Nooooooooo, I'm sure that friend is accurately quoted. There is a lot of conflation in W Europe between Romani ("gypsies") and Romanians/Bulgarians. Since these countries joined the EU in 2007, there have been high rates of immigration, especially among impoverished Romani to countries like the UK, Germany, France,…

I'm guessing you are not currently living in Europe? She is probably quoting her source. My gentleman friend is a Romanian guy who lives in Germany, and it's really opened my eyes to the amount of racism there is in Western Europe against Eastern Europeans, especially those from countries where there are large Romani…

I know, I was super bummed because I assumed the article was going to be about pet therapy.

Yeah, fuck this place. I'm moving to Europe :/

Uuuugggghhhh, I teach part time at a Catholic middle school, and I travel classroom to classroom. I was in the 8th grade religion teacher's room, and while setting up my computer I spotted the video the teacher had shown the class before: some kind of pro-life teenager DVD.

Right! Right? I hope so. I am not particularly a person who likes having a lot of STUFF, so if I keep it, I would be keeping it to wear to my eventual wedding to a different person. Would that weird out future partners? Would I want to marry a guy who would be weirded out by that? I dunno! I asked some guy friends,…

Dude, I totally feel for you. I had super major problems with my ex (of MANY years) about this. I'm sure your guy's not up to anything nefarious (nor was mine), but you seriously need to talk with him because you obviously feel neglected, and that's totally valid. It won't kill him to, you know, express that he's…

DUDE. Are we the same person? I'm still supposed to be finishing papers, and my new European job kind of hinges on me getting my damned degree. I agree; academia is the worst :/

Holy shit, girl, you should have taken the MA and ran! Come with meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I have a friend whose mom is a school psychologist, and the friend is pretty consistently in therapy. That's cool, and I have nothing against therapy (it's totally helped me out before), but she REALLY pushes it on everyone, all the time. Last night, I was talking about my new gentleman friend and she interjected, "Do…

It's kind of weird, because it *doesn't* pain me to look at it. It's gorgeous and I love it.

I do Gatorade and/or Sprite until the nausea passes, then I eat something my family call Egg in a Basket. It's bread buttered on both sides with a hole cut in the middle, then fried in a skillet with an egg cooked in the middle. That shit is the best.

Dude, I'm so sorry. I would have a hard time handling that, too :( I was lucky as fuck and got all four of mine out when I was in high school because they were coming in impacted. Complete oral surgery—put entirely to sleep—and good riddance of all four of those fuckers. My worst memory from the event is throwing up…

I ended up kind of, um, not getting married after all, but this was my dress:

Ursula is extremely reminiscent of Dior's Poison. Like, same shade of purple, shape, everything. Very cute idea. I love concept art like this.

Oh jesus, I despise Bath and Body Works. My former mother-in-law and my ex always used them as go-to uninspired gift. I hate that shit, and I hate it even more now that I'm teaching middle school. It's so overpowering!!!

1000 percent worth it :D

I don't particularly have a problem with it, but my hispanic ex's family is really into the kiss-kiss greeting/farewell. Took me a while to get used to it.

Check to see if there is some kind of prom dress donation group in your area. I grew up in a really poor little town, and tons of girls I knew got fancy dresses from such events. I know that my last BM dress was for real a prom gown.

Yes! I had never had a properly fitted strapless gown until my friend's fancy NYE wedding where she chose a floor length prom dress thing with a swoop-to-the-side front panel as the BM dress.