ill communicado. i've been failing as an email buddy. i have hardly any inclination to return emails. even though i sit in front of a computer all day long. and wait anxiously for the little letter to appear at the bottom right of my screen. most of the time, it's junk mail, but sometimes, it's a real email, from a real person. but then i sit on it and wait to reply for days. and then weeks. and that'll stretch on and on.



i'm always cleaning out my inboxes too. now that i have broadband, i feel the need to constantly organize my email folders. everyone has a folder. or at least a group folder. and i toss emails into those, to save for posterity. so i can show my children. or something. if my life was as organized as my email folders, i would have conquered the world by now.



i used to be so good at emailing. long huge emails. written with sugar and spice and everything nice. i can't even remember using email in high school, but by sophomore year in college, i had some friends that i emailed every day that i'd barely met in person. which was cool. heck, some of the best things of my life have happened due to emailing. but then, ever since leaving school and going to new york, i've gone through occassional periods when i don't want to email anyone. or talk to anyone. and all these emails sit there alone and unanswered.



which is kind of okay. because everyone does it. but i read about CEOs who clear out their inboxes by answering everything ASAP. but that seems kind of drastic. wouldn't that just increase the pressure on your email buddy to reply immediately too? i mean, sometimes there's a pattern to emailing. three days, five days, one month. whatever. and if i suddenly replied as soon as possible to every email, wouldn't that just increase the amount of emails i would be writing every day? i think i can handle only a few email buddies at a time. spaced out in sporadic response times. there's the daily person, the weekly person, the long reply person......and so on. email is greatness though. does it make people better friends? does it make you get to know someone better? i think so. then again i could be wrong. i doubt it though.