pedablogical

Email tone isn’t understood as much as we think – Lifehacker—of course the issue that isn’t being addressed here is how e-mail and telephone rhetorical skills compare to letter writing, memos, and so forth. There’s a move to damn what’s electronic about the communication without considering whether the issue may be the immediacy of audience and purpose that telephone communication may bring to a speaker/writer.

30 Boxes calendar beta live – Lifehacker: This tool has possibilities for a shared calendar for IRA and NCTE as we both work on ReadWriteThink. We currently have a shareware app that lets us upload dates. This looks slicker. I need to investigate it in more detail though.

cbd offers an explanation of how Del.icio.us and teaching go together. I wish I could get my head around del.icio.us completely. It just evades me. There’s something I just don’t get. The way the cbd explains it here made me wonder if it wouldn’t be a way for me to have categories on my blog, which doesn’t really support categories. If I chose keywords that were my categories and then tagged things, could I create category links to those entries on del.icio.us? It feels like that would work, but there’s something that makes the whole del.icio.us thing feel too complex. I think I need to sit down with someone and have him/her walk me through a site till I get it. I’m not exactly sure who that person would be or where she/he is hiding. And while that miracle person is at it, I’ll take details on how all this compares to technorati.

Finally, I’m caught up. Feels like a million entries I’ve edited or written in the last 24 hours.

The most interesting observation through all this was a note on one day that I was horribly late for work, and a note on the very next day that I got in at a reasonable time. Both days I arrived at the same time. My brain is so mixed up it seems. I know that I am the poster child for black and white thinking, but normally, it’s that everything I do is wrong or stupid or horrible. Here I had evidence that I thought the same action was horrible one day and great the next—and I didn’t even notice until I read back through things. Maybe one day my brain will make sense.

Got up at 12:30. Went back to bed at 2:00. Got back up at 4:30. Am I lame or what? I had it in my mind that I would run errands to Home Depot and Office Depot (an emerging depot theme). I didn’t really accomplish anything though.

Did lots of work catching up this silly blog, and I made broccoli soup. Didn’t work on cleaning things as I should have either.

A friend said that he’s taking Cymbalta, so I went off to find out what it does. I found the tips on their When You’re Just Getting Started page fun. I’m very good at “Defer Big Decisions”—that can account for not bothering to get out of bed long enough to go shopping. As far as “Try to avoid stress” and “Be good to your body” are concerning, I’m certain that napping is an excellent way to take care of both of those. Not so good at “Be aware of your diet” I guess, but I did make a healthy pot of soup today. “Interrupt negative thinking,” hmm, okay I’m failing on this one; but I scored on “Talk to your friends and family” cuz my sister called me twice and during the calls I chatted with my brother-in-law and mom too. If only things actually worked like this.