at the ballot

My title for today is a pun, har-dee-har, on the "at the ballet" song from Chorus Line. I just finished filling in my ballot for the national professional organization of which I am a member, and boy are my arms tired. Hee hee.
Here's the thing: these are professionals, asking other professionals in a professional organization to vote for them. But yet, some of them seem blithely unaware of that, so their personal statements contain elementary mistakes like these:
- failing to mention any knowledge of finance while running for treasurer
- using bad grammar and punctuation while running for secretary
- overusing exclamation points!!
- using this as a reason to get elected.
- mentioning their blog as evidence that they're up on technology*
Ugh. I tended to vote for people who were sensible.

*It's 2008, and you're an information professional. Don't pat yourself on the back because you've got a Livejournal account! I checked out a few blogs, and eliminated a few possibles because of how lame or egregiously twopointopian they were. I'll never use my blog as a selling point when I run for office, because it's just not that impressive to have a blog anymore.