I am sodden and have a quandary

Technically speaking, I am no longer sodden, but I sure as hell looked like a drowned rat earlier today. This morning, when I left the apartment, the sky was perfectly clear. Well, there were clouds, but nothing that resembled rain clouds. Thus, I did not think to bring an umbrella with me.

Stupid incognito rain clouds.

It has been raining all damn day, with maybe a ten minute break in which I was lucky enough to snap a few pictures for this week's assignment. The rest of the time? Water, water everywhere. SO MUCH OF IT. To put it in terms that Discworld fans might understand: this wasn't just rain, this was The Wet. Oh, and did I mention that I had to bike uptown, and later home? I was soaked through. It sucked a whole hella lot. I also got wet several times throughout the day when I ventured outside between classes--but because it was Tuesday, I couldn't go home and get an umbrella. Too busy. Also, it's very difficult to hold an umbrella while steering a bike, so it would've been fairly useless to me.

I was a sad, wet Angie. Lasagna at Good Joe's apartment helped, as did me accidentally perving myself by stating loudly that earlier, I had been in my underwear "while completely wet." (Because the phone rang as I was changing and I thought it might be important. It was all perfectly innocent.)

sarcasticval and I are. In any case, while I usually just delete Carole's e-mail forwards, tonight I opened one and read this:

A first grade teacher explained to her class that she was a liberal
Democrat. She then asked her students to raise their hands if they were
liberal Democrats, too. Not really knowing what a liberal Democrat
was, but wanting to please their teacher, hands exploded into the air
like fleshy fireworks.

There was, however, one exception. A girl named Lucy had not gone
along with the crowd. The teacher asked Lucy why she decided to be
different.

"Because I'm not a liberal Democrat," Lucy said.
The teacher asked, "Then what are you?"

"I'm a proud conservative Republican" said the little girl.
The teacher, a little perturbed & red-faced, asked Lucy why she was a
conservative Republican?

Lucy proclaimed, "Well, I was brought up to trust in myself and
freedom, instead of relying on an intrusive government to care for me
and do all of my thinking. My Dad and Mom are conservative Republicans,
and I am a conservative Republican too."

The teacher calmly pointed out, "That's no reason. What if your Mom
and Dad were both morons? What would you be then?"

Lucy answered, "Then, I'd be a liberal Democrat."

Um, I may not be a Democrat, but right now I identify with that party with that party much more than the Republicans, and I am also pretty darn liberal.

My question: do I say anything about this to Carole? I'm pretty sure she didn't mean anything by this. She sends all kinds of jokey forwards. Knowing her family, I wouldn't be surprised if she was a Republican, but everything I know about her tells me that she'd be more of a moderate. She's not an intolerant homophobe/fundie/whatever. (Not that all Republicans are, just making the distinction.) At the same time, I don't want this to become An Issue between us. I don't want her to worry that every time we talk or visit, I'm viewing her through the eyes of an Insulted Liberal. Honestly, it's not even that big a deal to me, because I'm pretty sure it wasn't one to her--she was just sending another joke on, not making a grand statement about her political views. But I'll admit that it does bother me some, and I doubt she'd want to inadvertantly insult me. Keeping quiet doesn't help either of us--but again, I don't want to make things awkward. And if I do say something--how? Just a light "btw, I'm a liberal, not so funny" e-mail? Calmly explain that it's not a big deal, but I'd appreciate not getting forwards like that from now on?

I don't know. I don't want weirdness, but I kind of feel like I'm lying if I don't say anything. (Even though she knows that I delete a lot of forwards without reading.) So I throw this to the collective wisdom of lj--any suggestions? Have any of you ever dealt with this kind of thing before? Any tips on how I should? I'd really appreciate your thoughts, because right now I'm kind of stuck.