Best of luck to you. My brother-in-law damned near killed himself with alcoholism. He had the fortune to have his liver start working again during his long ICU stay, as there was no way he was going to get on the transplant list, but in that time his kidneys had shut down (started up again as well), he had a small…

Yup, to my mother as well, in the mid-’60s. I don’t think any of her brothers went, though, or graduated if they did go.

“Look at me on YouTube,” not “hey, fucking stalk me IRL and yell outside my house!” Just a tad different.

Not to mention while “trying to catch the L/bus/etc. and otherwise get where I’m going” If I were head-scarfed in winter to keep the cold and snow out I’d look similar.

That was my thought - lowbie position, maybe a part-timer due to schooling.

Since she worked during school, she may have had a part-time position that lowered her seniority relative to others?

Neil Gaiman: “I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do with…

I see you’ve updated your post, as yes, it’s definitely not bound by HIPAA as I stated. There are restrictions under ADA regarding employers disclosing reported information about disabilities - except as needed to disclose to other managers regarding capabilities - but I’m uncertain whether this would count. (I’m…

Yup, thank you. He may well have violated some kind of internal policy at their workplace (or maybe not), but that is not a HIPAA violation. It is deeply shitty.

I work in an office, and I hate dresses/skirts, so these capsule wardrobes really hit me hard. I’ve seen too many that just say ‘so take that dress and then put a nice blazer on/wear jeans under it/throw on a cardigan over it’... I admit that dresses are easy-mode for getting dressed, but just hate them. I feel…

Punitive damages, I assume.

Plus two of the things she listed were tools, and of them, the curler helps make your lashes look better without the use of makeup.

Turns out it’s pretty good when applied directly - so it’s great here - but not efficient for, say, destinking a room/fridge:

This here too. Saved us once when the taxi broke down on the way to the airport, and we were still there in plenty of time (taxi company sent another one out to pick us up).

It’s not too bad, you should get a pretty good confidence interval result from that (even when corrected) sample size. (If I remember my stats classes correctly.)

Same thing, one’s just state-level and one’s national.

iPhone actually, but the phone fumbling is also annoying. Loud and lots of activity compared to just looking at my wrist and tapping the button. I’m very near-sighted so I’d have to pick up the phone and hold it near my face.

The backup was for my fear it might slip off during the night, or that I’d sleepily shut it off and fall back asleep.

This could have been written by me - my husband used to sleep later than I did, and I switched to using my Fitbit One (in its cloth-and-Velcro wristband accessory) as my alarm clock. It rests against the inside of my wrist and buzzes against it to wake me. I set my phone alarm for 10 minutes later as a backup alarm…

I tend to think I’m a pretty heavy sleeper, and it works fine for me. YMMV.