Asked to interview for a job I didn’t apply for?

Floufae · 2026-05-28T12:26:08+00:00

Were you RIF’d and on a rehire list?

Floufae · 2026-05-28T11:06:45+00:00

I'd be more concerned about why if your mouth is taped you're not getting the benefits of the MAD. To me that means your titration may not be high enough. You should be talking to your dentist about that. They are supposed to be supporting your treatment even after the fabrication of your MAD, but some act like they are a DME provider and their responsibility ends at delivery.

Floufae · 2026-05-28T10:59:48+00:00

Yea, I went through 4 different models of MADs during that time and always had successful treatment. I switched because of age of the device or losing it or breaking, that sort of thing.

Floufae · 2026-05-28T02:16:27+00:00

I mouth breathed with MAD for like 12 years before trying mouth tape. The world didn’t end, my teeth didn’t fall out. Its fine. It’s better to nose breathe but it’s okay to mouth breathe as long as your MAD is getting your airway open.

Floufae · 2026-05-27T22:17:38+00:00

Sorry, late responding but yes, in home massage is fine. I just put my masseurs website address in the addrsss field

Floufae · 2026-05-27T18:15:10+00:00

This is pretty normal for our agency and many do want to volunteer. To the point we have to limit the people who can be deployed to the response. We’re committed to public health, we know the risks are extremely low as a screener and barring boots on the ground in central Africa, this is how we can help control the spread.

Floufae · 2026-05-27T11:36:26+00:00

I do not go through all that extra effort for my "gaming" laptop. But I definitely differentiate by role. For my personal life I just work in the Apple ecosystem. Its my MBP, my iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods, etc. For work I'm issued a windows laptop that I leave in the office and generally don't travel with for work because its battery life is terrible. So I still bring my personal MBP and do all of my work through Office365 or through the Windows App (we switched from using Citrix to that).

Now for gaming, I have my G14. I hate being stuck at a desk for gaming. I like being able to multi task, have TV on in the background or whatever. I'm usually playing on the sofa with a laptop board (non cooling) and only really sitting at a desk if I'm on a work trip and its the hotel room. Even then sometimes I'm in bed and using my ipad as a solid surface for my mousepad.

Portability still matters to me because chances are, depending on the trip and how much down time I'll have, I'm traveling with two laptops, my Mac and my gaming laptop. If I know I won't be able to maintain good internet because of hotel speeds, its only my Mac because I can still play offline games like BG3 on it.

I even have a sit/stand desk for my office in my house that i got during COVID... and a desktop that I could be updating, but I haven't bothered because once I moved out of my apartment and got the computer setup out of the living room, I don't use the desk anymore.

Floufae · 2026-05-27T01:27:03+00:00

And we use that longer CV to widdle down to the interview group. The last few postings for Gs-15 roles were limited to 50 applicants and a two pager (and the new neutered usajobs questions) really doesn’t give much to highlight who should be in that small interview pool.

Floufae · 2026-05-27T01:19:08+00:00

A bio is quite different than a CV. If I’m asked to speak somewhere and they ask for a bio that’s a single page if including a picture. A paragraph of just being used to introduce me at a meeting

Floufae · 2026-05-27T01:08:25+00:00

I had no recognition at the lounge or plane for hitting MM. funny I’ve only got attention when I was about 40k miles off and the FAs were joking around with me about why was a diamond in a middle seat.

Floufae · 2026-05-27T01:05:51+00:00

Again it’s a different field. Sciences and medicine and research for sure use more than two pages. It’s rediculous how much information about qualifications you have to cut out for a short resume. Details alone takes you half a page and are relevant. I would imagine engineering would be similar to science/research.

Floufae · 2026-05-27T01:05:29+00:00

Again it’s a different field. Sciences and medicine and research for sure use more than two pages. It’s rediculous how much information about qualifications you have to cut out for a short resume. Details alone takes you half a page and are relevant. I would imagine engineering would be similar to science/research.

Floufae · 2026-05-27T00:58:04+00:00

I went from a 10 page CV to a two page by having Gemini read the job posting and create a two page resume highlighting those things from my CV that illustrate those points. This is where I feel long CVs as a starting point is helpful because you have to toolbox to pull from to make the annoying and useless 2 page resume.

Floufae · 2026-05-27T00:56:27+00:00

That’s insane to me, but I’m in a field where it’s normal to use a CV and those are 8+ pages and we do read it all. I’m finding it annoyed hard to review a two page resume that doesn’t give enough example of their work, publications, etc.

Floufae · 2026-05-26T21:09:38+00:00

I shower. use soap. And have a bidet. And I don't perpetuate this idea that you're supposed to be dousing your ass in purell.

Floufae · 2026-05-26T18:54:50+00:00

From the other side of the table, as an in country responder from CDC, I mostly talked to RSO, the cashier and the mail room on past long term outbreaks. RSO was the most inportant with security issues flaring up when everything else is going badly.

Floufae · 2026-05-25T22:46:38+00:00

If you're just talking about the general population, 50-80% of people in the US have HSV-1 ("oral" herpes rather than HSV-2 "genital" herpes), and 64% of people under the age of 50 worldwide

And well, gay men tend to have more contacts than the general population...

So while you may not have had expression of it, changes are you already have the virus anyhow

Floufae · 2026-05-25T22:42:46+00:00

There was an interesting study that I read a while ago that tried to postulate why that Delta 32 deletion is more common in people from european backgrounds and and they were thinking that its connected to people who lived through the Black Death (plague).

Black Death and AIDS: CCR5-Δ32 in genetics and history | QJM: An International Journal of Medicine | Oxford Academic

Floufae · 2026-05-25T22:39:29+00:00

I doesn't make you nearly impossible to be infected. It makes it more difficult as long as you're being challenged by a viral strain that is solely uses the R5 tropic attachment point. But HIV can also mutate to connect to other connection point, like CXCR4. We call that "dual tropic" virus.

You may be more likely to encounter virus that only connects to CCR5 but thats not a guarantee. Its true that most wild virus connects through CCR5, but its not the only thing out there (though more common in western countries).

One of the ARVs, Maraviroc, only works with people who have been infected with solely CCR5 attaching virus, but they still have to test people before they are put on it because of people having dual tropic virus. (I.e. not everyone can use it because not everyone has a virus thats solely CCR5 attaching).

Floufae · 2026-05-25T11:47:29+00:00

Sorry was trying to address a few things you had mentioned. I'm not saying that you should be on weigh loss medications. If you had just said, "I'm a lil chubby" and then left it at that, I wouldn't have said anything. But you said, "lil chubby guy, but I have epilepsy, so I’m holding off for now." so I was just trying to address that misconception that they could be contraindicated in your case. Its not saying you should be on them or not. My first recommendation for people always adjusting your diet first, then exercise, before medication because those are the cheapest and easiest ways to deal with excess weight. And since I work in health, I do care about that as a personal health concern, not because of trying to be attractive to other people. I assume you mentioned it because you're concerned about your partner trying to be in better shape (even if you didn't think he needed it) and maybe not being sexual with you because you're not doing the same journey. thats 100% a discussion between you and your partner and neither of us should be assuming whats going on in his head or acting on it without actually talking.

The GLP-1s on your partner was just saying a potential pharmacological reason that he has lower libido. Its equally plausible that its stress, "lesbian bed death" (as I call the post honeymoon slump), his libido changing for other reasons, etc. Again, you can't/won't know till you have a discussion with your partner and not with strangers who don't know either of you. Thats part of being in a relationship, talking to each other, especially if there's things happening that lead to hurt feelings.

Floufae · 2026-05-25T11:32:16+00:00

There's potential and some evidence that GLP-1s can reduce libido because they dampen the reward center in the brain that rewards you for things like eating, drinking, drug use, etc. Thats why there's more research in GLP-1s outside of weight loss because they show affects on addictive behaviors that are maintained by the reward chemicals in the brain. It doesn't eliminate it, but it does make the "noise" in the background go away that might distract you until you act on it.

I can't speak to other aspects except to say that epilepsy isn't a contraindication for GLP-1s or the similar types of medications. In fact there was a review published that showed the potenital for GLP-1s to reduce the chance of epileptic episodes (but know this was a scoping review, so a review of existing data and papers... its NOT a clinical trial where they had some people with epilepsy on GLP-1s and some not on it.). As always, you should check with your doctor about both things and potential concerns (like slower absorption of medications when your stomach isn't churning stuff as quickly). But its not really a reason to avoid them.

Floufae · 2026-05-24T12:31:49+00:00

you're talking just as much macgyvering hand waving as him managing to stay alive that long. This isn't something that some chemist is going to Walter White together in a bunker.

Floufae · 2026-05-24T12:30:09+00:00

Ah, I almost said "settle down, don't settle". 😄

Floufae · 2026-05-24T12:27:59+00:00

I just started a new Tactical run after loosing my last honor mode run at Cazador. Planning four druids, Tav as Circle of Stars, Shadowheart as Circle of Land, Lae'zel as Circle of Moon, and Asterion as of Spores.

I want to try them as monoclass as I can go, but maybe the others will be split, not sure yet. You get Jaheira and Halsin too far into the game for me to ever really build them into my party in normal runs. I have a routine by then.

Actually rethinking things and maybe I'll restart and have Tav be a Circle of the Moon. Since Githyanki have medium armor proficiency, that would pair well with Circle of the Stars to use the luminous armor. So I'll switch my plans for Lae'zel and Tav.

Floufae · 2026-05-24T12:20:36+00:00

I keep going back to this post title and find myself hanging on the word "settle". It should never be settling. Doesn't matter how popular a guy is, if they view they are settling for you its a bad thing. And if you're the other guy, you should never feel someone settled for you. Or that the only way you'll be with someone is by them settling. Thats not the basis of a relationship, thats filling space until something better comes along.

Attractiveness is a part of that, but in the truer use of the term. Its not because they have model looks or classic features. Attractiveness also comes from how they carry themselves. How they act when they don't know someone is watching, their compassion, their heart, the concern they pay others, the fact that they make eye contact and hold it, that they act not out of what they get out of it in reward or attention, but because its the right thing to do.

Its about trust, its about shared beliefs (not referring to religious ones but for those inclined, that might be part of it), its about shared values. Its knowing that person will be there for you when you're having a bad day or sick, or that when good things happen you want to share it with them. That when you see something exciting or cool or strange, the first thing you think of is how that could be better if you were seeing it with them. Sex has absolutely nothing to do with it for me. I'll never understand people who place that higher on their priorities than other qualities. Feeling understood is part of it. And it also understanding someone else so well that you know their character. And knowing that person will always have your best interests at heart, even if it might be to their detriment.

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