Hah! Weekly projections of weight! Yessssssss, painfully familiar. That is how I actually spent my last two years of college. All I thought about was food and would obsessively flip through food catalogs like Harry and David. Not great.

Wasn't the hot tub with the teenage Coast Guardians good enough? How many more men could anyone want!?

Ugh right there with you about the little soaps. Did it as a kid and I still can't help myself when it's a particularly delicious smelling soap. I think this has to taste good...no, no it doesn't. that's only when it's my soap, I don't try taste other people's fancy soap.

That must have been so frustrating. The more preferable life partner is going to be one who is willing to do what it takes, I think that is what most women would think. One mindset is entitled and spoiled while the other is more...bootstrappy.

I'm also 36 and feel like I'm not settling but rather, um expanding my horizons. The income and education threshold I thought would have been dealbreakers aren't, instead I'd just like someone who makes me happy. Or at least not actively unhappy. I don't know, I'm pretty close to becoming a crazy dog-lady actually.…

There is something very attractive about a guy who's willing to hustle. Even if he was making $100,000 two years ago and has since fallen on hard times, he's not above doing temporary things to make some money. Someone who just says oh well I can't find a job in my field and sits around doing nothing is not as…

I kind of bristled at the phrase in this context as I've never thought about it before. I mean it's really kind of like being accused of being a rent-seeking fat cat when you've actually built up a fortune on your own and are privileged in the financial sense.

Can you please direct me to studies that show that? Because I have read that if you're overweight and lose weight you'll need to eat fewer calories to maintain that weight than someone who has always been that weight.

It's possible but a lot of the times you can mostly tell people who are doing rehab work and people who are fucking around. Just my opinion though. People are free to judge me and do all the time. Everyone judges everybody and thinks their way is right.

Nope that's not what I'm saying. There are actually wrong ways to do things. But I could always be doing more.

Once in high school a kid called the teacher a bitch and she ripped him a new one. She was not the kind of teacher you wanted to mess with. Bullies pick on the easiest targets, but bus monitors clearly need some recourse when things get out of hand.

YMCA's are nice! I currently belong to one and the people could not be nicer and there is a huge range of the types of people I see working out. They are also nice about using chalk, which is surprising because I worked out at Gold's for a while where I think chalk was not allowed.

Yes! And I think this speaks to the topic of the post in that the best way to shut people up is by lifting heavy shit and doing it with good form. But you have to start somewhere and if the pink weights are where you start that's totally ok.

Some people! I am crazy about my personal space, I don't understand the people who want to be right up on you when they don't have to be.

Some people are jerks totally. I'm not a child hater but I do think there is room for well-behaved dogs in public.

That is a good rule! :)

It's not about being the strongest person in the world, it's just about doing things that aren't a waste of time and using the same weight for rows as tricep kickbacks, would, to most people, qualify as that.

What's funny is how utterly clueless most guys in gyms are. "Wow another day of chest and biceps huh?" *eyeroll*

The only people I give the side-eye to are guys curling in the squat rack. There's one squat rack, yet thousands of things to curl. Makes me so irritated to have to wait to do exercises that can literally not be done anywhere else in the gym while someone starts their workout with an unending series of biceps…

That's what I loved about L.A. — dogs everywhere and no one batted an eyelash!