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I didn't check email for a week. So much of import has happened while I was gone. It was astonishing! And it only took one, two, three-plus hours.
Just a smattering of things that I missed:
I almost get the feeling that, had I been there to respond, I might have been able to help with something. Reorganize a meeting, perhaps? Help someone find an optometrist in a city where I do not live? Help cure AIDS? So many missed opportunities to be a good samaritan. Alas. That's the joy of checking email every&*)^#%&day.
In honor of being an email curmudgeon, I started a blog email address. You know, to increase credibility. You can find it by clicking on "email me" in the right-hand sidebar. Perhaps I can get out a few phishing scams, offer personal services, sell cheap Canadian medications, or other tempting offers for your inboxes. Until, that is, my new address is discovered.
Tagged: email, spam
Just a smattering of things that I missed:
- performances of the "first New World Opera" in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- symposium in connection with above event
- job offers in Tashkent, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan [insert your favorite Central-Asian city here]
- plans to organize a lunch with a senior musicologist (only six time zones away)
- a faculty meeting that graduate students couldn't go to anyway
- organizing a meeting of a transportation committee in Ann Arbor
- a series of job talks by anthropologists in, you guessed, Ann Arbor
- CfPs for a number of international conferences and the Society for Ethnomusicology reminders
- an art opening in Brno
- sales at amazon
- "coffee" with my congressional representative in upper Michigan
- a missed dinner date at Masaryk in Brno
- a curious "Graduate Student Dance Party" in A2, allegedly free
- chances to save my account at Comerica bank, where I never had an account
- unsolicited answers to personal ads that were never placed
- a movie that showed five days ago
- "Graduate student government" re-election campaigns
- information about joining the Peace Corps
- a changed meeting plan for, well, you get the idea...
I almost get the feeling that, had I been there to respond, I might have been able to help with something. Reorganize a meeting, perhaps? Help someone find an optometrist in a city where I do not live? Help cure AIDS? So many missed opportunities to be a good samaritan. Alas. That's the joy of checking email every&*)^#%&day.
In honor of being an email curmudgeon, I started a blog email address. You know, to increase credibility. You can find it by clicking on "email me" in the right-hand sidebar. Perhaps I can get out a few phishing scams, offer personal services, sell cheap Canadian medications, or other tempting offers for your inboxes. Until, that is, my new address is discovered.
Tagged: email, spam
Posted 16 March 2006 at 19:57.
A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.
Comments:
What, no offers for incredibly cheap drugs and software? (Delivered right to your home in Ann Arbor, of course.)
10:38 PM, March 16, 2006
Yeah, your spam is so much more educational than mine. Refinance my mortgage, bah.
11:57 PM, March 16, 2006
Gee, so what's wrong with me? I just get a bunch of Viagra and penis enhancer e-mails.
1:32 AM, March 17, 2006
Well, I just haven't figured out who to forward my Viagra and penis-enhancer spam to.
3:56 PM, March 17, 2006
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