I just have large alone-needs.

Preaching to the choir, Em. Preaching to the choir... Enjoy the alone time!

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First, thanks to everyone for the encouragement. I have a meeting with an attorney tomorrow so I hope that goes well. She was *realy* excited to talk to me, which made me feel positive. And I got some good suggestions/tips over in LJ.

I'm glad to hear that Kelly Kapoor has some possibilities.

The following conversation I offer without comment. (But background first - my SIL, about 24, had a major eating disorder and MIL and FIL spent probably around $15-$20 getting her treatment.)

Last night, FIL mentions my nieces who visited them over the summer. He refers to the 3 year-old as "Gordis" which I think could best be translated as "fatty". DH asked why he called her that and FIL said, "Well, you know she's sort of heavy."

Dude, she's THREE FUCKING YEARS OLD! (Sorry, guess I had to comment after all.)

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I was supposed to go to Greensboro (NC) to see a best friend's new baby

Are you in NC? Whereabouts? (I went to grad school in G'boro and have my brother & family are in Raleigh.)

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"Well, you know she's sort of heavy."

Ouch. Is he the type of person that can be set straight?

A professor here really, really needs to be taken down a peg. Dear Asshole, No, I actually don't work FOR you. If you learn some manners I might work WITH you.

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Are you in NC? Whereabouts? (I went to grad school in G'boro and have my brother & family are in Raleigh.)

I'm in VA (Roanoke specifically) but have people all over NC having worked at a summer camp for a few summers years ago. I tend to pop down on an as-can basis to see them

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Is he the type of person that can be set straight?

Whomp him with a cluestick. Might help, will definitely be fun.

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For the unappreciated librarians, from James Lee Burke's latest:

"Then I used the most valuable and unlauded investigative resource in the United States, the lowly reference librarian. Their salaries are wretched and they receive credit for nothing. Their desks are usually tucked away in the stacks or in a remote corner where they have to shush noisy high school students or put up with street people blowing wine in their faces or snoring in the stuffed chairs. But their ability to find obscure information is remarkable and they persevere like Spartans."

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Is he the type of person that can be set straight?

Honestly, I don't think so. Perhaps if it came from DH, but probably not from me. FIL and MIL have been bugging me to send Ellie there for a few weeks, or even one week, but there's no way I'd subject her to that.

I just don't get how, having been through so much with their daughter, they don't see the potential to hurt their granddaughter. If I ever heard someone had said something like that about Ellie, that would be her last visit.

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Sophia Brooks!

I am delurking here to tell omnis that I had to laugh at his passive aggressive not signing of his contract to protest, because I do that to at the theater I work in! I thought I was the only one. I am protesting the workload expected for the crappy pay, but same difference, and they always pay me!

Me! Good to know I'm not alone in my P/A'ness. Or alone in my grrrr at theaters. Misery does love some company. why? WHY?! Why do I keep working in the field? I like it, but can't for the life of me think of what else to do. I think office work would cause a flatened forehead from repetitive banging of said on desk.

:: raises glass to Sophia, and all others overworked/underpaid, whether theater or otherwise ::

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Casper's friend Ellen was visiting this summer and mr. flea was lifting her into a swing. She said to him, "I'm heavy because I'm fat." She's 4 (and squarely built, but not fat). I know her mother isn't giving her that message; it's her grandmother. So sad. FOUR.

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