As it turns out, I hate tags.

Or, more precisely, I hate tagging things. I also hate titling things, adding descriptions, and organizing things. Which is so terribly sad for me, since I enjoy things being tagged, titled, descripted, and organised.

And I mean I hate doing this for everything–photos, blog posts, del.icio.us links, video. Pretty much anything you can tag, I don’t want to tag it. Besides taking up time, I’m very bad at doing all these thing. I mean, how do you know what the tag should be? And my titles are never witty enough.

I have been dumping pictures into my flickr willy-nilly these days, and yesterday when I had some free time to myself, I thought that I should probably start to get a handle on the 300+ photos that were just chillin’, waiting for me to come by and have me tell people what they were all about.

I did the Disneyland ones, since I figured they’d take the less work–less research. If I plan on tagging the Monterey pictures accurately, I’ll have to do some research on exactly which organizims I took photos of.

Anyway, so I named a bunch, but I’m bad at naming–so there’s photos like “Jungle Cruise 16” and “Small World 19.” At least the titles show me where the photos go in the order of things. I’ve also done some mass tagging of the photos, like adding “Disney Resort” to all of them, and then separating them by park, so you know where it was taken. I’m not sure if I got around to adding all the ride tags–if I haven’t, I still have to.

Mass tagging is really, really handy, since a lot of the photos will have the same tags, and so I can type the tag once, add it to all the photos it applies to. But. Nearly every photo has tags that don’t really go with the others. I want to tag each photo with the character, location, and random info about the photos, which means that I have to go through each photo individually to add them. And I just haven’t had the time yet.

And of course, there’s another field trip this weekend for Biology, which means I’m going to have another 150+ photos on Monday to dump into Flickr as well.

I have a feeling I’ll be tagging and organizing my photos for the rest of the year. If I’m going to go through all of this trouble, people better be looking at them. ;)