Bobby and I Have Reached a New Low for Nerdsomeness!

Just a few minutes ago, Bobby and I were sitting back to back in the study in total silence, "talking" back in forth over Gmail chat. We were RPing our characters for our gaming group's latest D&D game. I blame Patrick, our DM, for enticing us with extra experience points for developing the storyline of the game or doing background work on characters so that we have fallen to this new low. Since I am the unofficial story writer each week, then Bobby needed a way to get in on the extra XP, and this idea was born.

Before that, our worst transgression was the time I was "beta'ing" one of Bobby's essays for grad school; I was in the study and he was in the basement, both on our laptops, and I had a question, so we started chatting back and forth over Gmail before one of us thought to ask, "Wait, aren't we in the same house?" and Bobby came upstairs, pulled over a chair, and we actually spoke to each other as we worked side by side on his paper.

One final note: I am alive. I know that I have comments to answer on my last two posts; I started to answer some through a circumventor at work the other day, but it runs so damn slow that I lost patience. I have been working on a pretty major upcoming thing for SWG*, as well as getting ready to give my journal a pretty major overhaul**, so this hasn't left much free time for playing online. What have y'all been up to? I haven't been able to read my flist in weeks, so if you have news or any posts you think might interest me, please tell me about it! :)

* That should be announced tomorrow
** This should be announced some time in the next few weeks

Also, I still owe a post about the lake trip. Suffice to say, for now, that it was awesome. More details forthcoming. :)

*machetes way out of the email jungle*

Tonight, I took care of something that I have been dreading for a while now. I organized my Gmail inbox. Oh, when I first got Gmail, I was a good little Gmail user. I tagged everything as soon as it came in and archived old conversations and actually kept up with what I had starred (and removed the stars once I took care of the email). But somewhere between the holidays and getting heavily involved with gaming/writing/SWG/SCA (and the myriad emails of each) and being busy at work, my usual time to take care of email, then I stopped taking care of my inbox. And it was starting to resemble a jungle. I'd star an email, and it would be pushed out of my inbox before I could answer it. Then, of course, I would forget about it, and it would never get answered. Yikes.

So the last hour has been spent tagging and bagging about 750 emails. A good 25% of them were LJ comments that just ended up getting deleted, so that made life easier.

So if you sent me an email, and you feel like I should have replied and I did not, then either 1) expect a reply in the next few days or 2) if you don't get said reply, email me again to remind me. I probably archived your email by accident. No offense is meant by this, but organizing 750+ emails pretty much guarantees that mistakes will be made.

I am an obsessively organized person (except for my desk which, at the moment, looks like a bomb went off), so I feel much better now that I have a single page of emails in my inbox and everything else is organized. Now will I be able to keep it that way? I hope!