I freaking hate Nine West shoes. I had a pair of nude patent pumps and those things scuff like crazy. Literally, I've had $20 heels that have outlasted that pair.

To be fair my friend is allergic to all fresh fruits and vegetables (she has an allergic reaction to the pollen), so she has to freeze them first before eating them.

Yeah, that's my thing: you can not like certain ethnic cuisines (for example, I hate Vietnamese food because I'm allergic to a few staple ingredients) but if you don't like ANY foreign food, that is a huge red flag.

Since it is August and it has been on my list for a while, I will be reading Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital.

A bit OT, but can we also make sure that grown adults know how to cook at least one nutritious meal?

Interestingly enough, my first boyfriend was completely prohibited from having any junk food as a kid: no processed cheese, no canned soup, no cookies, no lemonade, etc. I have never seen someone so excited to have a grilled cheese sandwich with Campbell's tomato soup for lunch.

I don't get people who are super-picky. I usually allow one or two veto items, otherwise you can starve or make your own food. For example, my husband cannot stand cooked fish. He'll eat sushi, and can tolerate salmon, but he is allergic to shellfish and, growing up next to the ocean, he ate a lifetime of cooked fish.…

I'm not advocating forcing treatment on her, but I also understand how dangerous it is to be both a woman traveling alone and mentally ill. From family members, this isn't the first bout of mental illness she's had. She doesn't need to conform to my sensibilities, but that doesn't mean I don't worry about her. There…

I'm far more worried about others harming her than I am about her harming others.

It just breaks my heart. The illness, the gawking, the appropriation of her as a whole - it reminds me of something out of a Southern gothic novel.

From what I've heard from her (she's an atheist FWIW), a lot of it comes from the fact that the higher ups won't allow the charities to spend money on prophylactics. While it was originally supposed to mean 'condoms' (which is dumb as is), it has been interpreted to mean rubber gloves, masks, eye protection, etc.…

I kind of hate the attention she is getting, because people seem to look past the fact that she is severely mentally ill. According to her daughters, she has PTSD from her service. She deserves quality mental health care, something the VA isn't going to provide any time soon, not to be gawked at.

Religious-based non profits notoriously suck at PPE and proper protocols. My med student friend works at an AIDS clinic in Tanzania during her summers and they won't even provide workers with hand sanitizer or rubber gloves.

You realize you have to change PPE with every patient encounter, right? That's a lot of stuff.

They were not using every precaution out there. They were using basic paper smocks, gloves (if they could), and paper masks - because that's what is provided to doctors in Africa. Here is what our team will be wearing:

Also, use Social Media. AT&T U-Verse screwed me over hard (basically, I was moving across town, paid $30 to have service installed by a professional since apparently they wouldn't allow a self-instillation, only to find out that they don't service that neighborhood. I had also asked for a confirmation that they…

They don't you dumb xenophobe. I couldn't even apply for Medicaid for my youngest, who was born here, because he didn't have a Social Security number yet.

How much for Taftchat for Android?

It's a complicated issue. If we're really being victim-centered you would see that pressing charges and leaving an abusive partner is very, very dangerous for a victim.

You're an idiot.