Relatedly, my university email account automatically deletes anything more than two months old. And there's no way to get it back. Not sure if that's a special feature of having a student account, but it SUCKS for work.

Good lord.

I have a manager who would love it if I did that. But I won't.

Saw his "log" once. (some items approximated because I do not really waste braincells on remembering these things really) :

11:43-11:52 made grocery list->oil, flour, peppers

11:52-12:07 call to dentist, on hold 4 minutes

etc.

AND A HARD COPY PRINTOUT OF EVERY E-MAIL.

Could you cut and paste into one document (assuming you can find backups)? You could probably get 3-4 emails per page that way.

I keep backups of all my work-related email, even the, "Thanks for putting that online, kthanxbi" ones. It's very CYA and it has come in handy more than once. As in, "Yes you signed off on it, here's the email."

Oh, fer Crissakes.

I can't even imagine saving all of that crap. Or caring enough about it.

I am hungry. People are stupid.

Polos are stupid (Right on, Tom!)

Scientology is stupid. And Tom Cruise is an idiot.

Who is it in Chicago that's a Mary Kay rep? Is it ChiKat? Apologies for the muddling, but I'm in a post-lunch coma.

I have a friend who's thinking about starting up with that, and she was hoping to talk to someone with experience.

And I don't keep most of my sent e-mails. Nor logs of all my phone calls.

I used to keep messages for a year. Now that my inbox is filling up every few days, however, I'm down to six months. It's part of Operation Cover My Ass.

Of course, when I used to work at my old company, we were legally required to hang onto our paperwork and e-mail for several years until we were cleared to purge by the FDA, so maybe that's just a habit.

I'm one of those freaks that listen to the e-mail groups bitching about the tremendous storage problems they have. So I only save e-mails where it contains information that isn't reflected somewhere else. Mostly, that's incoming e-mail. If she wants to know whenever I e-mailed someone else, she really needs to ask them, or to explicitly order defiance of the e-mail group's directives.

Notes e-mails copy and paste like crap. I'm trying to mitigate things by finding the most recent e-mails in the chain, and printing those only. And I'm double checking with her about attachments, because there's a metric assload of those.

Thing is? This won't help, certainly not any more than if I emailed her this stuff and she took her laptop to the meeting. She's never going to be able to read it all in time, and it's not like it's going to be indexed or searchable.

Also, it's just wrong.

Hey, ND? There was a story on All Things Considered last night featuring a guy who is a famous sound designer (I'm assuming). He was in London working on the latest Harry Potter movie and talked about where sound designers found the sounds they used, illustrating it with examples from The Empire Strikes Back. He ended with a plea for listeners to contact him through NPR if they had a sound that they thought was cool or told a story.

Who is it in Chicago that's a Mary Kay rep? Is it ChiKat?

Yep. Feel free to give her my email address (in profile). I'll be glad to chat with her about it.

Yet all the Regency heroes are at least 6'.

Well, 99.9% of Regency heroes are noble or at least gentry, so it makes sense that they'd be well-fed enough to reach modern English heights. The statistic was for enlisted men, who then as now tended to come disproportionately from the poor and desperate segments of society. I deliberately made my own commoner enlisted hero the son of a reasonably prosperous innkeeper who ran away to join the army in a fit of youthful romance and itchy-footedness so I could make him well-nourished enough to look like a hero. Except for the part where he's only 5'10" (though I never explicitly spell out his height), has red hair (much more popular for heroines than heroes), and is skinny (I call it "lean" or "wiry").