I'm sorry to see you're getting emails like that, Brad, but rest assured there is still plenty of interest in you.
I'm happy to see that you'll be taking that course, but to be honest I hope you don't clean up your writing too much. The mystery you create can be intriguing. Sometimes I'm left feeling like the characters Nick and Honey must have felt after their evening with George and Martha in the play
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, albeit without the emotional drainage.
Speaking of Woolf, your writing style can sometimes be reminiscent of hers.
There! Now, at long last, I've found at least one connection between that play and the historical Virginia Woolf (something I've wondered about for years). Both can remind me of you.
"I think younger workers first of all, younger workers have been promised benefits the government promises that have been promised, benefits that we can't keep. That's just the way it is." George W. Bush, May 4, 2005