If god wants a baby born that badly, god can make it happen in some other way. Why am I expected to believe in the omniscience and omnipotence of a god who supposedly has a purpose for babies born of rape but can’t get those babies here in a different method? And if god doesn’t approve of rape or incest, how ... can…

See, that is such a different experience from mine! I actually now work at a company that has both UT and A&M as customers, as well as other large universities, and I do see how a student body president can be important.

Coming from a small liberal arts school, I am amazed that anyone cares this much about student president - but I know that A&M is huge and very different from my experience!

I uh...grew up really religious and had a limited pop culture diet. I WAS allowed to wear makeup once I turned 13 though, so that won.

I was so square I literally did not consider sneaking out.

I literally made a joke with someone I recently met that “we’re going to be best friends, right?” because we’d hit it off while waiting for an event. Now I am failing to reply to a message on facebook that might actually confirm we are friends, because I am apparently self-sabotaging.

Exactly. I have voted consistently since I was 18. I just also miss not being worried about politics all the time.

Isn’t that as a kid? I voted for that because - as much as I deeply treasure my right to vote, and exercise that right, and register other people - a good part of me misses when I was young enough to not be aware and not have the stress. I mean like, when I was ten or something.

I was recently accused of “trying to destroy everyone who disagrees with [me] liberals.” This in a facebook conversation in which I was being unreasonably civil about an anti-trans video. Like, dudes. You can think and say what you want. I’m not even being that aggressive! Just pointing out that I disagree.

That is an INSANE response and I am sorry someone thought that was appropriate! I think one of the correlated issues with this competitive parenting thing is parents, especially moms, who lose themselves in their kids. They have no identity outside of momming, so they feel like they have to do this things to be valid…

I worked with someone who left to go work there and has since moved to a new position. I wondered if that was the case.

AUGH I have a library science degree and love research this would be awesome!!!

My husband has it too and he gets constipated, which I understand sucks but like ... you can usually go to work with constipation, and it is much less likely that you will shit yourself in public. I do get people asking what the heck is up with my delicate stomach though.

So, only people who already have a lot of money become beauty editors, right? It does not seem like it should pay a lot and yet I feel like I see a lot of them having money to do strange things. (I know she also mentioned a good paying job at Yahoo and saving responsibly.)

There are doctors and scientists doing interesting research about the gut and what lives there and what it does for us. I suspect they would not approve of any of this.

I totally and completely do not agree with calling someone a hypochondriac without knowing their history, and I say this as a person who has an assortment of stupid things wrong with her. I am often sick and it IS a thing that some people struggle with, and it can have a psychological toll.

You’ll have to brand it right though - Texas has a different feel, so it probably needs to be on a ranch. Less Euro chic and more earth/natural whatever.

Yeah, I claim “I dunno, food poisoning?” frequently as an excuse - not because I am trying to get out of work but because I have IBS and sometimes my body is freaking out and I don’t want to tell my employer that I have a chronic illness that makes me shit.

Everything about the lyrics is annoying but the weird rhythmic background weasles into my head and stays there forever and I almost like it.

Oh me too, on all accounts.