(Almost) Me, PhD tagged me in the Seven Random Things About You meme…
- I used to hate tomatoes until I was 19 or 20. Now I love them.
- I’m afraid of living in CA as evidenced by living there and leaving within six months at age 5 and age 23.
- I have only ironed one piece of clothing when I was 23 right before I was going to speak at a conference at Smith College. And my mom helped me. Yes, I’m lame.
- I’ve been to three elementary schools (CA, DC and MI) and the same middle school/high school (private nyc school) thus evening out the number of schools I have went to. I liked living in NYC but DC gives me my fondest childhood memories.
- I don’t mind staying up all night to do work ahead of time but I mind staying up until the last minute to do work.
- Surprising things I miss about NYC: the balmier weather, subway reading time.
- Likes reading my academic friends papers for fun. I learn a lot from them! And I like to give advice.
If anyone else is interested in playing, here are the rules:
If you want to join in months after this circulated like me, here are the rules:
1. Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog - some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blog.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Um I don’t know seven people so I’ll just tage Hanvnah and Phroofie and I’ll email them…hahaha
I love facebook. A bit too much. I have been hiatus for about a week now. I do miss seeing what my friends are up to it via facebook. Pictures they have downloaded, incessant status updates, seeing who is interacting with whom. But I still can use g-chat to talk to friends, email and flickr to see pictures (of those who update of course).
Walking away from facebook for a few days and weeks is refreshing. It makes it easier for me to focus. However, there is one problem: people who soley rely upon facebook to contact you, invite you to events, and on. To me, email is the BEST form of internet communication. Sure, there are several ways that emails can be read the wrong way. Certain interpretations can be taken that aren’t necessarily there. I am a HUGE fan of g-chat (only a select few people on there that I like to talk to plus it doesn’t take up the WHOLE screen) BUT c’mon its IM. People sign off, get signed off etc. It is NOT a dependable form of communicating important details. Its awesome for me to bitch at my friends about the amount of work I have and vice verse.
Facebook: A few of my friends will invite me to events via their event planner and then get upset when I don’t attend or respond. I get upset when I miss an event that I could have, otherwise, attendend if I had known. Email is awesome for that. There is also a group of people who only depend on facebook to get info about their gigs out there.
I know you can turn on your preferences to have certain notifications sent to you. But I have them turned off because I don’t want facebook clogging up my inbox.
OK, this post may seem whiny but it is how I feel.
Next a tirade on cell phones?
I do not use skype or twitter.
I don’t really understand how either works (Though I have a much better idea of how twitter works then skype.) But I have come to conclusions as to why I don’t need to use them.
- Skype. I NEVER talk on the phone unless its with my mom, stepmom, dad or husband. The conversations with parents are mostly once a week conversations. Most of my other communication with friends is via gchat, facebook or email. I do talk to grad school friends occasionally on the phone but those are less than five minutes. I have no one to call “abroad.”
- Twitter. Yeah, I really don’t need to be hyperconscious about updating about my status. I know twitter is a lot more than that but between fbook (which I am boycotting again), my other blog, gchat and this blog, people know what I’m doing, and I will list that below in case you don’t know…
Reading for school at home
Reading at the library
Writing a paper
Preparing for teaching
Teaching
Sitting in Seminar
Watching the daily show, grey’s anatomy or mad men on the internet between 2 and 4 AM.
Driving to Meijer
Sitting at starbucks/ Barnes and Noble working
Petting/Playing with/Feeding the kitties
On the relationship between internet social networks and professors:
Some do so in hopes it will attract attention for a book or paper they have written; others do so inadvertently, joining Facebook to communicate with students and then finding themselves lured deeper by its various applications. via
It sure is a different time than I was in undergrad!
I wonder how much the dailykos really had to do with it…
I hope a lot. We need some real activism now.
Seven years old today! It started on January 15, 2001.
And the internet hasn’t been the same since!
I was just logged onto gmail when I saw an ad for this site come up:
DatingAWife.com is a sophisticated dating site geared more towards interaction with a male companion where it is lacking at home. These girls don’t want to lose their families and most of them are looking for a good friend. We respect the privacy of our profiles and ask that you do the same.
Seems kinda sketchy, not to mention the idea that women seek intimacy through adultery instead of working on their relationships. YEAH! Thumbs up!
The real reason I was checking my gmail was to look at this which my friend Hanvnah sent me:
One of the main characters on “The Young and the Restless” for a Yom Kippur episode on September 21st is going to do tshuvah.
But wait its gets better and even, more random:
But last year the soap dropped a bombshell: The upwardly mobile stud was actually a Hebrew hunk. It turns out that Brad had been hiding his Jewish identity to protect himself and his mother, who had drawn the ire of Nazis because of her work as a Holocaust art restitution investigator.
I’ve never heard of the term “Holocaust art restitution investigator.” If you google it with quotation marks, its just links about the particular soap opera but if you google it without quotations, this page about Holocaust era assets comes up.
I’m currently reading His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy.
OK the cover and back book cover reads as though the author Susan Ray Schmidt is abused. Well, that ain’t the case so far. Sure, she is neglected, as many child brides of polygamists are. But I feel like the cover and back cover is a bit misleading. However, I haven’t finished it. I’m halfway through it so far.
As I’m reading it, I’m learning a lot about fundamental mormon sects. I find myself wanting to look up these groups on wikipedia or just on google in general, but I feel like I could possibly be ruining important information I could be learning from the text. Its funny how in the past I would just try to read another book on the subject but now possible answers are immediate.
So far the book is good if not a bit beach readish but its August. Now is the time!
