Even the best roommate finding app can't determine that your roommate will fall in love with the RA and move into his room after a month, effectively giving you a single at the price and size of a double. Best. Roommate. Ever.

One of my roommates secretly kept containers of urine in my freezer. RoomSync, where were you!?!?

It's like the bond of fellow POWs; it's too painful to reminisce, but it's reassuring to share.

I'd love to say it gets better when they're teenagers, but it doesn't.

i refused to let my hair be brushed or combed, so my parents buzzed it off.

Girl, seriously now, run. Get a car, get a cab, buy some sort of jetpack and GTFO.

Doesn't seem odd to me. Everyone watches you, you get to wear a pretty dress and you have a real job that you have to do - sounds like a four year old girl's dream.

I like this story because I think she balanced things nicely: want a real rainbow unicorn for a pet? That will never happen, try again. Want to be a flower girl? Sure, let's go for it. Some dreams are never going to come true; other dreams you can make come true if you put some effort into it.

Huh, that explains it. I was wondering why the text was so US English - I mean, it's unusual in the UK to say words like 'neat' meaning good. I thought maybe the teacher was American, but this makes sense. Plagiarism for the win. Still cute, though.

My maiden name was Ashley Annis. I moved to Denmark where they have difficulty saying "sh," and my name became Assley Annis. As if one butt in the name wasn't enough. This was one moment in my feminist life where taking my husband's last name was more than acceptable.

"Here is a stack of invoices as thick as the OED. Alphabetize them."

I worked in an indie movie house, where I learned to smoke cigarettes, drink coffee and have sex with much older men. Excellent teenage lessons.

Summer Jobs also teach you that there are people who do these shitty jobs full time, year round, so you better hit the books if you want do something else with your life.

I just want to say in the UK, we have a horrible conservative government who is so idiotically nationalistic and jingoistic that they want to ban American literature from our national curriculum, where Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird are staples in our secondary schools. This is something that is actually…

That was the strange thing about growing up with my mom. She'd comment on anyone's attractiveness, male or female (though usually stuck to commentary on actors & models). When I realized I've been doing it, too, internally, I've tried to stop myself, but at least I can feel better about the fact that I'm an equal…

I spent my whole childhood listening to my mom comment on the looks of women who appeared on the news. I asked her to try to stop recently because I don't want that kind of thing around my hypothetical future daughter.

Thank you. My ex-ballerina mom pulled this kind of stuff all the time, and it was pretty clearly not fun dress up games once my sister and I were in middle school.

She may not know but doing stuff like this is going to give her daughter body issues at a very young age. And whats the purpose of trying on your 4 year old clothes, to say how small you are.

how dare you be active and have interests! Fuck that bitch and good for you unfriending her.

I list my workouts at the end of the day and some of my friends and I discuss them. I get tips on running from my running friends, for instance. (If they could tell me how to get over the obstacle called Vicious Valleys I would be so happy) I get a few comments like "whew! I need a nap just reading that" or whatever.…