Junk mail can be comforting

Normally I mass delete all the e-mails in my junk mail box, but this morning I decided to take a look at the subject lines. While I was looking at the subject lines I look at the dates as well. That is when I realized that junk mail can be comforting. The dates on the first fifty or so messages in my junk mail box show 2038 or 2037 dates.

What is so comforting about those dates? Well according to some sources, the world will end on December 12, 2012. However, according to the dates in my junk mail box the world will continue to exist in 2037 and 2038 or at least e-mails will be sent into the past. OK, so I have a rather odd sense of humor.

Life gets tedious without a sense of humor. If person can't have fun with the messages in his or her junk mail box then that person needs a vacation. I will admit that I need a vacation: unfortunately, I can't afford a vacation. Therefore, I'm going to do the next best thing, I'm going to have fun with the messages in my junk mail box.

Do You Realize

Jamál (Beauty), 7 Jamál (Beauty), 165 B.E. – Sunday, May 4, 2008 about 10:05 AM PDT

There is an old saying that goes something like this

If wishes were fishes everyone would eat!

That would be one way to solve the world's hunger crises.

Do you realize that if there were a way to magically turn all the spam in everyone's e-mail boxes into the kind you eat, the entire world would have all the food needed for the next two thousand years. All right, I am cleaning out my e-mail boxes. Dealing with junk e-mail and unwanted advertisements always puts me in a weird mood.

The problem is that I can log in and get more junk e-mail then any other kind. It is getting irritating. I am a writer so I should be able to think of something to do with the junk then just delete it. For a while I wrote found poems using the subject lines, but lets face it most of the subject line are not creative and they are reparative. Any way I cannot find subjects for found poems that I have not all ready covered.

The idea about turning all the junk e-mail into real editable spam came to me this morning while I was deleting junk. It sounds like a good idea, of course like all good ideas there is probably a reason it would caused more problems then it solved. I have not gotten that far in my thinking yet.