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I feel like I've been blog-slacking, like I should be blogging more than I have been or the quality of my posts is inferior to those of the Jumphead days. Anyway, I thought I would blog some stuff from daily life, a la Loophole.

First, social skills drive me crazy. I'm pretty certain I have iffy social skills. Although I can talk your ear off, I'm a pretty introverted guy, and I adolesced weirdly, so I really don't feel like I know how to act around other people. Like, I just had an awkward social interaction, where I unintentioally butted in on a conversation in public. I've now spent the last 10 or 15 minutes internally bemoaning my inability to pick up on social cues. Maybe some day, I'll feel like I've been properly socialized.

Secondly, I've seen a dramatic increase in spam in my Hotmail account since I started school. I block the senders each time they come, but they just keep coming in. In desperation, I turned on Hotmail's spam filter last night, and this morning, I still had the same three-to-five spam messages I see each day in my inbox, while the messages I want - blasts from the department and listserv stuff - relegated to my junkmail folder. This seems like the kind of situation Douglas Adams would dream up. I guess the obvious solution is to activate a UT mail account for all my school mail and keep my hotmail account for spam-catching and personal emails, but I still don't like all this spam. Its also a bit of a hassle to check two email accounts via the Web, now that I roam from machine to machine. Oh well. Well, there's my hunk o' viscera for the day.