Oooh, that's what I'll now read it as! Thanks!

Those are all good neighborhoods. Uptown has the cutest hippie/hipster restaurants and the closest lakes, if you're into that (I totally was, I loved living in Uptown and biking to the beach). Dinkytown has cool restaurants and music but yeah, there are gonna be drunk college kids crawling all over the place.…

Aw man it would have been so funny if they'd pranked the cameraperson, too, with another Slenderman suddenly appearing on the roof when the camera swung around.

I try talking about it during non-sexy times when I'm trying to introduce new kinks to our relationship. Start off with some affirmations and then maybe give a list of 3 or 4 kinks that you could explore, and let him list ones he's interested in.

Eh, you could always just do the AmeriCorps or nannying job until something better comes along. I did AmeriCorps for a year, and it seems that everyone who did it (who was a decent worker) got a full-time job offer at the organization they worked for after the service was up. Totally worth it to get your foot in the…

The way you are is completely fine and valid. It makes total sense to want to expand your horizons and challenge yourself, but also have a knee-jerk reaction of not wanting to go through all this flirting crap and have one-night-stand or friends-with-benefits sex. It's not weird to wonder why someone would go after…

Hahahahaha, whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Sorry, everyone else can comment more eloquently. I'm just gonna be giggling for the rest of the day.

Looks like snack time, to me. I'm pretty sure there were old white guys ranting about the threat of female employment oh, 100 years ago? 500? Whatevs, progress, man.

I find this interesting as a bisexual woman, because I often found myself sliding into the sort of "charming man" role that I think is being discussed here when I was single. Flirty banter, witty repartee, I was so good at that stuff (in the right circumstances). I pretty much charmed the pants off (heh) my husband…

Yesss, check him out in interviews. He's a doll.

Yeah, I kinda wish in retrospect I had gone to a school that required uniforms. I was poor and I wore hand-me-downs from the families of my mom's friend or, if we were doing particularly well, clothes from thrift stores. I was highly invested in melting into the walls, so loose men's t-shirts and sweat pants were my…

Niiiice.

You know who's charming? John Cho

This is all pretty ridiculous, I agree, but...

High-five to my fellow lady breadwinner biologist!

The least kid-related stress happens with no kids? Oh really? Kind of like I have very little Olympic-performance related stress, and WHAT A COINCIDENCE I don't compete in the Olympics?

My first kiddo knowingly lied to me for the first time around her second birthday. It was very obvious. We had a serious talk about it.

My 3-year-old has a pretty great memory. (Am I one of those parents who brags about their kid? Hell yeah I am.) She insists on correcting me every time I get a story detail wrong when retelling stories she has heard only once (like when I tried to tell her the story of Mary Poppins three weeks after she'd watched the…

I... I have been putting my bra on correctly my whole life??? Awww yeah.

Now I'm thinking about, say, Downton Abbey. Obviously what we need is SERVANTS! Servants to cook, servants to wash, how DARE you suggest we split the housework among the two heads of household??!?