It wasn't until a professor's continued use of ellipses that I realized how unprofessional and annoying they can be. They leave too much open-ended cloudy communication for the recipient to interpret and are no longer appreciated. And I winced at exactly how often I feel a need to be all deep and mysterious and over use ellipses myself. I, like Kanya, need all the grace I can get. Here's to praying that I can offer that same grace to a professor that my gut is having and adverse emotional reaction to at the moment.