A friend gave me a 10x mirror and I can't stop plucking.

They say that amateurs should never use a magnified mirror for eyebrow plucking. Trust your friend.

When I write a rec letter I figure the most important thing is that it doesn't sound vague and/or generic...

Thank you, Burrell.

Damn, bonny. I'm sorry you grew up in such a shitstorm.

What Jesse said.

I remember reading a bit about the father that dropped off 8 or 9 kids in Nebraska. His wife had died in the previous year, he lost (or quit?) his job to care for the younger kids and he was emotionally and financially overwhelmed.

There is white stuff falling from the sky. I do not approve.

I was talking with the cashier at the Safeway, and mentioned I'd heard something about snow this morning, but it may have just been a nightmare because I was half asleep. She looked steadily at me and said "I REALLY hope you had a nightmare." We both cracked up.

There is white stuff falling from the sky. I do not approve.

My first thought was: "Volcanic ash?"

GrrArrgh! I have my trip to Iowa to possibly interview for a job, and definitely spend Thanksgiving with family. I spent way too much today on travel stuff, really thought through my packing, have mucho portfolio work to do and I now have a fever and a sore throat! I cannot get sick! I have too much to do and too much is riding on this trip!

health ~ma added to job~ma would be much appreciated. Oy!

A friend gave me a 10x mirror and I can't stop plucking.

My mother once gave my sister a lighted magnifying mirror. She started plucking and didn't stop until she had one 1930s starlet eyebrow. Not the look she was trying for-- it was just a case of, "one more hair... just one more hair..."

Of course, once she realized it, she had make the other side match, which was somehow considerably more painful than the first one.

Health and job ~ma to quester

"one more hair... just one more hair..."

Ugh. She knows my pain.

I can't say I empathize, exactly, because I don't know personally what you went through, bonny, but I do know secondhand through what happens to our students. And it's an awful thing.

I wasn't altogether clear on why the law was supposed to be just for infants to begin with. But I definitely agree that we need to step up with our side of the bargain when we cleared out institutionalized care.

I wasn't altogether clear on why the law was supposed to be just for infants to begin with.

It was supposed to be to prevent mothers from giving birth and then leaving the baby in a dumpster or public bathroom or whatever -- give them a way to abandon the baby safely. I remember seeing something in Italy, I think maybe in Florence, where a convent from the middle ages had this sort of door built into the side of it, where poor women who'd given birth out of wedlock could leave their babies, and the nuns would take care of them.