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yeah, no one at work needs to know if you're professional; I got my heart trampled upon in grad school and my advisor, who I interacted with every day, thought I just had really bad allergies :) Everyone deals with stuff differently; the author seems to be playing the victim. I can't imagine many people would take

Yeah, I'm kind of over people comparing a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship to marriages. Did you stand in front of your entire extended families (and perhaps your God), pledging your permanent commitment and forming a new family? Do you need to be legally separated for 6 months before you can officially break up? Are

I am confused as to why ambitious women (or men, I suppose) are defined as only those who "ache to be marquee names", aka C-suite members. I know many MDs, academics, engineers, etc who are ambitious as well - myself included. Our ambition is to have jobs that are intellectually fulfilling, contribute to society,

I always thought pumpkin bagels were the canary in the coal mine wrt pumpkin spice, mainly because I remember getting them from Noah's in the 90s. When did Starbucks introduce the PSL?

We usually hit up in-n-out on the way home :)

No I totally agree, I will never understand why people care whether or not randos eat vegetables or not or whatever - but I *may* occasionally be guilty of private rants to my husband about the dietary restrictions of our friends when planning social events. We have vegan-no-soy friends that we only meet for drinks

To me it's not about being judgemental, it's that a huge portion of my social life revolves around food - going out or having people over - and it can get really overwhelming when one person is gluten-free, the other vegetarian, the other dairy free (this was a real-life dinner party scenario for me recently. I ended

Yeah I am kind of suspicious that she might be exaggerating the circumstances to get pub for her blog? At least I hope that's the case...

yup, I own the peplum top.

I don't understand why you feel the need to lie. If the fact that I have no debt comes up in conversation with friends, I say "I am so lucky; I feel so blessed". Because that's the truth. No one should get a look of disgust on their faces in response to that; they might be disgusted by this long diatribe though.

I agree that Assad is responsible for many atrocities, but it has not yet been proven 100% that he is the one responsible for the chemical weapons. As that is the reason that is currently being given to enter into war with Syria, it seems like something we shouldn't hand-wave over, hence the comment "maybe-evil

Well it's not 100% known which side used the chemical weapons, just that chemical weapons were used.

It's my impression that religious fraternities/sororities aren't really the animal house that the "regular" ones are known for. The Christian frat at my alma mater didn't even have booze at their parties, and while the Jewish frat offered kosher jello shots it wasn't exactly known for the epic dudebro blowouts.

That's terrible, I'm so sorry. Silver lining: you saw their true colors early in the relationship instead of years down the line.

Yes. Technically, what the "life begins at conception" people mean is "personhood begins at conception" (at least I think that's what they mean), because really all cells involved are alive prior to any egg sperm interaction at all.

Dude, fertilization isn't a mysterious concept that is up for debate - it is a technical term whose definition is sperm and egg union. It is a medical term, like "ear" or "influenza" or "cholesterol". These are not flexible things: you either have an ear or you don't, you either are positive for the influenza virus or

ooohhhh, burn! You're right, I'm a total moron, I can't understand smart people like you! I've never heard of this particular attempt to ease the cognitive dissonance that accompanies Life Begins At Conception: eggs that have certain chromosomal abnormalities don't count as fertilized because we say so. To be fair, in

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh I now get it. You are saying we should accept that these cells are "alive" but distinct from organisms that are Alive. Got it, sorry. It's a tough distinction, though; I mean some of the people we would try to reason with and come to some middle ground with think hormonal birth control and the abortion

I see your point - it's just that, as someone who works with this stuff everyday, I feel there is a HUGE difference between cells that are "alive" and an animal that is alive. Those cells are doing what they do because of external forces that enable them to, similar to an embryo being "alive" in the context of someone

One thousand LOLs for that quote - although I believe it was after five, not six?