Today I’m restricted to staying home for most of it because of the lovely concept of “appointments” that Bell Canada has. Apparently the technician will be here “before 6pm”. Dude. What about the poor schmucks that have to work? I mean it’s annoying because I really dislike being required to stay anywhere, but honestly spending the day at home is not a big deal for me. But taking a day off work or school to sit on your ass all day just waiting. Ew.

Anyways, we’ve been without a phone since Tuesday now. The DSL works, the door buzzer works, but no dial tone or anything ringing through to us. We blew through my $10 allotment for the month on my cell phone in a day just setting up the appointment with Bell. I got the damn phone for those little one minute calls to Mike telling him I’d be there in 5 minutes or such. Not to function as our only point of contact.

Well that’s not true completely. There is email, but I’m so bad at it. *laughs* I read everything and then I say to myself that I’ll answer it when I get a chance to really focus… and promptly forget to make that time. There are a lot of factors in that. I write epics, so it takes me a while to respond to each email. I average about 15-20 minutes per email, and I get about 5 a week. And that’s with my lack of response.

Then there’s the perfection crap. I want to send well crafted, thought out responses, usually. Then add in that sometimes I’m just not in the mood at all to communicate with anyone. Plus that I keep myself very busy when I am feeling up and motivated… It just doesn’t work for me.

I’ve tried a number of different ways of dealing with it. The main one I try all the time is just sitting down and answering any email I get immediately after reading it. Which works for a while, but once I fall behind even with a single email, I’m up shit creek again. I may try to set aside a time every couple days that I sit down and answer email. Make it email hour and that’s all I do.

I think another part of why I dislike email is I’m old-fashioned a bit. I used to have pen-pals all over the world. I’d take a week and write their letters when I’d get a moment here or there. There was this sense of time and care that just doesn’t seem to be there in email. Plus it’s not like I can whip out my PC at any spare moment and write. She’s a bit big for that.

I guess I could try to do it in my palm, but… ew. Graffiti takes me ages to write in my doctor’s appointments, trying to write a note to someone would be akin to sticking needles in my eyes for “fun”. I will solve this someday though! It’s the new wave of communication; I need to learn how to keep up with it.

And that’s 15.