Wow. Spot on.

Woo hoo! That's awesome, although I know he went through a lot to get to that point. I also have a serious disease and had to live in Side Effect City as well while trying to squash it into remission… it sucks but the remission is worth it. Yay for your dad!

Fuck, dude. I am so sorry that you deal with this. For the record, I have never once read a comment of yours and thought you were anything but sharp and savvy, so rest assured in that department :)

Wow, your situation sounds really similar to mine. (And I am also thankful that most of my family is socially liberal, kinda).

Yeah, and that seems to be the kinds of families most of my classmates come from. But it's just flipped, and they totally don't relate with really anything of what I'm doing. Plus no one pushed me to go into this, unlike a lot of my classmates whose parents pressured them to puruse medicine. So because I sorta just…

Oh, thank you so so much. That really does make me feel better. It sounds like his situation was much more severe… obviously mine isn't so bad that I had to leave med school, but oftentimes I feel like I'm just scraping by and getting lowest-percentile scores compared to my classmates. I'm so glad to hear your dad has…

OMG. Did NOT know the new season was coming out on Valentines Day! Awesome.

The last time I used those was when I was 18 (eleven years ago!!), and from what I remember they didn't really bother me, but my boyfriend at the time requested we stop using them because apparently his dick would sting for a while afterward. Apparently he waited forever to tell me this!! Poor dude.

I have found that only recently I feel like a black sheep in my family, although they still love me. It's more just that they don't understand what I'm doing and can't relate at all. All the women I can think of were married homeowners with kids by my age (29), and none have ever gone to grad school. I'm in med school…

Does anyone here have any experience with memory loss from medicine? Or taking neurontin/gabapentin? I've been taking it for the past couple years for postherpetic neuralgia (after shingles). I noticed my memory hasn't been very good lately, kind of a brain fog, but I thought it was just that I was getting older. Only…

This was an excellent read. Thanks!

I spent a lot of my childhood/teen years in a small town with little to no extracurricular activities, or really anything to do besides kicking dirt. So all we ever did from about 12 on was watch a ton of TV (MTV mostly, at that). I fantasized about becoming a famous singer all the time; it seemed like the ultimate…

Agreed. I know plenty of people who have done this, and while I agree with others who are saying it's not uncommon for 19 year olds to do shit like this, that doesn't make it okay. Pretty much everyone I know including my ex-bf who was involved with shit like this have been busted by cops at one point or another. As…

I'm pretty sure the only reason he was at 55 mph is because the cops stopped them before they got up to full speed. This kid has a really bad record with zipping around his own neighborhood at top speeds like a mad man, so I don't think there's any reason why he wouldn't have done that here. Anyone who's been to a…

Lots of bored high school kids in my (former) small town used to drag race, out in the country. They'd just find any straight stretch of road and go at it. It's certainly not unheard of, for young dudes who are into cars.

Perfection.

Aw, shucks. :)

Not even a member of team pie here, but suddenly I realized I need this in my life too.

Ha! I love how your enraged search query is also in all caps.

Strawberry shortcake, when done right, is positively divine. I think fresh strawberries are pretty much the only exception I'd make for allowing fruit in my cake. Otherwise… yeah, I'll gladly be the one eating all the cake at holiday dinners if everyone else wants to pretend like they enjoy stupid pie. For me? No…