Honestly, it’s never even been a long weekend for me. I haven’t had a day off for Columbus since literally kindergarten, which was 26 years ago.

I only know one person who has lupus, and she has never had chemo, but I used to work for a woman who had cerebellar ataxia (which is an autoimmune disorder) and she was on chemo. Her case was really severe though.

Good for you, and also, what the fuck is an eco dentist?

When they announced that Rooney Mara had been cast as Tiger Lily and everyone got mad, Joe Wright said people needed to withhold judgment because there was going to be an international, multiracial cast. Then he just kept casting more white people. From what I can see in the trailers, it’s white actors in lead roles,…

When I was pregnant it basically felt like my fetus was trying to kill me. I once puked 24 times in 24 hours.

I watched a behind the scenes video with the Mad Men costume designer, and she was showing Christina Hendricks’ dresses. They all looked shapeless on the hanger.

Pinkham’s Law: At least the bride in the first story didn’t get too carried away with her wedding planning.

My first year of college, my suite was in the basement right next to the laundry room. One night my roommate was doing laundry and I heard her freaking out, so I opened our back door (which opened into the laundry room and saw her poised to kill a a three inch praying mantis that was on the floor. “NO!” I yelled.…

I stabbed a kid with a pen in 8th grade. I saw him in the grocery store a couple years ago (~15 years later) and he still has the “tattoo.” I hope it is a daily reminder that he shouldn’t harass girls who make it clear they aren’t interested in him, but he is dumb, so he probably thinks it’s some symbol of what he…

I saw Jane Eyre with a bunch of friends, and afterwards I was like, sometimes when he was talking, I realized I was just staring at him and hadn’t heard anything he said. And my friends were all like, Yeah, me too.

I love that Peter Capaldi’s Doctor wears a wedding ring because Capaldi was like, I just don’t take it off. Ever. Make it part of the costume.

Exactly. It’s a casserole, not a pizza. You’re supposed to use a fork to eat a casserole.

You have gotten some really good responses, but another thing to consider is this: Some people aren’t baby people. Almost everyone struggles with children of a particular age/stage of development. I think 7 year olds are the fucking worst, for example. But even when you have a 7-year-old that you find annoying, you…

There was a Dear Prudence letter once from a bride asking how to talk her soon to be mother-in-law out of wearing a baby blue spaghetti strap dress to the wedding. Prudence was not sympathetic.

Yeah, my mom was freaked out about it for a long time because he had to have a blood transfusion and it was 1982 and the blood supply wasn’t screened.

I didn’t want to circ my kid because my brother almost bled to death after his*, but my husband was circed when he was 14, and he was insistent on doing it when the kid was born.

Oh my god! I never thought of that! Getting a new, jankier car tomorrow!

I read an interview with him awhile back where he said that he didn’t know anything about the books going into it, he auditioned because of the director’s (Catherine Hardwicke), previous work, which was all cool indie stuff (Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown), and he assumed it would be the same.

Um... can you do the same thing for baby rhinos? I saw a documentary about one once, and it was the cutest thing ever, but I really do not have room for a fully grown rhino in my apartment.

My husband proposed with a fake ring so that I could pick out my own. He couldn’t take the pressure of picking the ring. He said it was like trying to choose a tattoo for someone. Luckily he has a family friend who is an antique jewelry dealer, so he told her our price range and what I might be interested in seeing…