No one wants panic attacks when I'm supposed to be being useful.

If it's an issue, like it was for me today, I usually just up and state that I have a phobia and get panic attacks. After I mentioned that, the person did stop talking about it a lot, at the very least, and I was ok for the rest of the time.

I think I had a small mental breakdown tonight, and I'm not sure how I'm going to be able to face the rest of this weekend and the next few weeks.

I think this was because I was eating better than I'd ever been in my life; we were very careful about food. Everything was fresh, lots of vegetables and fruit, portions were a lot smaller than they tend to be in the US, and a lot of the spices used (turmeric especially) are supposed to be very healthy. I still have…

This was me a few years ago; after a summer's worth of testing I was finally diagnosed with gastroparesis, which is when your stomach empties much slower than it should; it causes discomfort, nausea, and irritation from acid buildup. I was on pretty strong antacids and a muscle stimulant for a year, then a trip to…

For anyone who's confused about why this is a problem, it's because most horses that are slaughtered for meat were formerly companion animals, and not raised their whole lives for meat. This makes it a lot harder to control what might be in horse meat. One of the biggest problems is a drug called bute, which is given…

I think it's more from thinking about rape a bit (women's studies classes will do that to you—I also did bystander training recently), and realizing that rape is a very real problem that will probably affect me or someone I'm close to in my lifetime, and becoming very aware of that, and becoming more affected…

I already checked wikipedia, read up a bit on the real life case it was based off of. It definitely sounds like it'll be a very interesting movie.

Can anyone tell me about the rape scene from the film The Accused? I'm watching it for a class soon, and I'm pretty nervous—I was told it is very graphic and hard to watch.

Ok, help here? In the context of using a concept to analyze a text, is the correct spelling 'lens' or 'lense'? I always think of 'lens' as the piece of glass used for optics, and I think of 'lense' as the thing that you analyze through. Is it a question of UK/US spellings? Or am I just wrong entirely?

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I'd recommend drawing from some reference photos, in that case. It's a really great way to improve, and as you become more proficient with anatomy and such, you can begin to create original poses (ref photos can still be a great help here).

I'm actually a more productive artist during finals week than at any other point. It's the procrastination talking.

I've always said that anyone can become an artist with enough practice and the drive to learn.

I always had my suspicions about whether the costume designers for ST were high on something. I never really knew what to make of a lot of the early DS9 costumes either.

Seven times the laptop hath crashed today. Counting down the days until Thanksgiving, when I can get a new one.

Reason are in one of the other replies.

That is true, about college and middle age, I hadn't thought about it that way. I guess I always figured that if I gave up riding at any point, I wouldn't come back to it.

Need some help with a problem that's been bothering me.

Climbing back up the slide seems to be universal among species that use slides.