you can say that again (parts I and II)
from the NYTimes' Richard Sandomir in an article about the expanded argumentativeness of sports talk on TV (reg. required):
You work all day, you call up Mike and the Mad Dog in the afternoon, you come home and you've got a mortgage to pay and kids to feed.
exactly. except for the calling Mike and the Mad Dog, mortgage and kids parts.
from Salon.com's Farhad Manjoo in an article on the overload of legitimate e-mail in our lives (ad watching required):
Why, most fundamentally, must we constantly work on our e-mail, vigilantly imposing our own schemes of order upon the incoming chaos, constantly guarding against getting behind, against the shame of e-mail bankruptcy?
this piece really hit home for me as someone who doesn't like to throw out old e-mails but who struggles to keep up with all the new ones on a daily basis. while Yahoo's decision to give its users 100MB for free is great in that it eliminates the worry of a large e-mail dropping in your inbox and resulting in undelivered messages, it also means more chance to hold onto things that i will later feel guilty about not having responded to (accoring to the article, that makes me an "archiver"). and as nice as getting away for a few days can be, it always leads to the increased stress of returning home or to work to find hundreds upon hundreds of messages piled up waiting for attention and action.