You know, after sending dozens of emails every day for my actual real-life job, I really can’t stand the thought of sending any more email.

All day long it’s “why is Oracle doing this?,” “can I restart the Sun?,” “where’s the Netscape server documentation?.” When I take a break from work, I think it’s understandable that I don’t choose email as a leisure activity anymore.

Oh, but I used to. Back in “the old days” (I’m only twenty, so do I really have old days?) I would send pages and pages (er… the equivalent) of email to my friends on a regular basis, ranting about everything that happened in my life. And yes, occasionally I’d even update my own rant page on the web.

Nowadays, though, the web has really become work for me instead of play. I no longer frequent the cool web sites of other web people. In fact, I’m no longer trying to be a “web person.” I’m not on top of the latest thing. I never update my site.

I’m sure that’ll change back to the way I want it at some point in the future. When my job is less hands-on web development and more managerial or in a different niche, I’ll be free to pursue web design again as a hobby and not feel like it’s a pain.

As for email, well, I’m not sure if I’ll ever be in a position again in which I’m not sending and receiving dozens of email messages every day, but if I ever am, I’m sure I’ll recover my previous passion for that also.

In the meantime, feel extremely lucky if you hear from me (not that you shouldn’t anyway), and declare a holiday when I update the site.