Wow you took that really well. Kudos! I was definitely challenging you, and you handled it beautifully. Well done and thank you.

2 ideas: invite your friend to your place for a meal, or a bunch of friends over for a pot luck dinner - much cheaper!

I think you have to decide if he’s broke, or taking advantage of you. I mean, both can happen too, of course, but it sounds like you’re mixing them up together when they’re not the same things.

If he can afford a $19 meal he isn’t that broke.

I think people really do forget about tax. My friends do it all the time when figuring out bills. Like they’ll add up their meals and drinks and calculate the tip and throw in that amount. I think it’s because the tax is sort of at the bottom. I’ll usually just say, if we’re using cash, that we’re a bit short and…

Show him the tab. Or, say, “you know, there’s tax on that.”Or, just say, “your share is $_____ with tax and tip.”

So I think, if my daughter tells me some guy she’s was fooling around with made a comment about her labia, I’m going to print him a chart showing what they actually look like, and explain to the fucker that what he saw in the porn was only one of many ways in which a woman can look. And if I have a son, he'll be…

Maybe it’s just me but I don’t really want to know how he died. I don’t even believe in God but I’d prefer to think he just shed his earthly body and ascended to wherever artistic geniuses go. I don’t need the gory details. Can’t we let him be mysterious and magnificent in death as he was in life?

Nonsense.

There are barely even any comments on this post, while infighting over Sanders vs. Clinton gets thousands. I’m not one to usually point to discrepancies like that, but it’s SO pronounced in this case, it’s a pretty sad commentary.

I did doubt it and watched it. I feel like I need to go throw up. This attack was repulsive. There's no other word. Targeting children and their families is deplorable.

I’m really happy to have found out that Brandi is still doing beauty box reviews - I really miss those!

I am an RN. I have a hard time believing morphine would incapacitate someone as described in this article. I will give the caveat that my experience is anecdotal and not evidence based, and that not everyone reacts the same way to all medication.

Maybe it’s a celebrity relationship of convenience? They probably help make each other more famous for different circles. Dating a teen at 25 yuck, tho.

Maybe my initial comment wasn’t clear. It’s not my intention to suggest that Middle Eastern people aren’t white/Caucasian, only that it’s less clear that a Middle Eastern person who doesn’t identify as white or Caucasian is “incorrect”. In the contemporary US culture, Middle Eastern people are frequently not perceived…

Behind Closed Ovens was my lunch read on Mondays to refresh and get ready for the most difficult classes of my day.

My sister and I both pulled out of the academic/research track after our graduate degrees. I think I got out at the right time- she stuck it out until she’d finished her PhD (which is just three years in the UK, but still) and pretty much had a mental breakdown. But she’s got a really good job with a clear career path…

I’m glad you’re looking on the bright side of it all! I had friends in law school who were unemployed for years before landing a job and, even then, they’d start at like $50k a year. It’s rough for a lot of us regardless of the degree! I hope things get easier for you <3

I feel you—I’m in psych also, and I really don’t enjoy research. Like, at all. It’s good that it got you to where you are!