One time I was in Paris with my sister and then-boyfriend, and I bought a bunch of French-brand sugar-free gum. Turns out, it was made with an alcohol sugar I wasn’t used to, and I basically spent an entire day just shitting all over the City of Light. I mean, in toilets, but still. Diarrhea made sight-seeing a bit…

I liked Legion, but it also made me feel dumb. I had to do some rewatching (I had also never heard of it or read the comics, but my boyfriend read them, so he was a step ahead and kept making references that made exactly zero sense to me).

I loved Silver Chair! Can’t remember if it was middle or high school. I didn’t hear Pavement until I was an adult and an older coworker gave me a bunch of music on a thumb drive, but I really like them.

Damnit, are we old? I’m 33. I don’t FEEL old, but when I write my age, I’m like, what the fuck happened?

I’m 33 and Clueless was a seminal movie for me. Granted, I wasn’t an actual teen when it came out, but it was still a Big Deal for my friends and me.

Yeah, I agree that the issue this article raises is a real trend and is problematic, but I feel bad ragging on this movie because it’s his life. That said, now that I’m thinking about it, in on-screen depictions of mixed-race couples, I see a lot more men of color paired with white women, than I do white men paired…

I have kind of a similar stance? Like, I will never, ever have any social media connections with coworkers, even ones with whom I am friendly at the office. I will not invite coworkers to my social gatherings, and will not attend theirs. I just like to keep boundaries there. I have a lot of friends who regularly…

Luckily, that’s not data I have to go over. I can’t imagine that would be a pleasant conversation. That said, one of my coworkers, who, along with her husband, is a full-fledged liberal and feminist, is really good at the gun control conversation. She and her husband both hunt and fish, and her husband owns several…

I got my boyfriend (of many years, we have a house and pets together, it’s not a casual thing) on my employer’s health insurance, and we thought we were going to have to sign domestic partner paperwork and show that we live together, but it ended up being relatively easy. I’m not sure what option our insurance rep…

I know you’re being sarcastic, but sometimes you can’t, that’s true. But when you can give someone hard data, and then be ready to explain exactly how that data was gathered and disseminated, and take the mystery away from it, it can actually be pretty effective. I give population-level data presentations ALL THE…

Keep fighting the good fight!

If it makes her feel any better, the actual teen pregnancy rates are way down, too, and while states don’t track abortions in vital records like they do births and pregnancies, research suggests abortion rates are way down, too. I have to give a lot of presentations that include teen birth rates, and there’s always at…

As a lover of big and interesting earrings, I need to start paying closer attention to what she wears so I can replicate them.

I was born in ‘84, so I’m technically a Millennial (1981-2004). In my work, I share a lot of population-level data, and that includes data on Millennial behavior in some areas. Whenever I share that Millennials are not necessarily engaging with some things in traditional ways, the feedback and questions I get are…

Early 30s woman here, works in an office. My standard uniform, at least when it’s warm out (and I live in the south, so it is warm out most of the time), is a loose, flow-y, solid or minimally patterned dress, combined with either a solid-color slouchy cardigan or a solid-color unstructured blazer, depending on level…

It was so awkward. I had so much second-hand embarrassment for everyone on stage. Even my boyfriend, who’s from Pittsburgh and is a life-long Penguins fan - so he should have been focused on bidding farewell to Fleury - couldn’t stop talking about how bad the production was. So distractingly bad.

Also, the gimmicks during the show were SO BAD.

I feel like there’s nothing I can say to justify it that won’t sound creepy as hell coming from a 33-year-old woman at this point, but, uh, he was legit kind of lovely looking? Like, to my 11-year-old eyes he looked, like, mature and hot.

Sweet baby J, I looooooooooved Devon Sawa. I wore out my Casper VHS and rented Now and Then all the damn time.

It’s entirely possible that she and Amanda agreed on what she would ask beforehand, so Amanda may have wanted to put that in there for some levity? Either way, she looks and sounds sober and with it, which is great.