I know this is hard to believe, but I was being genuine. That is actually how I talk in real life. I really do think it would be cute if he had a French accent.

I know this is hard to believe, but I was being genuine. That is actually how I talk in real life. I really do think it would be cute if he had a French accent. I like our interactions. You’ve always misread me, and all I can do is shrug and say okay. It probably looked like an attack since you have to fend them off all day. But if you re-read, this time as an exchange between colleagues, I think you’ll agree it was just ascii being a very bad medium of conveying intonation. (For reference, at one point Jacques and I were exchanging numbers back in 2016, when my life was full of doom. I hope he feels as warmly towards me as I do to him.) I would like to take this opportunity to say that — if you’ll spare just a moment for me — perhaps you’ve assigned negative traits to a lot of my actions. And that maybe I am not so bad, and perhaps now that I’ve recovered from my medical issue, you’d like some more Emacs tooling. Or, we could just respect each other from afar and leave it at that. (I appreciate you keeping me in check, though. Be sure to ask me in the future if you do notice bad behavior. I’ll listen carefully.)