Saturday, November 9, 2002
As of this evening, I'll no longer be in Seattle,
or in any sort of regular contact until I reach -- and return from -- Mexico.
Please feel free to email me anyway at: rainier at moderngypsy.com.
I don't even care about my physical health at this point -- I know I'm going to be fine. I just think that leaving Seattle, my friends, and of course Ben, is going to make me want to hurl myself into the sea. All the things, places, and people I love are going to be gone.
Can't think that way. Forge yet another new life.
I'm so tired of building from the ground up.
There's a community set up through livejournal, located under this link that opens in a new window that will track my progress southward. Feel free to join up and add your commentary if you hear from me, or if you don't, or if you're even interested.
-----e
cycle-mama
Posted by beth @ 07:33 AM PST [Link]
Tuesday, November 5, 2002
I just figured out my pattern with email.
I start answering it, and when I get to one I want to answer, but which would take me more than just a minute or two (my perception, not necessarily the reality), I stop. This happens if I'm going from the beginning of the list or the end, but either way, I'll blow through a bunch, then hit something that would take awhile, and instead of skipping it and saving it for last, I stop altogether and doing ANY MORE seems like a huge uphill battle.
This is all a matter of perception, I realize. But if I move those to another folder, I often have the out-of-sight-out-of-mind problem and I forget they're there.
I have precisely two days left to have a clean inbox, and I don't think that's going to happen. But I HAVE to get the IQ mail cleaned up.
(And practice, and pack, and do all the other stuff.... good lord.)
---e
the harried, leaving soon.
Posted by beth @ 06:07 PM PST [Link]
