Maggie's Farm

Huh. I was born in Holyoke.

I used the long legal pads throughout my career at the hospital. As I was dealing with confidential info all day long, I developed a coding for what I wrote down. As I would occasionally need information from an older legal pad, I kept them in a drawer for a year or so. I did find that I could not understand the references even a month later sometimes.

When we had a class-action suit we had all emails and written notes sequestered and frozen, and Very Smart Lawyers came around and wanted to see what we had. One was very upset by the enormous security risks I had sitting in my drawer, but his supervisor, an older attorney, just shook hias head. "Can you tell what any of that means?" Don't bother. But the young earnest attorney kept it anyway, and nine months later I got all my legal pads back. I could tell by the order of them and what pages they had turned that someone had looked at a few pages and moved on from the whole pile.