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[10 Oct 2007|08:58pm] |
...but an ENTIRELY UNRELATED search led to this.
(Sorry, those of you who aren't aware of this tired in-joke from 2003. You're not missing that much.)
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| Quick visual question |
[09 Oct 2007|09:21am] |
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Would it be crazy to paint my room dark orange? I have dark red curtains.
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| Riddle, courtesy of my laptop |
[09 Jun 2007|07:50am] |
It looks like a blue spinning hourglass.
But it is my mouse cursor.
Why?
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| Done! |
[23 May 2007|09:47pm] |
I turned in my thesis today.
Counting appendices, it came to 106 pages. More importantly, it is an academic accomplishment of which I am proud, on a topic that still matters to me.
On the downside, I have absolutely no idea what to do with the sudden windfall of free time (except, um, go out of town next week). Weird.
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| Thesis fun! |
[12 Apr 2007|07:21pm] |
...and more where those came from.
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[10 Apr 2007|12:02am] |
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Guess who got nuzzled by a very friendly daschund named Hazel on the 6 train today!
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| Wow! |
[26 Mar 2007|12:44pm] |
I just found a gray hair.
I blame the thesis.
...which is probably not accurate, considering I found my first gray hair at age 7, but shh.
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| Mmm. |
[19 Feb 2007|11:36am] |
You know those moments when you're not quite asleep, but you are seeing/experiencing/saying things that are not quite in line with waking reality?
This morning, while drifting in and out, I suddenly found myself saying, "What the hell is that? It looks like a chicken nugget filled with water!"
I have no idea what it was. It looked, well, kind of like a chicken nugget filled with water.
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| Wow. |
[17 Feb 2007|02:14pm] |
I joined Facebook all of, what, three days ago, and already I've been contacted by someone I went to French Academy with in 1998 and someone I haven't seen since elementary school.
I think I like this. But it is seriously surreal.
Also, people I went to elementary school with? They have BABIES.
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| Ask and ye shall receive: public/private part II |
[14 Feb 2007|07:01pm] |
A lot of you responded to my somewhat idealistic previous post about online privacy by making a distinction between what may be ideal (total freedom of expression) and what is prudent or practical (posting those pictures from that one party in a friends-only area).
This week is Social Networking Sites Week in my online course, and one of the assignments for the week was to sign up for a Facebook account, which I'd never actually done (I think I missed Facebook in college by a year). Some of the students, myself included, were a little taken aback by the whole business about signing up under Your Real Name.
This led to another essay about privacy, which led to slightly less sunny conclusions.
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Thoughts?
Also, um, I have a Facebook account or something? So those of you who are always talking about Facebook can feel free to seek Its Royal Blankness out, if you so choose. I'd give you the location, but I guess you can just look under My Real Name. Crazy kids.
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| Public/Private |
[08 Feb 2007|11:02pm] |
I'm currently taking an online course through YALSA called New Technologies and New Literacies for Teens (scroll down).
I'm feeling engaged on a really deep level, I think because despite two years of library school (not to mention a looooong history of journaling about my personal life), this is the first time I'm getting to address in writing a lot of the really big issues that come up in the work that I do, and in the relationship between my work life and my "private" life.
In a discussion about teens and privacy (inspired, for once, not by the MySpace/predators business but by this article) one classmate mentioned her ambivalence about leaving personal traces of herself online in a world where that information becomes accessible to current and potential employers. I have been thinking and talking a lot lately about the politics of effacing (or concealing) my own personal life in deference to my professional life (which no doubt accounts for at least some of my absence from LJ).
My response to this classmate's post is behind the cut.
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Thoughts?
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