I was looking through my the various draft posts that I have left in Wordpress. I often start to write a post and then realize I haven’t yet formalized a coherent thought. Other times I know I want to flesh out an idea but don’t have the time to finish. This one is from December.

I can’t take it anymore. There is simply too much information for me to digest in any useable fashion. I have 3 email accounts (personal, school, and one for signup forms), 2 IM clients (AIM and GTalk). Accounts I use daily include, Flickr, Del.icio.us, and Bloglines. I maintain two blogs, and try to keep up on news, events and other goings on by monitoring over 100 websites.

The wheels are coming off.

I suppose I never posted this half thought because it made more sense to do something about it.

1. I stopped using my school account (I scan the “from” field to see if it is from an administrator - I want to know if I get an email that is alerting me to the fact that I am not graduating).
2. I totally wiped my bloglines subscriptions and started from scratch. This cut the number of feeds by 75% because I couldn’t even remember what I had subscribed to. I plan to do this every two months or so. I think I might actually go back to a feedless existence soon. I miss “surfing.” I miss choosing a jumping off point and following the issue, meme, idea, etc. wherever it leads. That type of online meandering doesn’t give you the elevated heart rate that you get when you realize that after 2 days of not opening bloglines you are 500 posts behind on your reading material.
3. I had to put the total and utter kibosh on AIM.

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