This is me too. Part of the reason is because I have hypermobile ankles and (as a result?) pretty terrible balance. I have tumbled off the backs of treadmills going less than 5 mph, so I don't like them as much as cardio equipment I can keep my feet on at all times. I have also bit it running outside on trails. I…

The thing is, compared to my parent's generation, who were in school a little before you, the average price of an education has only gone up, the average student loan debt right now is $29,400 and in some regions of the country the average is closer $90,000. Jobs for those without formal training or education are now…

You generalized yourself by boasting about your laziness and bad decisions. If you see me up on a high horse it's because you just threw yourself down in the mud.

I bet they write you the best references and hook you up with all the best internships.

God, my generation is the worst. This doesn't even surprise me because I had people like this in my undergrad classes like this who were literally never there. Not like large lecture hall classes either. Do they think the professors don't notice?

It's a ridiculous notion that pretty much anyone should be able to reject. My father can still recall minute details about where he was, who he was with and what he did when he found out President Kennedy had been shot. He was 8. I'm sure no one who was a kid on September 11, 2001 doesn't have vivid memories from that…

I liked Frozen a lot, but my hat's always going to be thrown in with a Ghibli film when it's up for noms. It hasn't been released wide yet, but it's Miyazaki's last film as director and I get verklempt just thinking about it. That said, if "Let It Go" doesn't win best song, I'm storming the castle gates.

Yep, my aunt's sister died due to complications from gastric bypass and it was a slow and painful ordeal; she was on hospice for months. I once made a disparaging comment about the size of my arms, like many of us are wont to do, and my sweet, fun-loving aunt grabbed my shoulders and got right in my face and said "No,…

I feel ya. I was limping along emotionally last winter and looking at pictures of Lil Bub was sometimes the only genuinely happy moment of my day.

Eheheh.

Just to add another dimension to baby prevention. If you discontinue hormonal birth control you may gain weight, too! Yay worst of both world!

Middle class teen girls: Expressing their individuality and exercising small acts of control over their own bodies since forever. You're right, this isn't news. I honestly think some parents worry over this stuff as sort of a distraction from the actual sexual maturation of their kids. How often do we see "Your teens…

"I’m angry and animated and I’m defensive because you guys won’t stand up and defend us, so we’ll defend ourselves and we’ll defend you too!" This is a beautiful quote from Dr. Cooper.

Yeah, I never realized how spoiled I was by good Italian growing up in Connecticut till I moved to the south. I remember I went to a Carraba's my freshman year of college and looked at the menu like "What is this stuff? I thought this was an Italian restaurant?" and then "Wait, they are charging HOW MUCH for pasta?" I…

That's the one!!! Thank you, good Samaritan.

Ugh, I hated peasant blouses and dammit I tried because I am a slave to fashion but there was seriously no variation of those that did not make me look pregnant. On the other hand, it would have been a great time to hide a pregnancy, hm.....

The Eagleton episode really does it for me and I love any time Leslie references their neighboring town on the show. I grew up in a poor, small town that bordered a regular-sized, affluent town and we all side-eyed each other (They had laptops for every student! Our roof rotted through and classrooms were lit by miner…

I have been trying to find a clip of Tom explaining their date involving her stealing someone's birth control and throwing it in a dumpster for EVER. So far, no luck. But I was on the floor when it first aired.

Well, ya got me again Internet. I have seen this posted all around and finally got to watching it today only to realize it was a parody. Do you know how excited I was? No, because it's impossible for you to fathom how much I love crime procedurals, I love them so much. I would have watched this until I fused with the…

Preparation for post-treatment is still pretty bleak in my experience, too. We see many former breast cancer patients with lymphedema or debilitating pain and loss of function on the side they had tissue removed (not to mention the uptick in general cancer survivors with neuropathy and myalgia, wow.) A number of these…