Howbeit that a four-day weekend to celebrate the alleged resurrection of the alleged man-god results in such hell at work? I had more emails in my inbox at the end of the workday than at the beginning.
This is not a sustainable trend.
Happily, though, the ITS elves finally tiptoed into my office today and caused our former email/"calendaring" application, Novell GroupWise, to disappear. GroupWise was a horror: imagine an email application that lacks a keystroke shortcut for opening a new email message, and you've imagined this travesty. I was eager to see it go, and now it's gone.
The College is now most of the way shifted to an open-source application, Zimbra, which we can use through a neat web interface or through Outlook. I'm still deciding between the two options, but today, even as I was washed away on a tide of email, I realized a triumph of personal organization when I merged my personal Google Calendar (which contains all my non-Carleton work and home calendar info) and my Carleton work calendar. One stop shopping for appointment-making!
I could have died and gone to heaven, except I'm two days late for that kinda thing.