Dear Dr. LJ,

Are you suddenly getting a ton of spam comments? A cursory glance through Help didn't provide any suggestions, but it's driving me nuts. Did some setting change its default a la Facebook or something and I need to go fix it?

Thanks!

I have had a phone that pretty much stores numbers and makes phone calls for 8 years, but I long to have the internet in my pocket like all the cool kids. I am totally overwhelmed by all the smartphone options, though. Help me, Dr. LJ ( Read more... )

I knew I needed to switch my PCP because her office staff was incompetent, but I put it off because I never go to the doctor. Today I discovered that she moved without bothering to inform her patients; now her office staff is incompetent and in Malden and Arlington. To add some urgency, I hurt my foot and need to see a podiatrist ASAP (which of ( Read more... )

I just watched the Y2K episode of Sports Night, in which Jeremy claims that the complete system failure during his Y2K test is "a metaphor for the new millenium ( Read more... )

I'm looking for some freelance work to store up a little extra cash. I'll happily do copy editing, correlations, data entry, website updating, or anything that a) similarly employs my fussy, detail-oriented nature and b) can be done from home ( Read more... )

Do you have a favorite short scary story that would be easy for me to find in the next week? My 8th grade writing club meets the day before Halloween, so of course we're going to write ghost stories. I want to set the scene by reading one (by candlelight in a library study room -- don't tell my boss).

Any suggestions?

Does anyone have a lightbox-style fly trap that I could borrow, like right this fucking minute? Seriously. When I left the house this morning, there were maybe 4 or 5 flies in the kitchen. When I got home tonight -- after a fucking 12-hour day at work, mind you -- my kitchen and dining room were full of flies. There could easily be 100 flies in ( Read more... )

I found winged aphids all over my tomatoes! My baby tomatoes that I grew from seed and which are now really more adolescent tomatoes but they will be my babies 4-ever! Oh noes! (It's possible I'm overly attached to plants, yes. Shut up ( Read more... )

Thanks in part to posting here, I managed to schedule my spring break pretty thoroughly, and my ratio of fun days to depressed days was about 14:1. Yay! But of course, that's all just a trial run for the real hurdle: summer. It starts in a month, and I'm terrified. Work has been so busy lately that I've planned even less than I usually do, ( Read more... )

I recognize that this makes me sound crazy, but I'm rather dreading Spring Break. Two weeks of unplanned time, with nowhere to go and no one to talk to and no one expecting anything of me, is a free ticket to Depression Island. (Multiply that by 5 and you have... summer. *shudder ( Read more... )