So, what do I do with all my free time? I eat a pimento cheese sandwich and oatmeal for supper, watch AMC and The Starter Wife and fall asleep by 10:00 with the knowledge that I can sleep until the alarm goes off.
At 5 AM I wake up and can't go back to sleep because I can't stop thinking about what I should post next. This is big-- this could set the stage for me. This could determine my future. I could be discovered. I could be the next Tame the Web or Free Range Librarian or Libraryman or one of the many blogging librarians out there whom I read and admire.
Too much pressure. Here are the things I thought about at 5AM as appropriate for a second post:
Libraries and politics and whining-- this involves Al Gore's recent appearance at SLA and why I wasn't smart enough to go to SLA so that I could see him and beg him in person to get into the presidential race.
Millenials in the workforce-- which would have involved a link to the NPR story I heard this week about what Millenials want in the workforce, and how this is really what I want too, even though I'm not a Millenial but a Gen X'er. It's good stuff.
Twitter-- and why I can't seem to get into it even though it's tailor-made for people like me who have the attention span of a gnat. I really want to try again for ALA since it seems like a great way to keep up with what's happening and where people are at any given time.
So maybe my blog is a blog of lists. It seems to be shaping up that way. Stay tuned to find out if I can find one thing that I feel strongly enough about to dedicate an entire post to it.
Too much pressure. Here are the things I thought about at 5AM as appropriate for a second post:
Libraries and politics and whining-- this involves Al Gore's recent appearance at SLA and why I wasn't smart enough to go to SLA so that I could see him and beg him in person to get into the presidential race.
Millenials in the workforce-- which would have involved a link to the NPR story I heard this week about what Millenials want in the workforce, and how this is really what I want too, even though I'm not a Millenial but a Gen X'er. It's good stuff.
Twitter-- and why I can't seem to get into it even though it's tailor-made for people like me who have the attention span of a gnat. I really want to try again for ALA since it seems like a great way to keep up with what's happening and where people are at any given time.
So maybe my blog is a blog of lists. It seems to be shaping up that way. Stay tuned to find out if I can find one thing that I feel strongly enough about to dedicate an entire post to it.
2 comments:
I love this post (and am flattered that you mentioned me too, thanks for that). Your early morning thoughts are dead on imo. Finding a mission (a fluid mission of course) to shape what you blog becomes is a very valuable thing (I wrote a post about writing a blog "mission statement" a couple of years ago that got a lot of people nodding and/or yelling:).
All I know as a LIS blogger is that I can't be what a lot of other Libraryland bloggers are, but I can add unique (and even occasionally;) valuable unique content. I can also encourage people and try to make things seem approachable and/or important when I think they are. That's how I do it and thinking about how you'll do it is a wise approach imo. Nice work.
-Michale Porter
Omigod, I have so much to learn about blogs and the requisite jargon. Oh, I guess I should say "omg," right?? Twitter sounds like a teen sitcom and I have no idea what a LIS blogger is. Is there a user's manual? I completely agree that Gore needs to enter the presidential race. Write that letter now! And I see you have a link to a photo of your son, but not one to your gorgeous Teenage Daughter. Let's see that beautiful puss!
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