I know there is an IUD (mirena?) where some people basically stop getting their period. That might be a good option for you?

Cool!

This is fascinating. I would have assumed that equal numbers of men and women had smartphones. I guess it all comes down to your cohort and who you know. (Everyone I know has an iPhone. I can hold it over my head and take a photo at the same time. )

You should also be able to stretch the neck if you want. When it is wet you can block it wider, someone else talks about blocking on the thread- you can basically stretch it and pin it so it will be larger when it dries.

I also wonder how much of this is tied into gun violence in schools. I assume the "rule" started because of that. Administration probably does not want to fight with the majority of the offenders of this rule, the girls, because they are perceived as a low threat. However, once a boy starts carrying around a bag, he…

Obviously this is just disgusting. People are saying that it's a schoolwide rule that applies to everyone regardless of sex and that's fine if it is enforced that way. No bags in classrooms. Period. But that doesn't seem to be what's happening and that is the problem.

In my personal opinion and experience, queer can certainly be an umbrella term for different expressions of sexuality and attraction. I identify as queer (I say that I am attracted to people and don't care so much how they identify. To complicate things, I am married to a man, but have dated people who identify as…

My Hebrew name is Ayelet, and I want to name my (future imaginary) daughter Tessa. I am doomed! I swear I am not a hipster!

Winter is coming.

What kinds of cats are there?? Cougar? Mountain lion? Is a cougar a mountain lion? So many questions! But glad you weren't eaten!

Ditto! Aaaashhhhhhh!!!

These are not scary, but apparently when I was little I was a ghost magnet. I think my mother thinks it is because I was "reincarnated". Apparently when I was 2.5 years old, I told her that my name had been Dani and that I had died in a car accident when I was 16, but then I picked her and my dad to be my new parents.…

Now I'm crying!

It's a tragedy. :(

I agree. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum irritated me as well. BUT I still LOVE how much they seem to adore their children.

If I wasn't already married, I would marry you.

This was very thorough. :)

I never said that people can't mature, but this girl and her future child cannot wait 5-10 years for that guy to grow up (assuming he ends up wanting a wife and kids, which maybe he does not). Sometimes you can't take mistakes back, and walking out on your pregnant gf and fetus is one of them.

So, certainly unplanned pregnancy at 19 must have been incredibly hard, but it did really show you that guy's true colors. And if he was the kind of guy to walk out on his pregnant girlfriend, and if he's the kind of guy to not pay child support for the first 6 months of his kids life...then probably that was a good…

Happening in South Loop too.