You're welcome! I'm all in favor of sharing tips (mostly because it honestly never occurred to me to use two elastics at once until my ex asked me why I didn't. All I could think was, "Damn, where were you when I was cheering in high school and was in serious need of this information?")

I've started using these hair ties and they're amazing. They don't stretch out nearly as much as traditional elastics and they don't cower in fear at my thick hair like most elastics do. You do have to be careful when you remove them (they don't just slide out of your hair), they do snap on occasion (which is a bit…

Rihanna referred to the girl as a THOT, which apparently stands for "that ho over there." But I'm still confused. Do you pronounce that like thought? Is it primarily used in texts? It's an acronym whose existence makes no sense to me. (Then again, I'm also an old. A college student said to me the other day, "And I…

Point. I always wear long underwear (that isn't quite the right term, but I'm not sure what is) under my skirts and while it's probably not as nice as the full on breezy experience, but it's certainly better than pants. Pants are no bueno in the humid summertime.

Even beyond shorter shorts, I wish more men would get on board with skirts because I want everyone to be this comfy. Long skirts or dresses pretty much feel like pajamas that just happen to be acceptable in the workplace.

Most of studies of this type rely on volunteers, so there are likely more exhibitionist-inclined folks than shy folks participating. And these numbers are repeated across a variety of studies, so they're pretty accurate.

This is a tricky area. In a well-handled case, students wouldn't be dismissed (or placed on mandatory leave) for anything less than chronic suicidality. Unfortunately, not all cases are handled well. On the other hand, though, I think an argument can be made that university is not necessarily the best place for…

I think it is. Some artists had noticeable twang in their early albums (Tim McGraw, Aaron Tippin) that all but disappeared in their later albums. The only artist I could think of whose accent hasn't really changed is Reba McEntire. And I think you used to hear a lot more twang in 1990s era country than you do in…

I want someone to write a dissertation on how accents have completely disappeared from country music. I'm pretty sure only me and the person who wrote the dissertation would care, but I think your dissertation would have a much wider audience. (Still, someone get on the country accent dissertation!)

I'm incredibly jealous. I can only get my prescriptions refilled when I should be 75% through with my current refill. So I can get three months' worth of regular BC pills at once, but if I take them overlapping to avoid a placebo week, then I have to wait a few weeks for my next refill because I'm going through them…

I have generally great insurance, but I could not for the life of me get my insurance to cover regular birth control pills with overlapping dispense dates, even if my doctor wrote the prescription that way. I ended up having to go on the minipill instead, which doesn't have placebos. It's completely ridiculous that my…

I suppose my question is why the occasion dictates it. At a job interview, at court, etc., dressing up improves the impression I make on people who can directly control the outcome of my situation. At a funeral or a wedding, dressing up is a sign of respect to the people for whom the ceremony is occurring or their…

I never really understood this line of thought. Who are people dressing up for? Their worship leader? Other churchgoers? I imagine people's deity/deities of choice don't particularly care what their faithful are wearing, unless a suit somehow makes someone's prayers more earnest than that of their fellow parishioner…

Precisely. For people who are of mixed Spanish and Mexican ancestry, there isn't really a good term that describes that other than the catchall "Hispanic," and even that's a poor fit.

This is awesome. (Not the spoiler, but learning about the GoT tidbit. I have no interest in the books/TV show but it's all over Entertainment Weekly and I like trying to piece together the plot from the random bits I see. The dude I think is Joffrey was on a cover recently that I don't think mentioned anything about…

My parents were fairly progressive for being Hispanic and Catholic but I never got any real sort of period/sex talk from my mom, aside from not-jokes that if I ever came home pregnant they'd throw me out of the house. When I told my mom I'd started my period and didn't really know what to do or had any supplies, she…

There was a guy at my local farmer's market who used to wear long skirts in the summer and I can pretty much guarantee he was the most comfortable man there. (No better way to survive a desert summer than with a long skirt, for real.) And now that I think about it, I always considered those skirts his, never a…

At some universities, fraternities/sororities ease a pretty significant housing burden. That's one of the practical reasons for keeping them around, from the university's standpoint.

Exactly. There was a lot of similar discussion when New York's SAFE Act was introduced. Here's the relevant bullet point from the Wikipedia article: "Requires designated mental health professionals who believe a mental health patient made a credible threat of harming others to report the threat to a mental health…

My family's been in the U.S. since before it was the U.S., but courtesy of Arizona's ridiculous laws and years spent living in border states/towns, I worry about being deported even though I don't have another country to be deported to. My fears are nowhere near as real or worrisome as undocumented folks', but it…