bitterdiva

Delete, review, rejoice

I just deleted 1,919 emails from my yahoo mail which spans the course of the last year. And I have been deleting some mail every day. On a given day I receive about 18 emails all junk in my inbox, they're not entirely junk but most of them are subscriptions to sites that I've long forgot about and haven't thought of unsubscribing. There are many emails that I never read from actual friends that I feel horrible about simply because I am unable to read my yahoo mail from work because it takes to long to sift through. I am also notoriously bad for allowing mail to build up until it becomes a Mount Everest size task. I only accomplished the deletion because I'm procrastinating with my finals homework.

It has been the most difficult semester I have gone through and I am looking forward to having a very cheesy spring semester. I just never got started on the right foot with the chaos that started right off in september. My mother being diagnosed with breast cancer, undergoing two operations, chemotherapy, medication that threw her entire body out of whack. Doing the work of three people at work & losing a boss thereby doing the work of four people. Pat moving out. My neighbors being murdered around Halloween. Wedding planning. I am extremely happy that this is the final week of classes. I can reclaim my Friday nights again instead of sacraficing them to marathon progamming sessions.

I'm on the tail end of a viscious cold that took me out for two days last week. Catching up on some sleep that I missed Wednesday night when I was in Hartford, CT seeing U2 in concert with my sister. The concert was absolutely amazing, we were 10 feet away from each of the band members at various points in the evening. We had general admission tickets which meant we stood for 7.5 hours either waiting in line or standing at the edge of the ellipse. The people that were to my right were also from Albany, they were traveling back that night because the husband had a final the next morning. I took a couple of clips with my camera phone. Here's one of them: Bono near us. It's poor quality, but it helps retain the memory. I have to open it up in Real Player and then get an update. Since it was the night before the 25th anniversary of John lennon's murder, U2 dedicated the entire concert in his honor. They played an excellent cover of Instant Karma and also through in some Beatles lyrics in their songs. It was one of those times where you just felt gracious enough to be in the presence of greatness. The concert wasn't merely a concert, U2 wasn't just playing their songs, but they were performing and spreading the message of peace and love. It was unfortunate that some assholes in the crowd were deaf to their message and instead were punching the hell out of each other.

1 prayer | 10:35 AM