<p>Last night, I was picking through the junk drawer that is my Hotmail inbox. I do this every time I remember that I have a Hotmail account. This is about four times a year.</p><p>Sandwiched between a sale offer from Anthropologie and a Turner Classic Movies newsletter was a note from my high school English teacher. She had sent a group message to my old public speaking team, using our braces-and-plaid-skirt era emails. Would anyone be home to judge a Forensics meet this weekend?</p><p>Yesterday over a month later I emailed her back, using my Gmail account. I sheepishly explained how "rsdv2" is in its semi-retirement phase. Please send everything to this address from now on, etc.</p><p>This is an exception. Normally, I'm not that bad about replying to things. I check my Gmail every day. More often than not, I'm being contacted by Amazon or Sephora. Sometimes professors. But mostly Sephora.</p><p><a href="http://www.thedp.com/article/2013/01/rachel-del-valle-why-dont-you-email-me">Keep reading...</a></p>