joy at moll projects dot com
I don't always understand the xkcd comic, but when I do, it's the smartest comic around (I could probably use it as a gauge of how sharp I am on a particular day). It's a comic with a warning:
Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be
unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults),
and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).
When I quit my job, lots of people asked "are you looking forward to sleeping late in the morning?" I said "yes," but it didn't feel like quite the right answer.
Morning Luxury 1. Unless something is wrong, I sleep about 8 hours. I am getting up a bit later these days, but only because I'm going to bed a bit later. Of course, it is a huge luxury that I can sleep late on the days when something is wrong -- when my sinuses are out of whack from allergies or when I've been overambitious, again, with increasing my exercise.
Morning Luxury 2. The real luxury, most mornings, isn't sleeping late, it's that I don't wake up to an alarm. I wake up when I wake up.
Morning Luxury 3. The most notable luxury in the morning, though, is the slow start. The luxury of eating breakfast when I get hungry, often an hour or more after getting up, instead of first thing because that's what fits best in the getting ready for work routine. The luxury of reading feeds and email and generally goofing around online until I feel like doing something else. The luxury of doing all of this in my pajamas.
I suppose I could have figured out a way to have all this luxury when I was working -- go to bed earlier in order to have longer, more relaxed mornings -- but I didn't. The only thing I miss about work mornings is sharing the "Good Morning!" greeting with several people before I sat down to my desk. All in all, though, mornings are good.
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Cindi, blogging at Chronicles of Bean, wrote a heartfelt request for some link love for the librarian talk show radio, Uncontrolled Vocabulary, and InfoSciPhi seconded the motion.
The fourth show was last night. Greg Schwartz announced during the after party (which is a ton of fun, by the way, and worth downloading the TalkShoe application to be in on) that it's looking likely that there will be a blessed event in his household sooner than expected and two people volunteered to handle the show when he can't. So, it looks like this idea's got legs. It's worth a listen if you haven't (it can be downloaded as a podcast after the event). It's worth a plug on any library commentary blog whether you've listened yet or not because it's one of those "Library 2.0" things that will benefit from a critical mass.
The technical details are all layed out on the Uncontrolled Vocabulary blog. Greg seems very happy to help with any technical problems - and would rather know about them than found out afterwards that someone tried to get in and couldn't. There's also a Facebook group.
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The July MO INFO (pdf, online newsletter of the Missouri Library Association) is out. It has an article I wrote about recent technology things of interest to librarians. A big chunk of it is about Twitter. I like what I wrote, but I like even more the personal experience of Jenica Rogers-Urbanek. I offer in the article to help people get set up in Twitter with some librarian friends -- that offer is good for anyone reading this blog as well. Email my yahoo account, joyweesemoll.
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Join us for the second episode of Uncontrolled Vocabulary, live librarian audio chat, at 9PM Central this evening.
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