I did! They were cute!

Haha! I am new here, but I got that sense :)

Silver City, NM:

Hello fellow Elisabeth!

I still remember getting chills from eXistenZ even though a friend described it as being “kind of like a skinemax movie”

Ah! A kindred spirit! :)

If you don’t mind older films, try:

My escapist movies are: Charade, Auntie Mame, Shades of Fear, Key Largo, Troop Beverly Hills, and most noir. For TV shows, I go to Golden Girls, Designing Women, WKRP, Barney Miller (seasons 1-3), and the Granada Sherlock Holmes series.

Actually, I’ve done pretty well—if that makes you feel any better! The only thing I ever did to the car was scrape the passenger door against a concrete pillar when I was trying to make a turn in a tight urban parking lot. I was all alone, and no one else was involved. I waited about six months to repair, because it…

I’m a little like you—I was late to drive (learned at 15, but didn’t really feel comfortable until 22) and I struggle with fear of getting hurt, even though I love skating and skateboarding. For me, just having one supportive friend who will do those things with me, who’s not afraid of looking silly, and who can call…

Tevas and Chacos

I don't need an ID to vote. I just tell them my name and they check me off. Massachusetts voter.

There's a spam post a little ways down that totally plagiarized your post! I thought you might find it funny—I did!

I'll take the shofar off your hands! :)

NellMood, are you making the switch to Kinja groupthink? Hopefully I'll see you over there!

Here's my email in case you ever want to get in touch: mewsea [[at]] gmail [[dot]] com... hopefully no robots will pick that up. Anyway, I just was so taken with your project because I just got sone doing a doctoral exam in Chinese history that was connected with Chinese art and the politics and marketing of…

That sounds very cool, and it sounds a little like it intersects with my research. I'm doing Chinese and American contemporary cultural history at UMass (doctoral program)... What's your department/program? If this is a long-term research interest for you, I feel like I ought to connect! My dissertation subject is…

What's the subject matter of the essay? (And the thesis?) Sorry, I'm just curious! Tips: maybe sleep a bit or take a walk and then come back to it fresh? Good luck!

Alison Bechdel

You might already be better, but I saw you didn't have any replies... Could you have gotten stung by a jellyfish? If you hadn't said "swollen," I would have just suggested that it was some very light sand still stuck to you, as that happens to me at the beach. But this sounds a little like a sting.