Email Checking

My school says I should regularly check my email for new opportunities, so I do. And there are opportunities, though it often feels like they're mostly on medicine which I'm not interested in. There are also the obvious complaints and emails on lost property, and for some reason I check my inbox multiple times a day expecting things to look different.

They almost never do. They're always on the same general concepts, and I get that school is hardly a place where things vary much, but it does make me wonder if I need to check my email that much. Still, it's become a habit, something I do whenever I'm bored, waiting in a queue. 

I never used to check my email that much - it used to fill up with countless titbits of newsletters and occasionally something interesting, but now that it's supposedly necessary to student life, I now do so. It used to only be a way of signing up, to avoid having to use Facebook or my phone number, but no more.

I of course have my own personal email address, which has also become checked multiple times a day, I don't know why. Perhaps it's because I'm waiting for Google to finally index this blog, hoping everyday they've resolved the latest issue before noticing a lack of messages. Perhaps it's because I've been ordering online more often than before. Perhaps I've just changed, and am now having to contend I'm getting ever so slightly older each day, where email checking is a highlight of the day.

Then again, I do this all the time on the internet - cycle between the same websites, sometimes flicking back and forth when I've become bored. Maybe this is a sign that my attention span is slowly shrinking, and I'd be disappointed if that were the case; or, even worse, that I'm stuck online. 

I still read from time to time - currently it's a book on Kraftwerk, it's interesting, and I might blog about it in the future - and maybe I'll get myself to write a poem or two. And I study, of course, and procrastinate otherwise. I try to be far from social media, though not too distant.

And, of course, I check my emails. Not because I have to, but because I should, and now that I do, it's because I automatically do so.