OMG. My friend introduced me to The Gage my first time in Chicago and I am completely obsessed. I will not visit her unless going there is on the agenda. ETA: My menu go-to has been the curried mussels, but now I'm totally trying the egg next time I'm in town.

Oh, thank Christ it's not just me. I have mascara tracks from that shit.

Haha. I get you. I had mistakenly assumed you were the receptionist's boss.

Fail #1, friending your boss. My boss had to add me so I could manage social media, and she went straight into the restricted pile.

I'll be recording secretary.

Oh, Burt. We have so many of the same celebrity loves.

Everything about this look screams wrong: the cross trainers with those jeans, the no-shirt shopping, the jewelry. And yet, all together on him, perfect.

Dating or finding someone is the last thing on my mind, because I can't picture how it could work with the way my life is.

Wouldn't her lawyer go with whatever charges/claims would be likely to bring the largest settlement? It's a no-brainer malpractice and/or negligence. I cannot imagine being impregnated by sperm I didn't in some way select to have in my body (imagine if it were a hetero couple and they didn't use the husband's…

They were, theoretically. Their child becomes The Huntress. :-)

Anti-feminist, rapey original material be damned: Sleeping Beauty is my absolute favorite Disney animated feature and I will never apologize for it. NEVER!

I know. I was volunteering there for about two years (just don't have time at the moment) and it was all kinds of ridiculous how much I wanted to bring them home. I nearly came back with a 17-year-old snowshoe I was going to name Lady MacBeth.Fortunately, she found a home with a different graduate student (not me).

Shelter my babies came from (shameless plug for the amazing Lawrence Humane Society here) does a great job. For a while they were on a "The Princess Bride" kick and had Fezzik and Inigo Montoya available. Right now it looks like a "True Blood" fan got naming rights over the new kittens. Who wouldn't adopt a baby…

He can totally have my soul.

Secrets in Coffeyville, according to the papers. I'm not sure if The Outhouse would be a step up or down from that.

I don't know about peace; I'm most certainly a work in progress. I do know binge eating is a disorder in its own right — my own struggle with it has gotten a lot better from a strict "how much I eat" standpoint, but it still is something that dominates my thought landscape most of the time. Downplaying problems (and…

I was a "bad" bulimic for a number of years, off and on from age 13 to 28. I say "bad" because I wasn't consistent, and if you look up the medical definition I wasn't consistent enough for a diagnosis. But in reading piece by "real" bulimics or former bulimics, it almost makes me feel better when I can identify,…

We have to laugh or we'd cry. I thought it was hilarious because it's such a spot-on description.

Well, and wasn't that part of Amy's thing about being The Cool Girl? She was older but could snag a younger guy because she was so The Cool Girl. And when she wasn't that anymore, he bailed on her. (Not that she wasn't damaged in her own right, but that was part of the catalyst for her actions, if IIRC.)

My book took a flight and crashed into the wall when I got to the second half. I mean, I'd totally use this book in a creative writing class when talking about unreliable narrators, but GOOD GOD I HATE THEM ALL.