Addiction

[jmfargo]

Send/Receive, I hit it again and watch. Sending, receiving it tells me, server is empty and then again on my second account, but it pauses. Getting one of one? Oh joy, perhaps some words of wisdom from a friend or a reply to a reply that I wrote on theferrett's livejournal? Maybe my family finally telling me when they're coming out for the planned visit in August, or an old friend writing to say hello?

What could it...oh. Deleted spam. Wonderful, I can increase my pen 15 if I really want to.

Minutes pass and I work, hoping any minute to hear the sound, the sound that means someone has written me, the sound that means something I've said matters, the sound that makes me a real person!

Silence.

Send/Receive, I hit it again and watch.

Am I the only one who judges how well their day is going based upon how many messages they receive in that devil email box?

I think I am.

Comments

[jfs.livejournal.com]

I gave up on number of emails as a metric for being liked a while ago - too many mailing lists, too much spam.

But LJ replies to comments? Or to stuff I've written? Oh my ....

When I've written something that I'm proud of, I sit on my inbox like a broody King Penguin.

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

In reality I'm usually hoping the emails I'm waiting to get will say "reply to livejournal post" somewhere in them. *grins*

[meopta.livejournal.com]

i think you are.

However, it's far more socially accepted than furtively shaking a Magic 8 Ball while begging it to stop telling you to try again later.

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Thanks for that. You're making me feel much better about myself.

You must get some weird looks. ;)

[meopta.livejournal.com]

Only if I take the SpongeBob one out in public.

[sundustrise.livejournal.com]

It warms my heart to receive email, though I wouldn't say I base my day around it. I'm much more attuned to comments ;-) HOWEVER...

In the old version of Eudora for Mac OS 6 and 7 (yes, really old), if you checked your email and had none, Eudora would pop up a picture of A SNAKE STICKING OUT ITS TONGUE AT YOU. "You have no new mail." Hissssssssssss.

That was evil.

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

That's horrible! I think I would have gotten rid of the program REAL fast because I would have felt suicidal by the end of day one.

Okay, I'm not that bad, but yeah, evil is a good word for that.

[enchanted-eve.livejournal.com]

I so seldom get any email, I don't even really check every day. And I post very rarely too, sadly... but when I post, I look at LJ a WHOLE lot more to see if anyone read my post...
:)
M

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

Since I've started working at home for the past few months my email is on constantly in case my boss has to tell me something. Even before that it was on, but at least this gives me a reason.

Something I found out about LJ is that even though people don't always reply, there's always someone reading. ;)