The doctor that performed my ablation offered me the option of doing it in his office with some pain pills - “it can get a little uncomfortable” - or treating it as an outpatient surgery.

I actually had an ablation a few years ago. I was very glad that my doctor favored a method that did not include scraping beyond the customary D&C, as some I researched do. One round is enough, thanks...

“Morcellator” sounds daunting, but lacks the visceral bite of “scrape.” As in: “A fucklot of uterine procedures involve scraping something.”

I recently took my first vacation in 14 years.

Come on over!

Aww, thanks! Happy to be of service.

We’re gonna need a bigger boat of popcorn.

I generally hate those shows, but in this case I’ll allow it.

I worked in a museum when I was in high school. On my breaks, I would wander through the exhibits, noting hideaways and sleeping spots.

I’m 44, perpetually single and cool with it. Two of my friends from college have gotten married this year to guys they started seeing at 41 or 42. I also have a relative who didn’t find the love of her life until 62.

I know women across a broad spectrum of orthodoxy, and every one of them has a smartphone.

Something pointed out at some point in my secular Jewish education: This one’s not as arbitrary as it seems. Women with regular cycles tend to ovulate around two weeks after the first day of their period. The length of a period plus seven more days puts most women near that two-week mark. So when a woman returns from…

Yeah, funny how that works...

I don’t know if this will end up happening, but it should scare the hell out of the health insurance industry that the most populous state in the Union is seriously considering going single-payer.

Likely, but ultimately irrelevant. Democrats hold every statewide office, plus supermajorities in both houses of the legislature.

I’m starting to think there’s a “no resigning” clause in his contract, so he’s doing everything he can to get fired. Escalating the WTFery from behind the podium didn’t work, so now he’s moved on to just plain not doing his job.

Another Angeleno here. How could you forget Antonio Villaraigosa? Dude’s running out of offices to run for. I doubt he’d win - his baggage aside, SoCal candidates have a tougher time than NorCal candidates in statewide races - but you know he’s going to thrown his hat into that ring once he realizes he entered the…

What is it with people not getting out of our reproductive business until we’ve convinced them that pregnancy would cause us to incur some arbitrary amount of physical harm? Especially the ones who come back with success stories about a friend or cousin who’s overcome one or another obstacle. It’s like, that’s nice…

I’m in my early 40s, and thanks to good skin and refusing to act my age, people tend to place me around 30. I expect that people who barely know me will be telling me, “You’ll change your mind!” or, “You still have time!” for a while yet.

I have an opposite theory: He wants out, he’s tried to get out, they won’t accept his resignation, so now he alternates between moping and deliberately trying to get fired.