This may be a bit of a hijack, but to me the problem here is how the psychiatric aspect of the situation was handled. I was essentially forced out of a degree program by a psychiatrist and my parents who told me in no uncertain terms that I was going on medical leave and NOT going back that semester. The school…

The journal of the american vet med association published a study a while back showing a small (less than one visit/night) but statistically significant increase in ER patients on full moon. They also published a study showing that fewer patients come in during afternoon football games. We also do serious studies, I…

I have this friend who fancies himself a big feminist and makes long-winded online posts about how "girls" should be treated and so on. I called him out on it one time, and he basically ignored me and went right on with it. Sigh.

Wasn't that in the New York Times, no less? I still have to pause and think before I say "hadron"!

Could be problematic in a medical document, although presumably reading about a 1.57 meter tumor would make you double check things.

It didn't give me this "I gotta watch that again" feeling though like some other incomprehensible movies.

I actually found that aspect really disappointing about that book, despite myself. I appreciate what Mieville did and the work he put into building that world, but I have this weird thing where if I expect a magical element, I better get my magical element. Conversely, if I expect no magical elements and they are…

I didn't care for it much myself, and I think I heard too much hype too. I didn't understand the point of the plot with the party.

It helps when you have a trained makeup artist follow you around.

What about in German? Hey, I bet all of these would sound awesome in German.

I think I really upset someone when that movie came out by going on a rant about why I hated it. However, he did ask me to expound on my simple "no, I did not like it", so he had it coming. Personally, I not only hated the plot, acting, themes, etc, but I did not find the movie all that visually exciting either. In…

Probably nobody else wants to talk about the Host, but:

I've hated BBT from the moment I got wind of it, and could never sit through more than 5 minutes of an episode, I found it that awful, for the reasons described here. However, I have a number of very geeky friends who absolutely love it and find it hilarious, so it's not THAT offensive to all geeks, and a lot of geeks…

I find just jumping him usually works. Every time we've had a conversation about him needing to initiate more or that we just should do it more often, he nods, but it actually results in LESS sexyfuntimes.

When I was younger I had this idea in my head that sports and nerd-dom were completely mutually exclusive things, and a requirement of membership in the nerd tribe was to look down on sports fans and all things sports. Then I went to college and met some nerds that were into sports. Like, really into sports. It kinda…

Sounds awful to me, actually. Having to spend more than five minutes on my appearance sends me into a fit.

You're probably the only one who loved how the second season was drawn out ;-P In this season, I'm sensing a lot of response to the criticism that season 2 dragged too long. I haven't read the comic myself yet.

The Walking Dead is just turning into an amputee convention isn't it?

There's some "conventional wisdom" floating about out there that if a guy isn't trying to crawl into a girl's pants right off the bat, he's just not that into her or whatever. It took my husband about a month to start seriously putting the moves on me, and it took even more time for things to progress. You're not the…

No one ever made me feel bad on purpose, but everyone talking about sex when I was a virgin at 21 made me feel bad regardless of intention. Once, later on, I made a comment about how I lost my virginity later than most. My friend said "Oh, like at 18?" I had to say "mumble21mumble". She felt really bad and apologized…