next new lesson learned: if you're skiing a week and a half before you're supposed to play violin in an important concert, don't try to break your falls with your wrists.

and I desperately want to e-mail someone right now -- I have their e-mail address -- but I'm afraid to do so. Actually, e-mailing is not the action I desperately want to perform on them right now but I have no idea how they'd feel about the action I really want to perform.