Thursday, May 31, 2007
Mary's 8 things meme
Okay, here are 8 things about me.
1. I was so dorky and uncool growing up (and so persecuted by other kids for it) that it always astounds me now when I am around kids who actually think I'm cool (like my little cousins, who think I rock because I own a Wii and have Guitar Hero for the PS2.) It really doesn't feel like I have changed that much, but maybe now it's just cool to be dorky and geeky.
2. I found a dime on the ground today and I picked it up. I am going to send it to my grandmother Mary, who is in a nursing home in southern New Jersey, breaking the hearts of everyone in my family as she slowly loses her marbles and gets frailer and frailer. She always used to scan the ground for change whenever we went out. When she got older, my brother Jim and I used to seed the ground by throwing change down before she got out of the car. Then she'd get SO excited about all this great change she found on the ground. He and I would be standing behind her howling with laughter, and she would figure it out and yell "You little devils!" Good times, good times (as Jim would say).
3. I just bought a new car. It's a Toyota Prius and I should get it sometime next week. The good news is, it's fun to drive AND I'm doing one small thing to help the environment. And by the way, if you don't recycle, then don't bother talking to me. We all have to do our part to keep this earth going, and everyone can make a difference. Anything that you can do to preserve or protect the environment, no matter how small, is a good thing. Don't get sucked into thinking that the problem is so big, individuals can't make a difference. We can make a difference.
4. The best way to get me interested in a technology is to clearly show me what it can do for me. I'm a big proponent of the "What's in it for me" school of thought. If you can't give me a couple of good, concrete reasons that make sense to me for why I or my library should be using a technology, then I'll wait awhile, thank you. I don't mind being an early adopter, but I want to avoid the bleeding edge of technology if at all possible.
5. You can have my Sirius satellite radio if and only if you can pry it out of my cold, dead hands. Right now it is stuck on the disco channel. I love all the sound effects you hear in '70s music-- whistles, wah wah pedals, all sorts of neat stuff going on there. And if I hear anything from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack -- well, stay clear, because there's gonna be some flailing going on (though I like to call it "dancing").
6. I love to read. I'll read all sorts of things -- books, magazines, the backs of cereal boxes, those awful (de)motivational posters you see in generic offices everywhere. While I was at the Toyota dealer tonight I was reading all the stuff on the salesman's bulletin board. I'm currently reading a lot of business books, because they give me some great ideas that I can implement in the library world. I am also not ashamed to admit that I read graphic novels, trashy romances, sci fi, fantasy, nonfiction, historical fiction, kid's books, whatever. If it's not moving and I'm awake, I'm probably reading it.
7. I am currently addicted to Twitter and Facebook, two social networking tools that I've known about for awhile, but never did anything about before. My friend Tara from high school, who now does Galaxion, an online comic, recently invited me to join Facebook and I thought, "oh, what the heck." Now it feels like I'm in the beginning stages of a torrid romance. I check the computer all the time, am always wanting to see what my friends are up to, feel compelled to rate 250 movies at a pop. I haven't gone as far as figuring out how to text from my cell phone -- I can barely figure out how to DIAL it, much less text from it -- but that's okay, because I think it's good to be out of touch with the rest of the world occasionally. When I am on vacation, for instance, I like to be on vacation. You won't find me checking in with work every 2 seconds.
8. I hate tagging memes because I always feel such pressure to find new people who haven't already been tagged. So I'm taking a stand -- there will be NO tagging of other people by me. This tendril of the meme ends here. Sorry, folks.
1. I was so dorky and uncool growing up (and so persecuted by other kids for it) that it always astounds me now when I am around kids who actually think I'm cool (like my little cousins, who think I rock because I own a Wii and have Guitar Hero for the PS2.) It really doesn't feel like I have changed that much, but maybe now it's just cool to be dorky and geeky.
2. I found a dime on the ground today and I picked it up. I am going to send it to my grandmother Mary, who is in a nursing home in southern New Jersey, breaking the hearts of everyone in my family as she slowly loses her marbles and gets frailer and frailer. She always used to scan the ground for change whenever we went out. When she got older, my brother Jim and I used to seed the ground by throwing change down before she got out of the car. Then she'd get SO excited about all this great change she found on the ground. He and I would be standing behind her howling with laughter, and she would figure it out and yell "You little devils!" Good times, good times (as Jim would say).
3. I just bought a new car. It's a Toyota Prius and I should get it sometime next week. The good news is, it's fun to drive AND I'm doing one small thing to help the environment. And by the way, if you don't recycle, then don't bother talking to me. We all have to do our part to keep this earth going, and everyone can make a difference. Anything that you can do to preserve or protect the environment, no matter how small, is a good thing. Don't get sucked into thinking that the problem is so big, individuals can't make a difference. We can make a difference.
4. The best way to get me interested in a technology is to clearly show me what it can do for me. I'm a big proponent of the "What's in it for me" school of thought. If you can't give me a couple of good, concrete reasons that make sense to me for why I or my library should be using a technology, then I'll wait awhile, thank you. I don't mind being an early adopter, but I want to avoid the bleeding edge of technology if at all possible.
5. You can have my Sirius satellite radio if and only if you can pry it out of my cold, dead hands. Right now it is stuck on the disco channel. I love all the sound effects you hear in '70s music-- whistles, wah wah pedals, all sorts of neat stuff going on there. And if I hear anything from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack -- well, stay clear, because there's gonna be some flailing going on (though I like to call it "dancing").
6. I love to read. I'll read all sorts of things -- books, magazines, the backs of cereal boxes, those awful (de)motivational posters you see in generic offices everywhere. While I was at the Toyota dealer tonight I was reading all the stuff on the salesman's bulletin board. I'm currently reading a lot of business books, because they give me some great ideas that I can implement in the library world. I am also not ashamed to admit that I read graphic novels, trashy romances, sci fi, fantasy, nonfiction, historical fiction, kid's books, whatever. If it's not moving and I'm awake, I'm probably reading it.
7. I am currently addicted to Twitter and Facebook, two social networking tools that I've known about for awhile, but never did anything about before. My friend Tara from high school, who now does Galaxion, an online comic, recently invited me to join Facebook and I thought, "oh, what the heck." Now it feels like I'm in the beginning stages of a torrid romance. I check the computer all the time, am always wanting to see what my friends are up to, feel compelled to rate 250 movies at a pop. I haven't gone as far as figuring out how to text from my cell phone -- I can barely figure out how to DIAL it, much less text from it -- but that's okay, because I think it's good to be out of touch with the rest of the world occasionally. When I am on vacation, for instance, I like to be on vacation. You won't find me checking in with work every 2 seconds.
8. I hate tagging memes because I always feel such pressure to find new people who haven't already been tagged. So I'm taking a stand -- there will be NO tagging of other people by me. This tendril of the meme ends here. Sorry, folks.
Labels: eight things meme, mary martin
¶ posted by Mary Martin @ 8:24 PM
