Noticed lately that I have been falling behind farther and farther from catching up with all the messages I haven't yet read in all my online correspondence vehicles.
For instance, I have my Hotmail account. It's the first one I ever opened up. I remember doing it when I was in my summer class to Europe after I graduated; was at an Internet bar in Prague when I signed up for Hotmail. It (as well as another Hotmail account I created) became my secondary account because I gave some guy at a Barnes & Noble my e-mail address and he just used it to spam the shit out of it, and now I can't use it for anything important.
However, I have found a use for it as the e-mail address for anything I wanted to sign up for, but have to keep receiving newsletters every week or month for. I have signed up for a lot over the years, therefore the amount of junk electronic mail has piled up -- more than 20,000, in fact, and I am years behind. That's one reason why I am looking forward to potentially two weeks off before my next project: I hope to burn through all those e-mails in order to cut down on the five-figure correspondence. And no, I have not thought about just deleting them all. I signed up for these, the least I can do is take a glance.
What's unfortunate, however, is that the same e-mail creep is happening to my primary e-mail account, my Yahoo! I created the Yahoo! because of all the crap I kept getting on my Hotmail, and I wanted to start fresh. For the most part it's working. Although it's inevitable that I get spam, it usually finds its way into the spam folder, where I can completely ignore it.
However, I have been careless when it comes to signing up for things. In a moment of weakness, I give the Yahoo! address to something in order to buy it, or to receive newsletters that I really wanted to see at the time, and I knew I wouldn't even take a look if I sent it to the Hotmail. Well, I've used that so much that now that's piling up. I had been pretty good about keeping the pile low, but it was around early last month that I wasn't able to login and go through it, and I guess I strung a few days together and now ... I have 800 unopened pieces of electronic mail. I don't know how in the hell it got to be so many, but I have to have time to slay this dragon.
And now this crap is infecting my Facebook newsfeed! This is what I get for continually adding babes I don't know. I want to be a part of their lives, but I am now a part of so many lives that every time I check my Facebook I have, like, a dozen new notices. It wasn't so long ago where that was not the case. But the sheer tonnage of liking new hot models and bodybuilders -- both of whom naturally post picture after picture of themselves -- means I have to devote even more time to mowing that stuff down. Many days recently I had not been able to, but it has been under control since. But this is a beast that will permanently have to be contained, and even more so since I have no plans to stop being Facebook friends with hot babes.
No wonder I don't have time to go back to school -- I have to catch up with my mail.
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