It really is! I lived a few blocks away for a while... never got called to be a bridesmaid but did get to walk past it all the time. =)

I’ll know a month from today!

My grandparents got married there!!!! Exactly the same way - he was shipping out, she traveled eight hundred miles to marry him the day before. I wonder if your grandmother was there. =)

*waves from Morris*

Yeah, no kidding. I am also an 82 baby, and once upon a time I had a goal to hit 30 by 30. And I did, and then some. I don’t think I’m too unusual in my group... on the high end, but not an outlier.

My stepmom made a pretty rockin’ roadtrip playlist for our three-week western adventure in the early 90s. But all I remember is that the last song was An American Symphony from Mr. Holland’s Opus. It’s this magnificent, stirring piece that swirls up to this tense, exciting chord and then resolves on the last note. And…

They’re not allowed to act anything other than perfectly happy. Not just on camera... the Christian Patriarchy cults actively thought-police members. If you’re unhappy it’s because you’re a sinner, especially if you’re a woman. And if you dare show that unhappy face on television, then you’re making the whole movement…

I love her blatant Social Justice Warrioring, though!

Amazing stories. Same message in all of them: scientists are amoral creatures with no common sense.

Yeeeeah, this. You can tell McCaffrey learns how to write as the series goes along, and Moreta is still one of my favorite stories... But I am sad for my pre-teen self who thought that F’nor was just a decent guy.

You have my vote. Afternoon delight ftw.

*butting in*

I had this once. I thought I was taking after my mom and developing rheumatoid arthritis - exhausted and stiff and sore. My awesome doctor, to save me repeated needle sticks, tested everything she could think of at once and the Lyme test came up positive. I hadn’t left downtown Baltimore for months at that point; no…

I need that Loki dress more than anything else in the world.

Scholarly articles exist showing that acupuncture is equivalent to placebo.

At my middle school, they were still making girls do pushups with knees on the floor, so our uteri wouldn’t fall out. This would have been around... 1995-ish.

I made it a point to find a partner as UNlike my father as I could.

The federal government incentivizing states is not at all new. States’ DOT funds are contingent on maintaining the legal drinking age as 21. States get money to expand Medicaid (if their asshole governors don’t reject it). $5 million is what senators wipe their asses with in comparison.

Mine is totally needles. We thought my sister had a seizure disorder for a while, until someone noticed that the times she passed out weren't random - the first she was having EEG pads out on for a demonstration, and the second she was watching a birth video in class. Brains are so weird.

I worked at a rather well-known summer camp for nerd kids. I was out one night, much longer than I’d meant to be because my ride didn’t want to leave. Overslept the next morning, scrambled into my clothes and ran to meet my team. Smelled like stale cigarette smoke, ketones, and knockoff CKOne, but I made it. I was…