It seems mythical that some women have light 3-4 day periods. For me, it was a full 7 days, with lots of tampon and pad changes, lots of ruined sheets and underwear. I was so happy when I finally had that thing removed. Free at last.

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/sawbones

Here in Michigan we get a lot of “strange lights” - not only in the skies but that come down and hover somewhere near by. I don’t know if it’s an electrical atmospheric phenomena caused by the Great Lakes, or all the little lakes, or what they are. But, they’re not airplanes or Venus or the moon.

It depends on what’s causing the smell, I guess. If it’s multiple odors, you should try multiple approaches:

It was cool in the original show because she was teasing him. It looks like the writers of TOS would have written a much more equal relationship if they had been allowed to carry through instead of having wringing her hands and straightening his uniform.

No, she was always mooning after Spock. I was really young when I watched it. It was freshly in syndication and I was in elementary school. There were so few women on TV at that time who didn’t rely on men for their identities.

It’s a problem because they took the one female crew member we all loved and turned her into “Spock’s girl” - a female character who exists to give emotional support to a male character.

Thank you. I just can’t imagine her taking him seriously as a love interest, Mulder is just too damaged. He’s like a kid brother. Skinner isn’t right either - he’s almost a parody of male seriousness. They didn’t have anyone on the show that would really work for her.

She needed a female Oz - someone with snark and spark. Tara was a wet blanket.

Have you read the Burton & Swinburn series by Mark Hodder (narrated by Gerald Doyle who does an amazing job). It’s labeled as steampunk, but the technology is based on extreme genetic manipulation mixed with steam power. It’s weird and wonderful.

That would be interesting if the Coast Starlight went that fast - and straight on to Vegas, since there aren’t any Amtrak trains to Vegas. It’s a long Greyhound bus ride from the last stop.

That’s interesting. My experiences with memory (and memory loss), has led me to believe that memories are stored in different places and cross-referenced. For example, when I hear a certain song from the past, I can recall certain memories associated with it - but if I recall those memories as visual moments there’s…

I have a good memory for past events. I can remember being at a location, what it looked like and who I was with from a first person perspective. So, yeah, people do that.

I think you’re taking the term “transported into the past” too literally. You remember the “face, place, smell, feeling” which means you remember experiencing the moment yourself, rather than just remembering what someone else told you or the notes you took in your diary.

I did, but I can’t post spoilers. Kinja doesn’t have PM mode (that I know of)

It’s based on a book series so everything will be resolved. :)

It’s partly a sense of powerlessness. We are living in a world similar to the one Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel knew when they created Superman - the 1% is hording 99% of the money and we’re scrambling for the rest. We can’t fight the people in charge, we need a hero. Superman originally defended common laborers…

Exactly what I was thinking. They got better or smarter?

The kid was 12, not 17, and a full reading list wasn’t necessary. “If you like Star Wars, try reading The Three Musketeers” would have sufficed.

I wish his advice had been to watch or read something else in addition to Star Wars. That does seem kind of awful, to advise a null, instead of suggesting the beginning of a new journey.