That's good to know. I want to lose some weight and I've been working on it but have been finding it hard. I haven't been gaining any more weight though, so I suppose it's not wasted effort. I feel like my family is so strange when it comes to weight, because my younger brother has a BMI of about 16.5, whereas my…

My BMI is 25 and my mom tells me I'm fat and I should be like I was in high school when my BMI was 17. It's clearly starting to affect me, because I didn't realize 25 was actually considered healthy. I was starting to think of myself as a fat person.

The only time I've edited Wikipedia was when I randomly found that someone had written about me as a notable alumnus of my high school. It was flattering, but the things they said about me were untrue, although not mean. I don't know what their motivation was or why they did it, but since it was untrue they didn't…

I personally had a "wedding shower" because I moved away from my home state for grad school recently, and none of my new friends up here would be able to make the trip up (my maid of honor has lived in 4 different states in the past year and happened to be living in mine at the time and took a train to get to my…

I agree. The 6 year graduation rate at my undergrad was 48%, so less than half are finishing in 6 years, much less in 4. I finished in 4, but it was with full-ride scholarships and usually 18 credit semesters with classes every summer. I did work part-time as a tutor for my school and do research 40 hrs per week doing…

Replying because it won't let me edit for some reason, meant to say 1890 census.

My husband and I both took the 23andme test, mostly for the health info but figured the ancestry info might be interesting as well. For him it was pretty accurate because he's not very mixed and it reflected 50% Ashkenazi Jewish and 50% French/German. But for someone like me whose family has likely been a mix for a…

This is why I stocked up on olive oil when I visited Spain to bring back with me to the USA. :) It is definitely much more expensive here.

Hmm. The FL DMV's website says "no more parallel parking" in their description of what's tested, but don't specify when it was discontinued. I got my license in the late 2000's, so it could well have been a recent thing. It makes sense to me that older cities that don't have a lot of extra space wouldn't have room for…

I'm from Florida and my driver's ed instructor didn't even bother teaching us about parallel parking because "you'll never have to do it". It's not on the driver's test so that seems fair. There really isn't much parallel parking in most of the cities in FL I've lived in, and I live in a city in NC now that has some…

My cat always goes insane when I eat Chef-Boyardee Spaghetti. I don't know what's in it but it drives her mad. She's so sweet most of the time, but she'll bite me, then run away when I scream, then come back trying to sniff the bite and just like "Mom are you okay? What happened mom?"

Mine is the same way and it's saved me. I was suicidal in March and now I'm doing okay, but still need weekly visits. As it is, it's still something like 5% of my annual income just for the copays, but well worth it. Can't imagine where I'd be if there was a cap or if it was higher than $25.

Agreed. I consider myself Italian American because my grandmother came from there and was the one who watched me while both of my parents worked, shared a bedroom with me from when I was 10 until she died, etc. I was heavily influenced by her and although I unfortunately don't know all that much about anyone on her…

I'm not really interested in shipping straight characters into homoerotic relationships, but gay porn has always been much sexier than straight porn to me. The guys in straight porn typically seem to be below average in looks and the focus is mostly on the woman's body, which is not at all what I'm interested in.…

Yes, we both are. We used to play Magic a lot but when he worked at the convenience store he couldn't make it to night events, and now that he's seasonal/part-time it's not in the budget anymore. I think it's a great idea overall though, and hope it's something we can pick up again soon-ish!

Oh, at one point Krzyzewski was talking to like everyone, was addressing undergrads and was like "Oh, and grad students, although you aren't here as long as the undergrads" and like the entire grad student section booed him because...umm...PhD's take much longer than undergrad... and he was just like "Well, sorry."…

Yeah, I'm fine with not bringing him to parties like that anymore if that's his preference. I'm not much of a social butterfly myself, but I like going on occasion to things like that and I don't want to force him if it's something that's going to stress him out further. He's expressed frustration in himself for this…

Thanks for the suggestion. I have had social anxiety myself for a long time, but he says I still do much better than he does. He expressed that whenever one was supposed to learn how to hold conversations and interact with people when no objective was present, he must not have learned it and feels like he's not…

When we were in college we had friends we hung out with together. That's where we met, but he says he never made any of those friends on his own and always met them through clubs or other friends. He met me through a class and we started hanging out through my high school best friend who lived in the same dorm as him.

Brought my husband to a Halloween party my grad student organization was hosting. It was awkward because I didn't know as many people there well as I thought I would, and he's become increasingly socially awkward and became annoyed quickly. So we left the party after an hour and then when we got home, he chugged like…