Interesting analysis of the WWII-era Minnesota Starvation Study, thought of it in context of our Pollen-inspired discussion of the other day:

I love Junkfood Science. Sandy kicks serious ass.

I'm home from work with both a stomach-ick-type thing AND a migraine. Unfair! As a result, I have about a thousand different drugs in my body right now.

Or, okay, maybe just 4. But that's still a lot.

I really want the Lasik surgery. But I don't know if it would be possible to correct my vision and I can't really justify it unless insurance paid.

I was buying one pair of glasses every year at around $300 pop--which weren't covered by insurance. We used a flex spending plan for the LASIK, which was $2K. After 10 years without needing glasses (or prescription sunglasses or contacts) I think I'm ahead.

The consults to tell if you're a candidate should be free.

I do wear them all the time (no contacts), but I also never remember if someone else wears glasses.

Huh! I'm sure I will notice when I see you. But then, I'm also the person who notices people's haircuts a week later....

I knew Randy Quaid was a dick for the same reason Matt did. I think I also read something else about him acting batshit insane in another instance.

I was buying one pair of glasses every year at around $300 pop--which weren't covered by insurance. We used a flex spending plan for the LASIK, which was $2K. After 10 years without needing glasses (or prescription sunglasses or contacts) I think I'm ahead.

Yeah, I don't buy glasses every year, but it's still a financially sound decision -- if I won't need glasses again before I'm in my 50s. I assume I'd need to get glasses again around the time my parents went to bifocals, right?

lisa, how bad is your vision? Even if it's reallllly bad (I'm a -13!) there are other things you can get besides lasik. Though they're even more expensive, which doesn't solve your other problem. :)

I've had good and bad experiences in Sephora. Usually they ignore me (or eye me suspiciously), but I had a really good experience one time with a gayboy in Georgetown who ran all over the store putting lipgloss on his hand to find me just the right color.

I need to remember to buy glasses every year, because they are covered mostly by insurance. But I forget because I only wear them for close work.

I stand behind my suggestion that $70 in unappealing tights is better than having your LEG EXPLODE.

The tights look just fine. They're just expensive as hell (the ones that were probably the right constriction were $150). Oh, and putting them on was tiring and very painful. I see the doc Friday. I hope he'll have a fixy thing.

I don't go in there any more. The salespeople are either mean to me, or seem to consciously avoid me.

Maybe it's because they're French--where it's not so much "the customer is always right" but rather "why are you bothering me?"

I've never had a problem at Sephora, but I usually tell most sales people to leave me alone so I might not be the best judge of service.

The tights look just fine.

Unappealing was meant to cover expensive and hard to put on, regardless of appearance.

I've never had a problem at Sephora, but I usually tell most sales people to leave me alone so I might not be the best judge of service.

HA!

I just had to explain my "I don't much like people" stance to someone.