u/xialateek

Realized it was the fifth anniversary of filming this one last week. We had fun. Here it is.

****Tickets are spoken for! Thanks all and apologies for any undue heartbreak. I went with the first DM. Can't edit the post title here.****

Hi folks,

I'm looking to sell my two tickets for the September 10th (second) NYC show. After we got them they announced the Boston show which is so much closer to home and we were gonna maybe do both but I'm not up for finding a place to stay etc. etc. right now. I assure you I'm a human and it shouldn't be difficult to transfer- just looking for what I paid. DM if interested and I'll try to update this when they're gone.

I want to make sure that visitors to the area know about Scottish Dave’s Pub in Clinton, CT.

It’s a little hike from Providence that would mean a bus or something, but Scottish Dave rules and everyone would have the time of their lives. When bands play shows at the pub he buys pizza, fills the juke box with money, and tells everyone to buy your t-shirts. He has Scottish beers and Scottish whiskeys. And swords. Scottish Dave 4ever.

Hello friends,

First of all, yes, I am well aware that finding medical professionals in RI can be a hilarious nightmare. My PCP is a nurse who I've met once and couldn't identify in the grocery store right now if we reached for the same cantaloupe. But...

Yet again it has come up that I may have hEDS (hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) or at least a hypermobile spectrum disorder that nearly meets criteria for hEDS. This has been a thing for me for decades but honestly I have so many mindblowingly bad experiences with doctors that I pretty much don't go to them unless I'm actively on fire. That having been said, based on the clinical criteria sheet for hEDS, I do think I meet or almost meet what warrants this diagnosis. A few points I'm not able to assess on my own so I have no idea.

The other day I discovered Dr. Chopra in Pawtucket and felt a modest glimmer of hope based on his reviews until I learned that his initial eval is 4-5 hours long (wow, great, fine) and costs $2,000 which they don't take insurance for. Legit just cried and deleted the email because I am so over this. I can come up with the money for something worthwhile enough but I could also go to Mexico City for four days and do this there instead + party time for less money.

Do you have any recommendations for someone in RI I could ask my PCP to send me to who will not immediately dismiss me or insult me to my face (both have happened so many times) and who presumably will not cost two grand for an evaluation? I am really like... torn between wanting to pursue this and wanting to just go back to operating my faulty body careful as if I have hEDS and call it a day. Women preferred but as long as the person is good, whatever.

I have found the RI EDS support/awareness group so I absolutely do plan on asking there of course, but I wanted to come straight to the people here in case there were folks who deal with this but aren't members of that org.

Thanks all.

I'd be very interested if anyone feels like they have a relatively good resource for early (1600s) Mi'kmaq and Acadian genealogy around Port Royal, NS, especially for the families of chief Membertou and the LeJeune, Lambert, Savoie/Savoye names. I realize this may be fruitless given the recordkeeping circumstances, but you never know. Ancestry(. com) is such a chaotic hot mess where everything goes in circles back into itself. It's clear from various lines in my tree that I do have some Mi'kmaq ancestry somewhere, and I'm just curious to learn more about anyone I can, or to confirm that it's not just wild guesses someone else made on Ancestry. Google searches of course bring back ten other similar sites but I would love a real book in my hands or something compiled by a person who knew what they were doing.

Just as a note, I have absolutely zero interest in claiming "omg, see? I'm indigenous!" here. Would just love to untangle little bits of sloppy data anywhere I can even if some mysteries will always remain.