sorry..

This is the email I just opened for missing a "required" financial aid meeting:

"Although I understand your need for spiritual connection, I doubt seriously that you had to miss our meeting for church beginning at 5:00 p.m. I am disappointed. In any case, I will send the materials we passed out in the meeting."

I wanted to be mad. But I don't think I have the capacity to be mad. Offended, maybe. I get disappointed sometimes but really, never mad. How can he just assume that I am just blowing off the meeting? Maybe I should have sent him a longer email to explain my situation better before today's meeting. So I said sorry for that, for not informing him sooner. I sent a neutral reply that yes, I sing in the choir and that I need to be at church by 6:00 p.m. I'm not even on campus for my rotation. I even mentioned that on days that I have been on-call on a Thursday or Sunday which happened to me while I was on my Medicine rotation, I drove two hours to attend the Wednesday service in Dayton or the Saturday service in Louisville. This is how much it is important to me.