Honest inquiry: I thought convicted felons could not vote? She spent a full year in jail on felony counts of obstructing justice related to insider trading. (FWIW I am a huge Martha Stewart fan and its cool AF if she can still vote).

Having see the inside of a runway couture gown a few times (just a look, god help me I wish I could afford them) they have built-in heavy-boned corsets. i have no doubt the designer or designer’s alterations expert got her exact measurements and altered it to support her figure precisely. This is one of those rare…

I get that the post was written, before this fact was realized, but the death of her father was why she was not smiling and acting stiff, pure and simple. Tacking that fact on at the end--frankly, the whole post needs to be re-written to reflect that the woman just lost her father. Because maybe, juuuust maybe, maybe…

I had a three bone two disk inter-body lumbar spinal fusion a month ago. This was after 4 years of chronic back pain that left me pretty much bed-ridden. I am in my mid-thirties and was in a PhD program at the time--5 years in PhD after 2 years of masters program. I basically had to take medical leave after medical…

you need to write a memoir. this is crazy-interesting.

No problem, definitely feel free to send any other questions my way (I lurk on Groupthink a lot). You can ask for small samples at department stores like Nordstrom, so you can try before you invest in a huge bottle of something.

You can always call for an ambulance in an emergency, always. You can always call 911 and say someone is hurt, and get an ambulance. There are Good Samaritan laws to protect your right in doing so. The person injured has the right to refuse treatment by the emergency personnel, and will not get billed for it if he…

I think it was good when they were younger to have each other in the same class, but now that they are a little bit older separating them into different classes is a solid learning tool that they can be independent of one another and don’t need to have the other around all the time for support. They will not be…

Doing makeup is a skill that takes practice. Like riding a bike. You don’t do it perfectly the first few times, and make mistakes, and learn from them. And you will learn, with practice and time, not to fiddle with your face so much when you wear makeup.

Dated a professor once. He made $85 grand a year (which is a lot more than I make that’s for sure), summers off too, and had TAs to grade all his papers. So he basically lectured a few hours a week, sat in committees a few hours a week, had few office hours a week. Your description spot-on. Cheap-ass rusty car that…

Wow, that sounds so freaking scary. Glad you are ok, and that the asshole neighbor is now a ‘former’ neighbor.

My thoughts exactly.

Unfortunately, when I ordered my second drink, they refilled my old glass with a shot of bourbon and my old orange peel and my old ice, which is really disappointing.

Want support for your boobs? Buy a smaller size.

I envy your shower. Every shower should have two shower-heads and a built-in bench. Should be in the building code or something.

Slam dunk. This news made my day. The ‘show-mance’ was a total publicity stunt designed to get them both more press, and it blew up in their faces. First Kim/Kanye brought the receipts to reveal her to be a lying manipulative ‘victim,’ the romance made Hiddleston fans flee their beloved Loki, now Tom is out of the…

Suggestion: Get yourself a trifle bowl, or little trifle cups, and serve it up that way. A frozen trifle. It’s a new invention, Ad Infinitum’s Frozen Trifle! Kind of like this, just kind of scoop the ice-creamy cakey fruity concoction goop into a decorative bowl or little decorative cups, and if you want to be fancy…

The running away from your seemingly successful life, that nagging feeling of being lost, this is very normal and natural for your age. Really. Most people out there are faking the hell out of it. But if you are looking for answers, they are, indeed inside of you. Talk Therapy. Journaling your feelings and having your…

I am a woman, and was date-raped twice, by two different guys. I was given an incurable STD from one of these encounters, genital herpes, which i deal with to this day (I actually have a breakout right now as I type this, lucky me).

“Good health is sometimes a matter of luck. Sometimes no matter what a person does they can’t change their health.”