I keep running into situations where various of my friends don't know this, so figured I should post about it:<\/p>\n
My cell phone is almost always the fastest way to reach me to these days.<\/p>\n
I essentially don't use my land line any more. There are only four reasons I still have one:<\/p>\n
But in general, all of my telephone use is on my cell phone. Also, I have the cell phone with me almost all the time. And I'm very consistent about turning it off when I go to sleep, so there's never any need to worry about waking me up by calling.<\/p>\n
(Once every few months I somehow manage to forget my cell phone when I leave the house, giving me a day of disorientation and disconnection-feeling. But even on those days, calling my land-line won't reach me any faster, 'cause I'm not at home.)<\/p>\n
If you have both my numbers, it's up to you whether to even keep my land-line number around. It could come in handy on some rare occasions; but if having it in your address book is likely to make you think it's my preferred number, then you should probably remove it.<\/p>\n
Text messages are also a good and fast way to reach me. I've found them occasionally unreliable--sometimes they just disappear into the ether, or take hours to get delivered--so for really time-sensitive situations, voice calls are better. But if you don't want to have to actually talk with me, but do want to have a high likelihood of reaching me quickly, text messages are good.<\/p>\n
Email is sort of good. I spend a whole lot of my day sitting at a computer, and I check email compulsively. However, I only check home email about once a day during work days, sometimes not even that, and I don't generally give out my work email address (I want to maintain a strong separation, keeping work email for only work-related stuff); so if you need to reach me quickly (like to change plans for that evening), email is not a good way to do it.<\/p>\n
Also, I am often very very flakey about responding to email. Sometimes it takes me weeks, sometimes even months, and sometimes I fail to do it at all. This is a personality flaw in me, and I'm aware of the problems that it causes, but I persist in this bad habit and seem unlikely to change it anytime soon. I even failed to reply to my grandmother's emails, which I felt horribly guilty about, especially when she would say things like \"Oh, I guess you don't use email much.\" All I can say is that if there's something that urgently needs my attention in an email, and I don't reply to it, you should either ping me again (I tend to be very interrupt-driven) or call me on the voice-o-phone. Also, note that email is not a reliable system; emails can and do regularly just disappear, without warning or notice. So sending something to me, or anyone, in email is no guarantee that they'll see it.<\/p>\n
IM would be good if I ever used it. I use it all the time for work, where it's great, but I haven't yet been able to bring myself to get in the habit of using it at home.<\/p>\n
I don't have a fax number, and wouldn't use it if I did; I'm philosophically opposed to faxes.<\/p>\n
I suppose there's also papermail, or showing up at my doorstep, or accosting me on the street. But really, my cell phone is--99+% of the time--the best way to reach me.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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