Aren't Buffy studies kind of overdone at this point? And this is coming from someone who wrote a 30-page paper analyzing race, class, and gender representations in Bridesmaids, but like . . . still.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

How would you feel if you read a post by a man arguing that women with "ridiculously hairy" thighs shouldn't be allowed to wear bathing suits?

So many of this posts are about knowing other people who lived to be old, despite smoking . . . this is only interesting because it is exceptional, not to be expected. Smoking killed my dad at fifty. Sad, but not exceptional.

"In the UK, the average score is around 100." Isn't that how IQ works? 100 is the standard score for people of average intelligence?

Oh god, the utilikilts.

I'm a little worried about the way you phrased that — "I don't know if I will even like myself in them at all." I'm hearing a little conflation of how your body looks and how you feel about yourself. If you want to go shopping by yourself, by all means, do it, and I don't mean to overstep your question, but it might…

GOING insane? I think you went insane about the time you applied to SIXTEEN programs ;-)

naturallycurly.com has a lot of great product and styling recommendations for wavy women, too :-)

Perhaps you could learn some anxiety management techniques to help you calm down during the test — try diaphragmatic breathing and progressive muscle relaxation to see if they work for you. They are simple things you could even do while taking the test to help stop your nerves from being a barrier to your success. I'm…

In that case, I'm afraid you're just going to have to keep quiet.

Did you sign confidentiality agreements at the shelter? What kind of role did you play there? I'm a social worker, and my instinct is to say that although it may be hard and it may feel wrong, you can't say anything.

I definitely prefer it. I like how it slides.

My partner's uncircumcised penis is very attractive.

Miserable. You should move.

At 2 p.m., it was 9 with a wind chill of -1 in my part of Massachusetts. Now, at 8 p.m., it is 7 with a wind chill of -13. Katie J.M. Baker doesn't win, but neither do you :-p

I have the same problem — burny Sahara feelings with condom use. What brand worked out for you?

We tried to give the cat a bell collar because she likes to sneak up on the dog and swat at him (he weighs more than ten times what she does, but they both think she's the alpha), but she always manages to get it off. Sneaky little bugger.

Do you eat the peanuts at the end?

If they were clocked out, why did they get fired?