I laughed and laughed and laughed! That is one forward-thinking child!

*snort*

Eh, good. Maybe if I do a system update, autocomplete will stop saying, "Can you get some placenta?" when I text my husband to pick up papier toilette.

Yes, since I had used a disposable email address to register (I was going through an internet paranoid phase for about a month after my best friend got her identity stolen, what can I say?), so I couldn't even ask for a new password. I mean, who's going to believe that I lost my password and my email?

I know I'm a little late to the party, but yes! Me too! I had to change my screen name about a year and a half ago when my browser did some evil update that erased my auto-saved password for my old account, a password which I had just changed and couldn't remember, :( The saddest part was that I had just made it out…

This is one that I read recently, but I recommended it to a couple of my university students who are in their first year, and they loved it. It's called Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain. It examines the privilege that outgoing people experience in work, business, social…

BAHAHAHA!

This is amazing—one of those stories that's too weird to be made up. And that homeless guy? Priceless! I love how he waved at your boss, too!

Um. WOW. No wonder you're an expat?

WOW. I think you win for best-worst story. O.O

*Internet hugs* I'm so sorry :(

Poor you! Reminds me of Monica in that episode of Friends where she hosts Thanksgiving and has to make 5 different versions of mashed potatoes so that everyone can have it their way! At least you only have two?

THIS. Oh, the bottles of mouthwash I went through—you can taste that smell on your breath when you're around it all day and have a cold, necessitating mouth-breathing...shudder.

Yeah, it doesn't happen too often for her either...except at family gatherings, unfortunately :( Hence the cold reply googling!

Same with a good friend of mine who is now married to her wonderful partner of Asian descent. Once, she even googled some cold replies to hand out to the people who asked if she had yellow fever or felt they had to say that she was "obviously" missing out in the sack. My favorite will always be Miss Manners', "Hm, why…

I love these! In Europe, they come around and fold down the beds around 9 or 10, and the bunks are so nice and wide! You have to make the bed up yourself, which is a bit of a pain, but it's really nice.

I feel so sad for this poor woman! :( Yet another reason to force a doctor to continue to do STD tests even if you're in a committed relationship. At least now by law her insurance company can't turn her away/she has to get health insurance from somewhere.

Ha, well my own relatives say irregardless, so I'll give her a pass on that one. But yes, I hope that this is her just beginning to stretch her wings and not just an attempt to amp-up her marketing appeal.

May I just add that all of these veggie conversations remind me of my adorable primary school student who takes every available "about me" question she can to declare, "I'm an herbivore because I'm vegetarian!"

Ha, that is exactly what I was thinking!