John,

I know I wrote you a rather hasty, hurried, harried (and I hope not rude) e-mail message mentioning that I probably couldn't make it to the reunion this summer, but I've been rethinking my hasty reply of late. This sort of reunion might be too valuable to miss.

For me, August or early September might be best for a San Francisco jaunt (This is my summer before I'm up for tenure in the Autumn, so I have all sorts of deadlines to meet by August 1 - there are deadlines after that date, too, but not so onerous).

I may be too late with this request, but I thought I'd make it anyway. Thanks for asking.