We make do with an eye pillow (for the early snoozer) and headphones (for the night owl).

I got lasik 10 years ago, but wore contacts before that (and had worn glasses since the age of six). Re. the point about not wanting a dude who wasn't into glasses in the first place, soooo true. When I was a sophomore in college, I headed back to my dorm room with a would-be hookup and excused myself to pop out my …

Linkin Park tattoo FTW!

@ManicPixieNightmare: That's how I read the headline, too... "Take Midol for the crap you deal with all month long!"

@Penny: Fancy donuts was also my thought. They can be a blank canvas and have old-fashioned comfort-food appeal (like cupcakes). But I'm quite sure creative pastry chefs could find allllll sorts of ways to gussy them up.

@MsFeasance: But can't an IUD be removed if you do change your mind? ...I've toyed with the idea of switching from the Pill to an IUD, but I hate the idea that it could fall out (and I equally hate the prospect of having to stick my fingers inside me all the time to check).

@lurkerbynature: Actually, FotF says in this position statement [[www.family.org]] that the Pill is "controversial" because it's believed that it can prevent implantation of a fertilized egg sometimes. The fundamentalist Protestants are equally hostile to the Pill as Catholics.

@sportz.star: As a nekkid sleeper, I wholeheartedly endorse this advice. I usually wind up sleeping in my workout gear and forgoing the workouts to keep them clean(ish) for nighttime.

Me and the BF who would (much) later become Mr. IvyLeague: Tail end of senior year of college... neither of us has our own place yet, and we went to school 2 hours away from each other, so finding a place/time to hook up was always a high priority.

@RizzRustbolt: Esau? I don't even watch the show, I just wanted to play the guessing game!

@elizaboo: Except no one would come out and *say* "This is the reason we don't support her." They'd just claim she wasn't a U.S. citizen or had a falsified birth certificate or something.

@bluebears: The flowers, obvs. /sarcasm

@PhillyLass: No, adding a little zip to it isn't weird! My cheese sauce gets a light shake of garlic powder, a blob of dijon and a *few* flakes of red pepper. Elevates plain cheddar like nobody's business.

@CurtCole: Not ready for kids yet?

@MagImpalor: I see we went to the same youth group ;-)

@deeemer: She's 30, but she's been hearing it for so long she's totally internalized it. Believe me, I've tried. She's like, "It's just a bunch of people competing to see who can complain the loudest." She's got such a negative view of any sort of support system... She's been so isolated (again, due to my mom) that…

Breaks my heart. My sister has CF, and my mom has always instilled in her not to get involved with 65 Roses, the CF Foundation or other groups because "those people die." When I think that my sister could be a much happier, better-supported person if she only had a network of people who care, it really upsets me.

@Algren: Ooh, more info please!

@pssshwhatever: I think all of the changes, excluding the nose, are due to her losing weight. I'm honestly not sure about the nose. It looks like it could be the lighting in the "before" shot.

Great article. Thanks. This topic is a pet (peeve) of mine: the whole tat-equals-trashy meme and the notion that you *can* judge a book by its cover if the subject is inked.