Oof - that's tetchy. And I totally understand having your feelings hurt and going a bit overboard in the moment, we've all probably had moments of overreaction. But you'd think it wouldn't take too long to realize when someone obviously isn't trying to hurt your feelings, and to get over it.

It's a travesty!

She can be, and often is, very loving and supportive, but she's definitely emotionally stunted. When I was a teenager it was more likely that she would give me the silent treatment than the other way around. And she's always had a hard time with me setting personal space boundaries.

I'm also a total film and TV junkie. My brain is just wired to need different types of storytelling stimulation. God I wish I could read that many books though.

Another day, another adventure in trying to get my mother to understand basic concepts about considerate behavior. I was engrossed in typing something and she leaned in very close over me. I was startled and apparently said “what?” in a way that offended her. I explained that she’d caught me off guard and it makes me…

So much of that article is terrible though. There are legitimate criticisms to be made of Buffy of course, but so much of that article is like "Buffy is a weak character because sometimes she acts human. She gets sad and angry when things don't work out with a boy!" Well, yeah. Its unfeminist to express emotions?

I absolutely hated these characters and the end of the book almost made me regret ever having learned to read. But somehow I have hope for the movie. Going in knowing that everyone is going to be a despicable piece of shit + Fincher just seems like it'll work.

Ugh with Americans and Germany. When people make Nazi jokes I always want to ask them if they have any conception of America's own history of genocide and slavery. I'm Jewish and I can't tell you the number of times people asked me "why would you want to go there?" when I've mentioned having been in Germany. Or they…

No but really. At my current rate of reading, I have like 3 years worth of books. I'm a cat lady, but with books. It has to end.

It really sucks when someone else tries to assign motives to you and refuses to believe you when you tell them they're wrong. Is she even pregnant? Or is this just a weird worry she has?

You mean you buy 8 - 10 per week? Please don't say you read that many, I'll have to die from shame. I can, at the most, get through about 3 a month. It's a perpetual life goal to read 100 pages per day ever day, but I never manage.

At the moment all my toiletry and make up needs are more than met. But I could always hold on to it until I need something.

Oh wow. I just Googled that and it sounds really great! Thanks for the idea.

They sell bags of cereal marshmallows? That's amazing!

Oh a speaker dock is a great idea! Well, they're all good, but that would be the most useful to me.

Slings & Arrows and Black Books. Black Books seems to have become a collector's item, but I might get Slings & Arrows.

:-) I don't even want to know the quality of sex toy $18 would get me!

Eating in Edinburgh: The Mosque Kitchen (amazing and insanely well priced), Urban Angel, Henderson's (vegetarian/vegan), La Favorita. I really enjoy the National Portrait Gallery, Camera Obscura and the Royal Botanic Garden, climb Arthur's Seat if you've got the energy for it. Check out if anything is on at the…

The best thing you can do is firmly tell her that it's none of her business when you and your husband decide to have a baby. You'll do it when you feel ready and not to please anybody else. Maybe ask her if there is something you did that made her feel as if you would co-opt her baby. And if she won't let it go,…

Actually, that's a genius use of Amazon. Sadly, I live with my mother at the moment and I don't know anybody in the city we're in so condoms would be tragically useless to me right now.