a parsing I will go

I know I'm still very much a newbie with this blogging thing (and I know that I'm just stating the obvious here), but there's something still really remarkable to me about having a space where information collected from various sources on a single topic can be snipped, organized and then parsed in a single entry - and then editorialized. I'm a collector of the worst kind - storing interesting list-serv threads in email folders, snipping newspaper/magazine items or printing things out and then stacking or scrapbooking or filing them for potential use later on...so much space - virtual and material - used up for when I have time (ha) to revisit them, think about them, or write about them. I also still haven't gotten over the novelty of being able to delete said threads from my inbox once they've been compiled; knowing that they've been safely chronologized - the trajectory of events or discussions assembled in a neat clean format for easy access for whenever I discover that I (*gasp*) have a little free time and can do something with them. Again, I'm speaking the known and to the converted, but I'm still just so darned amazed by the...efficiency of it all!