Oh goodness, me too. My fourth-grade best friend and I used to play out elaborately torrid scenarios with our Barbies (and Bratz, which became a thing of the past very quickly)l Every time I see her now, I think about how many of my kinky nine-year-old thoughts she's aware of and shudder.

I'm sorry to hear about that! Last year I was in a terrible rut and I ended up visiting a therapist. The best thing she had me do was make sure to do at least one happy thing every day. I was supposed to plan them so I had something to look forward to. Suggested activities on the sheet she gave me (she took a…

Zooey is great, but my favorite part of this gif is Schmidt's ruefully disappointed headshake in the background.

If you'd clicked the link, you'd understand that "boi-oi-oi-oiiiinnnggg" is a remarkably poised and coherent response to the dong in question. :)

And she's really only the eighth — that article counts Queen Latifah twice because she hosted twice.

Haha, it's actually just RiFF RAFF; he changes a name a lot, but his Twitter handle obviously stays the name. But the concept of RiFF RAFF as a secret Kardashian is oddly delightful!

It does indeed!

Quick! Before she's too old to think books about fifth graders aren't acceptable, recommend Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume to her; it remains one of my favorite books to this day. Somebody mentioned Graceling by Kristin Cashore, which is also great. If her reading comprehension skills are so…

If I were you, I'd go to concerts of local bands in smaller venues; these are often cozy and intimate and people in attendance tend to be very open. (I guess this is only applicable to bigger college towns, as smaller ones might not have many events like this? I'm not sure.) Although I'm not currently looking for…

The University of Oklahoma has a Jiménez statue that's just like a smaller scale, less blue version of Mustang. When I was small, I was deathly afraid of the horse and my group of elementary school friends (our school district included the university area) had a legend about how he galloped around at night and got you…

I didn't realize until this very moment that the song in The Lizzie McGuire Movie is by Ru Paul! I need to rewatch that masterpiece . . .

Age: 19

I'm being Madeline! I was inspired by this hat I bought last year at Target:

I'll talk Battlestar Galactica up to you! My boyfriend made me watch the miniseries (the series opens with two 90 minute episodes), and I absolutely hated it because I thought it was boring and pretentious. But it's not! It's so glorious! It's a show that forces you to get really invested in the characters, which…

I got so excited when I saw this! I'm at OU and although I took Organic Chemistry II last semester when Nelson wasn't teaching it, one of my roommates has her this semester! From what I've heard, she's one of those teachers who's so good at what they do they're absolutely terrifying.

My favorite is extra creamy because you cook it in milk and tangy because you add mustard!

My apartment building has a nice television theme going on. BEARS,BEETS,BATTLESTARGALACTICA was already active when we arrived added BobLoblawLawBlog. Since then Ba Sing Se and DamnFineCupOfCoffee have joined us. Also Sharon's Network, but if that's a reference I'm not familiar with it.

Oryx and Crake is extra wonderful, if a bit glum. But nothing says summer like tropical apocalypse!

Thanks! He was the cutest miniature cat until we dropped him behind the dresser and couldn't retrieve him. :(

You do! You do! They're my roommate's from when she was small, but we rechristened the cat Tiddlywinks and made him our dorm pet.