My partner has this something fierce. Terrible pollen allergy, and allergic to all the stone fruits (and peanuts, and some other raw nuts). No apples, pears, cherries, peaches, plums - none of it. Even one bite, or eating something prepared on the same cutting board where I chopped an apple, and it’s hives and an…

My friend’s daughter developed a sudden allergy to one of the red dyes. She was eating some kind of chip with the dye in it, and had she not been at work (she’s a nurse) and thus already in a hospital she might not have made it to one. Sudden onset, really bad anaphylactic shock. I was at work with her when she got…

Grad school classmate, we are FWB (he had a long term GF, open relationship, she and I are still friends) ditched me for one of his students (super classy). I was bummed, cause grad school was stressful and he was awesome at sex. I had only had two relationships before him (two years and six years, respectively), and…

The WASP base whose money’s so old it’s gone.

I’m going to be 37 and soon we will be trying for our first. Worried I have like one egg total left and it's jyst a weird little ovary raisin.

Balance beam broke my hymen when I was six! I was like “I know I’m supposed to stick the landing but huh?” Fuck surprise unknown blood in your leotard and fuck Paige Effinger.

That’s horrifying. I give all chowders a bit of the side-eye because 1) kinda looks like puke to start with and 2) my dining hall served cheeseburger chowder and it was the worst thing I have ever seen. I hope you made it home/out of the restaurant!

Last time I went to Friendly’s I ordered a simple chicken sandwich - which was served warm, but not actually cooked. I ended up with a mouthful of pink, stringy, raw chicken. I told the server, who seemed genuinely concerned and upset. I didn’t want another meal (the possibility of puking from possible salmonella…

I picked out my own ring after the proposal. He is terrible with decision-making...like picking out a hotel for a weekend getaway is paralyzing. So he asked if I was ok with picking out my own - and I'm persnickety and such so I was like it'll make us both happy, no problem. He was more relieved than i have ever seen…

I had all four wisdom teeth out with just local - same reasons as you. It wasn't fun, but it wasn't traumatizing, either. Mine were all impacted - one so far up that the dental surgeon guy (he wasn't my regular dentist but I don't know the term for the specialty) nicked my sinus cavity and I had a nosebleed later that…

Add in that they're replacing 20% of the tenured faculty with adjuncts to pay for the new admins and you have the perfect synopsis of higher education in America.

Preach.

I like your style.

I hate that bullshit. I have a smallish (?) ring - which I picked out myself and did not like the bigger ones (also: would rather have a new laptop?). But the one person (yup, one person of the 20-30 people I interact with daily) that has even noticed that I have been wearing an engagement ring for the last month and…

Thanks! Have you seen this?

I do not dress up for work - jeans, a decent blouse, maybe brush my hair? - and yet also, without fail, put on my PJs (read:sweats) the moment I get home. If I'm eating dinner in jeans I can't fit everything in, man.

Me too! I was in the ones that are two sizes too big and yet have managed to get pilled where my thighs have rubbed together. Also, hair was in a ponytail/bun explosion thing and had been for long enough that it stayed that way after I took the rubber band out. He was wearing a superman bathrobe with toothpaste on it.…

Have you looked at BHLDN? Yes, they are Anthropologie's wedding line and a lot of their stuff is more up in the thousand range for bridal gowns, but my wedding dress is actually a bridesmaid's dress and was $220 (and I needed a dress for someone whose boobs are two sizes smaller than her ass).

When I was single, I totally never did. Now that I'm not, it's still on A LOT - when I'm cooking, grading, doing homework, whatever. I even stream Netflix on my ipod at night just to listen to old tv shows I like - earbuds in, ipod under my pillow. It's totally unhealthy but since I quit smoking I need something else…

Same here. I can't see anything but white/gold.