7 quirky emails on Hillary Clinton's server

In what has become a monthly tradition, the State Department released a batch of Hillary Clinton's emails from her private server on Friday -- the first since Clinton testified last week before the House select committee investigating the deadly 2012 attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya.

The latest release contained over 7,000 pages of emails with about 200 to 300 of those emails marked as classified.

The following seven emails give a glimpse of then-Secretary Clinton's day-to-day professional life, standing out less for their policy implications than for their quirky insight into the presidential candidate.

Smiley faces

Philippe Reines, a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton, apologized profusely to her for being late, writing on April 3, 2012, "I'm very very sorry for keeping you waiting, I know it's your least favorite pastime. ENTIRELY my fault for not playing it much safer in case the time shifted. After all these years, I know better."

Clinton's response: "Here's my question: on this new berry can I get smiley faces?"

Reines sent her a brief tutorial on how to yell at him by emoticon, writing, "For email, no, I don't think so - you need to type them out manually like :) for happy, or :-|| if you want to express anger at my tardiness.

"For test messaging, the chart might be there in the lower right, next to where you type the message.

"If it's not, I THINK that if you type :) it MIGHT automatically convert into a symbol. Try it."

What's LinkedIn?

Hillary Clinton also receives invitations to connect on LinkedIn.

"How does this work?" she asked.

Monica Hanley responded, "My understanding is that it's a networking website where you list details about yourself like your name, location field of work and education in order to connect with potential employers."

Since that Feb. 1, 2012, email, Clinton joined LinkedIn, listing her current position as 2016 presidential candidate.

Sheryl Sandberg, emoticons

Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg thanked Hillary Clinton for comments she made about Sandberg in an interview in Elle magazine after Phlippe Reines had forwarded Sandberg the portion of the interview about her.

Sandberg wrote, "On the debate on the 'ambition gap', you summarized more clearly what I am trying to say than anyone has by far. You are exactly right."

And Sandberg went on to say, "the highlight of my last few weeks was not the filing of our S-1 [for Facebook's IPO], but the invitation to have dinner with you."

Clinton thanked Reines for sending the article to Sandberg but seemed dismayed by a feature of her latest smartphone, writing, "I am quite bereft that I've lost the emoticons from my latest new old berry. Is there any way I can add them?"

Ben Affleck emails Clinton directly

On behalf of his charity, the Eastern Congo Initiative, filmmaker and actor Ben Affleck emailed Hillary Clinton about a security report on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on April 16, 2012. The report, according to Affleck, "describes a path towards greater security" for the DRC.

Clinton forwarded Affleck's note to Johnnie Carson, her assistant secretary of state for African affairs, writing, "I'd like to respond to Ben Affleck. Pls advise. Thx."

Carson's reply is largely redacted, but he told Clinton that he would have a draft of a response for her later that day.

The next day, Clinton still hadn't received a draft from Carson. She sent him another email saying that she "would like to respond today."

Carson emailed soon after, apologizing for the delay and enclosing his proposed email back to Affleck. The actual response to Affleck has been redacted by the State Department.

Clinton needs a hairdresser

Even while traveling abroad, Hillary Clinton knows the importance of looking sharp.

Before a meeting in Istanbul on March 31, 2012, Clinton emailed aide Huma Abedin to discuss her schedule.

"I now have a meeting tonight in Istanbul tonight when I land and probably will still have Dav bilat in morning. So, will need that Turkish hairdresser I used last time. Do you remember?" the secretary wrote.

Abedin promptly responded, "Yes I remember him." She pointed to another aide, Monica Hanley, that would have the necessary information on the hairdresser.

Lady Gaga's address

Hillary Clinton asked her aides to find out the address of pop star Lady Gaga after the vocalist defended Clinton on "The View."

Aide Cheryl Mills forwarded Clinton a note about Lady Gaga's appearance on the talk show in August 2011.

The email read: "'You know, I think Hillary Clinton has more things to worry about than her hemline,' --Lady Gaga on 'The View,' calling 'Project Runway' star Tim Gunn a 'bully' for criticizing Clinton's style (CNN)."

Clinton then asked, "Can you get an address for her so I can write a note?"

Lisa Kudrow lookalike

Anne-Marie Slaughter, writer and president of the New America think tank, emailed Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin to say that her son thought then-Secretary Clinton looked like Lisa Kudrow.

"High praise indeed...pse pass it on. Truly, Alexander, the younger, watched her walk in to Congress and said: 'she looks like Lisa Kudrow - you know, on Friends...' No bad," Slaughter wrote.

Abedin forwarded the email to Clinton, saying that it was a "nice compliment "and that "Lisa is an attractive actress!"

Clinton's response back is fully redacted.

Abedin added that someone else thought Clinton looked like "cameron diaz!!"