Multitasking

You can do anything,

but not everything.

The photo is by Richard Giles at Flickr. I was inspired by this quote from Kenna Griffin:

Libraries

I saw this quote about libraries, so I decided to illustrate it with a picture of the Great Reading Room in Bizzell.

Here is a more complete version of the quote: Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace, and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep, and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed. – Germaine Greer

Caffeine Causality Loop

As the semester gets busier and busier, beware the Caffeine Causality Loop! (The cartoon is by John Atkinson who blogs at WrongHands.)

Self-Talk

Here is some great advice from TinyBuddha.com! Be a friend to yourself... and use friendly self-talk!

You will never speak to anyone more than you speak to yourself in your head. Be kind to yourself.

So many books

A friend of mine shared this lovely meme at Google+ ... isn't it great? I know that feeling!

Every book is a TARDIS

I know I am not the only fan of Doctor Who in this class... and I know I'm not the only bookworm! And of course the TARDIS has its own article at Wikipedia.

Innocuous on the outside, bigger on the inside, able to transport you through time and space... OH MY GOD... Every book is a TARDIS!

Reading can seriously damage your ignorance.

I thought this was a great graphic about the power of reading, and for a great article about reading as a skill for lifelong learning, see: How to Help Students Develop a Love of Reading by Holly Korbey.

Reading can seriously damage your ignorance.

And here is the same idea in Spanish from a Spanish-language bookstore (thanks to Maria Piret at Twitter):