’ve been on a serious English lit kick, and also am all about reading Roman history and Shakespeare. Also the novels of Phillipa Gregory, but let’s not talk about that. Yet.

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Libraries

Self-promotion

I’ve mentioned to a number of people (but never said here yet) that I had recently started reviewing books for Library Journal. My first review was just published, so it’s here if you’d like to see it: A Weed by Any Other Name. (Scroll down a bit on the page to see it.)

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Internet Libraries

Coming soon

  • My implementation of GTD
  • Some book reviews
  • Maybe the historical record of this blog, in which I think 1 person only is interested

They aren’t coming right away though, because I’m heading off to Springfield for a few days to attend On The Front Lines; The Sixth Statewide Library Practitioners Conference “Agents of Change”. I’m not presenting or anything like that, just going to take advantage of an extremely reasonably priced chance to catch up with friends and meet new people, and maybe not play hooky from so many sessions like I did at ALA  when I went a few years ago. (ALA is the American Library Association, for those who don’t know, and I went to the conference in 2007 and am going again this year.)

It’ll be nice to get away for something that’s not a staycation, even if it’s not a vacation. A vacation will have to wait for that magical time (not so far away) that I am not working the whole weekend, but only part of it. Not that I’m complaining about that– it’s pretty nice to have Monday and Tuesday to gallavant around our fair state.