“I'm a good person!" has been shouted by so many bad people. When you hear that phrase or something similar, avoid the speaker at all costs.

Wasn't she freakin' amazing, though?

So, did Denim Jacket Guy tear up the restrooms or yell at the staff? He came in, he ate the food that was available, he took up a one-top, and he left a 15% tip. As far as I can tell, his only real offense is taking 2 hours, and for a single seat, that's not the hugest loss ever. Doesn't quite fall into the same…

A) We are all sarcastic 30-something hipsters? and B) Should we be looking at nothing but ourselves?

A lot of teenagers seem to go through a li'l jerk stage, no matter how they were raised. It passes if you just don't give way, but it's not overnight. For some reason their grandparents are often the only ones who they will even half-listen to when they tell them to cut that crap out.

You too, hon. Congrats.

I apologize; I did not want to induce any flashbacks!

The nurses can't help loving the kids they work with. I heard one talking to the nursing students(we were attached to a nursing school) not long after a bed emptied for some reason. She promised them that they would have two albums - one that they kept out for all to see, with the successes. Then there would be the…

Of course it's a good thing.

Like I said, he had two good nurses on the weekday and weeknight shift. They would hold his hand and touch his head quite a bit, and everyone seemed to think that talking to the babies was just great. But the subject was "touchy," ha ha, and certain nurses would attribute every health loss to "overstimulation" and…

On the other hand, I would guess that there was an overall hum or sussurance that I wasn't noticing, now that I think about it.

Our NICU was obsessed with "overstimulating" babies, so even the alarms didn't have noises. The culture was going through a BIG shift and the nurses really resented it when this new thing happened where parents were actually expected to pick up their babies and come into physical contact with them. It scared the…

Among the things March of Dimes is campaigning for is the removal of pregnancy as a pre-existing condition on women's health insurance applications. The More You Know (TM).

Mine was a 28-weeker. There's just some stuff you cannot describe about the NICU, especially at Level III. When it's not scary or joyful, it's just surreal.

"Half off a one hour session, today only!"

Thankyou! I was trying to imagine these very tiny women in a pit fight or something.

I was graduating from high school when the Goosebumps series came out, so I hear ya. I worked in a library at the time, and they were moving like hotcakes. But Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger were my favorite horror hunters. I didn't read an Dahl horror stories for adults, only some really amusing short…

I loved reading John Bellairs's books as a kid, but I don't know if they fall under "supernatural mystery" or "horror."

I knew it! In the next book someone is going to get killed by a ravenous man-eating soup....

I remember that Lisa Kudrow played a recurring waitress who was retconned into Phoebe's evil twin on "Friends." That crossover was actually pretty funny, since Ursula got into theft, dominance porn and other shenanigans, iirc.