LOL I didn't see this! Amazing.

Yeah, I actually teach Islamic Studies for a living, so I have actually seen a hijab "in real life." In fact, I've seen more than one, probably thousands. Even some of my friends wear them. Accidents happen, that's a fact of life.

I'm getting all nostalgic now for my one-legged, polygamist, nudist Ken and his six identical wives. Excuse me, I need a moment.

I watched this last night because I didn't realise there was a new episode of Toddlers & Tiaras on so I forced Mr Little Edie to watch this with me. He christened Abby, "Dance Boss" and we were off from there. He watched the date part and said, "Um, of course they're awkward looking, their moms are there and there are…

Now I have to see this episode. I'm kicking myself for watching Lifetime's cheap knock-off. Ugh.

I KNOW! I changed it, I'm awesome. Then I realised, "Whoopsie."

I can't believe I forgot this was on and watched "Dance Moms" instead... damn!

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I'm in American Studies, I can't watch anything without a nuanced read or complimenting someone else for it. Last night my boyfriend did it to "Dance Moms" and I complimented him on it and he started cracking-up. I need to be deprogrammed or something.

The New York Times has a really great op-ed piece on it today:

I'm going to start taking Calcium and I'm going OFF Depo. I never want to be on that shit again and I was only on it for 3 months. I'd rather not destroy my body and yes, my grandmother had Osteoporosis.

THANK YOU. Mr Professopatra's brother is getting married. They've been together for 7 years... spent the last three years a continent apart seeing each other only during breaks. He doesn't want to talk about it all that much (his parents have attempted to thwart it at every turn) and finally said, "People have been…

Did we really need a study by a Ph.D. student to demonstrate this?

"The park insisted that it had told the tour operator of the rules, but that may not have been conveyed to the 3,000 Muslim Society of New York members who came on an organized trip to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitre, a major holiday."

Oh, I missed those parts... that's a very nuanced read, I like that! I feel better about them now... well, as better as I can, that helps a lot!

This sounds like me ON BC (Depo) and I've only been on it since June (anxiety, mania, sleeping, lack of sex drive, crying DAILY—-a day without tears is a victory). I'm terrified to find-out what it'll be like to GO OFF it. I should've known that when my next shot was scheduled for 9/11 I was in for a Uterine Shit Show.

Sometimes I watch her and I feel sick to my stomach because I can see myself in her... and I'm 30. My Dad died three years ago suddenly and I never had a really close relationship with my mother, and Farrah has moments with her parents that I have had with my widowed mother in the last three years. For me, I can't…

The breast implants thing confounded me, too. How about taking out a loan for a mortgage or something practical and not getting bigger boobs so you can manage a restaurant. Unclear.

I can see this freight train headed toward a lot of people I know getting married or who have gotten married since college. They're part of the, "It was the next logical thing" group and the "Everyone expected it after X years together" group. You know, the people who everyone knows probably shouldn't be getting…

I just threw-up a little.