I feel you. I also prefer hamburgers. You have to specify that you want your hamburger "without cheese" or else you will get cheese like 85% of the time.

I think you're working in a very different context than I am though. This isn't a situation where we're looking to match a certain publication's style and her edits go toward that end. This is a situation where, frankly, I am the better writer and know the topic better, but she outranks me. Her edits are convoluted,…

I work with a woman where I've just stopped arguing about it. When we have grant reports due, I literally copy/paste the last report she wrote and update the numbers. She then sends me back (angry and condescending) edits to her own words. I graciously accept all her changes. She then re-edits her words. I accept all…

I don't even want to click through. These are always depressing.

I don't know what I think about this.

I actually had no problems with the machines or clientele. Perfectly serviceable gym. I just didn't live anywhere near one 90% of the year! (But I did live within 50 miles! So no cancelling! Nevermind that I didn't have a car in college).

I'm not friends with any of my exes. I like the idea of being the kind of person who would be friends with their exes - but mine all are sort of assholes now?

Yeah, I'm only just started the planning process, but wasn't expecting to send an invitation to immediate family members. Like, they'll know.

Duplicate!

Was also going to recommend that book. I've never smoked, or read it, but my boyfriend used to smoke (hasn't in about 3 yrs) and he'd read that to kick off his attempts to quit. Didn't stick the first time, relapsed back into habit after smoking some cigarettes on vacation, but he read it again to quit again and this…

I also posted about getting roped into a 3 yr gym contract with Bally's, being blatantly lied to about the cancellation policy, and unable to get out. But I currently belong to Equinox!

I wish. I tried everything. This was many years ago now though. It seems like gyms no longer have three year contracts , much more one-year or month-to-month than there was back then.

Gym membership to Bally's. I was 19 and home for the summer from college, they promised me that I could cancel when I went back to school. I asked specific questions and received many assurances, but it doesn't matter what they say orally, that's not what the contract said. I paid that thing for 3 damn years. I read…

I'm gonna just admit right here that I really like Lauren Conrad's lifestyle brand/blog. She has a definite aesthetic - it's pretty, and feminine and classic and not overly twee. I would love to live my life with lavender hair and muted flowers in my apartment and simple gold jewelry.

Cinderella is the first book I remember "reading". I didn't actually know how to read but I had memorized which words were on which pages.

I've never seen that show but now I want to.

Or contact lenses. I thought I was just a super-human that onions didn't bother! But, no, I just wear contacts, so the onion fumes aren't getting in my eyes and making them tear up.

I think there's somewhere in between. Anyone can follow a list of instructions and, until my mid-20s, I considered that sort of thing "cooking" - stir fry frozen meals from Trader Joes, assembling sandwiches, boiling pasta, flipping eggs.

I'm in the interesting position of being from bootstrapping parents who grew up very poor, but are now solidly 1%ers. So, while my significant other's parents probably do not have as much money as mine do now, they have been solidly middle-class their whole life and we come from a place of very different values and…

I get that a lot of society may judge a woman differently for leaving behind her family to go to space, but I personally don't understand the choice regardless of gender.