Also, sometimes I am smug.

[leahbobet]

I have an e-mail in my inbox from my alma mater (hey, I can say that now! Look, I graduated from a place!) that tells me: "Get your resume-worthy alumni e-mail account."

You now belong to an impressive inner circle of U of T alumni. And with that hard-earned diploma comes a helping hand from your Alma Mater.

The perks begin with an alumni email account, as in "your.name@alumni.utoronto.ca." It's a resumé-worthy email that says, "Hey, future boss, I graduated from one of the world's top universities."

It is accompanied by a banner ad that shows various early twentysomething people being slackery, long-haired, and iPod-listening next to e-mails like carbzilla2000@yahoo.com or frothymuskrat@hotmail.com, and then they get all cleaned up and professional and corporate with their alumni e-mail.

(I admit I'm a little offended that my World's Top University thinks I spent all that time there so I could job-hunt -- a month after my convocation, which means five months after classes let out, so I don't know whose thumb I'm supposed to have been sitting on for five months -- with boobies@hotmail.com. But this is not that post. This is the post where I'm smug.)

So now I have a terrible temptation to write them back and be like "Oh, think that's professional and attention-getting and forward-thinking? How about [WORK E-MAIL]?"

I never said I was always good. :D