My mom told me the same thing about when she was pregnant with me. No one would offer to give her a seat because she wasn’t showing, but then once she started showing, she didn’t feel as sleepy or faint as she did during the first trimester.

Also, sometimes those of us sitting down are lost in our own little worlds, because we’re reading or listening to a podcast or something, and/or trying to avoid eye contact to avoid having creepy men talk to us, and might not look up and notice someone needs a seat, but would gladly give our’s up if someone asked.

Yeah, a lot of people in my family are lactose intolerant, so even though I’m not, I got used to drinking almond/coconut milk. And now even though I don’t live with my parents, I still buy almond milk, because it doesn’t go bad as quickly as dairy, and I don’t feel like spending money on something I’m not going to…

Same here. I made it with one guy I met on tinder over the summer, realized I wasn’t attracted to him, and have not really talked to many guys or gone on any dates since.

My family is, or at least my immediate family is definitely accepting of the trans community, just not very knowledgeable, and admittedly, I could have done more to educate them. Like, last week, my dad apparently just learned what cisgender means.

My day was pretty good! I did some yoga this morning and then I went to All Access in New York to volunteer for planned parenthood. And now I have to spend a good chunk of the rest of weekend reading for class.

I wish I had celebrity sex dreams that I actually remember. I mostly just have unplanned pregnancy dreams that skip the whole conception part and go straight to labor, which is a much less enjoyable dream, tbh.

Sometimes I think i’m doing pretty well with the whole grad school thing, but then I went to the first session of our master’s thesis proposal class, and I feel like the other three people I had to discuss my potential thesis ideas with actually had specific ideas and research to work with and that my idea is still…

I just got a Mirena last week, and I’m spotting, but I think that’s expected after getting it inserted? Maybe if I’m getting my period, it will be lighter than usual? I hope.

I forget if I’m eligible for a phone upgrade on my plan in the next year or not. If I am, I might wait it out and hope that they’ll come to their senses and make a new phone that doesn’t have this nonsense.

Johnson & Johnson has it, at least at their headquarters. By the time my dad started working there, my sister and I were too old for it to be an option for my parents, but a fair amount of employees seem to use it. Of course, it does make me wonder if for profit companies are the only ones that can afford to provide…

I’ve had a Mirena IUD for less than a week, so I can’t offer too much advice since I can’t really tell if I’ll be one of the lucky ones who doesn’t get their period, but I can talk about what insertion was like for me, since it’s still pretty fresh in my memory. The insertion for me wasn’t actually that painful. If…

Yeah, one of my roommates last year who’s in my grad school program only skipped ahead two years in high school. Even though she’s smart, I kind of suspect that she wasn’t actually mature enough to skip ahead two grades and would have benefitted from having two extra years in school and just taking more advanced…

Yeah, i’m hoping i’m not being too calm about it. I’ve managed to avoid hurricanes even when living in hurricane prone areas, so i’m hoping my luck continues!

Oh crap, yoga is my go to stress relief! If you’re not completely against it, there are a lot of shorter, free yoga videos on YouTube. Yoga with Adrienne is probably my favorite and most of her videos are less than an hour long, and a lot are even less than 30 minutes.

Ugh, ghosting is the worst! Like, I get maybe just slowly fading out with someone you talked to but never met in person, maybe even after 1 date if it was a really bad date or if you mutually aren’t feeling it and neither person reaches out to the other one, but if it’s been multiple dates, I feel like you should at…

Yeah, natural distasters can definitely lead you to develop PTSD. :/ I even had mild ptsd like symptoms after having a car accident. But yeah, just keep reading or watching something that'll distract you for now!

Congrats!!! That’s so awesome!

I definitely remember you, and I hope you feel better, though I imagine it’s not easy. I think we follow each other on Twitter, so let me know if you need to talk. And i’m sending you virtual hugs!

Sadly, we still have to do research to prove that things that make us say, “no shit, Sherlock,” are actually true. Although, tbh, I’m not too sad about it because it will mean there will be more sexual health research jobs for me!