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Email identities and other lives
I got some comments on the Land's End thing, which I'll recount later today when I write a real entry and can get to all my email.
While I'm at work, I don't really have Columbine email; I can both send and receive it, after a fashion ... but I don't save it and I don't like replying to it.
I don't save it because I don't delete it from the mail server - that way I can get it again when I get home, which is where I want my saved messages to live. It's like I get the email twice. This means that while I'm at work, I don't hang onto it. I just check it to make sure I'm not missing anything vitally important, then delete it.
And I try not to reply to it because it would have to go out with my Institvte address on it, due to the way the Institvte's mail servers are set up - and we don't want that. The Institvte address is only for business. Not that my bosses care, but I do. I like keeping my personalities separate.
This leads inevitably to the fact that, aside from my Institvte account, I have six or seven visible email addresses. Even though all email for a given web domain goes to the same mailbox on the mail server, the address helps me sort the mail. For example, Clio mail gets dropped into a different folder from Columbine mail when I receive it. Is Columbine going to answer the Clio mail? Of course - the same human's reading both. But it'll get handled a little differently.
You can call it schizophrenic if you like. I call it organized.
Today I spent a little time catching up on journals. Okay, actually, I spent a lot of time. How much time? Kymm is the first site on my Nibelung ring. By the time I had finished walking the ring, she had posted a new entry.
Part of the reason it took so long was that I was nearly two weeks behind the times. I don't have a lot of time to read journals, and unlike some addicts I know, I am on strict rationing. It's not personal. There are about thirty people whose journals I would very much like to read, and if I weren't also interested in, say, writing, and reading books (we'll cover my book backlog next time), and earning a living - minor things like that - I would do so.
Here are some random bits from some of the people whose lives I experience vicariously. I jotted these down as I went. They'll keep you busy until I come back.
Kymm finally sees Eyes Wide Shut
Al figures out why Trojans are named Trojans
Diane realizes that the United States is a really weird name
Melissa undergoes a tsunami of men
Lucy has an encounter with Fabio
Rob has an unexpectedly competent dental experience
Molly realizes something scary
Patrick reorganizes his life in one day
Pamie tells a scary bathtub story
Jette deals with The Nickname
Karen ponders Fandom and loving software too much
Iain repeats overheard conversations
Beth notes the psychological value of nifty clothes
© Columbine
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I knew that it took them 18 months or whatever to shoot this film, but I was unaware that it would take 18 months to watch.
- Kymm, on Eyes Wide Shut
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