... that "YOU CAN"T SIGN AN E-MAIL!"
i'd like to thank a faculty member I've never even met for that bit of wisdom (shared with me today at full volume and dripping with sarcasm sauce).
Prof. 1 asked for help putting together an award nomination for Prof. M.
She forwarded me a support letter from Prof. C to include with the submission.
I opened the letter and saw it was unsigned.
I thought this was highly unusual (support letters with no signatures being remarkably suspect) and e-mailed Prof. 1.
She told me to e-mail Prof. C.
Prof. C called me back to tell me that Prof. 1 said that her letter was going to be submitted via e-mail and "YOU CAN"T SIGN AN E-MAIL!"
I was a bit taken aback by the forcefulness. my first thought was "no duh!" then i quicky thought to myself "her statement has a zen element to it when you take it out of context. but then again, so many things do. perhaps Buddhism is all about shifts in context?"
back in the real world, my inner dialogue amounted to just brief enough of a pause to seem polite.
then I said, "I think Prof. 1 may have thought you had some type of electronic signature".
the call ended on the tone of "whatever" and instructions to call her faculty assistant, who of course has already left for the day...
where's Walter when you need him?
in my teens it was Amberle Elessedil, the elf who became the next Ellcrys (a sacred tree) to save the world from being overrun by demons.
in my 20's it was Yuna, the summoner on a pilgrimmage of self-sacrfice to obtain the Final Aeon and defeat Sin.
...and now it's Juliette Burke, the scientist and Other on LOST who sacrificed herself last night to save Sawyer and Kate from getting pulled down into the stormy, electro-magnetic bowels of the island with her.
