I left my fitbit at home by mistake today, so it thinks I walked under 400 steps today.

The sad part is that my main plans for the weekend revolve around a Community marathon, so I may not make much more than that tomorrow.

I just found a golden headline (the article's pretty odd too) while looking for an appropriate (maybe don't ask?) picture: Taleon Goffney, Twin Porn Star, Sentenced to 3 Years for "Spider Man" Burglaries.

It's a CBS News article from 2009--totally SFW. But, seriously--that boy's parents have got to be wondering what they did not do right.

Calli, me too. If they don't, well, I guess I better steel myself for the wheezing until it actually gets too much for her. In the meantime, I'm supposed to feed her half a soft scrambled egg a day to fatten her up. If I can convince her to eat eggs.

I told my mom that this was the first time in my life that I was glad that I am and have always been a bitch of a girl. She replied that she was thinking about it the other day, and agreed that he'd never have had a chance with the surly kid!me.

I know what you mean. We found out the doctor who took over my retiring family GP's practice when I was in middle school later went up the river for molesting teenage boys. SO glad I spotted him as a quack right off the bat and never bothered to conceal my contempt.

One of my mother's cousins was a serial abuser--for some reason the first generation never officially did anything. I hope they did at least warn other girls away from his lap, even if they weren't taking him out of circulation.

Huh. I thought this show just said "negative radiation". But it was "negative for radiation", so I live to nitpick another day.

Law student query: what's the minimum required to practice law? And what does "practice law" mean? Is there a threshold of legal device? Or representing someone in court? Claiming to be a lawyer and doing things based on representing yourself as such? Is the bar for the area the minimum, or is the degree required too? How transferable are degrees? If you read Law at Oxbridge, and cram for the NY bar, are you good?

If you had been pretending to, say, have a degree and maybe a bar pass, what are the avenues for redress, and what would be the official penalties for being a lying shithead (not so subtle lawyer jokes are being soundly ignored by me).

Allyson, I would recommend crazymeds.us for your AD side effect needs - [link] They have what's on the PI, plus info from community members. I have heard that Effexor can be difficult to come off of, but of course it differs. And good luck. I also had a shitty reaction to Wellbutrin (24 hr panic attack), and after trying some other things (Lexapro, Celexa, Vyvance, Abilify) I am doing pretty well on Zoloft.

For me personally I did well on Effexor but coming off of it was hell. The hell likely could have been mitigated had I medical supervision when I came off but my insurance was kaput. So I winged it (wang it? wung it?) with, um, herbal glaucoma medication. Took about two and a half weeks with three REALLY rough days in the middle. Those really rough days I cannot even imagine without the home remedy.

My go-to antiD for years has been Nortriptyline. It's effective for me at a low dose and I've gone off it without problems several times. It's never affected my libido. It can screw with my hydration.

I'm sad about Kuma. Especially because Kat writing that a picture of Chile Pepper with her head between the seats, peering at me as I put groceries into the back of the car, was a spitting image of a shot she had of Kuma. It was our bonding moment. xoxoxo

BTW, my pet peeve for 2013:

people who end their email messages with: "please excuse any typos, I'm on a ___ phone"

Well guess fucking what? I don't give a shit. If your email is not an emergency and worth my time to read, double-check it and re-read. This ain't twitter, this is my email.

what's the minimum required to practice law?

Specifically, that's a state-by-state question. Generally, graduation from an ABA approved program, passing the state bar exam, a fitness & character review, being sworn in, and then paying dues to the state bar to maintain your membership, and then participating in continuing legal education throughout your career. CA, doesn't have the ABA approved requirement, but you have to take extra exams to practice. Practicing law is a pretty low thresh hold - offering advice on what they should do, filling in a legal form, holding yourself out as an attorney.

In most jurisdictions my NY Law degree and bar membership doesn't mean anything - I have to take their bar and join their bar and jump through their hoops. Most jurisdictions won't recognize a foreign law degree, even from a commonwealth country, but there are exceptions. NY, if I remember correctly, would allow you to take the bar if you'd graduated from U. Toronto or UBC (the graduate, not undergraduate programs). Some jurisdictions will allow you to take the bar with your foreign degree if you get an American LLM.

Redress for pretenders depends on what they did and who they were - someone might be disciplined by the bar association or by bringing a criminal or civil lawsuit or all of the above.

In conclusion: It all depends.