Typical research day

• Make tea as soon as I get into the office
  
• Read emails
• Play jigzone
• Follow my Zetoc alerts to new papers
• Use OU library site for electronic access to journals and to search databases like EBSCO
• Coffee with colleagues
• Write notes in my bibliographic software (Endnote) or blog
  
• Check PhD comics
• Remember to open Twirl - a feed for my Twitter updates
• Avoid Facebook
• Check academic networks like academia.edu or the OU Ning site

By lunch time I've used an email package, rss feeds, a web browser, word processing software and perhaps a drawing package like Inspiration. If I've been working on data I've collected, then I've also used analysis software, and perhaps transcription software.

What I don't do enough of, is reading and writing, slow careful thoughtful reading, and academic writing. I suspect the technology distracts.