Wow, I thought last week was busy. This week has been terrible. In honor of my terrible week, and since I can't get my thoughts together to do one coherent post on a single topic, I'm going to do a bulleted list of technology deep thoughts:

• If I had planned better, I would have taken a half day at work today, driven up to my parents' house (where I'm spending the weekend) and joined the South Bend class in VIC land, but planning is not always a strong point for me). Instead, I am NOT looking forward to my 2+ hour drive north after class tonight so I can be at my 8 am dental appointment tomorrow (see--planning is reeeeaally not my strong point, at least not recently).
  
• At work, we are getting rid of the LAN and moving all of our shared departmental files over to a SharePoint site. I hate this because I have to go through 3 drives and decide what we should keep and what we should delete. Most of these files are old versions of PowerPoint presentations and pdf copies of journal articles and book chapters used for reference. So far I've found 3-4 copies of the same articles, all labeled differently, in different folders, on 2 LAN drives. Yesterday I probably deleted about 500 MB of "duplicates." Talk about electronic waste.


• I hate microwaving oatmeal, but sometimes you do what you have to do to get out the door in time. This morning I discovered my microwave is broken, as in, did not cook my oatmeal AT ALL, which is gross. I dumped it, drove to work hungry, and here I sit eating my cold bagel that I did not want.


• I have a 3+ year old Samsung cell phone, Verizon service. I know they offer a 2-year update deal, but I'll refuse until my phone falls apart and is absolutely un-fixable: I love my phone. It is a tank. I've dropped it in on pavement; my cat batted it across the floor of our loft and it ended up sliding down the stairs; once I dropped it so hard on the wooden floor of my apartment that the battery went flying across the room, but I popped it back in and it worked just fine. My boyfriend has a different brand of phone, and it is a flimsy piece of crap. I think he's on his 3rd cell in 2 years. It probably weighs half what my phone does; it just feels too lightweight and fragile to be any good. They just don't make them like they used to...
  
• Man, I have been crazy-busy this morning at work--probably because I won't be back here until Wednesday. Right now I am listening to a podcast and looking up journal articles for 2 physicians. I wanted to listen to an audiobook from my company's library (since I've been on their website all morning). Here are some of the titles that turned up when I clicked the "Browse our titles! link:

1. How to think like Einstein [electronic resource] : simple ways to break the rules and discover your hidden genius

2. The power of a positive no [electronic resource] : how to say no and still get to yes

3. What got you here won't get you there [electronic resource] : [how successful people become even more successful]

Are you laughing yet? I sure am. I get a kick out of corporate culture. I think this attitude keeps me sane.

• On Sunday I picked up a few blog-related books to read over spring break (they are quick reads! I'm not a masochist!):

The Secret Blog of Raisin Rodriguez (teen)
Ex-rating (also teen) and
No one cares what you had for lunch: 100 ideas for your blog

Book choices based solely on what the branch I worked at on Sunday had on the shelves at that time.

I think that's enough for now. Hope everyone enjoys a week off from classes next week!