It sounds like he's in a cycle that's common to addicts - feeling like he's always (unfairly, in his mind) criticized and can't do anything right, drinking, then acting out and being abusive, thus shutting down the people who love him, which feeds into his idea that everyone is against him. I think you're doing the…

I admire you for sticking with CPS through all that. Both my parents have worked for them and as a social worker my mom found it so demoralizing. Inept administrators, high turnover, low budgets, cuts in music and arts, and the kids really suffer for it.

Yup. Tylenol and ice packs for everything. Maybe it's the malpractice insurance that's bankrupting school districts?

Ohhh yeah, I used to go to the school nurse at least once a week, usually for "stomach aches" which turned out later to just be anxiety. I stopped in middle school when the nurse there actually LOCKED ME IN THE ROOM and went on break and I couldn't get out and spent an hour curled on the floor sobbing about my…

...And this is why the husband and I are moving back to Canada to have kids.

Hey, rats make great pets - they're intelligent and sociable (my mom wouldn't let me have one and I still kind of want one). But the way he was living reminded me too much of that scene in 1984.

Gene went to my college!! He's really the only alum I can brag about.

She's all, "this guy? No, I'm not with this guy. Never seen him before in my life."

I just spent several minutes clicking in frustration between 410 and 412.

The guy with the hundreds of RATS was the worst...how he talked about the soothing sound of their little claws all over the floors?! I gagged.

Greece was pretty much the same way. Sometimes people would leave food and water dishes out, not for their own pets but just the local strays in general. (also spaying and neutering were unheard of)

At least it inspired a great episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia!

You would only know about LFO if you watched a lot of TRL on MTV in 1999-2000. Unfortunately, I did.

They're all so tedious - MyPlate, My Fitness Pal, they're packed with info on prepared/pre-packaged foods, but I avoid those anyway because I want to be HEALTHY which is why I'm using your app in the first place! Having to estimate how much of each ingredient in a homemade dish I ate and then enter it in tablespoon by…

That IS a shame since Chicago is my favorite city in the world and for the most part everyone here is super friendly and laid back. But that's how I feel about LA, so to each her own.

Welcome to Chicago!

Everyone in chicago knows you don't fuck with unions. It's not that kind of town.

Once my BF went out to get condoms and some of the Walgreens employees had cleared all of them from the shelf. It was a frustrating night.

Thirded! He makes me miss my liberal arts college days...

Yeah. Glad Ms. West spent a whole five minutes on THAT.