Oh, yeah. I usually just add in like a 200 calorie protein shake (the weight loss kind) after an 8-9 mile bike ride. I am trying to lose maybe 10-15 lbs but I'm not in any particular rush about it and I want to do it in a way that also increases my health and fitness. I was doing great for a while, but had bronchitis…

But if you're holding yourself to something like 1200-1500 calories a day, probably should increase that when working out, right? When I've calorie counted in the past, I found it hard to keep to that while also having enough energy to work out.

Hopefully I won't ever need to even think about it. My fiance and I are really happy together. I haven't actually ever been attracted to anyone other than him, so it's a moot point anyway.

My fiance is 5 months younger than me. My dad is exactly 2 weeks younger than my mom, so essentially exactly the same age. My best friend is nearly 2 years older than her boyfriend. I don't think relationships where the woman is older but the difference is less than a few years are that uncommon. I'd prefer not to…

I usually flush with a little piece of toilet paper over my fingers and then throw it in really quickly. I don't want to touch it with my bare hands, but using feet never occurred to me and I don't think I have enough balance to be able to pull that off anyway.

I did say that when I was Catholic, but it led me to quit being Catholic and give up on organized religion all together. I know a lot of people who do the same.

My parents are paying for mine at probably $15-16k, but they're willing to do so largely because they had saved up to pay for my undergrad and I ended up getting full ride+living expenses covered thanks to National Merit and other scholarships. They still came out ahead of what they had planned looking at it that way.…

My fiance and I had talked about marriage, since we had talked about him moving with me when I left the state for grad school, but I didn't know he would actually propose months before we moved. He saved up for months, bought a ring, and hid it in Ziploc bags inside of the bag of extra gravel underneath the fish tank…

How is it an energy drink? It doesn't have caffeine. I love vitamin water zero.

Yes! I'm from Tampa and even though I've moved away and it's not like that here, I still have an automatic association of tap water with that disgusting taste, so drinking tap water doesn't cross my mind as an option.

Maybe. Dual enrollment at the local CC was referred to as dual enrollment here. Advanced Placement is specifically the College Board program. I took one dual enrollment course and 12 AP courses. The dual enrollment class is on a different part of my college transcript than the AP classes, because AP courses don't…

AP credit is granted by taking the exam, not by internships...there are other ways of getting college credit as a high school student, but that would not be AP.

I usually buy 2 $50-60 pairs from New Balance and alternate between them from day to day, and that strategy does last me years. Not to mention, I can replace them separately as each one wears down instead of having to put down $200 up front, which I would rarely ever have available to spend on something like shoes.…

And that's fine. I try to hold my breath for as long as I can to avoid it, but I'm generally going to start coughing and I just want people to know that it's not "fake-coughing" to be sanctimonious, it's a natural consequence of being around smoke. I'm not holding it against you if you're trying to be out of the way,…

It's not a migraine, but they thought it was for the first couple of years. It's called New Daily Persistent Headache and it's only found in 0.03% of the population, as far as they know right now (which is limited to only one study, since you need a huge sample size to find us I guess). I'm doing much better on this…

I solved this problem by being forced to prioritize sleep. Taking my medicine to keep me at a functional level despite this headache I've had nonstop for 5 years means that I will be really dizzy and drowsy for about 8-9 hours, and I will struggle to walk to the bathroom if I wake up before that time has passed. I…

Just keep in mind that a lot of people are not actually fake-coughing. If you're smoking in a place where I need to walk past you, I will be coughing because contact with smoke is very painful for me. Back when restaurants used to allow smoking, if I was seated anywhere near the smoking section I would end up coughing…

So then what if she is a doctor? Is she then Dr. John Smith? That makes absolutely no sense.

My name is similarly rare (my LinkedIn page is the 2nd result on a Google search of my last name, and the first result is a company my great-grandfather founded, and there's not a single result in the first 10 pages where I don't recognize who the link is talking about, so...), but the story goes that it got mangled…

I never figured tampons out. I'm still using pads because it's easiest.