Thanks for including me So it began by lining up all the schoolchildren along the gym wall by height. Jim was selected as the captain of the "shirts", and Ted was chosen as captain of the "skins". On the far right of the line was young Charles, waiting to be chosen from amongst the least coordinated of the short people. Charles knew that his friend Ted wouldn't leave him hanging, but was also afraid that Ted would hesitate, remembering how Charles's pale skin reacted to being exposed to the sun. Would he allow his friend to languish in unselected hell or would he risk the chance that he would be the proximal cause of his poor pale friend's skin blistering in the mock sunlight of the gym lights? Or worse yet, risk the early onset of cataracts caused by the irridescent glow from Charles' fish-belly-white skin?

Stay tuned.  ¶ 9:33 AM