Taylor the Teacher

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Why is it so hard to answer memes? Before I was ever tagged with a meme, I was wishing I would be. Now, I’ve been tagged like five times, and every time I sit down to write them something else comes out.

This isn’t something I try to do. I want to write those meme posts, but when I sit down to write, my mind doesn’t obey me. It just goes where it goes. I need to learn some discipline. 

Attaining this mental discipline is much more difficult because I can’t seem to distill the net well enough to figure out what’s going on. I need to cull my reader, but don’t know what to cut. I want it ALL. And the little RSS button makes it just so easy to think I can actually have it all. When in reality, there’s no way I can ingest it all, much less ruminate. A few information literacy skills would help me tremendously with the above-mentioned discipline issue, which is in itself a learning issue rather than a skills or knowledge issue.  

If I had better information literacy skills, many of my other learning issues would be greatly helped. Could this also be true for students? ~rhetorical question~ This has me thinking about all these various ways to write and think and connect online. Good writing software ~the kind that runs on my hard drive rather than being “connected”~  is expensive, and even then you need 2 or 3 of them. Writing software sucks, generally. So why is it that you can’t write online ~move things around, save scraps, spell check, thesaurus, keeping scraps handy in the sidebar, and all that jazz~ without it being in some way social? An online program that really was *just* for writing into would be valuable to me. 

Is that what tumblr is? I use tumblr as a bookmark. Only because it’s the easiest to use and most reliable right now. ~for me anyway~ 

I’d also like to have a password consolodator, that would allow me to make, say, 3 or 4 new passwords and categorize all my million existing passwords, and the new ones would just swallow up the old ones and they’d go away.

But there’s more to the answering memes thing than even that. It’s about being told what to do. Making something into an assignment installs automatic resistance that’s particularly hard to overcome since this is my space. ~don’t students feel like that? yet someone is managing to teach writing~  

Plus my life is double-strength, double-good crazy right now, and demands to be written.

So I said all that to say that it’s really hard to answer memes. I really need to learn some discipline.