Not sure I can offer words of reassurance, but I totally understand where you're coming from! I'm one of the childfree types who chose to have permanent interventions done, but I went first for an Essure as the idea of a tubal and being put under scared the epic living shit out of me. Unfortunately the Essure failed…

Well when you're plus sized, "graduating" isn't a problem as you can't fit in jack shit from Ann Taylor. Talbots has quite a few dresses and skirts that skew young, especially in the poofy skirted dress category which is what I where at work often where people guess I'm about 5 years younger than I am (which is both…

Since you're saying the market is Hispanic, a good option are recipes from Rick Bayless of PBS' Mexico One Plate at a Time!

Talbots maybe? It's the only place I know of that reliably has plus and petite plus in the same store. That said, at 5 ft 3 in, I've found I'm somewhere between their plus and petite plus sizes and find myself buying a little of column a and a little of column b. Like knit tops tend to be too short in petites, but…

If you chat with them the two most common options are continuous birth control or as Cady Coleman puts it "having the furniture in the living room re-arranged". Apparently the Russians are douchenozzles about the ladies using the head in their module and a common theme from the women who had been on ISS that I've…

Luciana!

Her advisor did his PhD at University of Hong Kong which operates under the British system which is 3 years to PhD by default. They take no classes in grad school unlike those of us in the US system, so the time to PhD is compacted significantly. Some folks do take more than 3 years in the British system, but it's…

The Modcloth description says it's made by the Cambridge Satchel Company. I see they also have the satchel for sale at ASOS, but it's still $162.

I seem to recall mine was $30, but I'm also curious if the price differential was due to neighbourhood- I was buying in Pasadena south of the 210, so the area that was predominately white and middle to upper class, and wonder if it would have been more expensive north of the 210.

Yeah, back when it first became legal over the counter in California, it was two pills that I got for my emergency stash. Of course, since then I got a tubal so it wasn't a concern, but it was also annoying as shit that it was 8 years of asking for tubal before a doc tried to give me one. . .and then that damned…

Oh last time I checked it was a case of 2 pills 12 hrs apart. Well I feel like an old fart considering the last time I checked. Still I think part of the problem with respect to why isn't it cheaper is related to volume: there are birth control pills one can use in larger than daily doses for the same purpose as the…

Because somewhere someone has decided that Plan B should be administered as 2 pills. Some generic birth control can be used in the same fashion as Plan B where you take 10 pills, then 12 hours take 10 more, however the money isn't there to produce those 10 pills as a single one like there would be for normal birth…

#13 or so: the Speakerphone asshole.At my work we have this dude across the hall who must always be on telecons on speakerphone and must leave his door open at all times. It gets even worse when his team has a meeting in the conference room next door- they have team meetings also on speakerphone with another site with…

Oh okay, I met one of the other co-ops here last semester, but she didn't actually convert. I wish I had known about the co-op option, getting a civil servant position is really hard now with the combination of budget cuts and geezers who never retire or kick the bucket.

An NPP or something else? I'm one of the NPPs in Solar System Exploration!

Well the thing with funding is that you ask for money for 3 to 5 years. Most projects can be finished in that time, and if not, you can strengthen a proposal with "here's all the stuff we've done, but here's the key bit we really need to answer this one thing". We do actually get comments back on our proposals…

Well I kinda want to be an astronaut still since there is talk about poking asteroids before we send people to Mars ;-)

I'm actually an astronomer/planetary scientist. As a postdoc I'm mostly looking at asteroids to find out if their colors and compositions might tell us something about if the giant planets formed where they're found now, or if they migrated around a bit. In our own solar system it's a big deal, because a number of…

We have an extensive intern program at my center and it's not only for science and engineering, we also have awesome interns in procurement/HR and a bunch of them in communications where they learn how to tell everyone about the cool stuff we do. Throw in an application our way if something floats your boat.

Dude. . .I work at NASA Goddard as a scientist. Almost every dang day I sit there and wonder how an idiot like me got there. And I used to think the same damn thing when I worked at JPL in the years between undergrad and grad school.