oh, no. I wax, and I only do that in the summer, maybe once a month or so. I’m blonde enough that you can’t really tell, but I also don’t care very much. I would never in a million years shave every day! Sounds terrible for your skin.

That child probably has an excellent immune system right now!

Oh, they do. I just moved to Kentucky for a job, and now that I have a KY driver’s license it is pretty startling the reactions I get in, say, Chicago. Or the things my friends in Boston say to me about what it must be like in Kentucky, when they question my decision to come here. (And to be fair, rural Kentucky where…

really though? I feel like farmers still have the 5 minutes it takes to change in or out of something at home before & after a funeral. I live in an area with a lot of farmers but people still dress up (in their own versions of what dressing up means).

You are a man, or a scientist, or both.

I completely agree.

My experience of being married was that, as much as we both wanted an equal partnership, the bad old gender roles creep back in, primarily in the sense of me doing much more emotional labor and physical/housekeeping labor. It just crept up on both of us, even though we both, he and I did not want it to be like that. I…

It’s like the sheriff did not realize... there are these people called “doctors” and “midwives” whom one can ask!

while being taped on surveillance video!! and random police officers milling around! It must have been a traumatizing birth on so many levels.

Just saw this. Hahaha — the cost of renter’s insurance isn’t nearly what you think it is. You should really do some research instead of making up random numbers.

Goodness, no, that’s a fundamental misunderstanding of renter’s insurance. People buy renters’ insurance so that, if their apartment burns down or whatever, they can buy new clothes to wear, or a computer or toiletries or other necessities. In other words, when the disaster strikes, the renters’ insurance saves them…

yes!!! I agree. How he reacts to the notion of sex during one’s period, how he reacts to accidental blood on bedsheets — huge litmus test for whether he’s a good & dateable person or not!

ugh. Can you imagine all the cast-off snake skins that python was leaving inside her house walls and around the house??

I wish... but it’s not true.

Yeah, but the stupid curvature at the top of the seatback gives me major pain if I don’t recline, because it forces my head forward in a really uncomfortable position (basically I’m a lot shorter than they designed seats for — the opposite of your problem). So be a mensch if someone like me partially reclines the seat…

I’m short enough that my head hits the wrong part of the seat that curves forward, so instead of having a sort of neck rest, my head is forced forward in a very uncomfortable position. If I recline the seat a little, it relieves the pressure on my back. So yeah, I’ll be doing it —not the full recline, but some recline…

The Austrian thing is nice, but not very important, because the presidency in Austria is ceremonial and very little political power is attached. It’s just symbolic. The figure who would be equivalent to the US President in the Austrian government is actually the chancellor (Bundeskanzler). The US newspapers have not…

You can take yourself off meds if you feel like you’ve been stabilized and don’t need them anymore. I did this myself, and my doctors didn’t even pay attention/notice/say a thing to me about it. The key thing is definitely do NOT go cold turkey. Going cold turkey will definitely cause withdrawal symptoms. You have to…