I was given a diary a few years ago (I was 24) and I just started keeping one. I had an LJ for years and the diary is a much better, more cathartic way of chronicling my feelings. It's helped me get a handle on quite a few things, relationships, how hugely focussed I am on my career and how much I actually spend on my…

Oh darling. Do you ever want to be with somebody who is so ridiculously influenced by porn culture that he has such restrictive standards? Educate that dude.

Ha -I got the gist of what you were saying. It just upsets me greatly that a perfectly valid science (with some fascinating insights into what we would call 'instinct') is being bastardised to validate rape in the minds of some.

I have been ranting about this for a while (it even caused me to leave Jezebel for a while but I seem to have mysteriously slipped back in)

I've been an insomniac since I was a child and it follows predictable patterns. Gaming can disrupt my sleep schedule if I let it, but it doesn't trigger the insomnia. For me the two things are very different.

Hmmm recommended reading. I specialise in animal behaviour and personality so that's what I'll stick with. If you can get your hands on some of Reale's papers…

No worries! I'm over sensitive about this as (as I said) I'm a behavioural ecologist. I HATE that these awful misogynists are bastardising my work.

Firstly - I think you meant 'evolutionary psychology'

+1 would lol again

Mine turned up on our doorstep four years after she'd been lost (and she'd been lost a few miles from home in one of those stories of human idiocy that meant I didn't talk to my stepfather for a while). She was battered, bruised and very nervous and it took her a while to learn to trust again, but she went on to live…

No worries - just be careful not to state something when you're basing your experience on Islington :)

THAT BASTARD TOLD ME I WAS THE ONLY MORTAL HE'D EVER LOVED!!!!!

What? No, Tesco is a MASSIVE supermarket retailer well known for opening in industrial estates and killing high streets. Not at all like Starbucks. In fact, of all the big UK retailers I'd say Tesco is the most like Walmart, as it also has extensive electronics, home, garden, saddlery, and on at least two within two…

Many years ago I was watching 'Grave of the Fireflies' at my friend's house and her oma laughed quietly to herself throughout the film. My friend and I had a bit of a 'woah' moment. We knew on an intellectual level that as a girl, her oma had to hide in the temples and pretend to be a boy to escape the Japanese, but…

I AM CHARLIE!!!!!!!

I reckon she probably doesn't 'hate' him, he's just not as interesting as her other unicorns so he's not given her high pitched squeaky voice - in fact, he might even be controlled by her dad or big brother.

My reading of Charlie is that he's the plain unicorn toy that a little girl doesn't like playing with (and later his horn breaks) so he gets cast in the Starscream role in all her games. It's Toy Story for those who don't realise they're toys.

Thanks for the link - that was a good story!

You're not - it's my dear hope that I end up with someone whom I never fantasise about killing. In fact, I'd rather stay single than end up with someone who I want to kill. I'm crazy like that.

I maintain that the original (and only, thank you very much) My Little Pony was a socialist feminist utopia.