I just had a wild afternoon of rescuing a baby squirrel (literally the size of a hamster) from some nasty crows with the assistance of my 75 year old German neighbor, Heinz. It was kind of a nice heart awakening. I don’t like squirrels, but anything in baby-form should have a chance. It was sooo cute! I was first trying to shoo it out of the road and it had no fear of me -started climbing up my shoe. I thought -“maybe I could raise it and surly would have a little brother”. It could keep surly entertained by running just slightly out of reach then surly could do his part by giving it rides on his back! Alas, it is now in my neighbor’s dog carrier where he is no doubt trying to feed it milk until animal control comes.
How long have we been using email as the main method of communication for personal and professional business? For me, its probably been 15 years. I’m becoming less and less of a ‘phone’ person and am increasingly depending on email to document, reference and schedule my work and fun. I’m currently averaging 20 emails day (granted, some of them are one word responses) and spend a chunk of my week curating my inbox into a streamlined system that facilitates order in a world of chaos.
Yeah. I’m that person.
Whatever your email culture, I’m guessing what I have to share will patently surprise and delight. I have been emailing with (wait for it) MY DOCTOR! Granted, there’s a somewhat navigable on-line system in place through Allina clinics that allows for faceless/phone-call less appointment making, test results getting and general correspondence. But the other day I sent out an email into the ether of that system (a general info@… kind of thing) and lo and behold I had a back and forth with my doctor about some health concerns that spanned 24 hours!
Some of this is due to her dedication and personality - she is fantastic - but it also falls into the category of “about damn time”!
I’m going to try not to take advantage of it, but I’m already excited about how many embarrassing phone conversations at work this is going to save me.
but if I did, this blog would be waaaaayyyy up there.
This photo in particular pushes me into the I’m-definitely-having-kids camp.
Really?
Apparently I’m in the wrong field. And among the list of qualities offered as a description (from the free online adapted test) these are my favorites:
“familiar with the darkside, hermit, more likely to support marijuana legalization, can sabotage self, likes the rain.”
I’m taking again until I get something I like better.
