White lights are classier, but colored is more fun. I use white on my current tree, but my favorite tree we ever had was actually BOTH: colored lights burning steadily with white lights set to twinkle. It was amazing.

We were required to take 2-3 years of a foreign language (2 for recommended graduation plan and 3 for honors), and the options at my school were Spanish, French, German, or Latin.

I took 5 years of Latin in school, and I graduated high school in 2004. I took 3 years in high school and 4 semesters in college. I got my first degree in English and now work at a law firm, and Latin is pretty damn useful, although it mostly just means I get really annoyed when people do citations and list authors…

Up until recently they kicked Marvel's ass at making cartoons, though.

I spend more on DC Comics products than groceries every month, maybe twice as much between comics and the other licensed products I tend to snatch up, but the last DC film I saw was Dark Knight. I skipped Rises, skipped Superman, and planned to skip this one too.

I like her look in general well enough that I'm open to giving her a chance.

"allows our country's most privileged people to feel needlessly prosecuted"

Yeah, I'm in Austin, and not interested in kids so I don't have that looming over me. It definitely gives me more freedom to not give a damn.

Pretty sure. She was in Hawaii studying birds in the area at the time.

Man, I didn't even say a word to him about it, though. I had no idea what was going on, and I'd had a hard enough time dealing with the fact that I'd recently learned that he didn't know my real name for our first two dates (because we'd met on Livejournal and I used a pseudonym).

A friend of a friend literally dated a lumberjack named like, Butch or something, a couple years ago. It was amazing. Hence my inclusion of lumberjacks in the suggestions! I have no idea if he was clingy or not, though. They broke up because she caught some weird tropical disease and spent months in the hospital,…

When I was younger and first started dating, I was also a lot more interested in how things were "supposed" to be. I knew how I was meant to act toward my boyfriend according to everything I'd ever seen, so I did that: I told him I missed him, when I didn't. I acted like I was thrilled when he said he loved me, even…

Boo. I'm out of ideas then.

I've agreed to attend this party, but it makes me kind of uncomfortable. He's planning to propose at dinner and then bring her back to this surprise engagement party full of all her friends, and I'm like... what if she says no? I have no idea what she thinks of marrying him, because we're not that close, and I don't…

Maybe it has to do with the type of guys you date? Maybe I wouldn't have this problem if I dated a mechanic or a lumberjack, but instead I date musicians, photographers, and marketing majors.

Basically this:

My first boyfriend became my boyfriend (I'd intended more of a FWB arrangement) because when I met his best friend after our third date, he introduced me as "My girlfriend Katie" and, being 18, I went along with it.

Some of them manifest it the same way women do. I've gone out with multiple guys who texted me 20+ times a day whether I responded or not, jumped straight from the first date to Serious Relationship, freaked out and apologized if I seemed to want to do anything other than be with them every day, etc.

I'm going to a surprise engagement party this weekend for a friend whose boyfriend is proposing after 4 months of dating. If a guy I was dating did that to me at that point I would nope the fuck out so hard.

it sets the "correct" default behavior based on male preference for "less" interaction, and works back from there