Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Multi-tasking chaos

I'm sitting here at my lap top with both Safari and Firefox open. A total of eleven tabs are up and running at the moment. Plus I'm slowly writing my paper for Print Production in word. I have iTunes open and Illustrator is open and on hold. Had to take a break from my artwork to blog about my current madness on one little screen. It begs the question, can this be considered productive multi-tasking at this point? I mean really, I am all for working on a paper and an art project with music going on and facebook up to cut the tidiness of homework. Then there's Google! I google everything, so there's almost always a tab open for that. Along with my gmail tab I keep open most of the time. Pandora of course, yes that is right I am listening to iTunes but I don't close my Pandora tab..just in case. This is the start of madness! The mere fact that I think it's good to separate my "important tabs" from my "temporary tabs" by utilizing two internet programs should tell me something. Alas, it all seems so normal to me now. I have been sucked in by my own over zealous need to multi-task. I don't confine this to my personal lap top either. When I am in Layout Design class, the first thing I do is open fb, gmail, Google and Pandora in Safari. Sometimes iTunes depending on the day comes up too. Then I make my way to InDesign to work on my project. I could be proactive and downsize..but due to my Libra traits I am horrible at decision making skills so that isn't going to happen! =)

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