When I moved in with my college boyfriend, my parents weren’t super enthusiastic about it. Despite that, the next time I saw my mom, she palmed me something when she hugged me goodbye and said “keep it somewhere secret.” Turned out to be a roll of 20s totaling $200. Was it enough to live on for any decent length of…

yeah, and if he wants to do the school a solid he can always speak at their graduation another year.

I’m not sure about UC, but where I went to school I believe the university police started to supplement the city police in order to make wealthy parents feel safe sending their kids here. Over time it grew into more of a paternalistic arrangement where within certain bounds (which extended off-campus by several blocks…

Wonder what he thinks of the movies then, where all the women magically became happy by going back to the men who they were so terrible in the first place, even down to the plucky assistant.

I didn’t realize there was such a standard. If those two things are linked that definitely makes some sense.

I totally have. After three days of testimony and a day and a half of deliberations we convicted a guy of assault but acquitted of a deadly weapons charge which the prosecution failed so terribly to substantiate that none of us could remember anyone other than the lawyer who had actually asserted it. It was an…

While I applaud the verdict, I wish the judge had allowed the expert testimony. I think the testimony could have gone forth and the outcome would have been the same, and furthermore that would have been a stronger verdict in terms of ability to appeal than as it stands now.

I also always figured that it would happen by accident. Funny how having to actively make the decision is so much more stressful than just falling into it.

Seriously, I was more offended by the fact that this guy could neither comprehend the policy nor clearly articulate an argument against is than I was by any of the content of this.

Yeah, I think my biggest fear is that I may just be a terrible judge of what will make future me happy. Trying to frame the question a different way makes a lot of sense, thanks!

How did you finally decide? I’m 32 and squarely in that ambivalent zone. I think if I had to quantify it, I’m probably 60/40 against and hubs is 60/40 in favor. Everyone in our lives has been very respectful and hasn’t pressured us about it like a lot of people get, but I can still hear that clock going “tick tock,…

I wish one of his friends he put in the middle of that had said “um, dude, if you have to ask, you already know the answer. What the fuck did you do?”

Actually one of the things that I’ve loved about HIIT is that by measuring in effort and duration rather than reps, it scales naturally. When I started doing the 7-minute workout I did one round of it, and the results of my full effort were miniscule. For example on the pushup interval, I was doing regular pushups and…

yeah, the joke about her driving I’d say is fair game. The joke about changing, less so.

I feel like this is the beginning of his slide into Val Kilmer-ism.

or just that she feels she could not have achieved her own success if she had gotten pregnant. But there are many kinds of success and different paths to get to them, so I wouldn’t take that as some sort of blanket statement.

That’s one that could have a different impact if they change the way they use it. There’s a huge difference between your diet, in the sense where it just means “the stuff you eat on the regular” and being on a diet, or dieting. My guess is the emphasis on the latter is the issue here.

My problem with your last paragraph is that you seem to think saying things like “put down the spoon” are actually some sort of encouragement. Studies have shown that fat shaming actually has the opposite effect purportedly intended. Talking about health—meaning healthy habits, healthy foods, exciting things you can…

eh, I’m willing to give a little credit for no longer literally equating being a smaller dress size with being healthy. Eating healthy and moving more are indeed goals that we should all be aiming for—they may or may not result in dropping two sizes and/or having a “bikini body.” In that they purport to be about…

Probably just a publicity stunt. That said, they actually did get me to look at a bunch of their covers, and decide these are probably better reads for me than Glamour, Marie Claire, etc. So, guess it worked.