Using Flickr (Week 3, Exercise 5)

Okay, so I have finally started using Flickr and uploading my own photographs for public view. Interestingly enough, I really started using it because MySpace does not accept pictures over 600KB and most of mine are over 1M. MySpace has been an excellent place for me to interact with my siblings using multimedia, from photographs to videos to audio tracts. (I look forward to recording podcasts... heeheehee). Anyway...

Annoying Flickr traits:

-I can't seem to go back and add descriptions, titles, or tags after I save the picture.
-I'm still not sure about the whole privacy thing (leading me to not actually state anyone's name in my descriptions).
-The Creative Commons is not the most intuitive thing to use (where do we find the citation info?), which leads me to...
-A long list of instructions and FAQs to figure the bloody thing out.

Week 3

I've been waiting patiently for my first glimpse of true library excitement. For drunk people on bicycles, thieves getting tackled, chases, anything. Our library security, however, are completely on top of every commotion and difficult situation. Heck, at this point I would love to hear gun shots and see blood spreading slowly across the linoleum.

But I have been left unsatisfied. Nothing ever happens when I am at work... until today!

I received the wonderful opportunity to witness an arrest. Well, to be perfectly honest, I got to see, at a distance, library security walk someone out of the building in handcuffs. No blood, no chases, no gun shots. It was all done every quietly, and I probably would not have noticed if I hadn't looked up at just the right moment.

Though there was that one time where these two guys started fighting, now that I think about it. That was pretty interesting... but more on that later.

Week 2

Okay, no more bitterness toward the patrons, I swear. I know very well that when I get tired I also get cranky. I am trying to work on that. My apologies to all those unaware patrons.

Week 1 (Cont.)

I am currently sitting at the reference desk, people watching, and writing this blog. Here are my random observations and thoughts, while perched at such a lovely vantage point.

-Some people smell so badly that I can sense their presence even before I look up from the computer screen.
-"You can use my stapler, but you cannot use the entire desk top as well. Give me a break here," runs through my head too often.
-My dad gave me advice once that the best way to rejuvenate from stress is to lie down on a hard surface and rest for a bit. I am not-so-oddly tempted to lie down under the tall service desk at this very moment for a bit of shuteye. The desk is actually long enough for that.
-How can the ready reference section become so messy after so short of time without me even noticing? Trolls, perhaps?
-I love the foot rest/plug outlets at the support desk. Too bad my legs are almost too long to make it completely comfortable. I have to angle them a little to make it work.

More observations to come.

Week One

Testing... 1, 2, 3.