My Small Wednesday Complaints

People who don't read the content of emails

So I've been in conversations with this dude who wants me to organize some people to do a musical thing in a couple weeks. It should be fairly simple and fairly straightforward. Of course, it's becoming clear that this guy isn't the type to do "clear and straightforward."

First, I gave him my email address and phone number. Then he called me because apparently my writing was so sloppy that he thought a "u" was a "z". Now I didn't think my writing was that bad, not to mention that the "z" was a completely illogical character to put there. Anyway, he called me and we got that straightened out.

So he emailed me to say, "Is this getting through?" I emailed back and said, "Yup, looks like we're in contact." Then I hear no further details from him for this gig I was supposed to be organizing. As time is wasting away, and I need to start rounding up people, I emailed him again today to just say "Send me more details when you get a chance."

Tonight, I got an email back that said "Yup, it does look like we're in contact now."

So rather than answering my email from today, which was actually the relevant email, he replied to my pointless email from three days ago. Great!

Sometimes you want to go where nobody knows your name
I'm a little irritated with someone in the law school, but I don't really feel like airing out my petty rants here, where it could easily get passed along to the person I want to rant about.

Sometimes, I wish I were completely unknown here, so I could say anything. The downside to that, of course, is that then I would have virtually no readers.