Thank you for this. I’m still not sure if my mom was trying to gaslight me or genuinely does not remember (I lean toward the latter) and it felt really horrible as a kid to carry that around on my own. And you are spot on about Jodie-she was my childhood hero but this makes me lose some respect for her.

My mom got physical with me several memorable times but swears she never touched me. People remember what they want to.

Ha! Reminds me of my sister & I.

Thanks for the book rec! I added it to my amazon wishlist bc I’m stockpiling kindle books before a 3 month trip.

I know she probably doesn’t deserve it, but I’m rooting for her anyway because I grew up on her early stuff (Parent Trap, Freaky Friday, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, etc) and I feel for her. It can’t be easy growing up a child star with parents who don’t have your best interests at heart.

I wish you would update this. It turns out the guy is 27, doesn’t go to UCLA and harasses women http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto…

moot point. this guy doesn’t even go to UCLA. http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto…

Not if you’re an athlete

Ha thank you but my grades would probably be better if I gave myself a lot less downtime. This is their only way of keeping me in check now that I don’t live with them, so I don’t put up too much of a fuss. The real horror story is spending next semester abroad with limited access to Internet and definitely no…

that is truly baffling. have you tried telling her to type in “mail.yahoo.com”???

my parents refuse to share bc they don’t want me to be distracted from academics but i think they really underestimate how much you can find online... btw cutting me off from netflix was cruel and unusual punishment for binging all 6 seasons of private practice in an absurdly short amount of time during a period of…

ok just making sure you know it’s out there. i had to teach my friend how to pirate shows recently and also I installed ad block on her computer. how do you get to the ripe old age of 19 without knowing these things???

I KNOW. One time they cut me off from Netflix for about 6 months by changing the password to “not(my name)” which is just....... (I only changed it last week to cut my soon to be ex off from the account)

Me too! I’m halfway through season 2 already. I wish I had discovered it earlier.

You can easily find Jane the Virgin the night it airs online without commercials if you don’t have ethical hang-ups about that sort of thing

I prefer to avoid commercials when possible (my parents have a hulu subscription but they refuse to share the password, the bastards)

I was coming here to say this! I discovered Dawson’s Creek last summer and had to binge watch all 6 seasons on some shitty streaming website.

Thanks for the advice. Definitely something to think about. He means a lot to me and I would hate to lose him but we should probably break up soon before we implode. Then again, we have a month and a half til the end of the semester and then we’re both doing a semester abroad (to Costa Rica and London) so maybe I…

If you figure it out, let me know. My relationship has been falling apart for a while now but neither of us want to end it.

I just had the most amazing week and a half in Colorado skiing and snowboarding with my family. It was so nice to have the family together, including people who are practically a part of the family like my childhood best friend and a former exchange student. Also I’ve been looking into post-grad things that allow me…