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The Blessing and Curse of E-mail


I am, in fact, deeply grateful for e-mail.  It allows me to be in ready contact with colleagues both in this country and abroad, and to pursue opportunities I would otherwise never be able to.

But then there are days like today.  My e-mail has been increasingly difficult to keep up with for the last year or so.  But just before supper this evening, I looked at how many e-mails I had written and sent today.  The total: exactly 100.  By now, of course, it's a bit more than that.

I spent much of the day trying to reschedule a student trip to Germany that was canceled due to the coronavirus crisis.  We were going to travel over Easter; now we will try it next fall instead.  Probably about half of the e-mails were related to that.  I don't even want to know how many words I wrote today.  If they were a book....

Now it's back to real work, reading the first half of Goethe's Sorrows of Young Werther so that I can put together a mini-lecture for my Humanities students.


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  1. EvaApril 1, 2020 at 5:10 AM

    So schicke Bilder hast Du hier! Zoppot ist heute in Polen.

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  2. EvaApril 1, 2020 at 5:16 AM

    Zoppot: https://youtu.be/kyK7GaipOSI

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  3. BitziusApril 1, 2020 at 7:02 AM

    Schickes Video! Ob es immer noch so aussieht...?

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