Update
Jun 20, 2007 productivity
[this was originally posted at my main blog]
We got our iMac and my iPod yesterday. More on that later… all I can say is… Holy cow, the screen is HUGE! I guess 24 inches was a bit of an overkill, but hey, we do lots of graphic work…
On another note, I’ve discovered I really can’t do much academic work at home. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s the messiness of all the moving boxes that distract me, all I know is that I’ve been procrastinating writing a report about my research for the past two weeks. I finally decided to go out to the local coffee shop and write there. In one hour I had written two reports and a newsletter blurb! This morning I came to the library and in a couple of hours I typed my reports, edited them, sent emails to my committee, fellow conference-organizer JP, the administrator of CRRS about a possible fellowship, and my department about a misplaced tax form… Suddenly, after a month and a half in limbo, I feel productive again!!
Hope the feeling lasts because I just received notice that my abstract was accepted for an international conference in Chicago next April. It will be my first big conference and I’m not even sure my paper is do-able… Hope so…
June 20th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
Congratulations !!! I know how you feel, I am really working better with my new 20′ iMac, I think it’s really the best tool for writing, also to see digitalized documents, photographs and everything. Let us know about the camera, I never used mine, and I don’t know if you can use the camera with someone who doesn’t have a iChat but who has a camera with msn. I’m looking forward to read about your paper. Bjos.
June 20th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Ana Lucia,
I had an apple camera before and it worked well with skype… it didn’t work with msn because the msn for mac didn’t have video conferencing… I’ll try and see how it works!