the kinds of riveting intellectual conversations you get to have when you become a professor

To Jeremy, sent 5/25:

1.)  Please fill out and sign the attached [copyright release] form and MAIL 

OR FAX it back to me.  Do not email it back, since I need your signature.

2.)  Also attached is the electronic copy of [document].  Please review it 

to make sure that it is the correct version and that everything is there that

should be.

3.)  Please supply me with an address, a telephone number, and a fax number 

where you will be able to be reached in the latter part of [name of month]

and the first part of [name of month after that].

From Jeremy, between 5/25-6/3:

[Nothing. I know, I know.]

To Jeremy, sent 6/4:

Several weeks ago, I informed you that [message].  At that time, I asked you 

to fill out an [copyright release] form, to give me an address and fax number 

where you could be reached in [name of month] and [name of month after that], 

and to check the current version of [document] to make sure it is the correct 

one.  I have not heard from you. [negative consequences that will occur if I

am not heard from soon]

From Jeremy, sent 6/4:

I apologize.  I received the e-mail you sent ten days ago (on 5/25) but have been

trying to get a couple of other things out for deadlines.  My contact 

information is:

Jeremy Freese

Department of Sociology

University of Wisconsin-Madison

1180 Observatory Drive

Madison, WI 53706

Telephone: [number].  I do not have a fax machine here (I work from home).*  

However, I have attached a signed and scanned rights form, which is binding 

the same way a fax is binding.

I will read [document] and return it within 72 hours.  I will include 

electronic copies in a couple of different formats in case there is a problem 

reading it.

To Jeremy, sent 6/4:

Thanks so much!  Faxing the [copyright release] form is fine.  My fax number 

here is [number].

[note: this requires a separate shlep to campus just to fax the document]

From Jeremy, sent 6/7:

I apologize again for my delay in returning this.  I've attached [document].  

If another format or other changes are needed, just let me know.  Also, you 

should have received the fax of the [copyright release] form.

To Jeremy, sent 6/7:

Thanks. One more question:  Could you let me know an address, fax number and 

phone number where you will be able to be reached the last part of [name of 

month] and all of [name of month after that]?

From Jeremy, sent 6/7:

Sure.  My contact information is:



Jeremy Freese

Department of Sociology

University of Wisconsin-Madison

1180 Observatory Drive

Madison, WI 53706



Telephone: [number].  I do not have a fax machine.

* "Why didn't you say, '(I work from my home/RV)'?" You'd be surprised at how I try to leave the wheeled-ness of my domicile out of my professional correspondence.