I don't see any option to delete my account in settings. And I tried emailing the grand puba and got a mail failure notice. I don't know what to do--I don't want to be a member of this site and I see no option for deleting my account. How do I go about doing that?

There is no simple way to delete an account from the system. However, anyone who does not log in for a year is automatically deleted.

According to the publicly available information (on your Public Profile page), you joined the EA on March 2, 2009 as member number 34,338 since the system began sequentially numbering all members. The most recent member as I write, Joey1234, is member number 50,519 and there are now 13,201 members who have logged on within the past year.

Just stop coming here and you will automatically be deleted from the system with no surviving record of your having ever been here, other than any posts that you have made.