That's how it was with my husband and myself. We had talked endlessly about buying a house together, what our future plans were, where we saw ourselves, what kind of family we wanted. We talked about everything related to marriage, we just didn't use the word marriage to describe it. I also wanted a proposal and my…

I'm a loyal reader with a college education and getting my PhD, and I have NO problems with "hella"

My husband helped pick out the location, the caterer, the invitations, the DJ, the photographer, the guest list, the colors, even gave me advice about the bridesmaids dresses. I wasn't aware he wasn't supposed to do that.

What my husband and I did was pick three things that were important to us and focused on getting the best we could afford for those things, and then going cheap for everything else. For us it was 1) location of reception 2) good food (and getting to eat it! people will tell you that the bride never eats on her…

It's about balance. Having some responsibility and chores as well as having the chance to be a kid, and have fun and sometimes do absolutely nothing is important. I took violin in middle school and hated to practice and my mom did have to force/coerce me. On the other hand I really hated sports. Aside from a…

I'm really glad Facebook wasn't around when I was still dating. I just know I would have been one of those people who facestalked my ex's.

as the icelight and bicolor said, this isn't actually super new. I first heard about this about a year ago, I think? A paper or two came out last year showing that the presence of the XMRV was caused by contamination of the samples, thus why only samples from that first lab was found to have the virus and all other…

Well if you are going to be typecast, I think this is the best possible scenario. I love Agent Casper/Coulson

Most of my friends don't even know I'm an atheist, most of my family doesn't either. I certainly don't post about it. Neither does my husband, who is also an atheist, or his sister...ditto. I know a number of atheists, and none of them announce it. On the other hand I know a lot of Christians who frequently post…

Yeah the obese kid also bothered me. I don't think Levithan handled that right, and the wording was problematic.

When I was a baby my mom got me this awesome one shoulder leopard print bathing suit. I've never been able to find another bathing suit that awesome since.

I just read this a couple weeks ago and really liked it. I had a few problems with the end, but overall I think it was really interesting. It played with the concept of self quite a bit. How you can have a self that's divorced from your body, and so even when jumping into other bodies, A still thought of…

When I was in 8th grade we read The Giver. That book was a gateway drug for me, leading into reading 1984, Brave New World, and many others. There are good YA books out there, and there's nothing wrong with giving kids something they might find more accessible that will spark an interest in something more.

I watched it earlier this year. I was a little disappointed, but I think that was because it was over-hyped for me. So many people told me it was the best show EVER, and it was funny, but not overwhelmingly so. But I have found that certain scenes and jokes have stuck with me, and I now reference it more than I…

My husband is one of those guys who has no problem shopping with me. He'll go through the store picking out things he thinks I might like or that he might like to see me in, and then waits by the dressing room so I can try things on and walk out for his opinion. He also is very honest with me about what he thinks…

I know it was a joke, but I thought you might be interested anyway.

It wasn't that the rest was filler. We've known for awhile that regulatory regions existed. And promoters, and silencers, and non-coding RNA. But there was still DNA that was thought to be non-functional. There are a lot of pseudo genes and truncated genes. These are genes that at some point were duplicated, and…

I think it's hard to figure out with just numbers. After my parents divorced my mom was a single mother of 2 working on a teachers salary. Less than $50,000/year definitely (and my dad was on disability so not much money there). But my grandparents were wealthy, my grandfather sold his business when he retired…

Thank you, you put this much more eloquently than I could. Also the work I do is all about studying genetics during early development. I need to use whole animal, just a cell culture won't work. And I can't use modeling because we don't know what is going on. I don't use mice, but rather zebrafish, to study what…