Serious question: does HIPAA apply only to medical personnel? Or is a bystander on the sidewalk prohibited from asking publicly “hey, weren’t you here yesterday?”

What are your thoughts on outing them? I’m sure it’s legally complicated, but it seems like delicious revenge. Then again, I love deflating hypocrisy.

Clarinet!

It’s awful. A friend of mine who sells the stuff keeps asking me to join “her team”. One of these days I’m going to unload in reply: HOW are we a team, if each of us gets commissions on the individuals we sell to? Except that if you bring me on board you also get a % of mine?!

If you don’t meet the monthly sales quota, then you get saddled with the $750/mo car payment for your “free” car.

Here’s a video that has some useful info about the ingredients.

But ... but ... Good Guys With Guns, you guys!!!1!

Yes, as long as you make the monthly quota of sales, or else you forfeit all of the people “on your team” aka below you, to the next person up the pyramid. Oh, and you have to like using products developed by dermatologists that have effing fragrance in them.

I live in LA & want to live in one of those SO MUCH.

There’s a 1910 Victorian up the street from me (okay, a few blocks up, where the neighborhood gets way ritzy) that is impeccably maintained. Everytime I pass it while walking the dog I slow down to admire it.

I met him at a reading of some of his stories, when I was the assigned “author wrangler” for the evening. That man was an unrepentant FLIRT. (It was awesomely hilarious.)

I had friends say to my face “do you have something to tell us?” My answer: “Next week. I’m not ready yet.” Your schedule, love. Fuck anyone who isn’t okay with that.

I got into a snit while pregnant, when I thought someone had asked me “what DO you do?”, when it turned out what they had really asked was “WHEN are you due?” Something about how people used to ask me about me, but now it was all about this other person who was temporarily inhabiting my body, etc etc etc. I completely…

Um, no. Unless you’ve been (visibly) pregnant, sit down please.

Maybe he really needed some Korean BBQ?

No idea, but I officially volunteer!

This sentence: “Her road to him began in Minneapolis, where she was born.”

Only the flutes when they’re playing the high notes. Otherwise, woodwinds standing in front of the brass section may as well go home.

Mine was a keyboard player who was also the choir director. At Spring Concert every year he’d turn up his amp so the singers couldn’t be heard over him. Delightful.

(fist bump!)