Monday, February 22, 2010

This Aging Thing

In an attempt to further clear my mind of clutter and superfluous thoughts I decided to clean out my email accounts. It seems that everyday there are more and more companies that add me to their email lists. My "Inbox", therefore, was becoming a swampland of unwanted ads and promotions. Easy enough to take cure.

I took two days to unsubscribe to every email that I didn't absolutely long to read. Now, instead of 20 plus emails twice a day I receive one to three of the little darlings. Every one of them is a welcome guest. I did, however, have to go through a day or two of emails telling me that I had been unsubscribed from various emails. My favorite was a notification that came from the local university. I had taken a workshop there a couple of years ago on dementia and aging and as usual, provided my email address as part of the registration form. When their last email came telling me of another workshop on the elderly I went to the bottom of the page and clicked on the unsubscribe button.

The next day I received one of the most exciting bits of news in my Inbox. The message read, "You have been unsubscribed from 'aging'." I can imagine all of my friends asking - "How does she manage to look so young?" I'll never tell.

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