I’m in the middle of the party season and completely done with it. The theater had two parties over the weekend, and if I never see another glass of Andre ‘champagne,’ it will be too soon. We did spend a lovely evening on Sunday with Verna Ramsey, a local theater patron and octogenarian. I really have a thing for Delta women in their eighties. She went to Mississippi State College for Women (now MUW) with one of my cousins. Absolutley and completely and devastatingly charming.

I have had a comment on the blog–I’ve been neglecting my gmail account and missed it entirely–along with an email from my best friend from high school in Little Rock and another from my best friend from Boston wishing me a happy birthday. I’m going to recommit myself to gmail–it’s just that the American Library Association has it, and I am deluged with nonsensical emails from them. Librarians love a listserv and they love to send email. I get enough from the librarians on my bloglines account. Lord love ‘em. Me. Etc.

Speaking of blogs, aggregators, etc., I’ve been playing around with Flock. It’s a browser that works seemlessly with Flickr and blogs, etc. I’ve got an easy plug-in on my links menu now that lets me blog any webpage page easily. And I can drag and drop pix from my Flickr toolbar into a blog easily. And by playing around with it, in part I mean turning my friend Thomas (Instructional Media guru) onto it. Thomas is the sort of person that can attract a zefrank humanbaton to Starkville, Mississippi on his way across the country. See Luke (aka humanbaton) and Kris having fun downtown:

Thomas is somehow able to go farther with the technologies I find…he’s actually figured out how to get around in Second Life, when I’ve barely gotten dressed. [Yes, I know I said I'd sworn it off forever, but people keep planning press conferences and training sessions there--I'm just afraid of being left out, I guess. Ha!] We’re having a Flock tutorial today to catch me up on what he’s learned (I hope).

Today’s our last day in the office until January 3rd, but I’m going to be working through the break, of course. I’ve got two research projects going, but neither have to do with Library 2.0, alas. I’ve got to publish, however, and I’ve got co-authors for both of these. And they both have to do with using JCR ratings. One in Agronomy and one in Education. Hopefully the synergy will keep me going. I’m planning to blog it after I get back from Christmas travels on the 27th. First Jackson for Dad’s family, then Little Rock to visit with my mom. Lots of time with beautiful nephew Hank, brother Mitchell and sister Liberty… (she’s taking the pictures…)

Happy holidays and cheer wherever you are….

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