Yup.

I have a huge scab that took forever to stop weeping just below my knee, from my leg falling in the uncovered hole leading to a rain gutter (I’m shocked I didn’t break it). Now that it’s finally scabbed over, it’s got a number of black, white and blue fibers sticking out of it. Black and denim blue being from my…

I wish I were a stress puker. I’m a stress farter. That seems like it would be better, not worse, but when you fart just as you’re most stressed (on stage, in an interview), it sure feels worse.

I know it sounds like I’m making fun of you, but I’m not. I’m not joking at all - I am a stress farter. The anonymity of the…

“I am basically incapable of not picking someone that will eventually bail” - I felt that way too, until I realized, like 99.9% of all relationships fail. Maybe you date between 20 and 200 guys, and of those, let’s say, 200, *1* may go the distance, meaning that 99.5% of your relationships have already failed. Of that…

There are some habits you can’t get used to. You can’t fully know what another person thinks or sees when the house is a mess until you’ve lived with them. Even if you’ve spent a lot of time at their place - they probably clean up for your visit more than they would if you lived together! Even if you talk about it - a…

Why would weed have to be curtailed to extinction? I smoke more weed than my husband.

Dunno...for me it felt necessary. I learned a lot about my core assumptions being wrong, and not only how to argue my deeply-held values but also to be conscious of them and be able to articulate them - something I couldn’t do when I started dating and may have never learned to do had I not been faced with those…

One thing I’ve learned: being incapable of compromise doesn’t actually seem to affect being single or not. I’ve got a problem with compromise: I only started dipping my toe into it in the past few years. I’m not very good at it. I try, but...well, I try.

And I’m married - surprisingly happily so, seeing as I can be a…

How do you know a breakup or painful thing you’ve been through IS the final nail?

YEAH!

My great grandfather was an Armenian from Musa Dagh, near Hatay, and his betrothed was from Tarsus. He was serving in the Turkish military in 1915. When he found out what was happening, he deserted - he had to - and became a freedom fighter. He snipered away several officers tasked with manning the death marches,…

I would not have known about it if my grandfather hadn’t been an Armenian from Turkey, and my great grandparents genocide survivors.

As the granddaughter of an Armenian originally from Musa Dagh in Turkey and born in Greece, and the great-granddaughter of two genocide survivors, I feel the same way. They can try to dismiss it away all they want, but when that many survivors come forward to say what they suffered, and when your own great grandfather…

None of them are any good. Not for the front-line workers who are fine, but their corporate policies on how to best treat customers like crap.

The pilots, flight attendants, dispatchers etc. aren't the problem.

Sort of. Geishas for private hire are still around - but only the wealthiest men can afford to hire them. But you can bet that Mr. Toyota, Mr. Honda, the guy who founded Nissan (who is not named Nissan) etc. regularly call upon geishas.

Same here...makes me pale, dizzy, tired and cranky. No BC pills for me. No kind works.

I actually wasn't...I was completely fine and felt quite normal. But I think I'm a bit of an oddball weirdo in that regard.

Oh shit.

The honeymoon was actually great, but this sticks out in my head:

I live in Taiwan and just today I heard a radio commercial that went (in Chinese): “Learn English at ____ School and take classes with beautiful Teacher Emily or clever Teacher Ben!”

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