At the start of this week, I came down with a terminal case of forgetfulness. The worst casualty: my cellphone, which I left plugged into the wall in the dining room.
The word ‘nomophobia‘ was coined back in 2008 to describe the feeling of panic that comes from being without your phone. I now understand that feeling.
All those 12 year olds out there who haven’t got phones while all their friends have? I now have such sympathy for them. Never before have I been struck by such an urge to text somebody. I worried that the two or three important phone calls I was waiting for would happen while I was out. I even lost the ability to tell the time – I am one of those people who checks the time on their phone and doesn’t wear a watch.
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Don’t You Lecture Me!
The word “lecture” isn’t something generally associated with good vibes. If you’re lecturing someone, you’re boring them to sleep while ranting on and on.
Classes started this week at Armpit City University, and it didn’t take me long to realise that university is not set up for commuters. These kids carry practically nothing with them! How on earth do they manage? Oh, right, they’ve all got iPhones to check their email and can drop in to the dorms to pick up and unload stuff. I’ve got to carry everything with me. Learning to downsize my bag is one of the biggest lessons I’ve had to learn this week. No, Aeryn, you really don’t need to bring your netbook every day. You’ve got public access computers all over the place. Suck it up and use them, preferably without doing an Adrian Monk and wiping down the mouse.
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You may know Induction Week by its more colloquial name: “Fresher’s Week”, but everyone who’s ever survived this particular university tradition knows it is really Form-Filling Week. Yes, folks, the students are back. The streets are paved with vomit. And I have to work with these people?! Oh, yes. I am a Mature Student now.
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While I love Evernote, its lack of sub-notebooks was the bane of my existence until recently, when I decided to get smart about my tagging system.
My Notebooks
Awwww!
I have four notebooks: Personal, Work, Study and one called Snippets, which is where I store random web clips such as cute bunny pictures.
(Sadly, I have no credit information for this pic, but I want to know!)
My first step was to look at my existing tags and figure out which sub-notebooks I would have used for each main notebook.
A lot of scribbling later, and I had a rough draft.
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