I was in the process of doing some clean up on my hard drives. I came across some old school papers, and some things I created while I was programming director at WMSR. I deleted them. I have no use for them, but in a way it was like deleting memories. In this digital age, it's not like they were taking up an enormous amount of space. However, I do have emails (in outlook pst files), and chat logs (created from trillian/gaim) saved from eons ago.
Do you keep documents like these on your computer? I'm curious.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
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Yes.
apart from Gmail.
No.
A ton of it. Too much, probably.
I save everything, if I can. But I do that with actual stuff too. I have a folder for all my old college papers; I originally kept it thinking I might need it someday, for example as writing samples for a job. That's totallly dumb now, because a.) that stuff all sucks balls and b.) I am clearly never getting any kind of writing job, but I'm still keeping it for now.
One thing I don't have but wish I did is all my old emails from my AOL days. The old old stuff is from my early high school days, when I used to email my friend Archana pretty much daily over the summer, like huge 4 page emails. That went away when my dad got rid of that computer. The new old stuff is from college, when I did the same thing with my friend Diana. I would love nothing more than to read those old, crazy, hilarious emails. Both of those girls have big boxes full of the notes I wrote them in high school; I guess emails are the digital version of those.
Before I deleted my last version of AOL off my laptop, I went through and saved a handful of emails, most of them along the lines of "OMG Diana, I met this totally cute boy last night at my friend Erica's house." Puke, I know, but still....in 2008 I don't have like, love notes or whatever, but I might want to look back at that stuff someday instead.
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