Examples? Here you go: [bit.ly] "Data show clearly that abstinence-only education as a state policy is ineffective in preventing teenage pregnancy and may actually be contributing to the high teenage pregnancy rates in the U.S."

This sounds promising! Thanks for the tip. :)

This is exactly what goes on. It baffles me. Are they on the phone, just pacing? Are they systematically moving every book they own from one side of the apartment to the other, one week, and then back, the next? I love 311, and have used it to great effect in other cases, but in this one I think they'd just laugh at…

Hmm! I like this idea. But yeah, I think we're not going to sign the lease again here...

Yeah, Mr. S. is threatening to do this, but I worry that it would piss off our downstairs neighbors, who are wonderful. :( I'm also non-confrontational (I would rather gnaw off my arm), but I guess I'll have to woman up and go do something...

I'm on my third pack of ear plugs since we moved in, this fall. Still really loud. :(

Now I'm enraged for both of us! Yours sound hideous—I don't know what I'd do if these people were running instead of stomp-pacing. :( Builders! Soundproof your buildings, dammit!

I hate our upstairs neighbors, and I hate the shitty joists in their floor. Mainly, I hate the fact that they galumph around for three hours straight, from 12 pm to 3 am. Aside from banging on the ceiling with a broom (yes, I've become that crazy old lady), I don't know what to do. Super can't/won't take care of it;…

I love FreshDirect! No more lugging home bottles of soda every week!

I guess the slap in the face in the form of advice that I would offer is: discussing extramarital affairs, especially if it's between you and a co-worker, is pretty risky in the age of Google.

Argh, I'm so sorry. I remember your original post from way back about getting the interview! Here's hoping that something remarkable comes your way soon—I'm sure it will. :)

Bon voyage, Lane! Good luck!

Ooh! Female-scientist characters on "The Big Bang Theory" for $600, Alex! Amy Farrah Fowler. Bernadette. Leslie Winkle (ok, not a regular). Priya was not a scientist but a lawyer, but her character was smart and non-dumpy.

Congrats! My pre-hangover cure: Emergen-C packet and water, water, water. Happy postdoc-ing! :)

Oh, that stinks. All of it. :( I'm sorry. Hopefully, the bank will sort things out ASAP?

Aha! I found it. :) I love a good Google challenge, and that's an amazing dress: [shop.nordstrom.com]

"And how many flat irons does one Congressional office need?!"

I think they all must have received a text: "JEWEL TONES. THERE WILL BE NO DISSENT. IT'S IN. IT'S HIP. SO ARE WE. XOXO NANCY PELOSI."

This is the best thing I've read all year (and that includes 2011). :) It's like a snowball of PBS-Julia Child happiness. Amazing.

Doug's written on weekends before, and I don't think they're auditioning anyone over here (I hope not, at least).