Is Kate a Bum?? You Decide!
Yeah, it’s been a month and I’ve hardly even looked at my England photos, let alone had time to blog about them! To make a case for my defense I’ve done some (quick) research on one central, contributing factor: E-MAIL (including e-mail chats -- half of which is business these days!).Of course, number crunching only shows so much about what’s actually going on, but I like the concrete, condensed aspects of it as a source of information. Anyhoo, here’s what I found.
Since Feb. 27th (my first full day back from vacation):
- I have received and sent 259 e-mails, which is roughly 10 e-mails per day.
- I have received and sent 200 personal e-mails, which is 7+ e-mails per day that warranted my attention.
- Looking briefly at my e-mail history from the past several months showed that I have, indeed, been receiving twice as many e-mails as usual since the end of February. The percentage of personal e-mails was also markedly higher, and the nature of the personal e-mails I’ve been receiving seems to be more time-consuming, usually requiring that I search out information before I can reply.
- Of course I fully realize that lots of people deal with many more e-mails in a day than that, but I don’t, so it’s taxing to me.
- And this is not to say that I don’t love getting e-mails and certainly not that I don’t love getting personal e-mails, because I really do! I firmly believe that correspondence is a large part of what keeps me going here in foreign France, which is oh so far from home.
- Many of these e-mails have to do with the coming visits of family and friends, and while I don't at all want to give the impression that I find these e-mails cumbersome (I'm way pumped to see these people!!), I will admit to them having that *taxing* element about them.
I’m gonna have to answer in the affirmative. :o)
posted by Kate @ 4:10 PM
8 Comments:
I know you feel a deep sense of responsibility to share your experience with us, but hey -- we're not on a timetable. It's all good. It's just pleasant to read your posts whenever they come! Don't be so hard on yourself! And I vote no on the bum question. :)
--JEG
You aren't a bum, you just have a lot to do. You are under no obligation to post... that's not why you got a blog. When you do blog, great. When you don't blog, fine. We're okay. You're okay. Relax!
That's so funny because you both responded to what for me was a side-issue! While it's true that I wrote this post in the framework of a defense for why I'm not blogging more, the real reason had more to do with just sharing about my current busy-ness than about my feeling obligated to post, etc. Yeah, I wanna post and kinda think I should, but more than that, I just want to be able to sit still without having something that needs doing. :o) All’s well (and much better with sympathy!).
I know email is a very important part of my life too. Like you said, being overseas warrants more correspondendance than usual. This is our connection to the other side of the world!
VOTE: NOT a bum
P.S. I loved the reports on Sweeden! What a lovely photo of you ladies. I'm on my way to look at your flickr set now!
Oh, come ON, people. Vote the TRUTH.
BUM
BUM
BUM
-anonymous
DOH!
I love you, Daddy! :o)
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