If you are looking for something good to read, and for some of you something non-libraryesque, you really should check out Ftrain.com.
Lots of good, short essays. In particular see Followup/Distraction.
I figure there are two different kinds of distractions: the wide kind and the narrow kind. The Internet is the widest possible distraction because it lets you wander so far afield that getting work done if you are, like me, the distractable sort of person–getting work done is almost impossible. I’m not the sort of person who can read a book with footnotes and ignore the footnotes. I have to read every footnote. I often prefer the footnotes because they point in so many directions. But when wide distractions are available I avoid the narrow distractions, and those are the useful distractions.
Aaah, footnotes….
Or, there is always the Laundromat: Some things just suck.
People get savage. They hover like birds of prey, waiting for a washer to open so that they can swoop down and fill it with their stinking socks. There is no clear hierarchy; there are no rules or clear order of succession. It’s every laundrygoer for themselves. The effect is ugly. But the dryers are even worse than the washers. That’s where it gets brutal.
