(I'm JD, MPH-in-progress, policy side. She was working on PhD on the public health research side. Still enough jargon that everyone else was like ??????

Neither of us had ever had that happen in the wild before!)

Last year I changed our menu from a pork loin pinwheeled with dried fruits to Oops All Appetizers and I gotta say... as much as I love The Many Fruited Pork? I really, really love Oops All Appetizers.

Please no!

(I haven't seen any "pie" posts but uh given that it's the name I go by on this here internet....)

Right? I think he usually ends up with 3 or 4 between other aunts and uncles.

SO many other ways!!

My sister celebrates Christmas with us sometime between Dec 25 and New Year's. Her stepson's mom insists on All Holidays. It's not in the agreement, but also not worth fighting, because we can celebrate whenever the heck is convenient and no-one can stop that!

(The worst part was that I didn't actually need all 12 hours! I needed 4. But I the only way I could get the particular 4 that I needed at the time I needed them was a 12-hour all-day thing. You can roll over 8 soooo....)

Aaaaaah I am overtired and misunderstood. You mentioned immigration which I thought was typical admin law hearing type thing. Thanks for the correction.

I do also understand the relaxed rules of evidence, bc you can't prejudice a jury when there isn't one, and theoretically an ALJ should know how to appropriately weigh evidence (see Universal Camera v NLRB for a banger of a Felix Frankfurter opinion on this topic).

I'm at a state agency, not federal, and I definitely do see the value in the administrative hearing process (having ALJs who essentially specialize in a certain area of law). But yeah there is a definite need for due process, transparency, resources, etc.

Idk if it's from traveling over the weekend, starting PT again, work stress, holiday stress, or what. I'm just exhausted this week.

So uh if you have a machine that pauses time so I can get 10 hours of sleep a night for the next few nights, I'd love to borrow that.

Oooooh I was thinking Potato Bar for an upcoming dinner but now I'm like. Garbage plate bar.

The kids can have plain french fries and/or tater tots, I'm putting ground beef, sautéed onions, and obscene amounts of mustard on mine.

I used to teach 7th grade and even though it's been almost 20 years, I still have a reflex which is to say, very calmly, "That's inappropriate and you need to stop."

It has served me well. Highly recommend that script.