Which is worse - having the snowplow clear out the massive mountain of frozen iceslush and snow that builds up in the end of my driveway (thank you, city plow crews of Canandaigua!!), or shoveling five inches of fluffy new snow that's fallen so far today -- and exposing the solid ice rink that became my walks and yard yesterday?
Neither -- it gave me a chance to get outside and breathe. Do something physical, instead of sitting hunched toward a screen, trying to make my way in the new (to me... ish) frontier of Twitter, links, blogs, social media. I feel like I did back in Sr. Kostka's freshman algebra class -- lost, clueless, stumbling in a fog of confusion. Holy crap -- how do you do this?? What if everyone notices I'm not up on it?
Then in the process, I make contact with some of the most generous, intelligent, interesting people from around the US and the world, who give me suggestions or help or just interest... and I'm amazed and excited at this new dimension to my work and daily life being added so quickly.
They are in NYC, Paris, Romania, Baltimore, Connecticut, Scotland. They are consultants, writers, media geniuses. I would not have met them (in the Web world) were it not for Web 2.0, social media, blogs, LinkedIn, Twitter (hey -- yesterday I signed on to follow John Cleese -- John Cleese -- Monty Python, A Fish Called Wanda, Fawlty Towers John Cleese!! Not that he'll "follow" me, but I get to listen in on his daily comments).
It seems to take a tremendous amount of time out of my day, but I'm sure things will get better as I learn more (or hire someone to help!).
Meanwhile, I have weather and Brit to get me away from the computer and office and back out into the actual world.
Good luck to you and to your job!
Sam
Posted by: bladder control | April 02, 2010 at 02:05 AM