Melissa and I had a good conversation last night about the overwhelming nature of email. I explained that I had twenty-one emails marked as "unread" in my inbox to which I intended to respond but every time I had the opportunity, the task seemed too arduous to undertake. Her suggestion was a simple one that had never even occured to me: respond to two each day.

So today I'm going to take two off the end of the list, and starting tomorrow, I'll work my way down from the oldest. Annie has, after all been waiting for a response since July 3 2008.

Yeah, I know. I'm a bad person.