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[bladderwrack]

There are so many rules in my head regarding politeness and directness, delicacy and transparency, good faith and bad grammar, that a single simple email takes half an hour of something approaching physical pain.

(edit to add) sometimes i think really all i would like in life is to be able to write some sentences without wanting to punch myself, in general that would probably be some kind of boon, it would at least make me a little easier to live with all things considered.

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this, this, this. Even when the communication of whatever type is only like two sentences long, orz.

Comments

[keelieinblack]

God, so much this. It's still hard to wrap my mind around the fact there are people who do regularly write posts or e-mails or comments without at least twenty minutes of anguished composition and editing--and they don't have that hour of self-recrimination when they realize they've mis-stated something. Aliens, all of them.