My husband and I met in grad school and didn't hit it off immediately. We got stuck in the same miserable class together on Monday nights. It talked about music history, and one night the instructor went on an endless ramble about Schubert's "syphilis attacks" and kept saying the nonsense phrase "syphilis attacks"…

This one happened to me, relatively recently.

Oh man. This went from awesome to goddamn disaster really fast.

How to have a healthy romantic relationship. That chemical responses are not necessarily love. That love does not necessarily conquer all. What characteristics are important in a life partner. How to value myself enough to learn the above at a much younger age than I did.

The NFL Draft.

OH MY GOD

The DJ we hired called 2 days before the wedding to say he got a "better gig," and wouldn't be at our wedding. But said he would send a sub. Not happy, but we had already agreed that the DJ would only play songs designated by us, using our CDs (NO chicken dance for us!) so how bad could he screw it up? When I arrived,…

My ex MiL decided that our low-key wedding just "wouldn't do." She went as far as to print her own set of invitations to the wedding and send them to people we didn't invite...about 50 of them. She went to the florist behind our backs and changed the types and colors of the flowers (which we discovered by accident…

Wait, I'm confused about the last paragraph. So she casually mentions abortion, which this site has asked for in media for ages - the ability to talk about abortion as a part of many women's lives without the emotion or drama that people assume come with it. So this show does it, and yet you complain that "It…

Mint is a great free app/service that keeps track of everything. The only scary part is that you have to input all of your account numbers, etc. so that it CAN track stuff.

A couple years after the banana-stabbing phase, I graduated to the next step in sexual self-discovery where I would think about the kid from Jungle2Jungle's nipples (not the rest of him, just his nipples) while laying on and making out with a faux-sheepskin rug in the "only-for-guests" living room.

When I was in 2nd grade, my class made gingerbread cookies. The teachers orchestrated an elaborate ruse where they pretended the gingerbread cookies ran away. They left flour trails around the school, and wrote messages from the gingerbread cookies with chalk. Messages like "Run run as fast as you can, can't catch…

I used to dress bananas up as "ladies" (this was achieved by scotch taping tissues around tip of the banana) and then steal a needle out of my grandmother's sewing kid and use it to poke holes into the banana stem. It made me feel SUPER excited, in a sort of proto-sexual way. I was about 6 or 7 when I did this, and as…

When I was about six I used to smear myself with ketchup and lie on the sidewalk pretending to be dead anytime I saw any vultures flying around. My dastardly plan was to catch one and train it to catch and deliver to me the neighbors cute puppy I so desperately wanted.

When my dad was driving my brother, his friend and me home from school when I was in kindergarten, his friend was talking about how his class was having a Thanksgiving play. I thought to myself, "I want to be in a Thanksgiving play", so I chimed in that my class was having one too! I said that there were so many…

I had a weird obsession with cannibalism. For my 4th grade enrichment class I built a large papier mâché island featuring a volcano, trees, caves, essential cooking pot and cannibal play figures. I wish I had a picture of that. Instead I offer the Mother's Day card I made that year. Mum still has it. I can't believe…

But it's the nature of cover letters. This person needed to make their work history seem relevant, and I think she did a pretty good job of it. I did the same thing when I had to make my work experience at a theme park relevant to a job in community mental health support. It's kind of shitty to mock her for it; we all…

Yeah I agree. Should this person have made that direct comparison? Maybe not. But I bet the communication skills and talent for handling family dynamics would be a boon in this position and it's not unreasonable for them to try and point that out. What was the other option? Pretend they had no relevant experience at…

This is pretty low. A cover letter is supposed to help you show the hiring manager what you can bring to a new job, and this woman wants to use skills she's gained in the past to be a victim advocate in the future. This is probably an entry level job for her, or she'd be talkinga bout her criminal justice experience.…