Email Ettiquette Rants -- Introduction

I've been absent for a long time.  Much of that is due to virtual burnout.  What I mean by that is that my virtual life has been burning me to the ground in terms of my work email inbox.  Over the past month, I have received and sent more than 750 emails.  That's just what I can estimate from looking at my Inbox and my Sent Mail.  There are a ton more emails that I have deleted.  500 of those emails were received in a twelve day period.  My therapist validated that was stressful.  As she put it, "Everyone wanted a piece of you."

Yeah ... And not a fun piece if you know what I mean.

That doesn't lend well to opening up anything email/internet related without regarding it as work or as a "problem" that needs resolution.

This morning almost tipped me over the edge.  I received an "Urgent" email at 8am that said, "Have you looked this over yet?"  Uhm.  The answer was, "Fuck no.  I did not look it over because you fucking sent it at 7pm on Friday.  I have other shit to do on my weekend."  The email was sent by a client and the situation was not urgent.  Hmmmm....

Today in Queen Bess's Life

Just eleven days after the execution of her mother, Anne Boleyn, in 1536, Bess's father, Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour.  Jane had been a Lady in Waiting to both of Henry's first two wives:  Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.

Henry's eagerness to marry Jane was fueled by his desire for a male heir.  Jane was quite the opposite of Anne Boleyn

Famous Spinster Birthday -- Pam Grier

"Me, sexy?  I'm just plain ol' beans and rice." -- Pam Grier

(I beg to differ)

Born:  May 26, 1949

Today in Queen Bess's Life

Anne Boleyn is executed on Tower Hill in 1536.  Her speech:

“Good Christian people, I have not come here to preach a sermon; I have come here to die. For according to the law and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak of that whereof I am accused and condemned to die, but I pray God save the King and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never, and to me he was ever a good, a gentle, and sovereign lord. And if any person will meddle of my cause, I require them to judge the best. And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.”

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Also today, Elizabeth was released from the Tower and taken to Woodstock to continue her imprisonment under house arrest.  The procession from the Tower to Woodstock showed that Elizabeth had many supporters as she received an enthusiastic reception by the commoners.  Elizabeth would remain almost a year at Woodstock during which time the stress took a toll on her health as she waited for the moment that she would be taken back to the Tower for execution.  Her freedom was very limited -- including access to writing materials.  It was at Woodstock that she wrote the following on a shutter:

"Much suspected by me,

Nothing proved can be, 

Quoth Elizabeth prisoner."