@princessshinylocks: I really wish we could bring the side ponytail back in style. I remember rocking that look in the late 80's (when I was 7-8 years old).

I've previously told a story on Jez about a woman assuming I was pregnant and touching my stomach (DO NOT touch my stomach!).

@personaldecay: I agree, that whole story sounded suspicious. I don't buy it (but it looks like it won anyway).

When I was around 19-20 my grandmother took my aside and quietly told me that she thought it would be best if I "married a nice Jewish boy." I just as quietly told her that I wasn't even dating but it was my business and not hers. She never brought it up again.

@ForgotMyMantra: I'm the same. Jewish mom, Catholic dad (with a wonderfully Catholic Irish last name). When I was in college I emailed someone from the jewish organization asking for access to something and I had to explain that despite my last name, I am in fact Jewish.

For me, to be honest, it was my brother that started me on the math/science tract. He started teaching me to add in pre-school, and attempted multiplication by 1st-2nd grade. When I was in 3rd grade he taught me some pre-algebra.

I loved She-Ra as a kid. I had a lot of the action figures and the castle which was so cool because it had an ELEVATOR! Which you moved using a string in the back...which could be used to fling the figures into the sky, as my brother discovered by pulling the string really hard. I've never forgiven him for breaking…

@iwanttolala: I don't know, I went to an all women's college and I found that lack of cleanliness is not a trait solely within the male purview.

I just checked. 21% of the faculty in my program (genetics) are female. However the majority of the students are female (I don't have overall numbers but my class of 17 had 3 males and the class above me were 100% female).

Heh, my grandmother-in-law is 92 and still works 30 hours a week at the family business. No one else has been able to balance the books as well as her.

In a similar vein, I once told my (now) husband that I could never marry him because he organized his books differently than I did (I organized by size, then author, he just straight up organized by author). The next time I went to his house, he had re-organized his bookshelves to match mine.

@dancingteacups: I love Academicchic.com. The only problem I have is they seem to get a lot of their accessories from thrift stores, which doesn't help me (who has a problem with accessorizing).

A couple of weeks ago I was stopped in the hall by an acquaintance who pat me on the stomach while exclaiming "You're pregnant!" To which I responded "No" and received another pat on the stomach and "situps."