Ugh, WISDOM TEETH. I had all four taken out at the same time when I was 21. The top two were fully grown out so the extraction wasn’t a big deal and they felt healed after like three days. My bottom two were impacted, however, so they had to be cut out. The bottom two took about two weeks to fully recover, but oh man…

Thank you!!!

Sometimes when I leave for work on a cold morning at 6:30am I look at my cat curled up fast asleep in MY bed and get genuinely jealous.

Sorry to pounce on you (heh heh) but do you think you could give me some recommendations as to products I can buy to keep my cat entertained? I just moved to a one-bedroom apartment and want to make sure she is stimulated enough. She is pretty laid-back, but I want to make my apartment a bit more cat-friendly.

Same with my little girl. She has utterly no interest in leaving my air-conditioned, quiet, comfy apartment. The windowsill is good enough for her.

I feel similarly as a millennial. I am 25 but I live alone, have a good job, pay my bills, and am generally a positive and respectful person. I definitely had some growing pains directly out of college but I feel pretty stable in my mid-20s. So this whole “your entire 20s are just a mess” trope is really confusing…

Agreed, also I just keep thinking about how choosing to live with someone is a huge step and to be honest, things like this happening are the risk you take when signing a lease with a partner. I am in no way against cohabiting, but I do think you need to be aware and prepared for the possibility that things could go…

I think that makes the most sense. Arrange to stay with family and friends for the immediate aftermath of the break-up and get a storage unit for a month. Keep helping with rent for an agreed amount of time (30 days or two months, for example) then sign a new lease.

No one is saying that she should continue living with him indefinitely. People are saying that leaving in the middle of a lease is simply logistically wrong. If the guy is a nice dude that she just doesn’t want to be with anymore, fine, it happens, and no one is saying they should try to stay together. But to have…

I will watch this. I normally enjoy shows about older millennials/younger generation X. But! I think its officially turning into a trope (just like the whole “I’m such an edgy bad mom!” genre...ugh) and I hope this trend pumps the brakes.

I will read this, because I am a Florida native (who just left!) and also because I realized she wrote that book Tampa, which was O.O

Agreed. Living together means quite literally combining your lives, and while emotionally she may just want out right now, logistically that just cannot be done. I am single and live alone, but if I lived in a place with a partner and we split rent and utilities and he just left one day in the middle of a lease, I…

Very well said, and seems to be what modern conservatism is today - “as long as liberals hate it, sign me up!” They don’t stand for anything, they just stand against. Dating someone who leans politically different from you is not impossible, but in this current climate it doesn’t seem like that type of conservative…

WOW. This type of thing drives me extra crazy because ABORTION IS LEGAL. So this is telling the university to just not teach a certain medical practice to medical students. Its like telling them not to learn how to do stitches on patients. Ridiculous, hopefully this does not pass.

Its quite frightening. I’m left at a loss for words with the realization that we may be literally starting a post-truth society.

They truly don’t. I will never forget the interviews on NPR with Trump voters leading up the election in which people just blatantly said “I don’t believe that” to objective facts.

Ha, that’s the one!

Exactly. In college one of my assigned readings was entirely about the history of both the pro-life and pro-choice movements. The intro to the book explained how the fundamental root of the disagreement is so deep and different, that there’s really no way to even debate or discuss the issue with the other side. One…

Yeah, I live right outside of DC.

Haha! Yep. And I say this as a total American through and through, but it seems like Americans really just have to go to one extreme or the other.