I bought an open jaw plane ticket to Europe for late March in late November - I watched the fares for a couple of months, and it became pretty obvious that I wasn't going to do any better than $850, so when they went on sale for that price again, I grabbed it. So far I have not seen anything better - even now, fifty…

Same here. Because I started puberty early, I *stopped* puberty before I was really done growing. Not that I got the short end of the stick; I'm still well over 5'8, but with my family history, I should have been at least 5'10.

I started puberty around 8-9 (I was a bit on the low end of the birth weight scale due to being three weeks late, which can also trigger early puberty), and almost thirty years later I STILL have acne.

Salad Fingers! So creepy, so awesome.

Honestly, manshep was perfectly acceptable to me with regard to the voice acting. It's just that Jennifer Hale so completely eclipsed him...

It really depends on who's asking. (ie, me too!)

Accompanied by a sugar-sweet, yet psychologically withering "Bless your heart."

*hands in the air* I too have the perfect Ice Queen demeanor to go with a stern default expression. If I'm not swearing a blue streak or otherwise verbally venting a lot of steam, odds are I am NOT angry, I'm just off in my own little world. (alas, I cannot be snarky to people who get all Smile Honey Life's Not So Bad…

99% of the time it's a non-event for me too, but there was one incident where I visited a Catholic hospital for an exam - I was new to the city, I didn't have a car, it was the closest place, and I don't care if there are crosses on the wall as long as they do their jobs. Big mistake. The doctor was far more concerned…

I was once on a sailboat in the southeastern Caribbean, a couple miles off the shore from Grenada - the only source of manmade light were lamps at either end of the ship. Under conditions like that, you can most certainly see that much detail in the sky. I was *flabbergasted* - and dragged a mat and a pillow up on…

I learned the same thing, except I was verbally vicious, not physically, and I had to learn that I didn't have to put my Bitch Panties on every time I got in a disagreement with someone.

I HATE IT when people - 99% of the time it's been white men over the age of 40 - wonder aloud what's so horrible with my life that I look so angry and tell me to smile. I have a very stern default expression - if I'm not muttering imprecations, I'm not angry; I'm just off in my own little world. This usually happens…

The only movie I can remember giving me nightmares as a kid was the original Beastmaster - namely the scene where Rip Torn throws small children into the flames, but also the bipedal pterodactyl things that wrapped their wings around people and digested them in about fifteen seconds flat, dropping the bones to the…

I like the ** of Night books better as far as unnerving Simmons books go. Of course, despite that factor, Children of Night still makes me want to hop on the next plane to Budapest...

I had this happen before cell phones were common. I stepped to the next counter where a flight to another city (that wasn't far from my destination) was boarding, explained that my flight was being canceled due to weather, asked if I could get a connection if they had room on the flight, and ten minutes later I was on…

This is one of my favorite books ever, period (I've bought SO many copies between replacing my dogeared paperbacks and gifts for other people) and on the one hand I'm really excited... but on the other hand, I'm really worried. Game of Thrones came out far better than I ever could have hoped for; will luck extend to…

This is one of my favorite books ever, period (I've bought SO many copies between replacing my dogeared paperbacks and gifts for other people) and on the one hand I'm really excited... but on the other hand, I'm really worried. Game of Thrones came out far better than I ever could have hoped for; will luck extend to…

This is one of my favorite books ever, period (I've bought SO many copies between replacing my dogeared paperbacks and gifts for other people) and on the one hand I'm really excited... but on the other hand, I'm really worried. Game of Thrones came out far better than I ever could have hoped for; will luck extend to…