real email i just sent my father

also, the stuff about the hotel is fine. i can’t quite figure out what the days in advance thing is, since it doesn’t seem to be a year, but that is really irrelevant. the fact of the matter is that i am far crazier than anyone else, and while i think that a lot of that is b/c of the firm lunch we went to where they told us to book our hotels in advance, i also think that some of that is b/c i grew up with you. (i’m quite sure i’ve told you this sort of thing before, and i mean it as a compliment. or as close as you can come to paying someone a compliment while telling them that they are responsible for the fact that you are a neurotic freakshow.)