When I was 16 or so, out to dinner with my family, an older man creep-stared at me from across the restaurant so long and so hard that it made my little brother uncomfortable, so my brother draped his table napkin over my head and face. Problem solved— I WISH!

What has helped me to try to lose weight while living with a marathon runner is cooking just enough portions of food. Like, if a portion of steak is 3-oz, instead of getting 2 steaks for 2 people (like we used to), he'll make one 12-oz steak and I'll take 1/4 of it. He also uses massive Fiestaware, while I eat out of…

OMG. Why did you show me this?? I want to show up to yoga class with a magic carpet mat under my arm and a peplum blazer over my sports bra.

Now that's impressive!

Twins! Except I don't drive— so I do the Belle walk to work and then, if I can get away with it, I keep the book open on my lap, under the desk.

Me too! It gave me 9 months, and my venue is booked in 8. :)

Living the dream! :)

I need to get married in this.

That's awesome. One day at work a coworker with a Philly accent turned around and asked me out of the blue "Do you ever watch hardcore porn?"

Actually, nectarines are fine, as well as apricots and plums. Personally, I prefer the crunchy white nectarines because they have a less peach-like color and texture (in case of a grocery store mixup).

Oh man! I get that all the time with my peach allergy. People always ask if I have tried canned or cooked peaches. And they seem genuinely surprised when I explain (gently through suppressed rage) that I'd rather avoid all peaches forever than die testing the limits of my allergy.

Brian Posehn.

This is really heartening for an aspiring writer who happens to also be female.

Same here! Apparently it's so cold outside that the heating system powered down to protect itself from the cold, while sacrificing the rest of us!

I was in NYC for the big east coast power outage about a decade ago, and as I walked back to the hotel through the car-less streets and made friends with strangers, I met a woman who had been caught in the subway by the blackout and during her walk through the tunnels had rats crawling all over her legs.

The way I read it was as the result of a racist father. A Latin guy would be forbidden fruit to her, specifically, only if her white dad voiced objections to her ever dating a Mex'can.

My "favorite" is Harold! I can't even hear that name without getting the willies!

Same reason lots of people are insecure about their weight or nose shape or body hair or cup size or skin color, etc. When one size/shape/configuration gets normalized it makes everyone who falls outside of that trait insecure about it.

Good point! I was reminded while watching Dallas Buyers Club that Leto is not an attractive man because he is pretty like a girl.