Sorry to hear this, Tep. The only thing I might have improved with yours was make the line spacing between paragraphs slightly larger. That's it. He's clueless and ap-parently wants to play Top. Kick him in the jimmy.

Wenchface.

This may not be meant as an insulting term, but I think it makes a great one.

Guess what I'm doing?

...

No, Aimée, it has nothing to do with nudity.

I'm painting! Yeah! Whoo! So surprising!

What I'd actually like to be doing is designing some more Gothic Charm School logos. I have an idea for something that will make all previous designs seem plain & unassuming. Of course, it could just look like a big jumbled mess. We'll see.

I'm looking though Amazon at reprints of old etiquette and "household management" books, trying to decide what to spend a gift card on. I'm not sure any of them would have advice on Steph's current dilemma, though.

I think I'm also going to get a copy of "Sex and the Single Girl," largely because, in a Feminism Television Criticism course in college, we were assigned to read a chapter of it, and I thought it was charming and very cool, and when I mentioned this to my Feminist Political Theory professor, she actually gasped in horror. (This was the same professor who called a friend of mine a "bad feminist" for saying that not all pornography is necesarily exploiting women.) And since then, I've kept meaning to read the whole book, but I keep forgetting about it when I'm actually somewhere that I can buy books.

Teppy when you quit make sure everyone knows why.

Oh, you can count on it.

Committee chairman said to me that Group President has long been wanting the newsletter to have a more professional look. The newsletter that I linked here is the first one that I've done so far, and I rushed to get it done at the Group President's request. That involved lots of e-mailing PDFs back and forth between me and Group President.

And at no point did Group President say it looked unprofessional and didn't flow well. In fact, I'm pretty sure that he said he liked it.

So I'm thinking that Committee Chair and Group President aren't communicating. Because the insulting e-mail came from Committee Chair, remember. But Committee Chair HAS seen my version of the newsletter, so I can only conclude that he thinks it sucks. Or he's blind.

Definitely he's an asshole.

The only thing I might have improved with yours was make the line spacing between paragraphs slightly larger. That's it.

Yeah, it's kind of solid. I like to break up chunks of text with graphical elements/pull-quotes, but extra space between paragraphs is a good idea to give it a little more breathing room. Thanks!

Wenchface.

This may not be meant as an insulting term, but I think it makes a great one.

it was meant as Faux Insulting. (She said I sucked)

(She said I sucked)

But....you do! You suck more than my newsletter layout!

'Wenchface' should be what Tep calls the Committee Chair.

But....you do! You suck more than my newsletter layout!

Rubber...Glue. IJS.

You think that my layout is actually very different from the other newsletter that you showed me?!? (Hint: it's not.)

Tep, the newsletter he wants has TWO columns of text, and yours has THREE! They're TOTALLY DIFFERENT!

Also, it's filled with completely different words than yours.

Maybe the next edition can include an article about beating idiot committee chairs over the head (but not in a fun way) with rolled up newsletters.

Tep, the newsletter he wants has TWO columns of text, and yours has THREE! They're TOTALLY DIFFERENT!

Also, it's filled with completely different words than yours.

Dang! I had hoped no one would notice!

ION, I just made the wheat-free Oat Scones whose recipe I posted here the other day. I know that scones aren't meant to be nearly as sweet as a muffin, but these need a little more sweetness, I think.

So, if anyone makes them, I recommend a few ideas for more sweetness without approaching muffin-ness:

(1) Increase the amount of sugar/fructose/Splenda to 2-3 Tbsp.

and/or

(2) Add dried fruit (currants/raisins/apple) to the batter -- maybe 1/2 cup.

and/or

(3) Eat scones with jam. Or hot fudge.

They're moist (hi, ita!), and dense, but not, like, fruitcake-dense. But denser than a muffin.

Wow.

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Worried that a negative stereotype of the sorority was contributing to a decline in membership that had left its Greek-columned house here half empty, Delta Zeta’s national officers interviewed 35 DePauw members in November, quizzing them about their dedication to recruitment. They judged 23 of the women insufficiently committed and later told them to vacate the sorority house.

The 23 members included every woman who was overweight. They also included the only black, Korean and Vietnamese members. The dozen students allowed to stay were slender and popular with fraternity men — conventionally pretty women the sorority hoped could attract new recruits. Six of the 12 were so infuriated they quit.