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[elainegrey]

SLOWLY coming to, this morning. Poking at the new social networking site Google+ with clinical curiosity and little delight. I posted:

This past weekend i made the leap of adding my contact database to Google contacts. Once i'd merged data in a couple of different directions, i tried making contact groups, and finally got around to my goal, which was to share a collection of documents with a group of colleagues. Lo, there was no way to indicate which email address received the google document notice, and i ended up sharing the collection by hand. Now i have google plus and another opportunity to classify folks into groups.

Yay?

For example, this is apparently going to go to three people not yet using google plus -- and i have no idea which of their email addresses it will be sent to. I should think in this case Google is only sending to google addresses, but....

Also, i can get a diaspora invite to you, and it is DEFINITELY less crazy making than the G+ "invite."

I do value the little glimpses and the occasional feedback i get from my social sharing spaces. Both in the microblogging spaces and LJ i find myself wondering what value i bring, but that's simply an echo of existential questioning i encounter whenever i get to "Why?" So, i'll add G+ to diaspora and facebook and twitter and ....

In other news about the no-obviously-productive aspects of my life, i'm watching old Highlanders as my Not-With-Christine video entertainment, these days. I can't watch all of them i find: i am too impatient with some seasons' very formulaic story lines. But i'm back to where there's a sense of continuation from one episode to the next, and i'm impressed at how much of a difference that makes for me.

And a little happy news: i raised the spectre of another round of extreme mouth ulcers a while back. I have taken my iron supplements with regularity again, and i no longer have the one that was spooking me. I'll assume i'm on the line of the right iron level for myself and posit a causal relationship there.

Meanwhile, other irritations are irritating. I do wonder about one location of irritations and whether it really is dermatological or if it's something my primary care provider should have been more helpful addressing, although her two OTC suggestions i met with, "Tried that, made my skin feel like it was falling off."