Is it really that critical?

308pm
No. It's not. Even with email there are very simple ways to miscommunicate.  Could be that recipients aren't fully reading their messages or that they are interpreted the wrong way.  Either way, I can see how AKASW gets frustrated with this but also is blameshifting. I'm confident I can settle this ridiculous miscommuniques.

I'm having a LightNote Blend -- it was half-full in my travel mug. I had an iced coffee outside. I did not need any java this morning, here, b/c I had 2 cups of the home Hawaiian Hazlenut. I had it with a Milky Way "French Vanilla and Caramel" so I will be awake.

I just sort of meandered.  Clothing shops, bookstore, music store.  No purchases yet.

I have to cover for a co-worker.  Just a few emails I need to send by day's end.  Will do my best to just get it done and distance myself from the stress magnets.

355pm
And did the sky fall?
Did the Earth shake? Is it still turning on its axis?
Well, I'm not writing from hell (at least I haven't been physically removed).
Mountains out of molehills...
I went downstairs to explain the simple miscommunication and AKASW still somehow managed to cut me off before I could get a word out.  I am a little pissed off but not that much. All it does is reinforce that idea that I have to get out.  She needs to be removed from the equation. Or neutralized.  But the fact is there is no neutralizing this. Either she needs to be removed from the equation, or we need a new equation.  Either way, it takes someone this stressed to make you reevaluate yourself.  I have to explain explanations and endure a bunch of "here's where you went wrong and you should have thought of that before you did anything."  Her boss doesn't seem to care too much.
I had a half of a Pike after our meeting with cooler boss (who's older).  I do not want to expend any more energy on this sort of person/behavior. There are more important things to do.