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[swan_tower]

I can't decide which Herculean labor is the right metaphor for the battle I've been waging for several days now, against the backlog in all of my major e-mail accounts.

Candidate A: Cerberus. There are three accounts, after all, so it's kind of like dealing with a three-headed monster.

Candidate B: the Hydra. Because every time I think I've made progress toward defeating one of the accounts, it sprouts new heads/new e-mails to attack me again.

Candidate C: the Augean Stables. Shoveling endless mounds of shit, and feeling like I'll never be done.


This post brought to you by the forty or so e-mails I dealt with yesterday, and the fact that today's schedule has prevented me from dealing with any more, which just ensures that tomorrow's battle will be harder.

Comments

[lediva.livejournal.com]

No insult meant to you or the individuals who E-mail you, but I have to vote C.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

That was my original thought. The other two metaphors came later.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

C, because the only way to fix it involves destroying it to some extent. Too bad you can't divert a river through the accounts-- or can you? Mass delete and request for resend?

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Don't tempt me.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's not my emails that are holding you up. If I tempt you, you don't have to do that, and you can either cause more book to happen or cause more blog to happen. Either way, I win.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

<lol> Or more sleep to happen -- but maybe that's the last thing I need, given the discussion on the other post. (Yes, I really am trying to figure out where in my schedule I can afford to stay up all night. Not for the next few days, alas.)

[claripup.livejournal.com]

Get someone else to sort through them for you? then they can just flag the important ones for you to look at... or are they all important?

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, the stuff in my inbox is the stuff I need to read, respond to, and/or do something about.

Спасибо за статью

[nicolineetuh.livejournal.com]

Познавательно, но не убедительно. Чего-то не хватает, а чего не пойму. Но, скажу прямо: – светлые и доброжелательные мысли. (http://7wp.ru/)