I love ending e-mails with "thank you in advance". Like what are you going to now? Not do the thing I already thanked you for? Bring dishonor on yourself like that? No? I didn't think so. Check mate you have been played by the master of manipulation.

why are we still here? just to suffer?

Immediately quitting my job to go see the northern lights would fix me

Reading Letters of C.S. Lewis and being entertainingly reminded that the sentiment of “every day I get emails” far predates email:

It is a very ridiculous and a very wretched confession that I can hardly remember any period since I was a child at which I have not had a crowd of unanswered letters nagging at the back of my mind: things which would have been no trouble if answered by return but which hang on for weeks or months, getting always harder to write in the end, and contributing their share to the minor worries that lay hold of us when we have the blues or lie awake. That anyone should let himself maintain such a standing army of pinpricks would be incredible if it were not fairly common…

This has just been the week of long, complicated questions for our department and all of us are sitting in our respective offices like

I’m gunna do it. I WILL update No Rain Without Thunder this weekend if it KILLS ME

god i am having such a conundrum right now i'm quitting my shitty job and trying to decide how best to do it. do i

1) last day this friday. i have an interview thurs and am pretty confident in a 2nd interview next week, so quitting now would free up time to prep for interview and hopefully recoup some sanity before starting a new job. con is that i have one fewer paycheck before may rent is due so i'll have to start using my savings sooner if i end up being unemployed for more than a month

2) last day on the 21st. i have to fuck around with trying to get time off for interviews and probably get written up for attendance, shitty job remains a massive psychic and physical drain that prevents me from job hunting and i would risk having to jump straight into new job without a breather. overall worse for charlie, but i would have a fat paycheck to pay may rent with which would buy me a few more weeks of financial security if it takes longer than anticipated to find a new job.

3) some secret third thing.

bitch, me too.

Cursing myself that I decided to do a study requiring in-person data collection recruitment sucks ASS

FEEL MY WRATH!!!! (i left you off an email you didn't even need to be on)

Tearing and ripping and killing and screaming and crying lying facedown on the floor and clawing the furniture to pieces. Howling and sobbing surrounded by blood and gashes and carnage as I shiver and shriek and

Emails

Obviously I am not exactly thrilled to be back in the office after a blissful week of vacation, but in particular I am not thrilled to have to go through the 300+ emails that accumulated in my absence.

How long can I put off checking my work email on a Monday morning

Sent an email because I couldn’t deal with a text and now I don’t want to look in my emails. Fck.