A month ago my dAd asked me: what size tee shirt do you wear?

Me: medium.

dAd: OK.

That was the end of our conversation.  Then a week ago I got a package.

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I am now a shirt wearing member of POEM... for those of you unfamiliar with the acronym it's the Professional Organization of English Majors.  Thanks dAd and thanks Garrison Keillor (of Prairie Home Companion fame).  <a href="http://www.prettygoodgoods.org/product/show/31755" target="_blank">The shirt</a> is apparently a best seller.

Of course you can't see the back of the t-shirt--sheeish--how am I am supposed to take a picture of that while I am wearing it.  It's hard enough to get a good one of me and the t-shirt.  You'd be surprised how hard it was for me to take a picture of myself and my t-shirt and to get both in the same picture.  It's probably a good thing that I am not taking up photo-blogging.

Anyhow the back of the shirt is great (you clever, clever people at NPR) and if you have an English major in your life you really can't go wrong with this shirt as a gift.  I laugh every time I put it on.  But then again it's a English major joke so it might not be as funny if you say majored in physics or history.