My favorite part of blogging are the emails from people who read this stuff and send me their thoughts. Sometimes (usually based on the amount of free time I have) I'll post those emails. I have always done so anonymously, with the vague "a friend writes in" or something like that. This is boring, and causes problems when I need to use a pronoun to later describe that friend, lest I reveal gender. So, I'm now going to attribute emails to fictional people that have no relation to the gender, age, location, or opinion of the writer.