A Conversation with Elizabeth
1998
Boogie Man

From:          Elizabeth
To:            mixsoni@acm.org
Date:          Sat, 21 Mar 1998 15:04:42 PST
Subject:       Boogie Man
 
I'm at the public library where I stopped to check some law references on the way back from seeing Boogie Nights. There are movies and movies. I thought it was a very good movie, however, many people walked out--well not many--it was not a full audience, and a handful did. I am very glad I went to see it. Also, it's at a theatre which only charges a buck for any show.
 
I wrote something which I later thought "dumb" about my e-mail being delivered late and some internal e-mail I sent to a friend within the hospital being delivered late. Then I got sort of paranoid or confused.
If my mail resides on the Hot Mail computer, it is not "resident" on any hospital computer. My HM box showed no mail, until yours popped up, seemingly late, at which time my HM box did show mail. From what understand, the hospital could not intervene in that. However, it was very curious that a message I sent also arrived late. At meetings of librarians I have gone to, at which there are often very sophisticated computer people. The “word" is don't use company systems for e-mail. It was one of those persons who told me about HM some months before I started writing you. I don't like the fact that I also don't have "administrative" control over my computer, at least not fully. I did go in and change my internet settings so that nothing is archived, i.e. the pages I visit. There have been several lawsuits over e-mail. One I clearly remember is a company policy against dating relationships, and the company used e-mail to prove the relationship. The e-mail was not illegal but the relationship was. We do have a policy that e-mail or internet use should be for purposes considered business. In fact, it is posted on my wall. My rationale is that I do very little goofing off at work and never spend time on the phone. Also, I don't take breaks. So, that will be my defense. Also, I am not using the hospital GW system at all. I store my copies in Yahoo. Oh well, live dangerously.
 
What irony, a high powered computer job and the computer is screwed up.
 
I thought it was just in libraries and hospitals where that happened. My system is really great now that "they" have fixed it. I'm going to fine tune it with what I can control. It has spoiled me for being able to buy a home system. I have a giant monitor. Our weather is moving backwards as it has turned freezing now that it is Spring. Montgomery was very retroactively scared Friday morning because a tornado was sighted, but every one was "alseep" in the early a.m., and the sirens don't penetrate "bedrooms." It is the tornado system that moved on into Georgia and wiped out schools and killed several people, also while they slept. It struck an empty elementary school that two hours later would have been full. I read that on March 21 back in the 1930's a tornado came through Alabama and killed over 200 people, and at about that same date in the 1930's a tornado killed over 200 people in the same Georgia town that got struck this time. Anyway, I slept through it all.
 
Back to the law books, briefly, then home. Elizabeth
 

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