Taming Info Clutter and Observing an Outgoing Streak

I'm having another very full brain day.

Despite almost missing it altogether thanks to losing track of time, I attended the BPL-hosted Eclectic Library-created seminar on RSS feeds/taming info clutter.
I have to admit something. Until today, I never bothered to figure out RSS feeds/aggragators... anything. I understand what it does on a basic level, but I had never connected why I should care. I felt, in some way, a failure or bad librarian/tech-savvy person for this lack, but not enough to correct the problem until now. So, now I know and as soon as I'm done here, I'll be compiling material and setting up the Googly-moogly reader.
I don't know why, but I seem to be willing to take small risks I don't normally want to take. For example, the five other people in the seminar knew each other. On another day, I'd have not bothered to point out this dynamic. I'd have just waited for the talk to begin. A good an appropriate choice.
After J- and I finished a tasty Thai lunch and we parted ways, I chose not to take the T back to work. I walked through the Garden and Commons instead. It doesn't get much prettier than this afternoon, after all. While I was walking through, I noted that there's yet another movie filming in the Garden. I walked up to an obvious local eating lunch if she knew what was shooting. She didn't but was amused by the query and my outgoingness. She did look like someone I should already know. So that's another example.
Once on the Common side, I noted some tourists taking picutres of a squirrel. This phenomina always amuses and baffles. I've always lived in a place with a plethora of fuzzy tailed rodents. These folks- from France- not so much. I equated it with me taking pictures and marveling at the cactii in Arizona. Usually, I don't talk to tourists.

And you're all saying: "But.... you are extremely outgoing and talk to random people all the time." Well... only sort of. In the city, I really prefer to stay in city mode and not talk to randoms. In group settings, I often feel, even if I don't show, a dislike to talking to strangers. The absence of the dislike must be the big change in today's interactions.

half a date night

quiet_elegance and I have been going to salsa classes at CCAE for the past few weeks. Tonight we ended up bailing. QE's energy: quite low. Class content: merenge. Eh. Not a winning combination. It's like glorified line dancing. Once you have the basics, that's good enough. No need to re-learn that with folks who've never done it.
So, home we are, and it is good. While waiting for the T at Harvard, I noticed a young woman in major distress: ie, crying like a crying thing. It was heart-wrenching. But that's a delicate thing. Most of the time one doesn't want random strangers saying "are you ok? Do you want to talk about it?" etc. But I had a bundle of tissues, so I gave her those and a squeeze on the shoulder. I hope whatever's upsetting her is not so bad soon.