You sound like my old employers! (I posted elsewhere on the thread about this.) They too were a small law firm and they treated me well. Ten years later I'm still facebook friends with them and they are my model of how to treat employees. Maybe your employees appreciated you more than you think? Or maybe I was just…

My mom just switched jobs after, no kidding, 27 years at the same law firm. There was some fuckery going on with lawyers jumping ship for other places and she just didn't feel that her job was secure anymore. It was a giant emotional thing for her, because, you know 27 years and all that. The decision was made a…

When I was fresh out of college, I got a job as a receptionist at a law firm. I worked for three amazing lady immigration lawyers. They were funny. They taught me stuff, such that I eventually became a paralegal. They were patient with me. They gave me health insurance when they didn't have to.Basically, they made…

Clearly you were not wearing enough flair.

I'm an attorney too. I also write. I'm probably a high-functioning type B, not insanely driven and focused on my work but also not able to do nothing. I have a job that I like (public defender) and I found that I needed to get back to that job after maternity leave in order to feel at all like I was a normal person.…

If it makes you feel any better, I am the sort of person who goes looking on Craigslist for a new apartment every time I have a fight with my husband. This is despite the fact that my marriage is totally happy and that I do not ever want to leave my husband, who is the awesomest guy ever. But serious fight = me on…

I don't mind! No, it generally clears on its own. It's a virus, so there's no treatment for the actual infection, but most people eventually clear it. I had a positive diagnosis of HPV in 2007 (warts), and have had no warts since then and negative HPV tests. I take this to mean that my body got rid of the infection.…

I think it probably is HPV. But that's not a reason to get scared! Most people have had or will get HPV. It's totally endemic. I've had it. Now I don't. And you're doing the right thing by getting check ups and treatment. You're preventing your own cancer! That's awesome.

OK. so what I took from your post is:

That's where the queer part comes in. Yeesh.

Meh. I may be an old married person, but I'd say: just fart. Like, you don't have to try to fart on him, but if you do, what's the big deal? He probably won't curl up and die. I am aware that there are men out there who get upset by the idea of ladies farting. My brother in law is one of these. He thinks my sister in…

Ah, you mean the "H is for Hell". Not just for dogs! Can be achieved with babies too. See, e.g., fig. 4 here:

Or, you know, he could like both men and women. There's this new thing, not sure if you've heard of it, called bisexuality? It's, like, where you're attracted to both men and women? Or there are folks who call themselves queer who just REFUSE altogether to identify their sexuality at all. And then, and here's the…

That's because you don't work in the justice system (I assume). Like the case where both parties were so obliterated that they couldn't walk. My client (male) was accused, but either one of them could have been on trial for rape. Or the case where the drunk girl started pushing my client away in the middle of what had…

Good lord. We're not talking about just douchey behavior. We're talking about mistake of fact when everyone is drinking. Note that it's still a crime, usually, although mistake of fact can be a defense.

Sure, that sounds reasonable. I would hope that your doctor relies on a dating ultrasound in the first trimester. My understanding is that embryo/fetal growth in the first trimester is pretty uniform across all embryos/fetuses and starts diverging in the second trimester. Hopefully your date and his match up.

Yes. Oh yes. Anyone who has ever been on BabyCenter or any of the other boards has had to deal with those wackjobs. The ones who tell you not to go to the doctor. The ones who tell you not to listen to your doctor's advice if you do go. The ones who give you homemade recipes for possibly dangerous herb teas that will…

@WhyItsFarting: The testimony of a rapist is pretty good when all parties pretty much agree on the facts. It happens more than you think.

I have no problem with the assertion that people do things when they're drunk that they wouldn't do when they're sober, and those things may include sexual assault. I have no problem with it because it is freaking true.

But did you have a level II ultrasound or an NST?