AMY E MARTIN // Thesis

A related aside: I'm coming up on approximately a year and a half of not listening to music. Not because I WANTED to, but largely because I had something like 80gbs of music at home and 80gbs of music at work. The logistics of combining these sets, checking for repeats (there's a lot) and then putting it all in one easily accessible place was beyond my grad school addled brain. In fact, my boyfriend got so tired of all my different hard drives and constant complaints about lack of space that he ended up buying me a new one. He then had to nearly bludgeon me into consolidating everything.
The difference is wonderful. I only plug one thing into my computer when I get home. Nearly all of my music is there and wow, I've missed it. How could I survive in this colorless bland, music-less world for so long? I don't know. I blame shiny new things like programming and microcontrollers and all that rapid learning.

Anyway, how does this relate to email? Well, I checked mine last night after a week of ignoring it. And not only was it overwhelming, it was BORING. I haven't tallied everything yet because even THAT is boring. It looks like most of it is from companies hoping to extract money from me. You can tell how happy I am about that. I missed two messages of semi-importance, neither with major consequences. (I didn't miss my chance to win a million dollars, of course).

So. The point here is that if everyone wrote really awesome songs and sent those to me instead of emails about carpet sales, I would be so much more engaged. As it stands, I am having a hard time caring about email, which is great because if I am to generate new ways we might communicate in the future, it's great to know that we really don't need what we think we need right now.

Labels: design explorations, random ideas