baroqueMorales

A defining characterisitc of my 30's (I'm currently 31) has to do with a pervasive feeling of "information overload" but perhaps this is just common to all urban people living in the modern age. It just seems that as the pace of my life seems to quicken, due to increased responsibilities, overall productivity as a working adult and my ability to organize,sort and seek information. Part of this is also due to being a working mom/administrative professional. My primary job is to keep other peoples' complex schedules, and information organized. At work, I access up to 10+ programs simultaneously, work with raw data such as numbers, charts, publications, statistics, copy confidential and archived information using a wide variety of "network shares" and database systems. I also find myself applying my professional organizational to my home life, (then blurring the line between work and "life") the house requires constant upkeep, the boys can't f

Well, tonight I just wanted to post a brief update so that Google, the company behind blogger, won't feel neglected. "Google, I want you to know that even though I'm not a high-frequency poster, I continue to think about you daily." What I'm up to: Working of course. I just registered for 9 credits of my first quarter of the iSchool and now searching for books that have to be special ordered. Such as "Theories of Information Behavior." This autumn, I'm also taking "Internet Technologies." and have started reading "The Rough Guide to The Internet" 2006 ed. by Peter Buckley and Duncan Clark, which simply demystifies the history, use and terminology behind the internet, which most of use take for granted, but still really don't understand very well. Soon, I'll be a bonifide geek that knows how Wi-Fi actually functions (configuration/troubleshooting) that comes with maintaining ones own systems, while one of my co-worker