Discounting spam, I get about 50 emails a day. Every day.

These are snippets from a day in the life of my inbox (today):

From M, 9:56am, subject: Seminarian and Youth Rally on Saturday: “I suggest: 1) We meet for Saturday morning mass at Corpus Christi (optional), 8-8:30 a.m., 2) We go out for breakfast (optional), 8:30 – 9:30 a.m., 3) We gather together and then try to catch the 10:30 a.m. shuttle.”

From S, 9:57am, subject: a Passover invitation!: “Not hard at all. Dayenu is fun to sing – and the berakoth are simple. You’ll pick them up after one round. A. advises that all else is in English. (With exception of the final toast, of course: Le-shanah ha-ba-a b’Yerushalayim!)”

From Leigh, 12:54pm, subject: Kirov?: “sweeeeeeet. yep, i’ll meet you. hey, guess what, i got nominated for … anthology today. that’s a book, right? i think it’s a book.”

From Prof. K, 12:56pm, subject: grad school: “Given your experience and your mind, Kat, I think a PhD in Sacred Theology makes most sense. You would be able to get a truly solid grounding in Christianity, and I’m sure there are comparative religion courses in those programs, too… One question to ask yourself: If you start on this path, will you ever have a chance to try monastic life?”

From Barack Obama, 4:02pm, subject: Disappointed: “There’s nothing elitist about the largest grassroots campaign in the history of our country.”

From Denis, 6:13pm, subject: abstract & 2nd parag. draft 132: “i don’t like ‘understood’, so i’m nixing option 1, but i’m entirely happy with option 2, so we’re taking it. the problem with ‘Quine understood’, to my ear, is that it sounds like a private personal opinion, not the RIGHT view that has changed everyone else’s thinking. ‘The whole, as W.V.O. Quine noted, …’ reads well. It flows.”

From Mom, 10:34pm, subject: (blank): “Last night, I was thinking about those white keds you used to wear to school. There was a girl named Nancy who had a large foot. Mrs. Stone said your complaining was ‘unnecessary’ and I was like: ‘What??’ I had thought your complaining was entirely apropos and that teacher conferences were strictly a forum for parents and teachers to swap compliments.”