I always think I look like a hoor with eye makeup on. I know it's just me not being used to it. Also, my family Thanksgiving is not overly glam.

OK, off to it. Have a lovely day, all!

I'm sure you're a high class hoor, Jesse. Nothing but the best for (or from) our Cowgirl.

Where's my mother? I want my mother! She's at the doctor having her infusion hardware taken out. But I want to speak to her.

Chatted with my sister again. She's still a wreck. But we had an interesting conversation where I clarified my distinction between "conspiracy theorists" and "skeptics". I have a lot of baggage around the terms conspiracy theory and theorists, all including the way of belief, and less about what they believe. That I don't attach to skeptics.

So if someone I think is a skeptic thinks there's a cure for cancer that's being hidden by big Pharma, I'm more likely to hear them out, but if I say "conspiracy theory about a cure for cancer" it means I've already written it off.

Sis doesn't like that. She doesn't want to demean questioning of the dominant power structure with the dismissiveness inherent in conspiracy theory, but to me I'm separating critical thinkers from the paranoid and gullible.

She points out that it might have taken conspiracy theorists to unearth Tuskegee, but I'm trying to explain that it was skeptics and suspicious people and investigative people. Conspiracy theorists are the sort that think sending a petition to the White House about aliens means anything, and then will immediate write off the response to the petition anyway, even though it might have been their petition in the first place.

Am I semanticing it up?

Most of my eye shadows are some variation on taupe because I find actual color a bit jarring. But thanks to Aromaleigh I have some truly gorgeous, sparkly taupes that make me happy.

Mine are taupe because I just do eye shadow to make my eyes look more deeply set. So it's skin tone and shadow.

However I look through what I have and there's a disturbing amount of blue that I can't justify in any way.

I have a million different shadows (or had), although no blue. But the only colors that really work on me, or that don't make me think HOOKER! DOING BLOW! are taupes and browns and some purples.

Am I semanticing it up?

My reading of the two terms jibes with yours. When I hear conspiracy theory, that implies that the views are being dismissed.

Happy Thanksgiving all!

Perkins,

when do you take possession?

Happy Thanksgiving, Buffistae! We're in the middle of cooking & cleaning up a storm for S's parents and a small crowd of otherwise-thanksgivingless fencing friends: a smallish turkey, a ridic beautiful pork rib roast, cornbread dressing, beans, cranberries, and approximately every root vegetable on earth. Fun times will be had.