We've had issues with it in the past. Three years ago he left school to move to another state to be with me while I went to grad school. Last year we moved back and got him re-enrolled, but he still hasn't finished yet, and he's not taking classes now. His family thinks I ruined his future, and that I want to waste…

What is the exam over?

I am cracking up at those captions. Don't worry about the independent study contract. If you accidentally did it wrong, then your department head or adviser, or whoever, will let you know, and then you can fix it. No big deal :)

So, I know I could post this on GT, but I hate to always be such a downer over there, so I'm putting this here.

My boyfriend and I don't use a safe word. We tried at first, but I would just forget it. So instead we just talk things out ahead of time, and he watches carefully and checks to make sure I am ok. We've never had a problem. It's not completely insane to not use a safe word.

Thanks, I'll give that a try!

Blast from the past! That Barbie sounds familiar. I know my sisters and I always wanted to be like Barbie when we grew up - she had awesome clothes, a sweet apartment, and a cool car, and presumably a good job to get all those things. Not a terrible role model in that regard. The giant boobs, though...that's another…

Don't sweat it. Plenty of awesome feminist women played with Barbies as kids.

He's just so masculine! For a cat :)

Oh, god yes. Even though he would be so terrible to date, what with being hung up on what's her name with the blonde hair.

So, this friend...is he single? :)

His beard. It's so....twisted.

Heck yes! It's all Zachary Levi's fault, for being so freakin' adorable.

Okay, speaking of tricky laundry - is there any way to get sweat stains out of a pure silk blouse? It says dry clean only, but I never get around to dry cleaning anything. So it's just sitting there, languishing with a bunch of hand-wash sweaters. Is there hope for it?

Seriously. This is not a person to buy your makeup from, even if she hadn't given her product an offensive name.

He's hired!

Thanks!

Not quite. I quit smoking because I read that women who smoke lose the elasticity in their skin. Wrinkles and saggy boobs? No thank you! Yes, I am that vain.

Could I have a link to the source for that top image please?

It wasn't purposeful, but I'll take the results :) Yeah most of my life has been learning to cope with her strange bullshit, and come to terms with my childhood abuse. My plan if I ever have kids is to literally just do the opposite of everything she did with us.