Thank you for being an active bystander.

Funny!

Prednisone is such an awful, amazing drug. So strong and helpful, but it will make you feel so bad.

Wise words, luckyfrog.

Alas, you're right. I would have had to face the sad truth eventually. Poor Ms. Amy; we share an alma mater so I extra-feel for her. Sometimes during undergrad, I'd use a public restroom and think, "I wonder if Amy Poehler has peed here." I think that bonded our souls.

NOOOOOOO! I didn't know about it until this post :-( waaaaaah

I thought the same thing when I read that.

Yes . . . when I lived in a poorer neighborhood, I was constantly harassed, sometimes in very threatening ways. Now that I live in a very affluent metro area for school, I'm not.

Yeah . . . whatever it was, her partner was looking at her as an object and not a person.

I don't think so; that's mine, too, and I'm not a prolific poster.

I don't know about that. I think that most of the time, the way I eat and the way I think and the way I feel is much healthier than the way most of my peers' eat/think/feel about food and bodies. It took me years, but I think I'm a believer in full recovery.

I wasn't the one who said it, so your approach is a little misdirected. I can see the person's point, but I would never post something so crudely dismissive of the experience of mental illness. It's just that society alone does not create an eating disorder; there have to be other factors.

Society may be screwed up, but someone who refuses to eat until they can't walk is also screwed up. And I say this as someone who gave myself a heart condition before I could recover.

I did not ask if I could afford it, I was asking if people thought it was WORTH it. I can afford it; otherwise I would not be considering it at all. I am a very responsible person and I have been financially independent since I was 18. I apologize if I seemed snippy, but I was not intentionally being so — I sincerely…

Well, I'm glad that paying a $360 bill is not a major source of stress for you. However, it is for me, and a gym membership is hardly a necessity, so I was seeking guidance over whether I could justify spending that much money on myself when it is not for food or tuition.

Well . . . I'm a grad student. Milk is expensive to me.

I agree that it is crazy. I am a resident assistant, so I live on campus. I feel like because I live with the undergrads, I should at least get to work out with the undergrads — they automatically get gym memberships.

They make you pay annually or by the semester because it's the gym on campus. It's definitely not sketchy, it's just overpriced, like everything in Boston and everything on campuses. :-/

Yeah, $30/month is the student rate, and the gym I'm talking about is the school gym :-(

It does have a lot of classes that are included . . . spin, yoga, zumba, I think even some water aerobic classes. I like running (I just got back from a run!), but I have pretty bad asthma, so having machines is generally better for me because it paces me and because I don't have to try to do it when it's January in…