I've been reading hither and yon about the terrible effects of people seeing other people's carefully curated images of their life on soshul meedja - and honestly I think this depends what bits you hang out in, maybe?
And this goes alongside the woezing about people reading other people's horror stories about pregnancy and childbirth and getting ( Read more... )

This is one of those pluses and minuses things.
For some while we have been trying to get someone just to come and quote for doing some work on the windows of the flat.
And someone came and quoted and said they could start pretty sharpish.
And then when they got up to look at the skylights they observed that, hey, your roof is in rather poor shape ( Read more... )

Be prepossessed by the argument Why The Seemingly Messy Ones May Be More Intelligent, for as I think I remarked once when somebody asked me about my research methods:
Larfing liek drayne.
And doing that thing which involves going through piles of Stuff to find a particular thing, and finding, if not that, other pertinent things in the process.
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Concur that messy desks are not necessarily a bad thing. (On another prickly paw, is this news? I seem to see quite a lot of claims to the creative potential of the apparently messy flit across my skimming vision.)
Filing, as the wise Katharine Whitehorn remarked: Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do ( Read more... )

(And still open to suggestions...)

This question/prompt came from
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I was having lunch today with an Australian historian colleague/friend and got on to the subject of the collection of archives I have just got done cataloguing (100+ boxes done, dusted, catalogue live online, boxes in stacks, relevant sources guides updated, and blog post scheduled. Go me.) and the fact that it took perhaps longer than it might ( Read more... )