"Hopefully these people are wotking through a number" in the letter. Those are the these people that amused me!
Obviously it leads to an R talk, there's no clear way around that. But, I think you want to keep it a little R talk. So, I think you make it about you. Maybe that you just are not quite sure how you feel, and a couple of extra weeks would make you more comfortable. So, you are not attacking his position, and you are making it your issue. And you are not asking anything of him. What do you think?
