Beyond the Sea #2

E-Mail sent by Michael on Monday May 21,2007:

"I am trying to read these sixty pages in my American Government book (which cost $125)";
Why the hell do books cost so much these days. I am sure I will get a whopping $20 back...such bull shit.
As you can tell, it is not going so well. Thought I'd drop you one and see how the Europen loogies are washing out of your hair.
Katie told me that over seas some people were LITERALLY spitting on her because she was American.
So the Cavs advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals a few nights ago. They played Detroit in Detroit tonight and lost game one. They were down two with 15 seconds to go and Lebron dished it off to Donyel Marshal who bricked a wide open three that would have won the game...hhhhhhhhhh(Long drawn out sigh).
Katie grew up in Cleveland,OH with me so she shares a common interest in Cleveland Sports
Anyways government class starts at 7:30 sharp and the teacher reminds me of Big Bill O
I should have never taken that class...too early..."Big" Bill O'Reiley that is...Katie is a Poli-Sci major so I tend to whine about government class to her
...I've got to finish reading....I've got to go to bed...The Cavs need to win to save my sanity and hairline....STENGERRRRRRRR!!!!
Stenger....Lauren Stenger....is a mutual friend who is in Europe with her.

Replied by Katie on May 22, 2007

I heard about the Cavs. Marshall is the most hot-cold player of alltime. What else is Lebron supposed to do when he has three Detroit players on him. Such bullshit. He is supposed to have team mates you know.....The loogies are coming out just fine. We went to Dublin... the whole English thing was amazzzzzzing. Which was really exciting. The Irish are so nice, maybe its cause they are drunk, but regardless they are nice. Some random Irish man told me that I was not from the United States of America but rather the United States of Amazing.... At least somebody likes us. American government isn't the most interesting political science. If you have any questions just holla. I took it at Miami a couple years ago but I think something might have stuck....Ok Im off to architecture class. We are going to Munich this weekend....Time to practice my German, AKA pray for me. Stenger says HI, Later gator -Kt

CONCLUSIONS

In today's day and age communication has changed dramatically. Hand written letters are a thing of the past. E-mails are a much more convenient and affordable (you save about 40 cents) way to stay in touch. Day by day I can exchange messages with my friend who is over seas.

This E-mail response from Katie was interesting because she did not respond in the order in which I asked/commented. She responded to things as they came to mind. Granted there was not a whole lot of information in my E-mail, but she didn't need to keep the original message handy to respond. She responded from "recall".