The calm before the storm

Today we got half of the new students logged into their e-mail for the first time. By the end of the week, all of them will have been through this magical process. I know just what is going to happen, though, and almost immediately. There will be a barrage of useless, silly, annoying, (did I say pointless?) messages sent hither and yon, but particularly to each other. The only saving grace is that the new students do not yet know one other's new e-mail addresses. And the addresses are particularly odd this year. For some reason, CITES saw fit to further garble logon names by throwing a number or two into the mix. So nothing flows like it could, and used to in some circumstances. There's no way to guess an e-mail address and the all-school directory will not come out for a few weeks.

May the newbies hold off, but I will bow to the inevitable if they do not.