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.

Health ~ma and job ~ma to quester

About the snow, we had our first snow last week. I was still sick, but D. went out late at night to buy us ice cream so we could observe our family tradition of eating ice cream the day of the first snow each winter. We've done it every year of our married lives. This year we almost didn't make it because I was sick, but he made a point of going out so we could carry it on. Sweet guy.

About eyebrows, I refuse to pluck. I think I was just told to pluck during the wrong time of my life wherein I was asserting that I did not need to downplay my ethnic characteristics in order to be beautiful. I still feel that things like commenting on a woman's eyebrows or a man's unibrow are racially motivated at their core, but not enough to be all up in arms about it. Now I mostly don't pluck because a) I'm lazy and b) I don't really know how.

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.

A safe haven law exists here. Infants can be left at hospitals or fire houses. I thought that was common many places.

I pluck mine. Sometimes get uneven, but am mostly pretty good with it. I like my eyebrows even when I don't pluck. They've got a nice arch to them. Which makes raising one eyebrow very effective!

It's one of those things about which I occasionally stop and think, "I need to get one of the Buffistas to teach me how to do this." But then I never do.