Not sterile, and not required to be, as the vagina itself is not sterile. No menstrual device is required to be sterile.

Since the vagina itself is unsterile (houses mainly "good" bacteria), no menstrual device is required to be sterile.

I think that's a fair statement. Your day starts and ends earlier than a night person's. As a night person, I like to sleep from 3am to 11am. So on the weird, ridiculous day that I sleep in until early afternoon—well, yeah, I also feel like I've wasted half my day. :)

Agreed! She's a grad student in a micro lab. I'm a grad student in a cell bio lab. I know that sometimes you have those days, but for the most part...no. She has those long days either because she's incapable of saying "no" or just horribly inefficient and a bad time manager.

YES. I've basically given up on getting out of bed if that happens to me. Dog wakes me up to pee, so I take him out, then jump back into bed and grab a book or browse the Internet, and then bam. An hour later I'm out again until noon.

I have a friend that also likes to post about how she gets into work earlier than everyone else (say, 7, 7:30), then stays later than everyone else too. But she disguises it as a complaint. "Whew! Worked 14 hours today, 12 hours yesterday, and at least 10 hours tomorrow! Not sure if I can keep this up!" She posts…

Right!? I mean, that whole passage was just...woeighlefjlksdjagheilg.

I have the biggest soft spot for any Michael Scott .gif!

It is possible to reset your clock. The big issue is that, for some people (myself included) it takes little to nothing for it to just totally revert back to what it wants to be. So I can get myself set for normal waking time (6am) on weekdays with a full night's sleep, but if I don't continue to get up at 6am on the…

It doesn't matter if I get the right amount of sleep, even for long periods of time. If I have to wake up any earlier than my body wants to, I. Am. Grumpy. 8 hours of sleep? Doesn't matter. I hate it.

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Hahaha, nice! Flowers in the Attic was available in our 7th grade reading class as a book to loan out. Of course we all did. I suppose 12 or 13 isn't too young to be exposed to child abuse and incest, but...wow. I mean, I wasn't scarred by it or anything, so I guess it's not too bad. Though it did lead me on a…

That's my reaction to many small children. I love them to pieces, but don't really want them to touch me most of the time.

I had a really high reading comprehension for my age, so the teachers had my parents transition me to "chapter books" a couple years early. But my folks did kind of a poor job figuring out which books were and were not appropriate for someone only 6 or 7 or 8—so a lot of the insinuated sex/seduction stuff in some of…

Here's a different take that says it will still be a period piece: toronto.com.

I love(d) anything Madeleine L'Engle. I was too young to understand a lot of what was going on in some of her books, though. Going back to them when I was an older teen really helped clarify some stuff. Her books were what got me into science fiction/science fantasy. Fun fact: The first book of hers I read was A Ring…

That's a serious desire to mate, right there. Planes? What planes? Let's sex!

Terrapin is a British English thing. I'm not British, and neither was my zoology professor, but he had us make the distinction. In American English, if they live in water (salt or fresh), they're turtles.

Yeah, the terrapin thing is British, I believe. I'm not sure why our zoo. prof had us use that term, but he did! Silly professor.

In American English, as turtles. Also could be considered terrapins (fresh or brackish water).