OK, I should have known this would be taken the worst possible way.
Not at all, it's all in good fun here.
I regret any other inadvertent conclusions that might be drawn from my off-the-cuff comment.
If I were a WW I wouldn't be getting this kind of bowing and scraping. :-) Seriously now, friendly banter is rarely misconstrued.
I will buy you lunch the next time I'm in the Bay Area
Trust me, if you ever show up I'll be sure to TAKE YOU OUT TO LUNCH.
and will allow you to charm me in person.
It seems more likely that our roles would be reversed -- I seem to have lost all inklings of being suave and debonair when I became a grad student.
Jonte, when's that convention? I want to mark it on my calendar to make sure that I don't accidentally schedule something else that day.