It's really variable. For all the horror stories I've heard, my department is the opposite. Of the 12 female grad students who started my year (11 + me), 6 are currently married (including me), and 3 of those 6 have had children while still in grad school. Two of the 6 were married prior to starting grad school,…

My husband might end up a stay at home dad. He's trying to get his photography business working, and if we can work it right, he can take care of the (currently non-existent) children during the week and work on his photography as a part time thing at night and on weekends. And if it doesn't work, well he'll be an…

That's actually a running joke between my friend Kevin and myself. He likes to turn to me and say "you know, you killed my god." And I say "he was asking for it" (or something else to that effect.

My husband doesn't have a facebook account. It's not that he is a sociopath, or that he has no personality, or that he's super pretentious. He just never made an account when it was early on, and now he finds it really funny not to have an account. It means that all his friends friend me instead, and I get all the…

oh kinja, how you do love your double posts.

I think the no cable comparison is not as valid now that so much is available through the web. We also dropped cable because we watch a lot of shows on netflix and hulu. It doesn't mean I don't watch a lot of tv still (too much really, but I still have 2 seasons of How I Met Your Mother, 4 seasons of Supernatural,…

I really can't stop laughing at your story. That's the funniest thing I've heard. Does your family still give your brother hell for that? That's the type of story that gets told to all girlfriends and potential girlfriends.

I went to an all woman's college (7 Sisters!) and I loved my experience. I honestly don't think I missed out on anything. There were men on campus, I had male professors, so I got enough of the "male perspective" so anyone argueing that I must have come out unprepared to the male dominated world? Well I'm in a…

Oooh, that would be amazing. Maybe something more along the lines of Dream Hunters? That way you can have a couple large pictures, next to a page of text.

Agreed. I could see buying a print of that. I don't know where I would hang it, but it's haunting.

Judo! That makes me feel happy.

Might want to be careful that the paparazzi don't get a hold of that picture. It might end up on twitter!

My friend Killer agrees.

my aunt and cousins are orthodox jews and the emphasis of intellect over physical activities has hurt one of my cousins. Unlike her brother, she's just not a very good student, and also had no interest in school. But she *loved* gymnastics. She went as far as she could at the one gym she was allowed to go to…

I don't like most yogurts. I like greek yogurt with honey, but nothing with fruit or fruit flavors, or crunchy bits. The week after I got my wisdom teeth removed I couldn't eat much so my mom bought tons of yogurt for me, and I couldn't touch yogurt for a year after that.

I found it here:

Although I haven't read this compilation, Catherynne M. Valente is quickly becoming a favorite author of mine. She wrote "The Orphan Tales" which were amazing and beautiful and dark.

They won't let her go through chemo.

I emphasize with your situation, and I know it can be very hard for parents of individuals with Down Syndrome. It's not currently possible to predict what health problems a person with DS might have, and they do have a high frequency for a lot of health problems. But there is a lot of work being done to understand…

He was in "Tom and Huck" with Brad Renfro. I had such a crush on Renfro and my best friend had a crush on Thomas, so we watched that movie a lot.