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jesse_the_kThanks to oursin for these questions—if you’d like to continue the meme, raise your hand in a comment.
Have you read anything lately that really blew you away?
Cost of Living, an essay collection by Emily Maloney
Her precise, funny prose explores the interface between social norms and actual brains at personal and societal levels. Her neurodivergent thinking brings insight from her own experiences on both sides of the US medical complex. As a suicide survivor and psych patient, she acquired huge medical debt while getting inaccurate diagnoses and physical mistreatment. To pay down that debt, she worked as an emergency-department—based EMT tech, often in charge of doling out medications she was also taking. She translated medical studies into marketing copy for large pharmaceutical companies.
Two hundred words on the "opiate crisis" and pain prescribing:
Pain docs feel they’re being treated unfairly. Yes, there were bad actors, but not as many as described. Yes, there are pill mills, but most of them have been shut down. In the meantime, the government is interfering with physicians and other healthcare practitioners ability to do their jobs. The government should not be regulating how many [morphine equivalent doses] you prescribe; it just creates more paperwork, results in more prescriptions for the same drugs. There had been a lot of discussion around the fact that the United States writes a lot more prescriptions for opioid medication than Canada. What many don’t realize is that a lot of physicians can no longer write for more than a few pills at a time because of new state legislation; to get around this, they write more prescriptions. In Canada, you could write one prescription for X number of pills and three refills; in the United States, that equals at least four prescriptions, and possibly more, depending on the dosing. In Florida alone, you are not allowed to write more than three days worth at a time, meaning Florida physicians are stuck writing hundreds of prescriptions for their chronic pain patients. Dr. Jay explained that this sort of thing is representative of a larger problem that began in the late 1980s, when insurance companies stopped covering everything besides opioids. This is true: biofeedback, acupuncture, and other non-pharmaceutical pain management tools stopped being covered, resulting in more prescriptions. The opioid crisis didn’t happen overnight; it was a slow steady burn comprised of issues that seem small and individual at the time and combined to make the difficult storm we see in the news each day.
If you were in a murder mystery, what part would you be playing?
The clueless guest who keeps asking “What’s going on?”
Is there is a musical instrument you wish you could play?
Sighs mournfully in F minor. The acoustic guitar I played daily from age 13 until I could no longer physically handle it, ca 33.
Favourite season of Buffy?
Season 3. I like the Faith-Buffy tension.
What kind of weather do you find most congenial?
Sunny with many puffy clouds, a fresh breeze, and temperatures between 50 and 65°F (10–19°C)
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Date: 2024-12-02 01:27 am (UTC)As the kids used to say, this is such a mood.
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Date: 2024-12-03 06:20 pm (UTC)Oh damn, are the kids no longer saying this?
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Date: 2024-12-03 06:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-12-02 01:33 am (UTC)ILU.
Also, thank you for the book review/summary/comment. Sounds meaty.
If I could have some questions, I'm enjoying this go-round of them, and you come up with good ones.
Ah, shucks
Date: 2024-12-03 06:21 pm (UTC)Do you remember the first time you learned that amazing music was JS Bach?
What’s your preferred cheese(s) for sandwiches?
Did your therapy education include modalities new to you?
One or two or three comics/graphic novels you really liked recently?
What’s your favorite fannish interface? Realtime or asynchronous?
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Date: 2024-12-02 01:55 am (UTC)Answer at leisure
Date: 2024-12-03 06:21 pm (UTC)Tell me about your favorite USA rivers.
If the food fairy decided to visit right now, what should they leave in your refrigerator?
What’s a memorable airplane journey?
Is there an insight you’re willing to share from your wow! decades of fandom participation?
What’s your favorite fannish interface? Realtime or asynchronous?
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Date: 2024-12-02 01:58 am (UTC)I'd love questions if you have them, would be nice to post something a little more random!
I can do random
Date: 2024-12-03 06:22 pm (UTC)What’s your favorite fannish interface? Realtime or asynchronous?
Did you have an accounting mentor?
Is there a picky tax regulation that you’re proud to remember and apply?
What have you learned from making podfics?
If the food fairy decided to visit right now, what should they leave in your refrigerator?
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Date: 2024-12-02 03:38 am (UTC)It would be my great pleasure
Date: 2024-12-03 06:22 pm (UTC)Can you share a public transit story where you’re still delighted by what happened?
Are there trustworthy online etymology resources besides the OED?
Crochet vs knitting: discuss.
If the food fairy decided to visit right now, what would they leave in your refrigerator?
Are you still in contact with folks you met on USENET?
Re: It would be my great pleasure
Date: 2024-12-04 02:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-12-02 04:12 am (UTC)I am happy to supply some
Date: 2024-12-03 06:23 pm (UTC)Any thoughts on changes in con culture in the past 40-some years?
What’s your favorite fabric to work with?
If the food fairy decided to visit right now, what would they leave in your refrigerator?
How did you learn to sew?
What’s your favorite fannish interface? Realtime or asynchronous?
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Date: 2024-12-02 11:13 am (UTC)Absolutely ....
Date: 2024-12-03 06:26 pm (UTC)... thanks for the reminder--more than 200 posted at AO3 in the last year
Re: Absolutely ....
Date: 2024-12-04 10:53 am (UTC)https://archiveofourown.org/works/26966
:D
Re: Absolutely ....
Date: 2024-12-14 01:28 am (UTC)Thanks for the rec!
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Date: 2024-12-08 03:52 pm (UTC)Definitely!
Date: 2024-12-08 09:24 pm (UTC)How did you learn to ride a bike? Where did you go?
Why the West Coast?
What was the first dance you remember learning?
If the food fairy decided to visit right now, what would they leave in your refrigerator?
If you could have a truly scent- and virus-free office, would you prefer to work in person or from home?
Re: Definitely!
Date: 2024-12-09 04:54 am (UTC)I see your mournful sigh about the guitar. I had aspirations to play flute when I was younger, but it's hard on my hands and shoulders, so I let it go.