Stress and performance

This week has been tough. A couple of reasons:

1) There is so much going on with the web and its applications these days that I can't seem to get my head around it. The electronic world has changed by leaps and bounds since my first (and only previous) technology class, during senior year at Wellesley. For that class, we worked specifically with html and designing a web page. We wrote out every single last detail, including the use of frames and other things that I can no longer remember! But there is far more than I ever thought about - and not only are we working with just how the systems work, but authoring documents that have meaning for ourselves and within our professions.

2) Related to that last sentence- my head is spinning, especially as I sit here and get reminded the public nature of each thing we write in this class. Which concerns me, I have to say - and probably leads to some of the stress I've put myself under. It seems I can't tell where things start or where they could possibly end, nor where I fit into it. I am not a publicly-oriented person, and dread the possibility of anyone outside myself and my professor reading what I produce. Right now, it's a public performance every time I log on.