It sounds like a lot of your problem is color matching, which is hard for newbies but trivial for people with some experience. If you have a Sephora or an Ulta near you, you can honestly walk right in and ask for help--Sephora in particular is especially good at helping you find matching foundation and concealer.
"Death has all but been eradicated while bioengineering and cyber-augmentations mean running into an 85 year old in a 12 year old body..."
Um.
Trust me, you're both underestimating Dragonmount, especially since Wotmania shuttered a decade ago. It's not a particulalry small community.
And yeah, I realize that the majority of fans don't care, but a lot of them do, so saying "well I haven't seen it" when you haven't looked at the places where it's most likely to show is... silly.
@ZombieGenesis said in Good TV:
It's funny. I often read more about people mocking the so-called "great white outrage" than I read about any actual "great white outrage". I did a number of searches on YouTube and Google with things like "wheel of time casting (insert one of the following: outrage, controversy, angry white people, uproar, screaming, and racism)" and came up with nothing. In fact, all I could find as the opposite, about how they BETTER force diversity into the series or there will be major problems.
Go look at places like Dragonmount or Facebook WoT fan pages, not random media articles.
Wheel of Time casting has been announced and angry white people are screaming to the stars that the show creators have decided to make some characters black in a world that consists of 3000 years of chaos, upheaval, and massive migrations.
Thank you both. It really does mean a huge deal to me.
As for winning, well, the state keeps appealing, so we're working our way up the ladders. They really don't like federal habeas/state PCR claims.
@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
This so very much. I am terrified about taking mental health breaks from work--even when I really do need them.
I'm terrified of what might happen if you don't take them, knowing your profession and occupation.
Well, it's... complicated. I have panic disorder with agoraphobia, a happy gift I received after the bar exam. I can drive without much issue to about a half mile distance from my house. Beyond that, I'm at real risk of getting a panic attack that renders me non-functional for most of the day. I also have pretty severe depression, which isn't terribly surprising given that I'm under self-imposed house arrest.
I also do, for as new an attorney as I am, very good work. So I am given particular allowances by my bosses, who happen to be my friends, who founded our firm when we all said to hell with the public defender office. I come in three times a week for half days and telecommute the rest of the time. Nobody else has that luxury. So given that I spend so much time at home already...
Basically, I hate myself for having mental illness, and the fact that I am winning legal fights against much more experienced attorneys is barely enough to convince me that I'm anything more than an awful, lazy person who deserves nutrient paste and a small room and not much else.
/TMI
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
you're terrified they'll be annoyed as if you did it on purpose when your illness flares up anew.
This so very much. I am terrified about taking mental health breaks from work--even when I really do need them.
@Dreampipe
This actually means a lot. Thanks.
When someone is miserable about themselves, and they're slowly getting better, do not tell them "oh but you're getting better!" when they tell you they're miserable.
I KNOW I'M IMPROVING. I WANT TO BE IMPROVED.
@Derp
You're unironically better coming down to Louisiana for law school, then, if you can't take the obviously preferable route of going in Spain. The civil law is a strange beast.
What do you use paralegals for, then? Doc review?
I am but a wee babby lawyer, but it seems effective to have a paralegal researching with you. Even when you take into account the time you spend reviewing their research, you're saving time.
@Groth said in RL things I love:
Water intoxication doesn't require you to drink an obscene amount of water, it just requires you to drink a large amount of water without replenishing your electrolytes in a short amount of time. If you're sweating a whole bunch and drink a few liters of something as pure as LaCroix chances are you'll pass out.
There's no difference between drinking LaCroix and drinking regular water in that situation, except that drinking carbonated water for hydration is dumb on account of it being more filling. The electrolytes you need to worry about depleting are sodium and potassium, and tap water isn't going to stop you from going hyponatremic or hypokalemic.
@surreality said in RL things I love:
Trader Joe's (I swear I feel like an evangelist for that place sometimes) had something with a small amount of real juice in basic seltzer. I'm one of those people that for whatever reason cannot do artificial sweeteners. It's either the full sugary/syrupy version of a soda, or 0 cal seltzer without the sweetener (plain or with a flavor, the basic lemon-lime or mandarin orange has always been fine), so I gave it a shot. It wasn't bad! It's more bitter than seltzer, though I drink black coffee more than any of the above combined, so, uh, needless to say, that's not a huge issue for me!
I am going to check this out! I've had to get mine from Fresh Market, which is what would result if people decided Whole Foods wasn't sufficiently bougie.
Well, if it gives you any comfort, I used to adore LaCroix and now I'm just sort of "eh" about it. I've certainly never felt off without it.
I think people sometimes forget that for those of us who are trying to lose weight, anything that is even a bad facsimile of something we like can be a big deal (e.g. halo top, which is terrible if you've had ice cream within recent memory but is amazing if you're on a diet).
For me, at least, having cold fizzy drinks that are low calorie and don't taste like aspartame is really helpful--though I've recently found a brand that has a small amount of real juice in it. That is worth the 10-20 calories.
@Derp said in The Work Thread:
@Rinel said in The Work Thread:
places that literally have their support staff committing the unauthorized practice of law (another unnamed public defense office)
My usual creative end-run around this is to walk into the attorney's office and say, "Ok, so, such-and-such case. I figure that we're looking at blah-blah-blah, and we should let them know about this-and-that, making sure they understand the whoosit about the whatsit, and if they try and drag us off the path, we just tell them that it's outside the scope of our representation. Nod if you authorize me to say all that."
That's what we did. It's not illegal if you say "but ask your attorney first" or you have the attorney sign what you wrote without reading it!
(It totally is illegal)
@Derp said in The Work Thread:
Which brings me to Gryphter's thing -- everyone is getting paid well below their pay grade, now. I have two college degrees, a professional certificate, my CP/CLA (Certified Paralegal/Certified Legal Assistant) and ACP (Advanced Certified Paralegal) credentials in Discovery and Trial Practice, and I make half of the average salary of someone in an entry level position in my field, probably without those last two (which are fairly important) and tend to command an even higher salary. And I do the lion's share of the actual casework, too. The research, the briefs, the filings. The attorneys largely just take what I wrote and go talk about it in court. Why? Because they have a doctorate and took a test and paid a fortune to be able to do so and that somehow means they know more and make a zillion times more than me.
I've been in places that treat their support staff okay (an unnamed public defense office), places that literally have their support staff committing the unauthorized practice of law (another unnamed public defense office), and where I am now, where I at least think we treat our support staff well (we're paying them more than we're taking home, at least). And this is just the office manager and the investigator I'm talking about. Our clerks (also paid; we aren't scum) are invaluable.
I could never do what @saosmash manages. I finished an application for post-conviction relief on Wednesday after about three months of work, and I'd say that I assigned a solid 30% of the research to clerks.
@Derp I do check cites tho 
@Admiral
See I'm okay with everyone in, like, admiralty law faking it. Because boats are far away and I do not have to worry so much about them. I am concerned about things like prisons and electrical engineers and architects and airplane pilots faking it, because those things are all very close by and I have to worry about them. Excepr for airplanes, which are far away but can become very close by and a very significant priority in a very short matter of time.
@Groth said in RL things I love:
Also LaCroix sounds seriously unhealthy, drinking pure water fucks up your salt and mineral balance, it's the kind of thing that leads to water poisoning.
I think you've gotten wires crossed somewhere. Drinking distilled water is not particularly great for you, because it lacks useful minerals. Even so, all of those minerals can be obtained by a proper diet. Water poisoning requires you to drink an obscene amount of water to overehelm your kidneys' ability to filter it. Your kidneys can filter a bit less than a liter of water an hour, so while this isn't impossible, it isn't exactly trivial.
LaCroix is just carbonated water with esters added. The biggest danger it poses is eroding tooth enamel.
@Auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
tl;dr I'm going to start using 'You're welcome' more than 'No problem' because I'm worth it.
I say "no problem" for things that are literally no problem and "you're welcome" for things that are meaningful. And of course there's the context of where I am and what I'm doing. Holding a door open for someone is a "no problem." Doing anything in my professional life is a "you're welcome."
I'm a lawyer and I have no idea what I'm doing like 90% of the time and every time I ask experienced lawyers for advice on the topics I'm dealing with they say they've never dealt with them before and every time I end up researching and doing work it becomes clear that the state has no idea what it's doing and the fact that this nonsense is getting allowed means that the district courts have no idea what they're doing and given how incredibly esoteric the higher courts are being in accepting and rejecting arguments I am beginning to have doubts there too.
tl;dr I have imposter syndrome on a systemic level
So i dont watch much of the Arrowverse stuff, but this is pretty cool. Mark Hamill to play live action Joker.
Is the show still shit though? After season 3 (or during it, whenever that R'as fight was that Oliver lost) it jumped the shark so fast.
While it will impact everything, I imagine the Crisis on Infinite Earths will be Flash-focused. They've been teasing it since season one.