I think ti would be better for the world if I never have twin girls (twins run in my family though) since I would be sorely tempted to name them Kirsten and Kristen after a family story.

Yes that sounds right. I purchased a bunch of nuva rings at my local pharmacy before I came to the states for grad school since when you did the math it was cheaper to buy it straight up no insuraance in Canada. Otherwise I would have had to go to the doctor for a US prescription(copay) and then pay 30 each month in…

If you forget you just start your "period" which is a great reminder to take the thing out. Easy peasy!

I wish her the best of luck in her recovery. It seems that she might make it since she's already made it a week, I hope? My Dad's friend died of NF about 10 years ago and he was gone within 24 hours of hospitalization. It was so fast that noone had the chance to say he was fighting it, only that he'd died from it.

I was shocked that Jezebel didn't cover the 4/28 rallies. Here's my picture from vermont! I was lucky that at least the state I reside in has a senator that spoke at the rally, fully supporting women's rights and universal healthcare in general, and the other senator wanted to come but was busy in DC getting his VOWA…

I've PMed you about another possible non-legal avenue but I agree about contacting the DA's office. Your institution really let you down at such a difficult point in your life and there's so many services that should have been available for you. It breaks my heart to hear your story.

"If it makes you feel any better, I'm really well-versed in Japanese culture, and the weirder Japanese movies often just don't make sense. There's a sort of attraction to the bizarre in Japanese fiction these days that I tend to not understand"

bronze hair, so you know what they're talking about. :)

Er, more a shade of red between stawberryblond and auburn. Red and light brown intermixed.

I agree. Williams is really hot - I'm itching to see him try the bronze hair dye on for size. There are so few roles written for hot ginger men, let alone hot Bronze-redheads I really would be pissed off if they didn't have an actor who could pull it off! There is so much discrimination against ginger men especially…

a japanese bath. they tend to be short and deep. I really miss mine!

The esquire article explains that under Ohio law, what they were doing wasn't illegal. The community had tried to do something but they didn't have the laws in place that could have stopped this. :(

Totally looks like ofuro to me! When you see the person's knees for a second, plus the door into the bath it cinches it for me.

This idea that ways of telling people apart are culturally conditioned to the most effective method within any group seems to have some anecdotal support. Your story brings to mind two of mine. Being exposed to more and more diverse groups forced me out of my comfort zones but never fully into another culture's method…

心配しないで！My Japanese is super rusty - I'm dreading having to take a placement exam for my grad work before I leave in a couple of weeks - maybe I'll practice a bit more and take it when I come back to defend my thesis instead!

At least you'll just be starting - imagine all the sleep I've missed that would be for nothing if it ended before I get my masters! At least now I can tell myself that (hopfully) this time next year it will be all worth it!

Essentially, though it's obviously aimed at kids and just vegetables (yasai). They're singing about things like how vegetables are in dishes like nabe and how they love veggies etc. And as other commenters have noticed, there's a part where they list a bunch of veggies including tomato*, which sounds similar to the…

Not that horrible - only your first sentence had the tenses disagree. 子供のときから would indicate since childhood to the present, otherwise you would have had to create the sentence in past tense. :)

Generally when women refer to their husbands as "like another son [child]" that is a BAD thing, Ann. It means that their spouse is not capable of functioning like a responsible adult, let alone a nation's head of government. FAIL.

Ooh, thanks for the tip! I'm sure my victory over gravity will not be forever and it will be nice to have some supportive non poky bras! I've been doing lots of wireless and the one VS line with much lower underwire. It's like bra manufacturers here think that larger cup sizes need more upward heading wire.