Heh.

The letter Rep. Jo Ann Emerson sent to one of her constituents read like any other a 20-year-old legislative correspondent might prepare for a member of Congress: Thank you for writing, your concerns are important to me, blah, blah, blah. Then came the kicker: "I think you're an asshole."

As the Associated Press reports, Emerson, a Republican from Missouri, says she has no idea how the insult made its way into her letter to a Centerville, Mo., resident named Bill Jones. "We cannot determine whether the addition to the letter was made by someone within the office or by someone with access to the office, but it is on my letterhead and the responsibility for it lies with me," Emerson says. "A valuable lesson has been learned, and new procedures will be adopted as a result."

Here's a "new procedure" Emerson might consider: Read what you sign before you sign it. As the AP notes, Emerson not only signed the letter to Jones but added a handwritten postscript as well: "PS -- please forgive the delay in responding."

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Okay, back to working on my portfolio.

Emily, did anyone at the career fair ask to see your portfolio? I ask because I have a deep and abiding loathing for working on mine as I feel it is a big ass waste of my time.

Philosophy of education, lesson plans, unit plans. Check. I can see the value in all that.

A list of English department meetings or pages of a power point presentation just to show I know power point? Why? What principal is going to ask to see that crap?

According to my ice-cream and product choices, I am a self-critical introvert.

I'm sure that anybody who knows me well will agree that that is bullhonkery, codswallop and bunkum. In that order.

Barbara's Cheese Bakes don't count as cheese curls? Snack foods are so confusing!

Barbara's Cheese Bakes don't count as cheese curls? Snack foods are so confusing!

Well, I kind of feel like they might not, given that they're not really curly, they're baked, they don't stain your fingers, and one variety is made with a mix of cheddar and bleu cheese, which just seems terrifically unAmerican. Apparently the study was done entirely in the Midwest, and it seems like a Midwesterner would look on a cheese snack of such dubious qualities with contempt. I think I have integrity anyway, but it's a left-coast elitist organic-snack-eating integrity that probably doesn't count.

It really is an endlessly mockable study.

If me and my date are at the ice cream parlour, we're ordering at least two flavours. And then share. That's the way a good date goes. If I were without a date, and just choosing for me, right now, I'd pick strawberry. And I'm so not a behind-the-scenes team player. It's simpler for me to say what I'd never pick -- mint chocolate chip, banana cream pie, butter pecan, and probably rocky road.

As for the produce aisle, I don't want potatoes or yams or oranges or grapefruit or tangerines.

Okay, sometimes I want oranges, and often I want lemons. There's no point pretending in a forced choice between the rest.

Pfah, sez I.

Humgirl has gone. Good.

food eisle thingy.

says I am an introverted follower. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

funny it didn't have selections that would give the reading of the nicest bossy person.

funny it didn't have selections that would give the reading of the nicest bossy person

Perhaps that person doesn't exist?

The letter Rep. Jo Ann Emerson sent to one of her constituents read like any other a 20-year-old legislative correspondent might prepare for a member of Congress: Thank you for writing, your concerns are important to me, blah, blah, blah. Then came the kicker: "I think you're an asshole."

As someone who writes these kinds of letters, this is my biggest fear! My other fear is using the word "pubic" instead of "public".

oh bunny, you're so cute when you try to be contrary.