Turkey! You can go to Istanbul, Ismir, Cappadocia… It's an awesome place to travel!

Lolololol this comes to mind: http://www.theonion.com/articles/expre…

WHATEVER, READING COMPREHENSION IS FOR SOCIALISTS

Hey! A really great book is "Marks of Identity" by Juan Goytisolo. It's pretty difficult, so maybe it would take a while to get through, but I highly recommend it!

OH MY GOD. My roommate is SO ANNOYING with this. Anytime I'm cooking, she comes into the kitchen and is like "What's that?" or "How do you make it?" or my favorite, "Why are you cooking that?" I'M COOKING LENTILS BECAUSE I WANT TO EAT LENTILS, DUHHHHH

Your son is 10, so he'll be going to high school in a few years, yeah? Maybe that will help, if the high school is big enough to have a theater program/chess club/whatever extracurriculars he'll be interested in. Definitely worked for me!! :)

YAAAAY let's be internet friends

Don't worry about dressing "French". Whenever people come abroad to visit me, they're always worried about dressing "European", but you're going to look like a tourist anyway because you're taking pictures of all the monuments. Just wear whatever is comfortable, as long as your "comfortable" is not bald eagle USA USA…

Maybe it's just because I'm your friendly neighborhood communist hippie grad school TA, but I think it's great to encourage sharing knowledge with your peers! Your classmate might get an F or a B or an A+, but in no way are his grades going to affect yours. If you share your notes with this guy, you should be proud of…

You want me to make my bed every day??? I can only hope 2015 will be the Year of the Dirty Hippie...

That's the point of a lot of the protests here (I've been living in Madrid for the past 3+ years). When Franco was around, only the rich could afford to send their daughters/wives to London to get abortions- the poor had to either carry the pregnancy to term, or risk extremely unsafe back-alley abortions. So…

NOW YOU CAN! http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/video…

EDIT sorry it triple posted

Edit because I triple posted… But good news from Spain! Their Supreme Court has released a statement saying that the law is anachronic and recommended that they stop trying to pass it, because otherwise they'll just shut it down (Source: http://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/infor… )

Link here! http://www.que.es/ultimas-notici…

What browser did you use?!?!?!

Well, certainly not with an attitude like that!! Haha. Just remind yourself of all the things you like about yourself (maybe keep a list?). It'll give you a confidence boost, which will help you NOT ONLY in your love life but also life life. You're going to have tons of girlfriends and lady friends and relationships…

I highly recommend couchsurfing! I've met a ton of really cool people that way, and it's always nice to have a free tour guide :) This is only really logistically possible if you're traveling alone or with one other person, though. Also, you're definitely going to spend more money than you mean to (London is sooooo…

I agree with cinquopated… Time, and maybe finding someone else! I've always found that a good one-night-stand can leave me feeling renewed after a bad break-up ;)

I HATE THAT. Sometimes you just need to vent, you know? And when things aren't looking great, you need to be like EVERYTHING SUCKS and have someone just lend an ear. Not give advice that you didn't ask for. Stupid advice givers.