I am so sorry you're in so much pain! As someone with chronic pain - since about 15 - I understand completely. I don't really know what's wrong with me, though. I have a degnerated disc in my right shoulder, but my pain goes up my neck and to my jaw, SO lemme just tell you, it sucks. I found that benzodiazepines…

If you try to get on income based repayment, they will look at your combined income ONLY IF you filed a joint tax return this last year. If you are newlyweds and haven't filed taxes jointly yet, then it will only be based on his income.

Wow. This is so incredibly vulnerable. Wow. I am touched. He could've picked a different song, but he didn't. This is so great.

You said it, sister!! Amen. Also, how is buying shit in a hardware store "natural" while shopping for groceries or foot cream or whatever is not?

General question. Can a person be conservative and still a feminist?

"understanding does not stop the emotions" - very good point. I'm glad you said that.

Haha, I don't really put stock into his idea, but they are interesting indeed. CBT is all about changing thought patterns, right?

I love Carl Jung. That's all.

The photo accompanying this piece is just awful. What photographer decided that photo would be a good idea?

"Obama also has set his definition for "middle class" as families with income of up to $250,000 a year."

Hahaha, I've not heard "jelly" used as "jealous." "She's just jelly." ???? What is this? It sounds kind of awesome.

No, I am not an 80 year old elemetary school English teacher. Of course "because" is a correct way to start a sentence. Ending it one word later is not a complete sentence.

I would really like to know when "Because ____" became a complete sentence. I've seen it a lot on Jezebel lately. I think it's my new pet peeve.

I feel like I should qualify and say that I did not like the book because of my second sentence.

I know everyone dislikes Rand, but as a 16 year old, I loved The Fountainhead. She's quite redundant and extreme with her characters. It seemed like there was no grey for her. Anyway, maybe you should still try watching Atlas Shrugged....if you got through any Twilight film, you'll get through this.

I dragged a friend to that movie with me, because I'd read half the book and was curious. It was simply awful. So bad. UGH. so so so so so bad. Not even good bad, like Troll 2. Blerg.

I know. Apparently my mother has attempted to watch Dallas on ...what, TNT or whatever station it's on. She is conservative. Though she doesn't eat McDonald's. She acts too bourgeois for that.

Yeah, that's right. There's the teacher loan forgiveness program, where you have to work 5 consecutive years in a low income school - then you can get $5000 paid off. If you're in science or math, you can get up to 17,500. However, it's a lot of bureaucracy to get the forgiveness actually done, and I am pretty certain…

The only way anyone's gonna get help on their student loans is if they're in public service for ten years and making crap money. Otherwise, like M.D.s in public health, they will most likely pay off the debt before the government will take the hit for it.

I am listening to the Spice Girls Pandora station for the first time.