And yet, another romance-story-loving part of me is thinking "Maybe in the future he'll change his mind and we'll get back together and everything will be great!" Jezzies, please tell me I'm fooling myself.

My (now ex)boyfriend just broke up with me an hour ago. :(:(:(:( major sadness.

Glad I could help :)

I definitely suggest taking some courses first so that you have more of a foundation for your business plan.

I also ask for advice and then turn around and do whatever I want. I ask because I'm generally an indecisive person and want to 'consider my options from all angles'.

I have the problem of caring too much about what other people think. I have extremely low self-confidence and am a bit of a people-pleaser. I've been accused of treating strangers more nicely than my own friends. Living out a social nightmare that left me depressed and suicidal what made me decide that I really wanted…

His parents are very old-fashioned and believe that he shouldn't look for a relationship until he has a solid job and financial situation. His dad is also a workaholic and raised him to be the same way.

From what I've heard about his parents, they are very controlling people. They fight with each other all the time over their fair share of paying for his tuition. They've recently started dating again and he's afraid to create further drama if he ends up not being able to launch a career immediately after graduation.…

I'm leaning towards that right now. One of my friends said that after he came out of his 2-year depressive episode, he figured out which of his friends were willing to stand by him and which ones weren't his friends at all.

Help, I need relationship advice. :( Or at least, I need to rant and put this out there. I don't have any older sister figures so I thought I would ask all of you. Here goes...

I'm a Chinese girl with thick, curly hair on my legs and arms. (A trait I share with most of my family.) Growing up it was constantly pointed out to me, and people would say that I and my family must really be some ethnic minority group because OMG hairy!!!1 It's their bad for assuming so quickly, but the tone of…

:( As a fellow artist, I feel your pain. I'm still a student and have yet to get my first job, but it sucks to see the school job board filled with "seeking illustrator for my book! Must be the next Chris Van Allsberg! Willing to pay $50!"

Interesting. I was studying in Rome last year and lived near the Drunken Ship. (A few colleges, including mine, have campuses in that area) I never went in because I heard stories about a sleazy reputation, but it was one of a few gathering places for Americans. Right before I left for home I heard that the bar had…

George W. Bush is also from a very wealthy and privileged background. I think the point the OP is making is that present Americans are much less inclined to see fluency in multiple foreign languages (and intelligence in general) as a quality of leadership, and more xenophobic as a result.

I'm glad you like it :) I've been following it for years now and it's just been getting better and better! I try to tell as many people about it as I can, haha.

You should definitely give Gunnerkrigg Court a try! It's a sci-fi / fantasy about a girl at a boarding school. The author is really great at storytelling and creating characters with intriguing secrets and histories. Plus, it updates three times a week.

I am pretty much in the same situation as you. I'm not comfortable with hormonal BC so we ended up deciding on using spermicide strips in addition to condoms, withdrawal, and tracking my cycle (We are both very nervous people...) I actually read about spermicide strips on a Jezebel thread, and they do make me feel…

Yeah, it's usually only among other Chinese people that my BF's features become a topic of conversation. Myself included - people who find they have the same heritage as me call it into question because I don't have the stereotypical physical appearance.

I can't say I know how to respond to it either, but I'm glad you can be there to help him see beyond the fetish-like aspect of it as he grows older.

Fair enough, in my haste to write I vastly oversimplified things.