Thanks for all the helpers about the eyelash thing - I don't have eyedrops with me, and I kindda have to get out and HAVE FUN.

My super mom will wash it for me tomorrow, if it won't come out on its own.

In other exciting Little League news, our team came from behind for the second game in a row to win the Tournament of Champions semifinal. We'll play the championship game on Saturday.

In the previous three games Emmett: (a) was unable to play because of diarrhea cramps; (b)got hit by a pitch and flipped out; (c) hurt his ankle and could barely hobble around the field for two innings. So I am pleased to say that in this game he walked twice, hit the game-tying RBI double, and as catcher threw a runner out at second.

It was a very thrilling game, where one of our players who has had an off-year batting, found his stroke in the last two games. Dan hit his first home run ever to give us the lead. Very tough, back and forth game. And the opposing coaches were dicks so I was happy to ruin their evening.

Thank goodness!

Scientists are working to safeguard the world's chocolate supply.

Glad that Emmett (and his team) had a good game.

I'm sorry about Josie, Glamcookie.

Glad that Emmett (and his team) had a good game.

Thanks, Sumi. He said he's getting over his shock and fear about getting hit by pitches. I just need him to go another month or so without another incident and I think we'll be okay.

::crosses fingers::

My grandmother was born on the reservation near Norman Oklahoma, but when her family moved out to California in the 30s they renounced all ties to their heritage so that no one would mistake them for Mexican.

Yay for Emmett's good game!

(thwacking dead horse) The other thing about Northern Exposure that bugged was the character of Ed Chigliak being played by a blond dude that (reportedly) only has 1/8 Native American ancestry.

Very strong incentive is a very strong euphemism. How about "on pointed pain of death" for a less strong one?

I was trying to encompass "You can't do that" and "You don't want to do that" and "You don't have much opportunity to do that" in the same sentence. Because, I have seen cases where people did it anyway (not many), and did not suffer death as a result; but in many cases people didn't do it not because somebody said "Don't you dare" but because, e.g., a mixed-race Indian man on the Plains in 1855 was unlikely to meet very many white women, and those he did meet were unlikely to spend much time with him.

(Actually I've been reading up on the history of New Mexico, and found it a wellspring of racial counter-narratives. Not just because of the influence of its original Spanish colonizers, but because, e.g., even mixed-race American men had high status among the (roughly white-identified) Mexican women there; and thus the 1830s-40s featured several interracial marriages where the bride was white. In that case, nationality trumped race.)

in the PEI/NS area

I am totally convinced that I am the only person on the whole board who is accidentally scrambling those five letters, and losing the slash.

I am totally convinced that I am the only person on the whole board who is accidentally scrambling those five letters, and losing the slash.

Think again.

I am totally convinced that I am the only person on the whole board who is accidentally scrambling those five letters, and losing the slash.

So totally not just you.