Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero!

At this very moment, my girlfriend is probably wandering around the SOMA district in San Francisco, hoping that the people who said they’d meet her are actually going to be there. She’s going to be fine. I know she’s going to be fine.

About once a year, I have to make a resolution to make a better effort at answering email. Today is such a day. If you’ve sent me email that has gone unanswered, please accept my apologies, and know that it wasn’t anything personal. Sometime you just get drowned amid the spam and the dozen mailing lists I subscribe to.

That, and I’m basically a hermit. Which I know runs counter to my whole wanna-be-a-rockstar thing. But the problem is, I’m surrounded by similarly hermit-like people who also don’t answer email in a timely fashion. Email is a preferred communications medium for people like myself, because it allows some time to think, formulate a response, rethink your words, be more diplomatic, etc. and generally avoids the hesitant, awkward, stuttering responses you sometimes get from people who just aren’t all that socially adept. Not that I spend my life cowering in the attic, mind you, but I often find myself thinking in hindsight: “omigod, I can’t believe I said that out loud.”

Um, anyway. I know it’s gone too far when even I start to get pissed when people don’t answer their email. Especially when it’s important to get a rapid response. Did you get the plane tickets? Are we still on for dinner tomorrow? Are you picking me up at the airport? Did I get the job or not?

It’s at this point that I realize what a hypocrite I am, and realize that change starts at home. So I have to set an example for myself in hopes that others will follow. Let’s see, let’s start with this thing here called “inbox…”