Are we allowed to just never forgive someone who fails to reply to an email? What exactly is busy, if it is not apathetic or rude? Come on! I have never sent an email to anyone who works on cold fusion or Middle East Peace. I am not sending off heartfelt messages to Steve Jobs about the iPad 2. No whazzup’s to Barack Obama. I don’t know these people. But somehow, I imagine that if I did and I sent them an email, they would hit reply. I am just frustrated because I have not received my proposal back from my adviser. There will be a reply, I know, but delays make me anxious.
Plus, I have written/rewritten a bunch since I sent it out a while ago. Good friends have corrected it and returned it; I have made those changes as well. It really is a different baby. And not to equate this proposal with an actual baby a la Larry David in the episode “The Surrogate” but I have produced this work. I want it critiqued and returned.
I think I may set up an auto response message that reads, “No. You are not crazy. Your message has not been lost in space, out in the interweb. I have it. I shall read it and reply promptly. And thanks for getting in touch with me. I really appreciate the kindness and consideration. You’re the best.” Or perhaps I can make an appeal to go back to post office correspondences. I have gorgeous handwriting and the lack of a spell check would do me a world good. This is all just BS. I know I can’t slow technology or compel people to be kinder. Next week, I probably won’t even care about the state of my spelling abilities. I just want my proposal back.
This one is about me!
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