I thought you would want this. You clearly don't think I'm doing a good job -- I thought...well, I thought this might be a way to catch my mistakes before I make them, or in time to correct them at least.
[She explains herself but she clearly doesn't have a lot of fight in her right now; she thought she'd be doing the wrong thing by avoiding the report altogether.]
I thought I might be doing you a disservice if I ignored it or went ahead with it without talking to you first.
[Action!]
I thought you would want this. You clearly don't think I'm doing a good job -- I thought...well, I thought this might be a way to catch my mistakes before I make them, or in time to correct them at least.
[She explains herself but she clearly doesn't have a lot of fight in her right now; she thought she'd be doing the wrong thing by avoiding the report altogether.]
I thought I might be doing you a disservice if I ignored it or went ahead with it without talking to you first.