Perhaps... Young Justice. But damn it, there are just so few new/current and good cartoon dramas and I like my Saturday morning cartoons with drama!

I dismissed the show initially based on that first season. The only people I knew who watched it were non-nerdy types and it felt a bit awkward and like it was trying too hard to depict 'nerds.' I know some of my friends found it a bit offensive and I wasn't crazy about the fact that the only main female character…

A portion of my social group is made up of astrophysicists either working on their PhDs or doing Post Docs, and there's too much that rings true. (Except that sometimes our group is -more- socially awkward than the characters on Big Bang.)

Sometimes I'll wait 'till I can sneak into the work bathroom before I start to do it there just due to the side-eye one endures on the bus for putting on lipstick. I mean, tweezing and nail clipping is gross, I can see that (blech, saw someone toe-nail clipping on a bus once!) but a bit of lipstick? I felt very…

Fair enough. I'm sorry to hear about your troubles. I had issues with OCD from around age 6 until I was about 16, but I was super lucky that it dissipated on its own (along with some CBT to help it on its way); I always live in fear of it coming back and definitely know that fighting with your own brain is a…

Haha, nope! I just wear concealer for blemishes. If I find the time I might add mascara and nude lipstick. Usually I'll 'do' my hair on the bus, but I have easily manageable curls that don't frizz easily and only need washing every three days so I'll just rotate between wearing it down (no fixing required!),…

I can see what you're saying, but I found that type of sentiment (albeit delivered by my elders siblings who just told me to hold out until university, where things would be better,) a helpful one when I was a teenager. Mind you, the bullying I suffered was less threat-of-death or terrible rumors, and more having…

I'm also excited by the new 'little bites' variety: higher sugar to wheat ratio! (Being able to choose to brazenly eat these bad boys for dinner is one of the biggest perks of being an adult.)

That's why you heap them with brown sugar! Any healthy aspect to them? Nullified!

This may or may not be relevant depending on how old your son is, but when I was about 6-9 years old, my then 16-19 year old D&D playing brother used to create loose D&D inspired stories for me and sometimes my friends. It helps if you're a good story teller (he was/is also an artist and used to sketch out characters…

I totally misunderstood the title initially. I thought it meant women were hiring more black people than men were, not that more black women were being hired than black men.

Haha, this exactly! (except that strapless one usually goes back the drawer because hey, it still smells OK...)

I need to stop being honest about being unable to drink and just get better at faking it. No matter how much I assure them that it's not a moral thing and I'm just as interested in relaxing and having a good time, I can see a shift in their expressions when I say I don't want to share the pitcher and I know I won't…

But what if the 'stick in the mud' feeling is imagined on your part? What if they're an easy going social person who for medical reasons cannot drink? (I am speaking as one such person.) Is it so bad if they order a coffee or virgin drink instead?

Hah, yeah my sister (white) married a Mexican guy and when alone with her toddler at the park she's had more than one person ask if he was adopted. "Nope! Just doesn't have a white father... that happens..."

I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't an economic shift too (re "Japanese tourists" = flock of tourists vs "Chinese tourists." )

Of course widening and changing in hip size is expected with puberty, but I recall being dismayed at having possibly gained weight in some way that wasn't measuring on a scale, as by the end of high school I was unable to wear the same "waist" size in jeans.. but naturally with low rise jeans fastening across the…

Oh! I was thinking current accents rather than languages and hadn't realized you meant the Native languages. :) Definitely a lot of those along the west coast!

Yay accents! West coast Canadian here. My accent is generally quite identifiably BC coast (and when visiting my rural island home town I can slip into local diction as well "he was given 'er up the hill"), but my mother is from Nova Scotia originally and I definitely picked up a couple of word pronunciations from…

Really? As a Canadian I always thought the variation was greater in the East (especially given the varying influence of French and British colonies, and of older versus newer French settlement, Acadian etc.) I'm from the west coast though, so perhaps I have a poor ear for local variation.