A less ranting post

[trinityvixen]

Okay, enough RAR-RAR-RAR-ing. Onto the stupid stuff I'm doing that nobody cares about either!

My father and I are still waiting on word that power has been restored. I slept better on the couch for being more tired last night and for having my sleep mask, but I still did not sleep well. And I'm nobody's friend when I've not had sleep and am awake against my will in the morning. I'm ready to retake my room tonight, which, power or not, I might still be able to do. The cats will still be in there unless we can rig up some way to get them home tonight that doesn't interfere with either of our plans. I'm not really pressed about it. I was much more opposed to having them before they came. Now that they're here, they're generally not that much of a problem. It's a bit of chore keeping two sets of cats, and I wouldn't want to do it forever, but it's manageable. I can go borrow a car on Friday and come back for them as needs be.

But sleep is an issue. I've been late to work two days in a row because I've crawled into my bed after my father left for work and been unable to get up again without at least two more hours of sleep. (Well, two more hours in bed. It takes a while to fall asleep. I'm not blessed with instant unconsciousness like my roommate.) I'm becoming resentful of people making noise in the morning in a way that is, even to me, unacceptable. I know I'm a grouch. I'm trying to work around it.

The potential to sleep in my bed, uninterrupted tonight is possibly the best thing going for me right now, the thing I desire most. Screw finding a new job, I want some uninterrupted hours in my amazingly cozy bed. And it had better be soon, or I'm going to snap on a motherfucker.

More new developments:
-I have my vacuum cleaner! It's powerful, tiny, light, versatile, and loud as the roar of a car engine. I love it. It saves me time over sweeping and works better because the tufts of cat hair don't go wafting away on the breeze from sweeping! As soon as the guest cats are gone, I'll make a real go of cleaning my kitties' room proper with it. I'm ridiculously excited about that, not going to lie.

-I'm clearing out my e-mail at work because if I don't take a job at Columbia, I'll lose the account. For most people "cleaning out" means deleting. I've done some of that. But I'm mostly just forwarding everything--and I do mean everything--to my gmail account. I will probably never use it. But as feiran pointed out, I've had this account for ten years. Over the time I've had it, I forwarded most of the undergrad e-mails along, but there are still nearly five years of work e-mails, too. I can't bear to part with them because that's my life, you know? It's also potentially useful in the future. I wouldn't want to lose contact there. I'm also busy at rearranging registrations with places online that have used that account. As I go through e-mails, I keep discovering new ones to redirect. From 1000+ e-mails in the inbox yesterday, I'm down to 200+. Go Team Trinity!

-Someone's doing a Bebop rewatch on Tor.com!!! I gotta gobye...

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

I had an alumni email account (as opposed to a forwarding address) from Princeton for my first couple of years out of college, and was forced to switch to Gmail when they discontinued those accounts. I was easily able to download my inbox into Outlook (and did so on a regular basis), but my Sent folder was stuck in their web system. I spent several weeks sorting those emails and copying them into word files, because I can't bear to lose anything that I've written, ever.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm a hoarder. My inbox is always full. I never delete hardly anything. I can't bear to lose it either. I've moved my pack-ratting into the digital era, not gotten rid of it. Takes up less "real" space, ergo it is acceptable not to streamline.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

If there's still a way to get into Pine, you can easily convert all your e-mails into one text file that you can download, instead of forwarding them individually. That's what I did, but I rarely ever look through that document for anything.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Something to consider for the future. At this point, it's no longer really necessary. I've already gotten most of it forwarded!

[viridian.livejournal.com]

You do know there's free email forwarding of Columbia & Barnard accounts, right?

I forget how I set mine up, but I still get stuff that's addressed to my old Barnard account.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Free forwarding, but I lose the storage. I'm saving the saved stuff and not bothering leaving online registrations attached to a functionally dead e-mail. That's the only thing I didn't need to do.

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

Barnard doesn't, or at least not anymore. They delete all accounts 3 months after graduation. Thanks, guys...

[viridian.livejournal.com]

You didn't get to sign up for an alum.barnard.edu account and have your old email forward to it? That's crazy.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

You do realize there's this thing called a pst file, and you can just back up that, right?