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feeling: concerned
listening to: BLOOD - Sweetest Disease
Well, last night my school email address mysteriously stopped working. I was aware that the school would deactivate it after my graduation, but it was my understanding that it would stay running for one quarter after graduation, which should've meant until the end of the current fall quarter. I KNOW it shouldn't just randomly stop in the middle of the quarter as I fear it has. Well, not middle, but classes have been in session for a couple weeks or something.
Anyway... but then I checked the actual error that Outlook Express was giving me, and the handy site I found on the subject said it was just some kind of server down error or something. I would've thought I should get an account does not exist or invalid authentification or something like that if my account had been terminated... *confused*
So I finally caved and set up my email forwarding account so that all emails sent to cottrill.27@osu.edu will be rerouted to my alternate email, blood_moon_tonight@yahoo.com in hopes of preventing missed emails. This was around 5 am, and I just woke up and found a verification email from the service admin along with 5 random bulk emails, one of which was something I KNOW came from my school account, because I signed up to receive their emails there years ago. Plus, I've never received that kind of spam at my Yahoo address before (except from Yahoo itself >>)... so I know the forwarding was working to some extent... but I also can't remember the last time I woke up to find less than 10 spam emails in my inbox. So I can't figure out why I only got 5 today, or why the 2 test emails I sent to my school address between 4 am and about half an hour ago haven't shown up in my Yahoo inbox yet. Maybe it IS just OSU server downtime. But why'd I get those 5 spams if it is?
*checks it again*... nope, no test or any other emails in my Yahoo inbox... this better be OSU mail servers' fault *shakes fist*
Yes. I'm paranoid because, knowing my luck, Kiwamu would decide to email me JUST in the few-hours-long interval when the address he uses is dead. And it wouldn't bounce back to him undelivered, because my 2 test emails haven't done that. Which I guess could be a good sign...
Stupid OSU email making me paranoid.
And now I'm off to continue my morning wake-up routine while I wait for ONE of my email accounts to magically start working again.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 9/28/2004 01:56:00 PM
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