Monday, September 3, 2012 at 7:19 AM –
Labor Day
Good morning. This is me and I'm a
blogger and I haven't blogged for several days. It seems like there's so much
to do and when we do feel like doing the blogging sometimes we get stuck behind
the eight ball because Rich is here and we don't really want to be blogging out
loud with him in the room. I'm very amiable to letting him know anything that
we blog about, but it is uncomfortable to do it out loud with him in the room
as we are doing it because we don’t know where our minds are going, or have a
chance to edit first so things are fair. Maybe at one point I will get over this. I don't want it
to become an excuse not to be blogging.
As well, there are problems in getting in a decent sized blog because I am just so interested in so many things that are in our online world. It seems to concentrate in doing one thing takes away from all those other things you want to be doing also. It is just so much to do and so little time to do it. Our minds stay actively engaged for almost every moment of the day on something or another. I was just thinking this morning about having lost so much time to the Haldor medicine last spring and sleeping in until up to 12:30 PM that it just makes me shudder to think about it - Nothing worse to a multiple than losing time.
As well, there are problems in getting in a decent sized blog because I am just so interested in so many things that are in our online world. It seems to concentrate in doing one thing takes away from all those other things you want to be doing also. It is just so much to do and so little time to do it. Our minds stay actively engaged for almost every moment of the day on something or another. I was just thinking this morning about having lost so much time to the Haldor medicine last spring and sleeping in until up to 12:30 PM that it just makes me shudder to think about it - Nothing worse to a multiple than losing time.
I have to think now when was it
exactly that I wrote last? Maybe I can check that out by going to my blogs.
Okay at our regular blog it looks like we last wrote on Thursday, August 30, so
about five days ago, and we're thinking now that we had noticed that we haven't
been able to finish all of our entry at that point in that we were still behind
days on trying to explain things through the blog. And then in our news blog it
looks like we last wrote on Friday, August 31. Again, it is now Monday, September
3. So let's figure out what happened with our time as best we can, okay?
The last thing I remember about the
Ann's Multiple World of Personality blog is that we had written primarily about
Rich’s mother, and maybe some other stuff, and we edited, and talked about Carey our
representative that we like so much from Adobe. We still haven't gotten the
package yet, but we are waiting patiently. I don't think he got the full
information confirmed until about Thursday, so it still in the window of time we
would expect to be getting it.
Last night, Rich's Mother had
another bad night so that Rich had to go to her place – Rich got the call at
about 1:30 AM. He drove for an hour, then spent two hours of full-time with his Mother, then talked to Bud for about an hour after his Mom had gone to bed, Rich drove home, and then crawled
into bed about 6:30 AM. It is now an hour later and obviously, he is sound
asleep. I don't know how this is going to affect our day in that we were
supposed to be getting some things accomplished and I'm not sure what is on the
schedule. I do know that he said that he would not be going out to his Mother's
again today and that had been on the schedule. The other two main things are
that he wanted to take me shopping to get a few items for the trip to New
Mexico. That is sneaking up very quickly. We will be leaving Saturday morning
and the wedding is the following Saturday. The second thing he wanted to do was
that Bob invited us to join him and Linda and some of his family members on a
picnic over at the club. I'm not real excited about that, but mostly because
I've been staying in the house so much that I don't really want to go out. That
goes doubly true for wanting to go out shopping; it is just not something I
like doing.
Our plan is to let Rich sleep as long
as he can so that maybe we can skip a few things like stay-at home and do
nothing, and then that will give me more time to spend time on the computer. Yes that is my ideal day and I
do it frequently enough to say I love it.
I don't think that we mentioned
anything about the Tuesday session last week and I'm pretty sure then that
Thursday didn't get mentioned either. It might take some time to figure those
things out. We will wait a few minutes and see how that goes. As a precursor, I
am not sure about Tuesday. There might've been younger parts out and Thursday
it seems we had older parts out, but I'm not sure who and what they were talking
about at this point. I don't like that memory is going to come hard to me this
morning. Hopefully, I'll get in the groove.
The first thing I remember about
Friday was that Rich had a game Friday night. I think it was a very late night
game where he didn't come home until 1 AM. It was way out to someplace that was
named Durango. I'm not exactly sure where that is in that I remember that he
had another football game the following morning. But then I think he had some
time he spent at home on Saturday and I think Sunday too. Saturday and Sunday
sort of blur together. I guess that I had done reading on Friday if that's the
day that I posted last in the news blog. And I think somewhere that night,
Friday night, that we discovered scoop-it. That is like a magazine format
similar to learn-it where you can connect things in a visual way to a platform
showings places you have been online.
I think we went through about 100 different entries, which is like 25% of our saved articles that we had posted in our Diigo account. Basically, then we
have three topics. The first one is in e-learning, technology, design, and
social media, the second one is on multiples blogs, and the last one is on news
DID/MPD. Most of what is there is things that are positive so that we left
the Learnist account for the negative things that are going on with news in
multiplicity, the multiples blog contains things that are just visual markers
from the Diigo account and our news blog and e-learning technology and design
is primarily for some of the interesting places that we have been to since we
have started these general accounts. The e-learning site has 32 links, the
multiples blog has 31 links, and the news link has 33 links so that comes out
pretty even.
I really like the format that is being
used. It is generically two long columns and after about 20 stories it
continues on the next page, and the next page similar to a magazine. It is different than the learn-it account in that the learn-it you have options of writing in each of the entries
and that is only one square box column at a time and they are numbered one
through as many as you would like on one page. That one has more flexibility
where on the scoop-it page - they have boxes again in two columns and they are staggered and basically, what you get is a title with a live link back to the article,
and a picture, and then it takes a quote from the first sentence.
Last night, I really enjoyed it and
that I was having trouble concentrating, and I knew I wanted to write, but it was easier to to look at the e-learning account from scoop-it, and then go back and check out things
that I had meant to read or wanted to look at later but hadn't had the time
for. For example, I briefly looked at simple guide for a mindful digital life
or Zen-habits and then spent a bit of time looking at e-learning heroes, I then
looked LMS, or learning management systems, and then ended up at Adobe before I
get tired and had to sleep. Actually, I think what happened was that Linda
signed-on and I got a chance to talk to her. Rich had come home about 9:00 PM
because he had been out with his son for a late dinner, and then we followed
him to bed after he read a few minutes – That is until he left rich 1:30 AM to see his mother. So basically,
what the account from scoop-it did was allowed me a really interesting online
magazine for things that I really wanted to explore later, and I did have some
time to do that obviously then last night.
We still have about 300 articles saved
on Diigo from blogs or websites that need to be transferred to scoop-it. It is a lot easier to get back to the variety
of things we have been interested in through school but rather than the Diigo
account because it did pictorial instead of all script, or words which are not
as inviting. I still think that when you are just capturing the material that
Diigo is the best way to go, because it has the most integrative format and
allows a lot of other referencing uses, especially the one where we are linking
those items to our news blog. We are still connecting the extra platforms to
our news blog. So it just gives that area a little bit more depth.
One of the other things that we did
that I believe took up most of Saturday was that we added a new 20 piece board (#2) on dissociative myths. Our first myth board has seen 477 views and it was only
created on August 28. The second board of myths was created on September 1 two
days ago and has already had 242 views. I'm not sure though if some of those
views aren't me going back and forth. One way or another, it seems to be out
there and were happy with the result. What the Learnist account gives you is links
to the original article that you read, again these are the ones coming from the
Google search that are negative about multiplicity - so myth busting. It allows you to choose a
picture that they either suggest you, or you can create for yourself, and then
the next part is I am taking one to three sentences explaining why this article
is a myth, for example on the second myth of the second board I wrote,
"because National Geographic artists found more than one way to reconstruct
discovered bones, it doesn't mean the bones have multiple personality."
My quotes seem like very obvious
things, but since somebody having an online presence use multiplicity in a
strange way, I think it is fair to come back and say this is actually the way
it is. It is a little bit of dry humor, but I think that it is important that
people see somewhere in writing that it is something we as a multiple might pay
attention to as bothersome. The next part of the board entry is that I take
from the Diigo account the one to five sentences or paragraphs that we had
highlighted and then bookmarked, and we include them on Learnist. The last
thing we do is we add a couple of links one going back to our news blog and one
going back to our regular blog. Oh and one more thing after the original
disproving claim we add our name in case one day somebody decides to quote us. We wanted them to understand exactly who that quote came from and not confuse it with the quoting of the original author below our paragraph. We do have underneath the
other sew of "direct quotes" (one to five sentences or paragraphs) in parentheses the name of whomever
it was that created the original article and the date that it was published
along with the link to the article in the title. The world needs this kind of accountability - WE believe.
We have gone over these boards many
times and have really enjoyed the format in both designing and implementing the
board, and then thinking that others might be looking at it and what they might
be seeing.
I'm remembering something now to that
we did yesterday and that we wrote to Dr. Dell the person we are so impressed with
that wrote our favorite multiple book on dissociation. We stated the following:
Dear
Dr. Dell,
I
wanted to formally introduce ourselves to you. We are hoping too that you come
back one day to continue regular blogging and communicating with the general
public, or forward us to more recent public blogs/writings if they have been
developed. We’d also like to pretentiously be included within your scope (and
Blogroll). We (our insiders and me) started last month on a “News Blog” for
about 140 currently blogging multiples. About half of the names are duplicates
of some of Sarah’s Showcase; the other half is newer references, but all
writers on our blog list (neighborhood) are currently writing within one year –
many daily.
The
idea is to “publish” daily/weekly annotated quotes from multiple’s blogs we are
reading/reporting and consider as newsworthy and adding annotated quotes from
Google Search on DID/MPD news (many highlighted red for warning to the readers
about anti-news). It is our thought there is a big discrepancy yet between
people who believe or do not believe in multiplicity, and since there IS
multiplicity – wondering out loud what should be done next. Your 2009 book is
instrumental to our vision.
Again,
in our news blog there are both pro- and anti-multiple inclusions. I would like
to think there to be a conversation between the two. And, I’d like to think
that “News DID/MPD” to be a good resource for better understanding the culture
of multiplicity one multiple at a time. Please stop by some time! AND, sign the
Guest book, so we can be cued to start our somersaulting! You might also
appreciate our entries in Learni.st under dissociative myths. That’s it 
If
you are reading this … thanks for coming back! You and Dr. O’Neil’s 2009 book
are on our “Best Ever” list!!!
Our
best – devoted fans
Anns
Anns
Ann
Garvey
Master’s
Learner – Adult Education specializing in e-learning, technology, design, and
social media while devoted to dissociation
I
think the note explains itself. I would love it like anything if he knew about
us and I really appreciate knowing him. He's just such a major in our life
right now because of the work he has done and the knowledge that he has in
dissociation. It also helps that Dr. Marvin followed us in reading the book too - so we have someone to talk about it to directly. It's been a long time since somebody put out a real educated book
on better understanding the phenomena. The problem is that he has not
apparently been back to the blog for about eight months. I also left him a note
on Twitter, but I think it has been longer than that even since he's been to
that. My hope is that he will at least get an e-mail note saying that something
in one of these accounts has been updated. I still don't know if he would
accept our contribution, or look at our blogs, but it would be enough to know
that he knows they were out there. I think he does too much with the
intellectual studied University version that we might not be interested in the exact
contributions of individual multiples, but he did include Sarah’s blog, so maybe
he has some interest in the multiples’ community - direct, too.
I'm
thinking that I might be facetious in thinking that the blogs we have pulled
together are more community or culturally orientated than is true, but I don't
know anything else like it out there with the exception of the work that Sarah
has done. I think where Sarah and thus veered differently is that she has more
of an interest in trauma per se and in her couple thousand Twitter fans and she
collects important quotes made out there with Twitter. She doesn't seem to do
much with the blogs from people who dissociate except to collect them. I haven't really seen
a sign suggesting that she is reading them and again as stated previously many
of her entries are outdated and that those multiples are trading at this point
or that some of her multiples are writing in private blogs that I could access,
but won't because I'm looking for blogs that I can quote publicly.
Also where Sarah is specifically
trauma-orientated and twitter orientated, we are more orientated toward dissociation and in particular
dissociative identity disorder through blogging. So for
example, she might include DD-nos (dissociate disorders -not otherwise
specified, or a lot of work with traumatized PTSD (post-traumatic stress
disorder) vets. As much as we empathize
with these fields and understand their similarities to our field, and we understand Sarah's obvious interest and time spent in the areas of psychology and current events, but I only have enough time to concentrate on the one – and, we
can then appreciate that Sarah is focusing more widely. It allows us time to specify more
succinctly. I think there is plenty of
material for both. I guess I have two areas. The second Sarah hasn't shown much interest in, but we are definitely interested in social and e-learning as something we want to do. I think Sarah is more connected to us in social - in that she has like 75% more contacts. You really have to give her credit for being out their regularly enough to have found a following.
Ack
have to get going! Rich is now REALLY up :(
4,461/415
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