They're all gone. I feel empty.

One hour ago, I was staring blankly at the screen, trying to come up with an awesome blog entry about lazy tigers. Unfortunately, my mind was as lazy as those tigers. I know that I haven't been updating this blog as much as I should, but I just wasn't in the mood.

Instead, I did what I often do when I'm procrastinating--check my RSS reader. As I pissed the minutes away reading useless CNN.com articles, I noticed that I had only around 20 unread items left from the dozens of RSS feeds that I subscribe to, down from something like 250 weeks ago. Yay!

However, my mild sense of pride in this achievement was quashed when I checked my GMail. Holy cow! 1,951 messages? That's almost double from the already horrendous number from four months ago! How did this happen? How am I supposed to find the time to read all those messages? I thought about it and suddenly came to the realization that I'm highly unlikely to ever read all of them. Yeah, I know. I should have figured that out months ago. Stupid me.

On a whim, I selected all the email messages and clicked the "Archive" button. Seconds later, they were all gone--all 1,951 of them. Wow, that was easy. My inbox is squeaky clean now, and it feels kinda nice.

I'll go stare at my empty inbox now.