It rolled 'cross the driveway
and under a bush
and then my poor meatball
was nothing but mush

The bread has to be biteable without launching the meatball.

It's an art. There has to be a degree of softness to both the meatball and the bread... but one must take into consideration the moistening effect of the tomato sauce on the roll.

Where is that lamb sandwich, dagnabbit?

I'm having boring old Progresso vegetable soup. Blah.

I'm eating and apple and lowfat cheddar, but now I really want a meatball sandwich.

We had PB&J and some guacamole & chips.

Okay, that's it. That's FUCKING it.

I just got an e-mail back from Group President, which was delightfully condescending and rude. Allow me, if you will, to quote some choice bits:

As to the "look", we as a group needs something that reaches out and not just informs you, but grabs you and brings you in. That concept helps to serve the dual goal of marketing, and informing, in one document. The "look", whatever that is, is the "first impression" that says, "I must read this," vs.ok, it's the newsletter.

The image I and the board wants and I hope all the rest of the members want as well, is to portray a vibrant, inclusive, cutting age group, who is moving forward.

Your newsletter design was fine. No one ever used the term, "bad" or "un-professional", those were your terms, certainly not ours. I do understand, your disappointment, that your efforts were not seen as the perfect answer for the group, and that they had gone unchallenged. I however had that occur to me yesterday about ten or more times as well on different levels, but I don't take it personally. That's just life.

On a purely personal level, I would ask that you please take into consideration that you have taken great license with rewriting my articles, even going so far as to change the actual intent of my writing from time to time. I have not so quietly privately gritted my teeth in reading your changes. I have however allowed you to do so in some cases where I thought your changes had merit.

(Please note: I don't fucking RE-WRITE people's articles. I *edit* them, which sometimes require re-wording, especially when they read like Rain Man wrote them, but I DON'T FUCKING RE-WRITE THEM.)

I'm SO out of there.

t edit And when I draft the e-mail, I will be SURE to tell him that people quitting committees is "just life."

There has to be a degree of softness to both the meatball and the bread

Exactly! The bread was too crusty and biting into it forced the whole thing like a lever. Also, the meatballs shoulda coulda been cut in half so they were less rolly.

I can't tell you how many sandwiches get the bread wrong. It's like the chef doesn't bother to actually eat the sandwich they've concocted to ensure that the item works as a foodstuff. There's engineering involved!

I'm SO out of there.

That seems advisable. What an ass-tard he is. I suggest mocking him at length.

((((Steph))))

Yeah, it's time.

cutting age group, who is moving forward.

Aside from the poor sentence construction, "cutting age"? So like, 14-18 year olds?