I was in the 9th grade. Two 11th grade boys would hang out across my locker and just STARE at me between classes (they had figured out which classes I stopped there to switch out books). I wore baggy clothes, hoodies all the time, and tried to change my schedule, but they would always show back up anyway.

My uncle’s entire 1st floor is filled with salt and pepper shakers. My sister collects little angel figurines. My grandmother collects Jewel Tea dinnerware. They all think I’m weird because I don’t collect anything.

Ugh. My fiancee’s cousing just got a grill, and she looks completely ridiculous.

Reverse osmosis. Culligan is great at adjusting the system for best taste.

Haha. I get that a lot in grad school too. I had a dean come up to me after a talk I gave during a campus-wide conference to tell me that I was “too assertive.”

This reminds me of a conversation I had with the GM of the restaurant I worked at during undergrad. He had just promoted a male co-worker with less experience than me to a head wait. I sat down to ask him why I had been passed up for the position and what I needed to work on. He said that he had heard complaints from…

Same here. My last OB/GYN switched my birth control 17 months ago after I had to have an ovarian cyst the size of a tennis ball surgically removed. Now my current BC is still preventing cysts, but I’ve developed severe dysmenorrhea (just left the ER at 3am this morning after finding out that my massive amount of pain…

You can get a reverse osmosis system for your house from Culligan for about $20/month.

I hate you because you use plastic water bottles in the first place.

Or, try explaining to a man who is not, and has never, worked in a scientific field about the sexism women face in science. I tried doing this with a friend of my fiance's with hard evidence and studies to back it up. He REFUSED to believe me (and also thinks unfair hiring practices that benefit only straight, white,…

Right. Kind of how I kept telling my doctor that something was wrong with me and I thought I had another ovarian cyst. All I got in response was "You're on birth control, so that's impossible. It's probably just gas." So I dismissed it. 6 months later, I'm in a lot of pain, so I go back. "I guess we can do an…

Food prices have gone up, but the base minimum wage in most states has not. It's still $2.13/hr and has been for 22 years. http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?o…

Not the restaurant, the server.

We worked at the same restaurant, me in the FOH and him in the BOH. He decided to come in and eat before work, in my section, with his new girlfriend. As far as I knew, we were still dating and texting each other that morning.

Boondocks? Which episode? It's been so long since I've watched, but I don't remember it.

But what if your response is "Meh, whatever." Cuz that was mine.

Don't listen to the haters. Corn on pizza is AMAZING. There is a place called Zelo's Pizza near my house that does cornmeal crust pizzas. There best is a pizza with roasted corn and caramelized red onion.

That's not how diverticulitis actually works though, but sadly many doctors are not up-to-date on basic medical research and still spread old wive's tales. Actual research has found that most diverticulitis has to do with inflammation that is caused when eating large amounts of insoluble fiber. The fiber itself is…

"Carbohydrate" specifically refers to a hydrated or semi-hydrated circular carbon structure, basically what laymen would consider to be "sugars."

How is "moving in" defined? Spending every non-working moment there, or paying rent? I started the former approximately 3 weeks before we were officially "dating" (I hated my roommates in student housing at graduate school), but we didn't sign a lease together until 5-6 months after we made our relationship official.…