My Small Tale of Woe

So I have to begin by telling you that I sweat to keep the number of emails in my inbox under fifty. I do that because that is what fits on one page, and if it scrolls out the bottom it might be a while before I find it again. I sweat, as I said, to do this noble thing, but frequently my efforts are unsuccessful. I say this in order to tell you — public service announcement — that last Friday somewhere between 50 and 70 emails just flat disappeared from my inbox. As exhilarating as this was in one respect, in another it was quite problematic. I didn’t lose the emails themselves — I remembered a few and was able to go find them — but it must be said that my system of organization has gone all to blazes. My system of organization consisted of having emails that required a response from me to sit in the inbox, staring at me with lidless eyes until I finally responded to their prompting. Having consulted with expert friends, I don’t think there is really anything I can do to recover my “filing” system, but I can do  this. If you don’t hear back from me because of this, my apologies. And if you have reason to believe that an email from you was one of the lost ones, feel free to send it again.