Needy Puppy

I feel like a needy puppy. I can't believe how happy and excited I get when "someone" simply replies to an e-mail message. I hope against all hope that just maybe things are getting back to normal, or at least better. For one brief moment, I put out of my mind the other hundreds of e-mails that have been ignored, the snarky comments made without naming names when everyone in the room knows who he is talking about.....

Why can't I just flipping walk out? Oh yeah - there's a mortgage to pay.