Ticklish Ideas

I just deleted the following from an email, still in progress, to my old friend A__ who I've been in touch with a little this winter (Thanks, Shameless!).

Can I just contact you sporadically and jump into conversation without much in the way of preliminaries? It's hard to construct niceties when I am trying not to feel or act or be over-eager or smarmy or allow the thought to enter your mind that I might ever be an almost-crazy-almost-stalker-girl again. *shudder*. So, without any real segue, here's what I'm writing about today:

Ah, it's good to be old enough to not actually say things like that. Now if I could only learn not to think things like that. It is a fine line between being personable and sounding like Eddie Haskell when I'm feeling nervous/tired/out-classed/out of my element.