23 Things in 23 Months

...or so it is starting to feel!

This my own fault for overextending. I am a chronic overextender, because:

a) I am highly distractable, and when something new comes along I want to try it/volunteer for it/be a part of it.

b) I am terrible at time management. And anything else organization-oriented. (If I ran the world, there would be no clocks and we'd all just do our own thing whenever. Yeah. Imagine THAT chaos! Thank goodness there are organized folks out there to keep people like me under control.)

c) I just can't say no. And don't want to say no.

So here it is, September, and I am just now revisiting 23 Things. This time I am supposed to be reflecting on technology, so here goes.

I did the trading card thing, by the way. Christy had actually showed it to me quite some time ago, and I never got around to looking at it. (The thoughts go in, and then...there they go, right back out!) I thought it was pretty cool. If I were still teaching middle school, I'd definitely use it with my students. They could do all sorts of stuff with it. My Teen Advisory Council kids might want to know about it just because - maybe I could even do something with it for Banned Books Week or Teen Read Week. (Hmm...there's a thought, actually!)

I love Flickr, because I love to take pictures and fool around with them later. I don't claim to be any good at it, but I always have a camera with me just in case. So that's technology that actually helps me. Other things just seem to me like kind of a waste of time. Or maybe I just need a life coach or someone with a strong sense of organization to help me incorporate some of this stuff into my regular life. I mean, RSS feeds? Great idea, but that's just one more login that I have to struggle to remember, and then I have to remember to check it (which I don't), and then I have 20 million things on there because I can't commit to just 5 or even 10 when I'm browsing, when in actuality I won't even log into the darn thing in the first place. Blogging? Not really; I don't have time. I don't even blog on my MySpace account, and I've had that for over a year. Heck, I don't even blog on the Teen Space MySpace, and I'm on that every day!

Honestly, it's about all I can do to stay on a computer long enough to check my 3 e-mail accounts and both my work & personal MySpace accounts. I think that's my limit. Because I am so easily distracted, the Internet is a very dangerous place for me, and I choose to just abstain. I think it's better for all of us if I don't get in there and play too much. Seriously.