The few unread e-mails I have, I have actually reviewed in the preview pane, but they are things that I can't deal with at the moment but I want them to draw my eye.
Some of that is a habit learned from working with my old contracts manager. She put return receipts on everything and expected you to respond immediately once you had read the message. Sometimes she would call as soon as she got the receipt to talk about the message. If I just looked at it in the preview pane, she wouldn't get the receipt and I'd have more time before I had to deal. So glad I don't work with her anymore.
Love IM. Quick conversation and no phone call or email to deal with. WIN!
I keep my inbox pretty clean. I'm scared to see how nuts it'll be after my 5 month maternity leave. Yikes.
Notice how I'm not taking part in the clean-out-yer-inbox conversation? It's because I have nothing to add to it. Anyone who has seen my house knows exactly how messy my inbox is.
Sigh.
Oh well.
I need some natter, y'all. I'm at work for 5 more hours, much of it sitting around doing nothing. I need distractions.
It's so sunny and warm we got out the bouncy house. Liv and I cleaned it up a bit--it had some mildew from winter storage. A spray bottle with some bleach water took care of it.
I'm always surprised by how much fun bouncing is.
My inbox is a wreck.
msbelle, thanks for the package! Owen always loves new stuff!
[link]
....
There's also a musical bit.
I met with the movers and they are estimating my household weight at 7650.
Also, mac took $20 off the kitchen counter and bought himself trading cards. He also came home with some crappy electronic music player from school, he already has an ipod dammit.
Mac and his classmates have quite the enterprise going on. I don't recall ever doing the kind of buying/trading he does.
I hope Allyson's around to see this: Ex-NASA Flight Controller Marianne Dyson reviews children's books about space. She is clearly a Buffista spirit baby - check this one out:
Spyler and CeCe must find some numbers to finish a countdown of their rocket ship. They “spy” a black 5 and then look for other black things in the photo. This is repeated with a blue 8, and a car with a 1 on it. They then do their countdown, blast off to space, and come home in time for dinner.
I was confused by the very first sentence: “One day, Spyler and CeCe made a really cool rocket ship.” I didn’t know who Spyler and CeCe were. From the photo, one of them is a tennis-ball-headed character, and the other a dog, but nowhere in the book does it tell me which one is which!
CeCe says ?he/she can’t wait to blast into space, but when Spyler says they need to check out their countdown machine first, CeCe says they can go to the moon only if they are home in time for dinner. This statement made me not care if CeCe made it to the moon or not. He/She is the kind of character who is not willing to take a risk - even delaying dinner - to accomplish anything. That’s not the kind of attitude I associate with astronauts.
I'm always amazed when I see people with hundreds of unread emails.
I have almost 3000 unread messages in one folder, but that's because only about 1% of those messages are relevant to my interests and I'm never short enough on work to dedicate time to clearing them out.
