DISCIPLINE: The e-mail!
You know what this is going to be, right?
This is not to make anyone feel like their e-mails to me are a chore or anything, by the way. It's just that when I get this many, it requires DISCIPLINE for me to get my ass in the chair and actually devote myself fully to answering them. I have been completely being a dick about my e-mail lately, answering slowly and making people wait for mails that should have come quickly and I even managed to lose my chance to bid on an Ebay auction for a cool Galadriel ring (for my Halloween costume). The bidding was over two days ago and I didn't pay attention. So, I suck.
42 mails to go.
First order of business: Respond to LiveJournal notes!
Okay, done. Answered nice LJ notes from Amethyst (smiling_blush), Jes (wingedpanda), Sister P (patorin), and my mom who doesn't have a LiveJournal but sometimes comments anyway.
And I received one e-mail in that time also.
So here I am:
Hmm. New mail was kind of an incidental one from Mikey that doesn't really need a specific answer. But he's sent me his share of mails, which I will attack soon.
Next: Oh, the Uberman list.
Actually, scratch that. That one doesn't need a particular response either, even though it was funny. I'm going to mail them later with some pics I took of my sleeping space at work, though.
Ho-hum.
Next: A couple e-mails from some lady who wanted me to help her learn how to finger-knit through e-mail. Yes, I get strange mail.
Now it's on to Victor's mails. I appear to have two very short ones from him. . . .
Yes. I sent back a message regarding Supergirl panties. . . .
You don't wanna know.
Um crap. This keeps happening.
Someone has mailed me with subject "Your site--I would like to link to it." I'll read it later.
Oh balls!
Oh, that's all right, it's junk from Uberman list . . . probably don't need to respond. ::going to read::
Okay, I lied. I answered the Uberman one AND the "I wanna link to you" one. But at least now I'm back down. . . .
Yeah and then I got another one and answered it--about stupid symbol alt codes. It sounded like someone who will probably e-mail me back and forth over and over again and finally ask me to chat with them on AIM or something. God.
So. 32 mails. Now it's time to answer mail from Dieter.
And then I got another one and answered it too. And here we go. . . .
Oh shit-hell! What do they want now?
Oh never mind it's just a journal comment from Mikey (1of7mikey). That I can answer now.
IT IS DONE.
Hmm. The next one's from Nitti. We talk about music and send each other mp3s. I can't send my answer to his without it taking forever to upload, so what I'll do is answer it, attach the file, and . . . wait to send it until it's time for my nap in two hours.
Cool. Decided to send him "Parasol" by Tori. But . . . wait, what's this?
How is it that no matter how much I answer e-mail, I keep getting more? Jeeez!
Pee break.
Return from pee break and:
This is a cruel joke, isn't it.
::breathes deeply:: Okay, I think we got it under control now. It was just a notification from LJ that Mikey signed another note, a notification from the Gnopples board that I got a response on something, and a li'l e-mail from Mikey saying he wrote a new journal entry. I'll lookit it later. For now:
That means I have answered a net 12 e-mails, though it has actually been more collectively. Shit!
Let's make more dents in this bitch.
Fred (shadowfreder) sent Gnopples comments and even wrote some sample scripts. Hahah! Must answer.
w00t! Go me. I'm in the twenties. Though my e-mail still exceeds my age. Damn. Let's fix that.
Seems I have some notifications of Fanlistings moving here. I'll go 'head and take care of all of them at once so I don't have to keep uploading crap.
Now I'm gonna get a glass of Coke and hope my mailbox doesn't fill up to 80 in the time it takes to do so.
Okay. Good.
MikeMail™! I apparently have neglected to answer this mail about sheep. Also, about tomorrow's rendezvous. That was kinda rude. ::answers::
Great, he had one on our plans for tomorrow and one praising me for last week's comic. He even wrote me a poem about how cool Adele is. Hehehe.
I think that boy should be locked up. Or at least kept away from any dimensional pools.
Okay. And speaking of Mikes, we have another one: A huge SWARM (no kidding) of mails by Mikey. Now I will answer them systematically. You do see that my total up there to still answer is 25, right? Wait 'til you see how much it goes down after I answer Mikey's Many Mails.
Urk. Done. ::pant pant::
Yes, yes, I know. He sends a lot of shorties, and some of his mails I hadn't addressed all the way back to last week.
Moving on.
Hmm. Random person commenting on my site and assuring me that this is a genuine mail, not a cyber stalker or porn freak. They like to do that, sometimes people read certain parts of my site and seem to think I think everyone's deserving of an attack. 'Kay, answering fan mail.
Whoo, ended up laying a mini-rant on that guy, 'cause he invited me to his page and I glanced at it and it had some right-click disable message that snipped at me not to steal his art. I was right-clicking to see if an unloaded picture would show thank you, don't need to be told not to steal a thumbnail of a frickin' pencil sketch. Okay, now I sound rude. The guy was nice and stuff, I'm not mad at HIM, I just don't like when people's pages yell at me not to steal when I wasn't planning to and right click does other things besides gank pictures.
People will steal your pics without right-click if they really want to anyway. How do you think I'm stealing those pictures of my mailbox?
Damn. Stuck at 12, and I have to go to sleep for my 10 PM nap. I'll pick this up when I get up in 20 minutes, and we'll see if I'm back to 42 yet. . . .
Okay. Back from nap and . . .
. . . that's not bad!
Hmm. It was just a sorta thank-you from the girl who wanted to link to my site. Moving on!
Got a quick maily-mail from Heather, who is in Australia. That was a breeze to answer, li'l short one.
Did a couple other "easy" ones--one from a girl who found me from my Pagan page and just kind of is talking to me about Craft study in a surfacey way, and then the other was a young'un who liked Eragon but somehow is also not being a complete loon in the e-mail. Seemed like a real little kid, to her Eragon was like "a movie playing in [her] mind." Ugh. Some movie.
Okay, well now comes the hard shit. I have a ton of e-mail from Jeremy. Meaning two long ones. This is gonna take a while. Start the clock ticking.
11:12 PM
And now I'm done.
1:02 AM
Survey says:
I swear to god this is fucking hopeless.
Who the hell's been e-mailing me??
New mails: Cara's LJ comment. Dealt with. Down to 13. Kid who likes Eragon now wants to read my books. Dealt with. Down to 12. Girl discussing the Craft is back. Dealt with. Down to 11. Typed mail to dude who likes my Web site who wrote back already to a mail I sent earlier, and received two more e-mails while typing. Down to 12 again. Another LJ note from Cara, she likes my comic faces. 11! Plans from Mike for tomorrow. 10! Mail from Victor about panties again, which I didn't have to answer. 9! A little good night kiss e-mail from Mikey--down to 8!
Okay. Crap. The next one on my list is going to take me a long time too (probably) because it is a kid who read my essay on Eragon and was ready to disagree with me but realized he agreed with everything I said. Now he wants me to edit his fantasy novel for him. I told him as an editor who gets paid up to 25 bucks an hour for this sort of shit I really don't think so, but I would be willing to just give his first chapter a glance and give him a capsule review. I have not looked at what he sent yet but it could be anything--he might need huge typo correction and sentence structure help, or he might have a well-told story with a shitty plot or dumbass characterization, or who knows, it could be really good. Fact is I gotta tell him. I don't feel like doing that yet. So . . . I'll wait on that one and maybe do it last.
Finished one up to a young AOL chick who likes my rants and now we're talking about sleep and peers who suck. After finishing her mail, I'm down one more. . . .
Next up to bat was Reeny's mails (sunsetcloud)--I answered one, but the other is a joke mail that I read and still have to download videos to, so I will do that during next nap. My mailbox is here:
I have speedily finished up a mail to a guy who likes to philosophize about Descartes.
Quick mail to one of the people mailing me about Eragon. He agreed with me, wants to know if *I* have published works, and wants to know what I think of Artemis Fowl. I told him.
Answered a comment from 43 Things about my writing. Bingo.
Umkay, so then I had one from Cliff about a funny video which I will download while working tomorrow (and I slid in a request for him to take me to the work meeting on Saturday since we both have to be there).
And that's about it for now--one's just the videos to download from Reeny's mail (I'll do that as soon as I go to my next nap) and one is that dude who wants me to edit for him. I guess I'll work on the editing when I get up and hopefully sometime in the next post I will be able to show you people a nice gleaming "0" mailbox!
Heh. Thanks for bearing with me. TURBO MAIL BOOST GO!
This is not to make anyone feel like their e-mails to me are a chore or anything, by the way. It's just that when I get this many, it requires DISCIPLINE for me to get my ass in the chair and actually devote myself fully to answering them. I have been completely being a dick about my e-mail lately, answering slowly and making people wait for mails that should have come quickly and I even managed to lose my chance to bid on an Ebay auction for a cool Galadriel ring (for my Halloween costume). The bidding was over two days ago and I didn't pay attention. So, I suck.
42 mails to go.
First order of business: Respond to LiveJournal notes!
Okay, done. Answered nice LJ notes from Amethyst (smiling_blush), Jes (wingedpanda), Sister P (patorin), and my mom who doesn't have a LiveJournal but sometimes comments anyway.
And I received one e-mail in that time also.
So here I am:
Hmm. New mail was kind of an incidental one from Mikey that doesn't really need a specific answer. But he's sent me his share of mails, which I will attack soon.
Next: Oh, the Uberman list.
Actually, scratch that. That one doesn't need a particular response either, even though it was funny. I'm going to mail them later with some pics I took of my sleeping space at work, though.
Ho-hum.
Next: A couple e-mails from some lady who wanted me to help her learn how to finger-knit through e-mail. Yes, I get strange mail.
Now it's on to Victor's mails. I appear to have two very short ones from him. . . .
Yes. I sent back a message regarding Supergirl panties. . . .
You don't wanna know.
Um crap. This keeps happening.
Someone has mailed me with subject "Your site--I would like to link to it." I'll read it later.
Oh balls!
Oh, that's all right, it's junk from Uberman list . . . probably don't need to respond. ::going to read::
Okay, I lied. I answered the Uberman one AND the "I wanna link to you" one. But at least now I'm back down. . . .
Yeah and then I got another one and answered it--about stupid symbol alt codes. It sounded like someone who will probably e-mail me back and forth over and over again and finally ask me to chat with them on AIM or something. God.
So. 32 mails. Now it's time to answer mail from Dieter.
And then I got another one and answered it too. And here we go. . . .
Oh shit-hell! What do they want now?
Oh never mind it's just a journal comment from Mikey (1of7mikey). That I can answer now.
IT IS DONE.
Hmm. The next one's from Nitti. We talk about music and send each other mp3s. I can't send my answer to his without it taking forever to upload, so what I'll do is answer it, attach the file, and . . . wait to send it until it's time for my nap in two hours.
Cool. Decided to send him "Parasol" by Tori. But . . . wait, what's this?
How is it that no matter how much I answer e-mail, I keep getting more? Jeeez!
Pee break.
Return from pee break and:
This is a cruel joke, isn't it.
::breathes deeply:: Okay, I think we got it under control now. It was just a notification from LJ that Mikey signed another note, a notification from the Gnopples board that I got a response on something, and a li'l e-mail from Mikey saying he wrote a new journal entry. I'll lookit it later. For now:
That means I have answered a net 12 e-mails, though it has actually been more collectively. Shit!
Let's make more dents in this bitch.
Fred (shadowfreder) sent Gnopples comments and even wrote some sample scripts. Hahah! Must answer.
w00t! Go me. I'm in the twenties. Though my e-mail still exceeds my age. Damn. Let's fix that.
Seems I have some notifications of Fanlistings moving here. I'll go 'head and take care of all of them at once so I don't have to keep uploading crap.
Now I'm gonna get a glass of Coke and hope my mailbox doesn't fill up to 80 in the time it takes to do so.
Okay. Good.
MikeMail™! I apparently have neglected to answer this mail about sheep. Also, about tomorrow's rendezvous. That was kinda rude. ::answers::
Great, he had one on our plans for tomorrow and one praising me for last week's comic. He even wrote me a poem about how cool Adele is. Hehehe.
I think that boy should be locked up. Or at least kept away from any dimensional pools.
Okay. And speaking of Mikes, we have another one: A huge SWARM (no kidding) of mails by Mikey. Now I will answer them systematically. You do see that my total up there to still answer is 25, right? Wait 'til you see how much it goes down after I answer Mikey's Many Mails.
Urk. Done. ::pant pant::
Yes, yes, I know. He sends a lot of shorties, and some of his mails I hadn't addressed all the way back to last week.
Moving on.
Hmm. Random person commenting on my site and assuring me that this is a genuine mail, not a cyber stalker or porn freak. They like to do that, sometimes people read certain parts of my site and seem to think I think everyone's deserving of an attack. 'Kay, answering fan mail.
Whoo, ended up laying a mini-rant on that guy, 'cause he invited me to his page and I glanced at it and it had some right-click disable message that snipped at me not to steal his art. I was right-clicking to see if an unloaded picture would show thank you, don't need to be told not to steal a thumbnail of a frickin' pencil sketch. Okay, now I sound rude. The guy was nice and stuff, I'm not mad at HIM, I just don't like when people's pages yell at me not to steal when I wasn't planning to and right click does other things besides gank pictures.
People will steal your pics without right-click if they really want to anyway. How do you think I'm stealing those pictures of my mailbox?
Damn. Stuck at 12, and I have to go to sleep for my 10 PM nap. I'll pick this up when I get up in 20 minutes, and we'll see if I'm back to 42 yet. . . .
Okay. Back from nap and . . .
. . . that's not bad!
Hmm. It was just a sorta thank-you from the girl who wanted to link to my site. Moving on!
Got a quick maily-mail from Heather, who is in Australia. That was a breeze to answer, li'l short one.
Did a couple other "easy" ones--one from a girl who found me from my Pagan page and just kind of is talking to me about Craft study in a surfacey way, and then the other was a young'un who liked Eragon but somehow is also not being a complete loon in the e-mail. Seemed like a real little kid, to her Eragon was like "a movie playing in [her] mind." Ugh. Some movie.
Okay, well now comes the hard shit. I have a ton of e-mail from Jeremy. Meaning two long ones. This is gonna take a while. Start the clock ticking.
11:12 PM
And now I'm done.
1:02 AM
Survey says:
I swear to god this is fucking hopeless.
Who the hell's been e-mailing me??
New mails: Cara's LJ comment. Dealt with. Down to 13. Kid who likes Eragon now wants to read my books. Dealt with. Down to 12. Girl discussing the Craft is back. Dealt with. Down to 11. Typed mail to dude who likes my Web site who wrote back already to a mail I sent earlier, and received two more e-mails while typing. Down to 12 again. Another LJ note from Cara, she likes my comic faces. 11! Plans from Mike for tomorrow. 10! Mail from Victor about panties again, which I didn't have to answer. 9! A little good night kiss e-mail from Mikey--down to 8!
Okay. Crap. The next one on my list is going to take me a long time too (probably) because it is a kid who read my essay on Eragon and was ready to disagree with me but realized he agreed with everything I said. Now he wants me to edit his fantasy novel for him. I told him as an editor who gets paid up to 25 bucks an hour for this sort of shit I really don't think so, but I would be willing to just give his first chapter a glance and give him a capsule review. I have not looked at what he sent yet but it could be anything--he might need huge typo correction and sentence structure help, or he might have a well-told story with a shitty plot or dumbass characterization, or who knows, it could be really good. Fact is I gotta tell him. I don't feel like doing that yet. So . . . I'll wait on that one and maybe do it last.
Finished one up to a young AOL chick who likes my rants and now we're talking about sleep and peers who suck. After finishing her mail, I'm down one more. . . .
Next up to bat was Reeny's mails (sunsetcloud)--I answered one, but the other is a joke mail that I read and still have to download videos to, so I will do that during next nap. My mailbox is here:
I have speedily finished up a mail to a guy who likes to philosophize about Descartes.
Quick mail to one of the people mailing me about Eragon. He agreed with me, wants to know if *I* have published works, and wants to know what I think of Artemis Fowl. I told him.
Answered a comment from 43 Things about my writing. Bingo.
Umkay, so then I had one from Cliff about a funny video which I will download while working tomorrow (and I slid in a request for him to take me to the work meeting on Saturday since we both have to be there).
And that's about it for now--one's just the videos to download from Reeny's mail (I'll do that as soon as I go to my next nap) and one is that dude who wants me to edit for him. I guess I'll work on the editing when I get up and hopefully sometime in the next post I will be able to show you people a nice gleaming "0" mailbox!
Heh. Thanks for bearing with me. TURBO MAIL BOOST GO!