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October 22, 2008
Some e-cleaning
On a more practical note, while I'm making life changing decisions about my research programme, I'm also in the process of changing my email address and as part of this I'm cleaning my email database. With a lot of help from Julie (my virtual assistant), and after several weeks of sorting names, inputting addresses and numbers, de-duplicating, categorising contacts into various contact folders, we are now ready to send out a change of address email to more than 1,000 people. Phew!
It's actually been a mammoth task and while the attention to detail is slightly exhausting, at the same time, I know it will be worth it in the end.
When a filing cabinet it getting too full, I really enjoy clearing out old records and files, so this is similar. The only problem has been that the computer seems to have had limitless capability to keep storing more and more information, and so I'm not aware that the e-filing cabinets are pretty clogged up with out of date information. I wonder what impact this may have had at an unconscious level. Maybe there's a connection between deciding to do the research programme and cleaning my database. Time will tell.
Posted by Alison at October 22, 2008 11:52 AM
