Parking is... always a PITA in the city. I’m a lot more familiar with housing in University City than Center City, which tends to be pretty pricey. I did have classmates who lived there, but most of them had SOs with actual incomes or lots of parental contributions.

I saw that. It’s very sad, but pretty common for owners whose dogs have attacked people, especially kids, to do this to try to avoid or minimize legal trouble. It’s sad that they put down a young dog, and the attack was almost certainly at least in part the result of poor socialization, training and supervision, but…

That kitty is so over the bandanna and leash.

Yes, this 1000 times. I have terrible anxiety, and if I had dragged myself to therapy and recognized myself in a piece like this, I can’t even imagine how betrayed I’d feel. I’d certainly have a tough time ever going to therapy again, and I’m sure reading pieces like this doesn’t help people who need therapy feel…

I also had a male doctor poke me in the stomach and tell me I needed to get rid of that pooch ( I have a small lower belly pooch- I had a tiny one even when I was 112 lbs, a size 0 and working out constantly). At the time he did this, I was 124 lbs at 5’5, 22 years old and had a history of eating disorders and…

Yeah, but the doctrinal discussions and debates on Papal infallibility are a rabbit hole that I have little interest in and none of the people to whom I’m referring seem to really be interested in the subtleties of anyway. Now, my ex-nun, theology scholar great aunt would give you a good debate on those, but the…

That’s pretty great. Except for my dad, all of my relatives on one side of the family were completely not religious for years, despite being raised Catholic, and used to be lots of fun. Then, they all found religion and became die-hard Republicans. Now, it requires copious amounts of alcohol to tolerate them for long…

This describes my ultra-conservative Catholic relatives perfectly. Mostly, they go red in the face trying to do the mental gymnastics of explaining how the Pope is absolutely and totally infallible except when he disagrees with the party line at FOX news.

I don’t know. I think I would have been more grossed out when I was younger. Now, except for the fact that he’s writing it about a 17 year old, which does gross me out, all I can think of is that the lyrics are exceptionally bad. Also, who uses the word “vagina” in “raunchy” lyrics where he’s already used the word…

Because they’re cute. People have bred bulldogs to the point that many of them can barely breathe, have horrible orthopedic issues issues and can largely not give birth unassisted.

Mine like to wait until I am in some precarious pose and park their furry bodies directly under me as if daring me to fall on them.

I’m surprised at how often people say that to me. When I went to vet school, I even had people tell me it was due to some sort of mommy urge, like I invested time, money and large swaths of my sanity into a difficult academic program because of my repressed desire for a baby. From what I can gather, in some people’s…

As a teenager, I was a size 2/4 and started with a C cup that was rapidly heading to a DD. We had uniforms, so I started buying size 12 or 14 shirts under which I wore tank tops. If it was cold enough, I covered that with a baggy sweater.

Yeah, I grew up in a red part too though not in one of the most extreme parts. When you look at an election map, the red areas are the extreme north, the extreme south and a triangle slice in the middle with the point narrowing near Trenton, short of the western edge, and widening with the base getting a lot of the…

I grew up in the same area and we essentially had to drive through Deliverance to get to my grandmother’s house.

I know. I saw “18 years ago,” and realized that I am old, and I don’t care. I want to breed Chocobos.

Yes, they seem to view it as akin to getting a kitten from a shelter or from the people down the road who found a pregnant stray cat.

Apparently, not even other women realize this sadly. When my sister was pregnant and I remarked that she was tired, my cousin informed me with the air of revealing a profound and complicated truth, “she has a person growing inside her.” I was, at the time,past 25 and a third year veterinary student. Possibly, she…

Okay:

No, she got it read by a radiologist at a mammogram and then set up for the next step, which you stated NEVER happened. And, yes radiologists are in fact qualified to perform sterostatic biopsies. And, yes, it was a regular mammogram. It;s not unusual around here for radioogy centers to have radiologists immediately…