I read them all. I had just gotten a rabies vaccine and was irrationally afraid I was going to have a reaction to it and die, so I bought chocolate and Twilight for the train ride home. I thought it was irritating abstinence porn, but I also could not put it down. While I did not get rabies, I did get the flu, and…

That’s why we can’t abort them. Duh. We need to make the numbers up somewhere. It’s like rabbits. They have to have so many babies because of the high mortality rate.

When I took the train and read all the time, I got questions almost every day. I’ve told this story before here I think, but when i was a first year vet student, had a guy sit next to me and try to strike up a conversation about my book. It was a romance, and he told me something like I needed to get a man, so I…

When I took public transit and read on trains frequently, I tried this one with varying degrees of success and on one occasion a tirade about how I was not only an ugly stuck up, entitled bitch, but I was rude and ungrateful. I never tried it again.

You probably had better health classes than I did then. Our sex ed used one of those hokey abstinence only books and health itself mainly consisted of the gruff gym teacher showing us anti drug and alcohol videos.

I have no idea how they are teaching about NFP, but I don’t think it’s bad knowledge to have. I actually have no objections to any form of BC (my body violently disagrees with most of them though) and have frequently used a combo of condoms (with the intention of using PLan B in cases of catastrophic failure) and…

I’m not a vegetarian. I eat fish. I don’t eat it weekly, but I do eat it. I also don’t fuss about chicken broth or non-vegetarian cheeses. I’ve eaten this way since high school. My mother claims I am a vegetarian even though I’ve tried to explain that fish are not vegetables.

Maybe better that way. My dad almost never texts me, but when he does the texts are incomprehensible and sometimes not actually meant for me and usually require a 10 minute phone call to sort out.

Possibly you can get them on clearance in November.

The only pair of $10 Target brand yoga pants I’ve ruined so far I spilled bleach on, and I have at least 5 pairs. The fabric isn’t quite as nice as the Champion ones because the black ones catch almost every speck of fuzz from the environment, but they are also non see through and do not pill.

Same principles. Many chemotherapeutic drugs attack rapidly dividing cells. Oversimplifying but, in cancer patients, the goal is to nuke tumor cells and suppressing the immune system is a side effect. In people with auto immune disorders, that’s the goal. Usually the doses are lower, but the chemotherapeutics slow…

That’s incredible. When I was in high school, my chemistry lab partner was gay, overweight and liked crystals, fantasy and was a little Goth. Everyone told me that I should be careful not to let him get my hair because he would put a spell on me. We were in the Northeast and no one was even that religious. He ended up…

The funny thing is that, depending on the group, you would be called a monster for letting your cats out.

Do not listen to those people. Cats have shitty kidneys. They just do. My nutrition professor told us that while there are better diets for kidney failure than others, the single most important thing is to feed a sick cat the best balanced diet it will eat and try to keep it hydrated. Death or euthanasia in kidney…

Not many. Vegetarian, yes, vegan no. I also don’t usually keep clients who want vegan or vegetarian cats because I tell them I think it’s inhumane, and they drop it and feed something more species appropriate or leave in a huff.

Heh. Welcome to my day. I tried to convince a lady that feeding her kidney-diseased cat an unbalanced raw diet not vetted by a nutritionist and not whole prey or appropriately supplemented was dangerous, and she told me that pet food companies pay for vet school, and we don’t have nutrition classes. I offered to show…

Oh yeah, or pet boards. People on those boards have this dogma, and if you go against it, you must be an idiot, and they seem to love to worry everyone. I once tried to give a reasoned response to a lady who was worried about some fairly innocuous symptoms her cat had (FWIW, I’m a vet and have a special interest in…

This is the approach to science favored by almost-6-yo niece:

Yeah. Funny that the breakdown of the nuclear family cause this, yet a lot of the mass shooters had two-parent, suburban-type backgrounds. At least, I think the Columbine shooters, Loughner, Holmes and some of the others did. The one thing all the shooters had in common, though, was easy access to guns. You’d think…

I had fudge with mine tonight, so I’m not one to throw stones.