anonemouse

Heh, so I went ahead and applied for this today. I figure, if I get it, that's great. It would give me a paycheck while I'm trying to finish my thesis and then figure out what I'll do after grad school. If I don't, I always have teaching undergrads to fall back on.

Dr. Virginia McGrath-Weaver St. Francis Hospital Memphis, TN

I've always been very turned off by that show. You'd think that the administrator would realize that sometimes, the "easy way" is the best way, especially considering the health of a lot of his patients.

Yep, Publix is a grocery store. I'm not sure if they are in Arkansas. Most of the ones I've seen have been in the deep south (Florida, Georgia, Alabama, etc.). I've always loved them though, because the ones that I've been in have always had excellent service.

Isn't it? Some of it is obviously exaggerated, but if even half of it's true, there are a lot of nasty and inconsiderate people out there.

Yes, she does! :biggrin1:

Memphis made the #1 spot. Not surprised at all, to be honest.

I'm from Crossville, but Dr. McGrath-Weaver at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis did my surgery.

There used to be a function in the control panels where we could ignore entire forums, but I don't know if we still have it or not.

Ditto. The fact is, if anyone "accidentally" goes into RnR, it's only because they aren't paying attention to what they are doing. Even in the "new threads" section, the forum that the thread is in is clearly identified on the right side of the screen. So unless you've clicked before looking to see where a thread is or clicked on a link someone posted in another thread, you're pretty darn safe.

Yep, that's pretty much what I've heard. Several of his patients now see my surgeon, and that's basically the story they've given me when I've talked to them. He apparently has HORRID bedside manner, making several of them cry.

SO far, I've succeeded. I've only stayed up to 5am a couple of times. I've usually gone to bed before 3, for the most part. I can't help it, I'm a natural night owl, I guess. :noidea: I'd much rather stay up at night than get up early.

It's the Blood series by Tanya Huff, and the Smoke series that came after it. It's a vampire mystery/romance type thingy. If you've ever seen the Blood Ties series on Lifetime, it's based on the Blood series of books. The show's campy and corny as hell (I still watch it, though :guess), but the books are pretty good.

It went very well! A little painful in spots, but nothing intolerable.

Sounds pretty accurate. The most painful spots for me were right on the tip of my chin, and at the edge of my jaw. I have a few spots where the hair is very heavy there. Not comfortable at all. Otherwise, though, I didn't feel much.

Ugh, don't get me started. I've been getting calls from at least two collection agencies, looking for two different people. I'm getting pretty darn fed up with it all.

I have to agree. Some people think that "support" is all about agreeing with whatever they are doing. It isn't. They want to hear "yes, what you are doing is just fine" and "you're right, that's the perfect plan, you'' be very successful." The plain fact is that there are certain things that bandsters shouldn't be doing, and it isn't "unsupportive" to point that out. People scream that they are being attacked when someone points out that they shouldn't be eating solids or an entire bag of candy or a quart of ice cream (when even they have said that they've jumped ahead in their diet). They scream attack when they ask people to give their input and someone gives input that they don't like. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Support isn't always about saying "yes, dear." It's about pointing out where people might be going wrong and trying to help them rectify the situation. And like it or not, the best people to do that are the "oldies" who have been around the block a time or two. Call them "know-it-alls" if you want. I personally call them inspiration. I sure as hell hope that if I suddenly start posting about how I eat nothing but junk food and don't exercise and that I'm wondering why I'm not losing weight, that they'll slap some sense into me. THAT is true support, not them telling me that I'm doing wonderfully and to keep doing what I'm doing.

I would imagine that the reason your husband got somewhere when you didn't was simply because he's male, to be honest. There are a lot of people out there that will be very nasty to women customers who are complaining, simply because they think women are push-overs who aren't willing to take part in a confrontation. Men, on the otherhand, are much more likely to be treated with respect, in many cases. Oh, and has anyone ever been to this website before? It's a blog community where people working in customer service post about the horrid customers that they have. It's rather interesting and eye-opening.

Awesome! You are very welcome! I stole the recipe from the mother of one of my brother's exes. For the mother of a health-food addicted nutritionist (I'm still convinced that the woman was in recovery from an eating disorder, she was so obsessed over food and calories), she could sure cook! Ditto. Ick. Kashi tastes like cardboard to me, to be honest. I'd rather eat grapenuts. And I HATE grapenuts.

Never had that, but I LOVE TGIFriday's fried green beans.

I've heard of freezing or burning them off, but I don't know what the procedure is called or if you could get it done at a spa. :noidea:

Sorry, guys! I meant to post right after I got back from my first treatment last Monday, but I wound up going to my parents' house and didn't have internet. Anyway, the treatment wasn't bad, for the most part. A lot of it, I could either just barely feel or not feel at all. Some of it, though, felt like I was being jabbed with a handful of needles and the person jabbing me was raking them down my skin. Luckily, that was only in a couple of places, apparently where I had large patches of closely-packed, extremely coarse, dark hair. The technician was very good, though, stopping whenever I needed to take a break. The whole think only lasted a few minutes. I can already tell a difference, I think. The spa is making me wait 8 weeks betweeen treatments, so my next one isn't until the middle of January. I'm rather happy with the experience, since everyone was very nice and the treatment wasn't as painful as I thought it would be. Plus, if I don't have to use all 5 treatments that are incuded in the package, they'll give me a credit for what I don't use, so that's nice.

YES! That's it! I love those commercials.

Fudge. Not Geico. The duck commercials, whatever insurance company that is.

Ditto, ditto, ditto. (BTW, that was said to the "nah, nah, nah" of the goat Geico commercial.)