a change will do you good
have been caught up with work recently (in my case, this is a good thing), and as a result, have spent many hours holed up in stuffy libraries filled with countless old books. and when i'm not in the library, i'm stuck either at home, or at the studio at the Uni.
what i find interesting, is for an easily-distracted person like me, a simple change of clothes does the trick. never crawling out of bed before 10am, my unproductivity can stretch limitlessly until the "feeling" hits me: to get some work done. but if i change out of my jammies (i usually spend the day at home wearing my pyjamas), it helps gets me in the mood for work.
what's really disturbing as well is how google-dependent i have become for matters of research. the internet has revolutionised the way for doing research! with the marvellous assistance of a search engine, one is able to have thousands upon thousands of webpages literally at one's fingertips. wonder what manner of horrors academics had to go through for information a decade ago! the library is only -so- limited.
in fact, about 10% of the time, the books i require are either out-of-print, or stored in some repository, and getting them out would mean days, and even weeks of waiting. i'm not fussed, but it bothers me that the very book i can't lay my hands on may contain the information for the inspiration i so desperately need!
what the internet has done, is to reduce information to bite-sized nuggets, and saving information has never been easier. via the amazing advent of file transfers, images, music, ideas and information are now readily available commodities for the consumer. even my grandpa orders books online from Amazon.
the other thing i cannot live without these days is my digicam. it used to be that taking photos to document work/findings/research involved careful planning to avoid wasting any money on developing a totally useless roll of film. now i go snap! snap! click! click! so effortlessly, and proceed to delete the images that haven't turned out well. no sweat!
i have not fully appreciated the benefits of the Information Age until now. being a kid brought up on Consumerism, i have, as always, taken things for granted. BUT. there are limits to the wonders of the world wide web, and these days, i find myself going back to the library catalogues for previously published papers, and good old books that i can hold in my hand to read in the sun.
the wondrous things a change can effect!
what i find interesting, is for an easily-distracted person like me, a simple change of clothes does the trick. never crawling out of bed before 10am, my unproductivity can stretch limitlessly until the "feeling" hits me: to get some work done. but if i change out of my jammies (i usually spend the day at home wearing my pyjamas), it helps gets me in the mood for work.
what's really disturbing as well is how google-dependent i have become for matters of research. the internet has revolutionised the way for doing research! with the marvellous assistance of a search engine, one is able to have thousands upon thousands of webpages literally at one's fingertips. wonder what manner of horrors academics had to go through for information a decade ago! the library is only -so- limited.
in fact, about 10% of the time, the books i require are either out-of-print, or stored in some repository, and getting them out would mean days, and even weeks of waiting. i'm not fussed, but it bothers me that the very book i can't lay my hands on may contain the information for the inspiration i so desperately need!
what the internet has done, is to reduce information to bite-sized nuggets, and saving information has never been easier. via the amazing advent of file transfers, images, music, ideas and information are now readily available commodities for the consumer. even my grandpa orders books online from Amazon.
the other thing i cannot live without these days is my digicam. it used to be that taking photos to document work/findings/research involved careful planning to avoid wasting any money on developing a totally useless roll of film. now i go snap! snap! click! click! so effortlessly, and proceed to delete the images that haven't turned out well. no sweat!
i have not fully appreciated the benefits of the Information Age until now. being a kid brought up on Consumerism, i have, as always, taken things for granted. BUT. there are limits to the wonders of the world wide web, and these days, i find myself going back to the library catalogues for previously published papers, and good old books that i can hold in my hand to read in the sun.
the wondrous things a change can effect!
posted by limegreenspyda at 10:18:00 pm
3 Comments:
changing clothes usually does the trick, you're right.
'good old books' are awesome - if you can find them.
kitty: yeah! like, wearing cool threads to a party makes you feel like a star, or dressing like a slut makes you feel like one!
i have a hard time dressing up a slob like myself in preppy clothes in order to look (and be) studious though. :D
hisreason: the day your PC crashes... is the day you should go out and GET YOURSELF A MAC!!!! :D haha fruit is good for you!
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