[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Zee

I hate emailing. My adviser told me that he'd send me stuff on Tuesday or Wednesday after our meeting and told me that the onus was on me to keep in contact with him to ask him questions or send him work; so today rolls around and I'm like right okay he still hasn't sent me this email, I'll just drop him one to ask if he could send me it when he gets a chance...

So I carefully word it because I don't want to sound like I'm impatient or being annoying and he replies immediately saying "I've been busy all week with teaching, I was going to send you it this afternoon" so I'm like cringing into my hands and don't reply, thinking I'll just reply thank you very much I'm really grateful when he sends it this afternoon... it's now 8pm and he still hasn't sent me anything. So now I don't want to email him again until he emails me because I feel so damn awkward about it and I can't tell if he was irritated by my email or if he was just stating that he's been busy and will send it to me as soon as he can. ARGH!

...people often do work emails in the evening or weekends, maybe you'll get an email later....