This week has been amazing and I hope you don't mind celebrating with me. :) I just got a job offer on Thursday for a permanent position back in my home province! I'm super excited about the job and being close to friends and family again! I really like the job I have now, but it is only a contract and the most the…

Yup, I'm not even in a creative field but my last two interviews included preparing a presentation ahead of time and for one figuring out how to interface it over technology since I was skyping the interview.

Well that is a national characteristic that many of us try to live up to, looking back as an adult, the good that came out of this is wonderful. However, kids can still be little @ssholes. That anti-bullying talk sadly didn't do much good, and even when his hair grew back, the treatments that saved his life left a…

I remember when head shaving wasn't this big thing and it was actually used as both a fundraising event and as support. In Edmonton, Cops for Cancer started when a local bald police officer heard about a little boy in kindergarten being bullied at school because he'd lost his hair to chemo. The original plan was to…

Thomas is excellent at translating the studies into laypersons terms and spelling out policy implications. I've quoted him in my programming since he is so great at distilling these messages.

Wow, I would have had the same expectations about the skill set needed to succeed in communications! The way you described it, it originally sounded like there was some class/education level differences you were trying to navigate and I didn't know how much or how little you knew about communication theories. I was…

Tamora Pierce is stellar, with great female leads. The first book/series is Alanna /The Song of the Lioness Quartet. I especially loved Alana since it covered the early puberty years and things like first periods and early breast development are treated in a very matter of fact, normal way.

Well hopefully now that you've mentioned the existence of cholera to her, if she does decide to visit Trinidad for Carnival you can warn her about being up-sold cholera meds at the travel health clinic to cover traveler's diarrhea when it's only 25% effective for that. (Guess what I learnt today?)

One of my grad school classmates and one of the most inspiring women I know was disabled by polio as a child. She is a disability advocate in her native Ghana, to allow children like her to have more access to education. Her mother carried her to school every day of her school life to ensure that Sefakor could…

No, first he kidnapped her and force fed her abortion drugs but that wasn't successful. The four month old infant was in the room when his mother was tortured, murdered, dismembered and fed to dogs. Souza's wife then abandoned the infant in a slum where luckily he was found. He is being raised by his maternal…

Also from the original article: after his mother was murdered and dismembered and fed to dogs in front of him, Souza's wife (ie his father's wife) abandoned said 4 month old infant in a slum. Luckily he was found and reunited with his maternal grandmother.

Glad I'm not alone. My mind went immediately to an old inside joke "carrot cake" that a friend and I joked about serving at potluck after that year's purity test had questions about "have you ever masturbated with a vegetable?" "and ate it afterward?" "and fed it to someone else?"

A properly fitting bra is a godsend. Victoria Secret was trying to convince me that I was a 34DD for way too long. No wonder my lingering shoulder injury never really got better. Now that I'm in a 32G or 30H (depending on the brand) things are much improved. I'm still really not looking forward to the pregnancy and…

I used to joke with my best friend in jr high that when she got her reduction, I'd be in the next bed ready to take the extra. Little did I know at the time I'd be a slow, steady grower. 17 years later and I'm still not convinced I'm done. (God, please let me be done, pregnancy is already seeming pretty terrifying). …

In my grad program we peer-edit the thesis drafts for the other students in our cohort. I was constantly correcting the male/female vrs man/woman mistakes. I finally wrote out for my group "male/female are adjectives and man/woman are nouns. If you can't substitute the word "tall" for male/female in the sentence and…

The rules for hockey are a lot stricter though.

This is a normal cycle. Some of the others have mentioned culture shock, which is exactly what you are going through. (There is plenty of academic literature on it as well, not just cracked.com.) You've mentioned a few things that you used to do to cope at home that are hard to do in your new city. I always advise…

I think you're overestimating the value of American citizenship as a way to draw better players to your team. Also, isn't it just a little unethical? Yes, many Canadians end up playing for American teams due to the nature of the work, but where did they learn the skills that lead them to those jobs? Who coached them,…

Today it could be "neggers" like the PUA trolls that neg women.... they certainly piss me off.

We don't have a long standing precedent of blaming victims or making up myths that blame victims in cases of robbery or identity theft etc. There is no shame in saying someone broke into my house and stole XYZ. Police don't say things like well you donate to charity, could it be you let them into your house to take…