I'm going to say this is just a thing at work, not my personal life.

Yeah, I only find it enraging in a work context, because 99.9% of the time someone is pinging me to ask me to do something for them. I'd rather get the information I need up front to expedite the process, especially when I've got five other people also pinging me with, "Hi."

It's a telenovela, though, and the Narrator usually sums up what you need to know at the beginning of each episode.

Jesse! If you have time, go back to the beginning because the Narrator is MY FAVORITE.

Ah, I love catching up on email to find escalations where people were repeatedly asking me to follow up on things when I clearly indicated in my out of office message and calendar that I was unavailable.

I thought this was just my teen age volunteers - who might not know what an out of office message is ... I've started say 'this message means I am not at the library . I will be back blah blah important stuff"

This is out of left field, but you know how people in the Middle Ages and whatnot supposedly drank beer all day, because water wasn't really safe? Did everyone have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome then? Because now they are saying no amount of alcohol is safe?

Oh good, I have been wondering about Jane the Virgin myself

Wait, where are they saying that? The last info I had about drinking was in the Tipping Point, where it was totally "There's a line, not a continuum." Is it actually a continuum?

Ithink the beer was low in alcohol - bu t now I have to go look

Welcome to my world of parents with special needs kids. I have a coworker whose kid was hospitalized for not gaining any weight due to gastroparesis and they wanted to go with solving it by different foods and not meds. Um? gastroparesis means the food isn't working!

I saw an article a little while ago written by the dad of a vegan family, whose son has autism. He was saying that he gets criticism from every direction -- people telling him that his kid might "get better" if they fed him non-vegan food, and vegans who imply that they must be doing veganism wrong, somehow, because vegan kids are healthy. (I've gotten that "you must be doing veganism wrong" stuff -- that veganism makes you healthy, so if you're vegan and not healthy, then you're doing something wrong. One well-known vegan doctor even wrote an article a few years ago about how all the fat and unhealthy vegans should stop telling people that we're vegan, because we're giving veganism a bad name by being all fat and unhealthy.)

I can see running off to Hawaii for clean air and good food

We have vog from the volcano. And are sorely lacking in several genres of food.

not as an alternative treatment strategy

And for any specialized treatment at all, you have to go to Oahu, which is...basically a west coast city on a rock in the middle of the ocean, so not particularly great on the clean air thing.

Also, skin cancer.

Margarita in Hawaii.

-t, I'm happy to host.

Sophia, I have wondered about such things (as well as how many women just had UTIs all the time), but I don't have any answers.

I wasn't aware of the strong religious overtones in veganism. Definite strains of heresy and apostasy wandering around.

I would vote for watching Jane the Virgin from the start. There are a lot of fun little moments that also pay off later.