I received the following statement via email today.  It contains what may be the worst use of an apostrophe I have ever personally witnessed:  "If these are yours, or you know who'se they are, please contact me and I will put you in touch with the person who sent me the message." OUCH. That hurt.

Despite rampant apostrophe misuse, I am doing well under the circumstances.  Tomorrow morning, I will attend the last Barbri course in preparation for the bar.  We will study Trusts & Estates, the final substantive course before B-day!  Except for a PMBR course this weekend, which focusses (or focuses -- I've read both recently... any opinions as to which is better?  The New Yorker uses "focusses" and the Connecticut Bar Association used "focuses."  With all due respect to the highly estimed Connecticut Bar Association, I presume that the editiorial staff at the New Yorker has decided, as a spelling policy, to use a trema to denote diaeresis (as in the word "preëmption")) on (yes, of course you've forgotten what I was even talking about because of my interminable parenthetical) the multistate portion of the bar exam, I will have two weeks to finish studying the bulky tomes of law and practice questions before taking the plunge.  Speaking of...

Ciao  (My ever-so-slight nod to Italia and its recent victory (or France's failure to win, as the World Cup final might be more appropriately described)).