Well, it was already Sunday, so I suspect that he didn't think that 5:30 was meaningful, he might have realized it during the week. I would email him back tomorrow morning, bright and early with an apology for not getting back to him, maybe a joke about knocking off for the holiday (if you think he would take it well)
Hey! What a surprise! Hostile 17! Can I get you a drink, Hostile 17?
Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
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Vortex - May 25, 2009 6:56:38 pm PDT #10876 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Shir - May 25, 2009 6:58:51 pm PDT #10877 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
IMHO, you did absolutely fine, Hil.
It starting to look like your advisor thinks he himself should be on the top of your priorities, and not you.
Hil R. - May 25, 2009 7:00:02 pm PDT #10878 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I emailed him this morning with an apology and a quick answer to his question, then again this afternoon with a much more detailed answer.
Shir - May 25, 2009 7:03:57 pm PDT #10879 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I really can't see what you have to apologize about.
Sometimes things takes some more time. Is it a life and death issue? Are you that far behind? Because I can't see how waiting the weekend/24 hours could have hurt.
Ginger - May 25, 2009 7:05:49 pm PDT #10880 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
E-mail is not a 911 call. Unless someone specifically says they have a deadline, I don't think there's any requirement to hang over the computer and answer by return electron.
Hil R. - May 25, 2009 7:15:49 pm PDT #10881 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Well, at least now I know that he expects replies like that. So, I'll know to send one next time.
DCJensen - May 25, 2009 7:16:21 pm PDT #10882 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
There is a Thor movie in the works, to be directed by Kenneth Branagh.
Trying to picture this.
Hil R. - May 25, 2009 7:57:43 pm PDT #10883 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
If he emails me after midnight, with a bunch of new ideas and he wants to know what I think about them, but I'm too tired to think about them now, I don't actually have to email him back to tell him that, right? Because I'm kind of too tired to trust myself to phrase an email politely.
WindSparrow - May 25, 2009 8:28:11 pm PDT #10884 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I don't actually have to email him back to tell him that, right? Because I'm kind of too tired to trust myself to phrase an email politely.
No, you don't. You pretend you haven't seen it until a reasonable hour tomorrow morning, along with any intervening "why haven't you responded to my email" emails that he may send. Then come that reasonable hour in the morning, you email something along the lines of, "Oh, dear, I didn't see your message until after breakfast this morning." Unless there is some function in the uni email system that signals him when you do actually read his shit. In which case you just say, "It was 1:30 am. My sleep-deprivation typing is worse than my drunk typing, so I figured we'd both be happier waiting until after the butt-crack of dawn for me to respond."
Laga - May 25, 2009 8:37:59 pm PDT #10885 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Buffistas is wise. You owe him no explanation but if you gotta work with the guy an apology to smooth his feathers wouldn't hurt.
There is a Thor movie in the works, to be directed by Kenneth Branagh.
Trying to picture this.
I've known about it for weeks but my imagination is still getting stuck in a sea of horned helmets and iambic pentameter.
In move-along-now-if-you-don't-want-to-hear-about-other-people's-dreams news...
You know how there's 'paint your own pottery' and 'build your own stuffed animal' stores in malls? Last night I dreamt there was a new one called "Dip a Kitten".