So I think that I am a bit behind with the whole blogging thing although the last few days have been abysmally bad for me. I must say up front that I created a blog for a time, wrote a couple of odd pots, but just as with my numerous diaries as a child over the years, it went by way of the wayside... Obviously, a good grade is awesome motivation to keep at it.
Between having an infected finger which hurts like the dickens to type (it's my right pointer, of course it wasn't the pinkie) and waking up sick this morning, I became greatly annoyed with assignment 2 when working on it today. Invoking a popular saying of my mom's, there were many points when I was going to lose my religion. Never fear though, I completed it, it just took hours longer than I ever thought it would. Technology and I could be equated to oil and vinegar. Once "mixed" and things are going well together, we're all cool but things are totally crappy when they are not happily flowing. I probably have patience for just about every facet of life except when it comes to technology. I am def. of the belief that cell phones, ipods, computers are all great innovations except when one minor thing doesn't work and your whole life is thrown into a tizzy. I must sound incredibly bitter here, but seriously, I am mentally drained from looking at so many citations.
Since I started doing the readings last week, I did have a breakthrough of sorts in how I think of technology. I am a Spanish speaker, although I didn't start learning the language until I was in high school. For me it was quite difficult having to learn all of the grammatical nuances of the language, since for everyone's native language, it's just stuff we pick up naturally. I have been using a computer and other forms of technology since I was in elementary school, although if you asked me to identify the internal parts of a computer or explain what such and such is, I probably wouldn't be able to. I see this class teaching me the "imperfect subjunctives" in the tech. spectrum. I'm sure I'll gripe a whole lot more about it all, but by the end I'll be proud of myself for being able to identify such intricacies...
Although I constitute as being part of the digital generation, I have never thought of myself as a digital native. I check my email constantly and go on facebook a couple of times a day, but other than that, I don't live and breathe blogs, RSS feeds, sites like delicious, etc. I'm sure I'm in the minority over this, but I don't think that we're at a point yet in society where it has to be one way of thinking & doing/all or nothing.
I have a ton of questions about the whole Google Reader thing and RSS feeds. My boyfriend who is a major technology nerd has a copy of Googlepedia in the apartment. I'm sure if I read all 800 some pages of it, no questions of mine would be left unanswered, but since time is quite the luxury these days, that will just have to wait. I did post to courseweb my question, so hopefully someone will have pity on me.
C'est tout pour maintenant-all for now.
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