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My desktop is not cluttered; 85% of my computer’s files are where they should be. 50% of these files are located in folders labeled sensibility: music is in the “Music” folder; videos are in the “Videos” folder; documents are in the “Documents” folder.

I’m not a digital slob, and I’ve never been one. I’ve just had occasional mishaps during which icons and files that I wanted but didn’t want to be bothered with piled up on my desktop… Those files were quickly relocated into a folder called something like “Crap.”

Now, I’m being particularly good. A “Crap” folder has yet to plague my 3-month-old laptop’s desktop. But a 3 month span of desktop cleanliness is not atypical because, as I said, I’ve never been a digital slob. My computers have always been organized.

What is atypical: videos in the “Videos” folder, music in the “Music” folder, &c. Videos have graced the hard drives of my computers for years. But, until now, I never thought it fit to put them in a “Videos” folder.  I thought that doing that would make things too boring. Three months ago, I was putting my videos in the “Ebooks” folder. Ebooks were kept in an ambiguously titled folder elsewhere.  My system of organization didn’t spring up accidentally. After mistakenly dropping one video in the “Ebooks” folder, I didn’t decide that the rest might as well go there too. I, intentionally, put them there. The decision was an improvement upon their previous location as they were no longer buried in a mess of whimsically titled folders. 

Long story short: more of my files are sensibly located than ever before.

However, I am still me. I’ve taken my love of unique organizational themes to my bookmarks (RSS feeds). Surprisingly, a few of the folders’ labels may make sense (sans explanation) to average people.  Legal sites are filed under “jurisprudents” and linguistic ones under “language.”

But the personal blogs I subscribe to are separated into four folders: “Marquise,” “Vicomtesse,” “Baronne,” and “Baronnet.” They’re ranked. Blogs I like the most are in the “Marquise” folder; the ones I like the least are in “Baronnet.” I have all sorts of complicated reasons for why I’ve used feminine French ranks of nobility to organize blogs and as to why certain ranks are missing but I suppose the real question is: why must I complicate things? I can put videos in the “Videos” folder but asking me to sort blogs into categories like “Blogs I Read Daily” and “Blogs I Sort of Like” is asking too much.  I feel compelled to attach partly whimsical and highly symbolic titles to them … and to other things. :)

On the subject of the last entry: I will answer your questions. Thanks a ton for asking them.