Honestly, me and technology really are getting to have a love hate relationship. The more we work on things, the more complicated they seem to become. I am so far from a techie that it’s not even funny, I mean yes I know the basics, and as long as I stick to what I know I can make computers do what I want them to do – but honestly I’m a luddite. I’m someone who would prefer a real encyclopedia set to a virtual one and I mistrust everything other than the most basic editing programs.
And yet, suddenly all these people seem to be depending on me to know all this stuff and I simply don’t have an answer for them. I mean, ask me anything book related and hey I’m your girl – you want to get into a debate about the relative merits of the social settings of Charles Dickens’ depiction of England vrs the more modern ideal of Sara Waters’ take on the same era? Hey, sit down over a cup of tea and I’ll shoot the moon with you on something like that. You want recommendations on which mystery author is hot this year? Bring it. Which romance author you want to avoid? Definitely the answer to that one is always going to be Shades of Grey (the so called ‘trilogy’ that is. If you want to read an amazing book by the same title go for Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron which is a totally engrossing, slightly fantastical, look at a future that isn’t really all that far off the mark if we’re not careful – no matter how far-fetched it may seem at the time.)
Or if you really want to see me light up, let me start talking about the subject of my non-existant-but-I-will-get-to-it-one day Art History Masters, I can discuss that until your eyes glaze over and you won’t be sure whether it’s from fascination or pure overload.
But…
Ask me how to fix your iPad? How to make type out the equivalent of a word document on a Samsung android? I’ll look at you like a deer in the headlights. I mean I can do it. But it’s hardly my forte.
And yet, here I am.
Feeling like I’m swimming upstream with only the tadpole level of lessons in how to survive in the water…
Someone wanna throw me a life ring? Someone? Anyone?