Imagine my surprise when I opened the following email message this morning:

You have been chosen to test the new email service at AnimeMusicVideos.org. You now have an email account of [address removed] to use if you wish.

Well, that’s very nice… but, what? I don’t need another email address! Sure, I’d love to have an excuse to use such an address, but I just don’t have such an excuse, and there’s no way I’m going to take the time to watch over yet another email account if there’s no need to do so.

This would barely be worth remarking upon, of course, but for the fact that I have a very, very, very hard time letting something like this pass me by. It’s going to take a fair bit of willpower to resist activating that account, just on general principles. Sad, isn’t it?

(For the story behind why I was offered my “very own” email account, see this forum thread.)