I have a strong preference for cargo pants and anyone bothered by me shopping in the men's department can take it up with the clothing stores. I'm already taller than they make women's pants usually so it's usually the path of least resistance. I've still got a few good-fitting ladies' cargo pants but they are…

Well, it's something I've seen and heard from a lot of different sources (sex ed books, gyno, posters at Student Health) that IUDs are really better for women who've already had a child than teenagers who might not have even had sex yet.

Every time I've brought up IUDs to my gyno, she's told me about how horrible and painful they are and how much worse my period would be. Nuvaring was irritating and made me all bloated and constantly hungry, but my implant has been suiting me just fine. Only complaint about the implant is the nasty bruise I had the…

My college is in a mostly-Native town, and our team is the Braves. Our mascot was recently changed from "Tommy the Hawk" to "BraveHawk" because that's somehow less racist?

I know that, since the Cherokee were the main group in the Trail of Tears, their population was moved across the Southeast to the Midwest, so yes its the most likely ancestry for 1/4 of the continental US geography-wise.

I use a free iPeriod app, which helpfully labels itself as "iP" and is password protected. Lots of mood options and other details; my one complaint was that when I was on Nuvaring it didn't have a way to automatically note that I swapped rings every 4 weeks.

There was one time I flew with my grandparents to visit my great aunt and uncle. We get our rental car at the airport, and start driving on the highway, and suddenly I really, really need to poop. Like, I wanted them to pull over because I might not make it. But grandma is already sick and tired of me always…

When I was a wee small child, I once announced at dinner that I was, and I quote, "allergic to boxing." As in, the sport. I'd seen it on TV earlier and knew that something "allergic" was important...

My grandpa used to order buttermilk when we went out to brunch. It was always funny watching the waitress (and sometimes neighboring tables) try not to retch as he'd empty the whole glass in one go and ask for a refill. Ugh.

Rats have a 3-4 day cycle. They're like tiny people, really.

What about those of us not blessed with a clockwork-predictable cycle? How would I adjust something intended for the standard 28 days into my 20-45 day cycles?

When I was 14, my school had this yearly week-long trip, usually to Europe (they rotated which countries). I begged my parents, and my dad decided to chaperone, which was good because most of the kids were a grade or two above mine and didn't give a fuck about me. We went to Italy, where our bus driver proceeded to…

When I was in high school, in Psychology class, our teacher showed us the circadian cycle and its approximate times and went on and on about how important it was and how we children were screwing ourselves up.

When I was little, I would do horrible things to dolls like duct-tape them to chairs and wrap them up in toilet paper and bury them in shoeboxes painted up Egyptian-style. I always found them creepy and did my best to do away with them. An elderly neighbor gave me a really delicate antique porcelain doll that had…

Here's a case summary where tapeworm egg ingestion was linked to brain lesions and seizures: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Okay, tapeworms have a much more complicated life cycle. Feeding her the eggs will just riddle her muscles with cysts and put her at a much higher risk of epilepsy if they get into her brain. You have to eat meat that contains tapeworm cysts for them to mature into the adult, gut-dwelling stage. Jeez, does nobody…