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On e-mail responses and exclamation points

Jodi Chromey — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:52:21 +0000

Whenever I respond to e-mail (which isn’t often, I know), you should know that I am wearing a facial expression that is appropriate to what I’m writing. Like, if I’m excited and happy about the content of my response I will smile and nod at the screen, as though I were smiling and nodding at the recipient of the e-mail.

Also, I don’t use exclamation points in e-mail because I think they make me seem like a nerdy 36-year-old cheerleader. It’s the punctuation equivalent for raising my fist above and doing that cheerleader head bob that makes their ponytails bounce. You know what I’m talking about.

Finally, I am listening to Weezer’s Blue Album today and it instantly make me feel like a 22-year-old.

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P.S. I almost forgot

Jodi Chromey — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:13:19 +0000

Heh. I was just responding to a giant whack of e-mails that came my way. This should come to a surprise to everyone, because as most know I am the worst e-mail responder in the entire universe. Okay, the second worst. Ol’ Vodo is the first worst.

Anyway, it reminded me of one of the conversations Goetz and I had before the reading. He asked me if I stayed in touch with a lot of people from school.

“No,” I said. “I’m the worst e-mail responder in the whole world. I’ll get an e-mail once in awhile from someone who googles me or themselves, but I always forget to respond.”

So then shortly after the hug that shook my world, Walsh says to me, “How come you never responded to my e-mail?”
“Err . . . ” I fumbled.

And Goetz just stood there laughing his ass off.

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june fool

Jodi Chromey — Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:58:33 +0000

my eudora keeps making the happy little “you’ve got mail” chimey noise. then when i go look– no e-mail. i am pretty sure that oberon is haunted. or there is an e-mail monster hiding in my inbox eating everything. or maybe jodi@iwasgonnadare.com IS really getting all my e-mail. i just don’t get it.

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where does it go?

Jodi Chromey — Mon, 05 May 2003 03:10:11 +0000

sometimes i’ll check my mail and i’ll watch the blue bar move to the right, anticipating what could possibly arriving. then i’ll wait, anxiously, for it to appear. i’ll hear the eudora bells announcing the arrival of my e-mail and check to see what i got. but then there’s nothing there. no e-mail. nothing that was automatically deleted. nothing new in any of the folder. just nothing.

i often wonder where this e-mail goes. it there someone at iwasgonnadare.com getting all my lost e-mail? where does lost e-mail go to live? i feel bad for the person who might have sent it because i’ll never get to read their words. poor, poor lost e-mail.

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and the oscar for best line in an email goes to

Jodi Chromey — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 20:02:59 +0000

“i loved the transformers. i am just like them, more than meets the eye. i am not, however, a robot in disguise.”

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