Doctors love me. It's great most of the time, but I have a feeling that my current GP gives me a lot of extra credit (on, say, my borderline blood pressure) because I'm nice and smart and survived a really weird medical problem. It wasn't personal goodness that got me through it, it was luck and decent medical care.…

I was really surprised she did it. I moved away from my hometown a few years ago and she saw me through a really crazy illness. She also waited to have kids until she was about 40.

So now I know why my GP of many years just quit to raise her kids.

This is hilarious. Like, on par with Soy Bomb from when I was a youngin'.

Strikes me as a minimalist pair of underwear. So the seams in your jeans don't squish delicate things when you want to keep putting off doing laundry.

Yeah, this was my thinking. My spouse and I fight rarely, but I try not to let it bother me when we do, because it happens when people live together.

Maybe The Marrying Kind gene (TMK) is highly conserved. My sisters and I were all married before 30, and had met our spouses by the time we were 18. Same for our dad and mom.

Yes indeed.

It's just so goddamned lazy and misanthropic. You can't imagine how people live in (Jesusland), so maybe goddamn try!

If you want a nice, snappy(ish) one word expression for it, the Finns have created "

Anything Diablo Cody does has that effect on me. Luckily, once she gets her "I AM SO WACKY!" point across, it tends to get toned down. I loved Juno, and have pretty much liked everything Cody has done, despite major major eyerolling.

Functionally, it ends up just being a problem with alcohol. Alcoholism manifests itself when someone has to use it to deal with life. Sex is a part of life, and if you need alcohol to deal with sex, you ultimately have a problem with alcohol.

I can't believe the merman in Cabin in the Woods wasn't a major consideration here.

I think that's a really good explanation of why this stuff is often unsettling, and you react in ways you don't understand. Change is hard.

I had the opposite reaction to the show's handling of race. I mean, what was the deal with the black characters that thought that only boring and nerdy white people care about health care, when real people care about fried chicken? I guess it was meant to be tongue in cheek, but between that and the lazy…

You're right that medicine is only so useful when it is partially-developed, but I couldn't help the easy criticism you left hanging there.

By definition you are unlikely to contract a nosocomial infection or have an iatrogenic injury at home. Unless you live in a hospital.

The good news is that if you're not born with the ability to get along with kids, you can learn it. I've been volunteering in a lot of kid-focused education places and at first it was really tough, but I'm getting a lot better at interacting with kids.

Warning: TMI and a little OT

I have to say that I don't believe the STD stat after burning man. I grew up in a college town and the rumors about condom sales and morning-after pill sales during mom's and dad's weekends WILL NOT DIE.