Agreed about not trusting men who think it's gross. I've never been with a guy who expressed a strong opinion about pubic hair. My long-term boyfriends have expressed a desire for me to trim it down a bit because of the hair-in-throat problem, but even then they're not adamant about it. I think a guy demanding that I…

I've had to deal with a lot of travel issues, especially with specialists. But I wonder if anyone really believes that Lindsay was dealing with "travel issues." If it was actually a travel issue like a flight being cancelled they would have said so.

omg, why did it take so long to get diagnosed?! It seems like such a common condition that it would be quick to figure out what was wrong. Good luck with the Lasik!

hm maybe it's changed since i first got contacts then. More than one eye doctor has told me this, so I assumed it had some truth to it.

When I first got contacts (many many years ago) the ophthalmologist said, "You know, there's a reason you almost never see eye doctors wearing contacts." Besides the risk of eye infection, you can also start getting these tiny bumps on the inside of your eyelids (giant papillary conjunctivitis) that makes wearing…

I have a folder of bookmarks titled "Post racial society my ass" specifically for that purpose.

I can tell you what happens to the vegetarians: the staff talk about their vegetarianism to other candidates. Three different people at a post-interview lunch I went spent quite a bit of time marveling to me about a previous interviewee who didn't order the steak (we were at a swank steakhouse, naturally) and how…

When I finished recruiting, the number one thing I was glad of was not having to attend any more of these sorts of optional-but-not-really "social events." I'm interviewing for a job, not recruiting for a sorority, dammit. I can see why they do it (blah blah it's about the personality, blah blah you want to like who…

I couldn't tell from the op-ed exactly what her beef with it was. On the one hand there was the reactionary "we're not irresponsible freeloaders!" thing, but on the other hand there was the "Obama let down the middle-class." So I can't tell which end she's coming from. Either way it makes me irritable. People are…

Actually, I needed to travel starting at 6 months old because I was being raised by my grandmother, who could only be in this country for a certain amount of time in a row because of visa issues. My parents couldn't raise me without her help, so it was either stay abroad and not see my parents for years (and just when…

I started flying internationally (12 hour flights) when I was 6 months old, and was flying as an unaccompanied minor by the time I was 4 or 5 (back when that was still allowed. Yay wing-pins!). I'm sure it wasn't pleasant for other people, but it was the only way my grandparents could raise me, and my parents at the…

I don't think so. And I don't think there's actually a higher predator density - maybe it's that people who care for abused kids tend to be more willing to talk about it, whereas a lot of other people carry it silently.

She found out after couples counseling. She thought he had "simply" had an affair, which is why they were in counseling. After she found out about the predatory behavior, she left him.

This is one reason I had to stop working with child abuse victims, I was hearing too many stories where "How could you not know?!" did not have an easy answer, and I was becoming totally paranoid. Although there are many cases where the abuser's partner turns a blind eye (the doctor tells the mom that her boyfriend is…

I thought that too, until I went to a top 10 business school. People who were "smart enough" to get in (which I grow increasingly skeptical about whether or not that bar is actually enforced) are not smart enough to put together an outfit. I have seen people at firm events and job interviews in: backless club tops,…

Just curious, are sample sizes actually a size 0? At my local resale shop they often have samples on sale and, at least if they're labeled, they seem to be a size S or size 4 more often than not.

I've been a Credit Union member for years and it really is so much better than being with one of the big banks. My loan rates are better (another bank offered to match it, and when I showed the bank my CU rate, the big bank loan officer looked stunned and said nevermind), the customer service has been very reliable,…

I wear Spanx so that I won't have panty lines under knits (I tried a thong and hated it, and I feel like I almost always can tell when someone is wearing one anyway). With the lace and seaming, would these Ragos show through jersey or other knits?

When I was single and dating, one of many deal-breakers was somebody who was overly materialistic, because I think I have a tendency to be materialistic and I didn't want to be with somebody who reinforced that. I was instinctively wary the few times I went on a date with somebody who showed up in a fancy Benz or BMW.

When my partner's European cousin found out I was going to go to graduate school, she asked me "how much will the government give you to go back to school?" (apparently in her country they get a stipend for post-bachelor's education). When I told her how much debt I'd be in (after less than 2 years), then translated…