What's the opposite of a social smile? An "ah, fuck you, you'll all die horribly" smile? Sounds like a big milestone too.

Oh, we had to fill out a form which included people neither of us had ever met, and then we just started riffing on the whole thing, including people who look Asian but have European last names (married? adopted?), people who are white but have Asian first names (parents fighting predjudice?), and the fact that we should probably shred the scraps of paper where we wrote down everyone's race, especially considering the fact we might not have been 100% correct about everyone.

no...you mean smiling AT people, Kat?

yeah, erika's got it right. They mean smiling at people. The idea of a work smile reminded me of that though.

We have a couple white-to-the-eye people at krav who are 1/4 Chinese (one with the Chinese surname). One Chinese guy who is Jewish, and one Jewish-European guy who looks as Asian as his (actually Asian) wife.

I've given up on the race/ethnicity thing there, not least of all because gender is more confusing. Drag queen eyebrows or breasts and 5 o'clock shadow on the same person makes my pronouns hurt.

Okay, so it made me smile in the dirty way, but that counts, right?

Yes. Without even really knowing who that is (I am guessing MCR?), Yes.

Hee.

My Asian names are all hidden. Used to be clear I was Japanese. But with a western first name and a western married name, none of my phone contacts ever knew. Then again, I could go by my middle & maiden names, and you'd never know I wasn't Japanese from Japan until I opened my mouth and spoke Midwesternese.

So, who knew "burglariously" is a word?

Not only is it a word, but the related "burglarious" has the Sir William Blackstone seal of approval. Westlaw also manages to beat the OED on this one; "burglariously" is attested by the OED only as far back as 1807, but a quickie Westlaw search locates a 1792 North Carolina case reporting an indictment "for feloniously and burglariously breaking and entering into the dwelling house of one Rice." Google Books finds a reference from The Gentleman's Magazine in 1789; Galenet finds one from 1724, which apparently paraphrases a 1640 statute as providing that

If any be Indicted or Appealed, for the Death of any evil disposed persons Attempting to Murther, Rob, or Burglariously or Feloniously to Break any Mansion House (and the same is so found by Verdict) he shall Forfeit no Lands or Goods for the same, but shall be fully Acquitted thereof ....

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I saw a baby with the BEST eyebrows yesterday. Seriously arched, not thick but they spanned most of her tiny forehead.

Noah finally falling asleep on my chest. He's still there, fwiw.

Aww. Man, just a few more days I get to cuddle a cuddlelump too.

If I can just survive those few more days. Things have gone a little crazy. I think my urp yesterday was preemptive or something.