damn, you got me all excited but they only go up to E. Lame. I knew it sounded to good to be true, alas!

Traverse City Michigan, I have some extended family up there and it is absolutely gorgeous. My boyfriend and I actually drove up and stayed at a travelodge that was about 40 a night that was very nice and within a block of the bay, and there were lots of great nature preserves that have lovely relatively secluded…

Because if she chooses to go pro, she cannot take advantage of the plethora of college scholarships for athletes. While I do not particularly like the concept of these scholarships I am not going to begrudge anyone the chance to work the system with how expensive college is. I work at a gymnastics school so we hear…

Very very aware of this, that is way wells fargo must be gotten rid of as soon as humanly possible :P but thank you for clarifying that for others, I didn't mean to cause false hope on that count.

ughhh I really really really hate thinking about my debt, I am right up there with you, and could kick 18 year old me for not picking one of the smaller reputation schools that was offering me money. But just like you, I would not be who I am today without those life experiences, and maybe I would hate the me who…

Have you seen a rheumatoligist? They specialize in pinning down these things and subsequently treating them, unless it is mono, but other people have mentioned the blood test a general practitioner worth their salt can do. I hope you feel better soon!

THANK YOU!!! This bothers me so much for some inexplicable reason. I had a textbook that did the same thing and it made me twitch. The imbd page mentions no name other than Tiana, respect it.

There is so much ignorance dripping all over this it is painful. The only thing all people with a spectrum disorder have in common is being on the spectrum. They are individuals with individual likes and dislikes. I strongly suggest deleting this post. Your asinine one about "age appropriate" things not having fandoms…

My main suggestion as someone who went through the getting meds dance is to be very open with your psychiatrist, and to add the counseling now instead of waiting. The counselors often have more time to really listen and guide you as a whole person instead of the tiny infrequent psych visits. They will have heard…

so much potential to do good and instead this is like listening to conversations in the hall back in high school; no real information while steeped in hurtful stereotypes. There is nothing wrong with being asexual, and I really expected jezebel to do better. I wish this could read more like the FAQs on planned…

Very true words of wisdom :) And I love the timer thing, I'm actually a firm believer in some variety of that process

Thanks for the advice, I've actually got almost all the research element done, thank goodness since one of them is a legitimate RESEARCH paper :)

Someone please yell motivational-y-goodness at me. I am 2 papers, 1 homework, and 1 take-home exam away from being done with undergrad, and the papers just might crush me to my doom. I have 2 pages written a piece, and between the 2 I need another 21 pages of smart sounding things, half in Spanish, but my brain just…

Cranberry supplements! They work like a charm and are reasonably cheap, natural and fast working, so if it is something they can't handle you wont be out more than 7 bucks when you get to the gyno. I am not a scientist, I don't know what voodoo they do, but I haven't gotten an infection since my friend told me to try…

Any time. It is really hard and all the people I know who quite cold turkey are still smokers today. Do you have routines that always involve a smoke? Like I would -always- light up when in the car, so it became my pattern of weaning to ration my cigarettes to only 1 for every half hour of driving, then 45 mins, etc.

You're not weak, you are in transit on a goal. Just keep weaning, that was how I managed to slide down from a pack a day to clean for over a year. It helps get the nicotine out instead of just getting the cigarette stuff out. Took several several months and lots of ups and downs, but now I am only a smoker when drunk…

That is one of the most awful feelings. I'm very happy for you that the cancer was treated successfully though!

Awwwe now I miss our old basenji, even if he did make the neighbors think someone was being murdered when he needed to be hosed off from playing in the mud.

As a friendly student of the generative grammar movement I decry your emphasis on so called standard grammar as proof of intelligence. You might tell people they are not adhering to a particular handbook's preaching, but agrammatical utterances are not a possibility from a native speaker.

That you picked the right major and should find a way to always have jstor. My friends that graduated and didn't go straight to grad school complain about missing it all the time.