I remember in 6th grade my homeroom teacher started reading us "The Lottery Rose" which includes horrible child abuse and death and grieving. It was tough to listen to, but the story was so beautiful that the entire class was hooked on it. Sad and scary are sometimes still amazing, and I think we should give kids…
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I love shopping at IKEA because they have rooms all set up and you can see how different components work together. Also they used to (and are bringing back) their small apartments set ups, where they set up an entire apartment in <600 sq ft. Since I have a small house, I like seeing how they put things together and…
they didn't hurt when I used them, but they also seem to speed up the healing process, so my blister was already smaller before I took the first one off. I did leave it on for 2 days. And my blister never popped, it just healed, which was a first for me. I love these.
The air of semi-perfection maybe?
My husband made one of my engagement rings, but it doesn't have a stone. What it does have is a DNA double helix engraved on the top, which makes it the most amazing ring ever (if you are a biology/genetics geek like me). We did go together to pick out a more traditional ring, but that one is an emerald (and I think…
Yeah I wish I could get rid of the "cute" description. I want to be "gorgeous" and "beautiful" but all I get is adorable. And sometimes I get people who think that pretending that I'm an arm rest is funny. Having someone's armpit right in my face is NOT funny.
That video was beautiful. I love how excited he is by the whole concept.
Another Seven Sisters alumna here. I loved my college, and I loved the atmosphere. The few times a guy was allowed to attend as a full time student (only for a semester) they caused a lot of problems. I don't mind the who took classes at my college (we had a cross college registration with a number of nearby co-ed…
What if you have a crush from every category? Also I preferred Geordie LaForge to Data personally. I loved his visor!
Thank you Isoperla! Not everyone goes to grad school right out of undergrad. So that means that I will be getting my PhD sometime around my 31st birthday, and then I will have a 2-3 year post-doc that could send me all over the country (possibly abroad but for my discipline going abroad isn't necessary). And there…
The current classes are often dominated by women (when I started my PhD there were 16 other students - 14 women). But the upper tiers are often still filled with men. And academic professors don't retire at 62-65, so tenured professor positions aren't readily available to the groups of women graduating with their…
One of my good friends is getting his PhD in genetics. He's very smart and he swears a lot. Maybe you shouldn't make assumptions about people?
I agree. The only things my husband wasn't involved in was the dress shopping and flowers (but I had no interest in flowers either, my mother dragged to along for that). But he was most concerned with the photographer (he is one, so had very exacting tastes), the venue, menu and DJ. And his suit of course. Most of…
Heh, I had an argument with my ex-boyfriend once, after we broke up, as we were talking on AIM. He accused me of not "being personable online" because I didn't use enough emoticons. That was the moment I was really happy I ended the relationship.
My best friend and her mom read together every night until she was in high school. Years later my mom admitted that she always felt like a bad mother because she didn't read to me. I reminded her that I hated having people read to me, I preferred to read myself, so I wouldn't let her read to me. Now however I love…
I don't get the bubble popping one. I think popping bubbles is just as fun as blowing bubbles, and bubbles will just pop on their own anyway. I'd probably be the kid who'd want to just blow a lot of bubbles and let someone else pop them all for me (cause blowing the bubble and popping it myself seems like a lot of…
It's YA, but The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt makes me cry every time. As a warning though, it contains scenes of child abuse, so be careful reading it. I still reread it once a year though.
What was the last movie shown? With the woman falling on the steps in winter? I swear those steps look like my college.
Well I haven't had a chance to read it, and I imagine others hadn't as well. You could have stopped with "Not only will it surely be too violent." and left out the parentheses and still have made your point.