Hey y’know - I can do this 
It works for me - you do your work and papers and I’ll work right along with you or do my own stuff. I do appreciate that you let me be there - even if I’m not there.
Though of course if you start whining about that again, I’ll go stuff these optimistic words down this throat scratchy from all those hopeful words I had to eat.
But well, hope springs eternal. Like flowers.
