Thanks for all the encouragement.

Now I'm starting to have second thoughts. I feel like maybe just an email of cut-and-paste was too abrupt. I feel like it maybe would have been better to lead up to it. T's are people, too. I don't want to make her feel bad. I don't want her to feel like I don't appreciate her.

I'm feeling like I ought to call her and apologize.

Actually, I have called her. And she still has her vacation message on her answering machine, even though I know she's back by today. I am trying very hard not to take that personally. OK, I know it's not personal. It feels personal, though.

Now I am sorry I sent it last night, because I know she will be busy today playing catch-up with back-to-work stuff.

I was just being too impulsive. (And how much of that email was just to be mean to her, just picking a fight, because she did go away?)

Arghhh!