God I wish that coffin crap would die already.

Also, "hazing" is defined at some schools as "anything you make new members do that you don't make all members do". For example, in my chapter, they used to ask new members to go around to all the existing members and do interviews. Stuff like what's your favorite color/tv show/snack, "get to know you" type stuff.…

There are always urban legends about this stuff. Supposedly, the sorority I was in in college makes initiatiates crawl into a coffin full of dead owls (or just a coffin), but in 4 years in college, several years as an advisor, several trips to national convention, and visiting a chapter on the opposite coast, I've…

He seemed so confused that his coach actually meant no, you're not playing in this game.

LOL, on the baby boards where I hung out when I was pregnant with my daughter 14 years ago, it was very much hearts and flowers. No one dared to talk about anything except perfect unmedicated births with dim lights and fifteen attentive midwives and soothing music and birth pools and easy recovery.

It's one thing for a doctor to use it for a standard for medical dating and planning. It's another to make it LAW.

The thing is, they have made their uteri and the massive amount of children they have/plan to have a commodity. The Duggars are making money off the fact that they have a ton of kids. They are inviting everyone to gawk at the spectacle of a humongous family and they have a huge amount of pride in having as many babies…

Zofran is the best/worst. Best because it stops the puking, worst because it stops the other end too.

Best use for Tonal Harmony. Thanks, Kostka and Payne.

NO. I completely disagree. I think it's great that women share the stories of the things that weren't peachy keen hearts and flowers. Because if only the "good" and "happy" stories are shared, and that's all that a woman hears, then when the shit hits the fan she's scared to death and then there's all the bullshit…

I do not feel at all distressed or freaked out by the pain.

OMG

No, it's good that you're reading it. Then if something is crappy during your labor/birth, you won't feel like a failure because you've heard it from a ton of other women. Media makes birth out to be like this lovely hearts and flowers perfect experience and when we dont' get it it's a letdown and then there's all…

It was very common back in the day, along with the required shaving of all pubic hair. NO THANKS. the last thing I want when I'm healing is being pricked and poked by regrowing hair. UGH

It's less to go in the landfills, but I did attend a presentation once by the keepers of the otters at the Oregon Coast Aquarium who told us that the toxoplasmosis from cat poop entering the water table and traveling down to the coast from people training their cats to go in the toilet is extremely harmful to sea…

nope, that tree is staying up till Epiphany!

Gabaldon will have a fit if there's any fanfic. she once compared people writing fanfic about her characters to slavery. It was pretty wanky.

I don't care either way, but I think what people are in an uproar about is people wearing leggings as pants, not leggings as tights (ie, with nothing over them).

If it's humid and there is no cross breeze or ventilation, it's miserable. 87 is just fine in my apartment with no AC but I have box fans in the windows, there's low humidity, and my apartment doesn't face west so I don't get hot afternoon sun. If I was in a brick building facing west and the windows don't open, with…

My kid wears target's curvy skinny jeans because the curvy bootcut are too long and drag the ground if I don't hem them, and the skinnies are just the right length.