Professor e-mails

Is anyone online right now (11:30 AM EST on Thursday August 30th, 2007) who is good at writing e-mails to important people? I'm writing a short e-mail to my HDS academic advisor and I need a little help phrasing it because either I'm notoriously bad at it, or I'm not actually notoriously bad at it but I always agonize over these kinds of tasks and make myself believe that I'm notoriously bad at them.

Comment here, or e-mail me, or IM me if you actually can.

Thanks.

*Edit* This is a task that for a normal person will only take about 5 minutes. It's just something that takes *me* forever. But if you normal people help me you only need to give me about 5 minutes of your time. It's a really short e-mail!

I did it myself. I think it came out alright. It was really this simple:

Dear Professor M____,

Would it be possible to set up an appointment to meet with you before the semester begins? I would like to discuss my course of study both for this semester and for the program overall before I register for classes. I will be in Cambridge starting this coming Sunday (9/2). I am free to meet any day of next week, at pretty much any time.

Thanks and looking forward to meeting you,

~Rachel Adler

And that took me 20 minutes! This is how much I suck at life.