Facebook has actually decided not only am I pregnant but I'm a teen mom. I get the weirdest ads for that reason. I'm a 27 year old with an empty uterus though so I just assume I'm too awesome for their algorithm.

I think my own history with illness and being into genealogy make me so very aware why vaccines are important. On the one hand I had cancer and was severely immuno-compromised during that time so walking in public was very terrifying. Then when I find death certificates for my relatives and see little children dying…

I was at college during chemo and my college asked me to leave for a week during a measles outbreak. They said that disability services would be in touch on note taking while I was gone (which was during a planned chemo time anyway) but no one called me until 10 months later, the week before I graduated. I'm thankful…

That's a great point. For me, I knew I was 20 years old and studies showed nearly identical success rates with 6 rounds of chemo versus 4 chemos + 20 rads for Hodgkins. Knowing I had 40+ years of life ahead of me if treatment was successful, I didn't want to limit that number by having radiation which would add…

Absolutely. I know I heard about it on NPR and the whole idea was that you could remember the event without remembering the emotions tied to the event. There are several events I wish I could recall rationally.

As a former paralegal I was going to say how I pity his legal assistant.

25 meant a lot to me. 3 weeks before my 20th birthday I was diagnosed with cancer. Turning 25 meant I'd survived 5 years. It was kind of a somber event for me because I could only think of what I'd lost along the way. I hope by the time I hit 30 (so 10 years cancer free if all goes well) I'll be in the mood to…

Howdy neighbor! I too feel supreme levels of hate for Akin. I'm scared for the election and what his winning might mean for us. I wish we were still considered a swing state but that doesn't seem to be the case. I hope Akin really buries himself in a hole a la Matt Blunt and clears the way for Claire.

That's how I was raised and while I did go through a soda drinking period in college (damn you root beer) I rarely drink them to this day and it's still all those caffeine-free flavors I was fed back then, so orange, grape, and root beer. I love drinking water and flavored iced teas I brew myself.

I don't know what definition you are using but that's not the commonly accepted usage. There are such things as non-infectious diseases.

My friend teaches abroad in South Korea and says all the Americans like to go there for Thanksgiving because they have Thanksgiving themed samples for all the people out of place on the holiday.

Some people really just can't get over the Cold War.

You aren't by chance from Missouri are you? I mean that is my gifted program in detail. Trailers, toothpick bridges, balancing a checkbook to compete for a movie night, competing singing songs in foreign languages, etc. I'm kind of weirded out about how similar your program sounds to mine.

Thank you for mentioning that. I kind of forgot that's why I'm different to some extent. I work a dead-end job that I often feel is worthless even though I like it because all day long I just think about how to work more efficiently or make patterns out of the work I do. It really is about thinking differently and not…

I totally identify with that. I have chronic anxiety so in school I was so terrified to fail I would just not try or make it obvious I was "attempting to fail to make a statement" (impassioned rebel stage) so people wouldn't see me as anything but a brilliant person for my public persona. I felt like every day was a…

The worst part for me as a gifted kid was that I just wanted to be a teacher. In my mind it was a way to just be average which is what I had always wanted.

I met one of my best friends in gifted class. This summer, the hottest on record, we both decided without telling each other that we would do the Couch to 5k program with our husbands. When we both failed on the same day I mentioned it to her and she's like "I'm doing that too!" and I followed it up with "If we were…

I was so upset by that. The men got screwed by NBC. I'm hoping to see some online when I can sit down and watch the lot of them.

Only boring people are bored.

My dog is a trim little beast. We exercise together doing the Couch to 5K program (we're starting week 8 today) and she runs on the grass while I run on the asphalt. For food, I do a mostly grain-free diet but it is affordable. Seriously, best bang for your buck is at Costco. My dog likes lamb so I pay a premium but I…