They are little homeopathic pills that dissolve under the tongue. That's a powerful placebo effect, to make my epic bruises disappear faster. What do the gels do, exactly?

Homeopathic pills, by definition, contain no active ingredient. The gel actually has a measurable amount of arnica in it.

AT&T has done an entire redesign of the least user-friendly corporate website. Now it's unfriendly with different graphics, and it doesn't remember my pre-redesign information.

Oh noes! I hate their fucking website, I really do. Of course, it ROCKS compared to the folks who work their customer services calls, but still, that's damning with faint praise.

le n, the only thing I can think of is that her supervisor is hoping you won't make the grad student's actions widely known, but yeah, I see little value in an apology that isn't sincere.

Mac is such a drama kid and I am tired of every new thing being a HUGE DEAL, even if the freakout only lasts 15 min.

First soccer practice of the season. At least he is out of the car.

He looks like no other kid out there though. They run, he gallops. They shuffle, he jumps and flails his arms. They run toward the ball, he sticks out a leg at it and falls. It is painful.

she also does not want to apologize

Well, then fuck it. Those are just words, and IMO more offensive than less.

If you don't need her to apologize, and she doesn't want to apologize, tell the advisor to drop it--a false apology is worse than none at all, because it's perpetuating the falsehoods.

le nub- I was in a somewhat similar situation- I fired a student worker (via email) because she stopped coming to work. She also worked for another area, and had been recommended to me. The person who recommended her made her come and verbally apologize to me, which was super awkward, because I am a) not sure she meant it and b) paralyzed with not caring.

Anyone want to go to Puerto Vallarta or Honolulu the week that is end of feb/begin of march?

Sure! I vote Honolulu.

I can't, but that's not what you asked.

For my birthday I bought an ebook of Lord of the Rings. I haven't really re-read it in years, and the only copies I can find are the falling-apart Ballantine paperbacks I stole from my oldest sister back in the 70s. They'd probably be worth something if I hadn't taped them together to keep reading them.

But now I have an electronic copy I can search and bookmark all the Dwarvish poetry without dog-earing pages etc. Though the maps are a bit tricky on my Nook's screen.

The better question might be who wouldn't want to go.

The better question might be who wouldn't want to go.

Indeed. I'd love to go, except I'm going to Spain the next week.

I'm trying to schedule a meeting with someone before I go to Spain, except the contract I'm hired under runs out on Feb 29, and I don't know when the next contract will start, and this guy wants to meet on Mar 2. I may just have to put it off until after I come back...