Johnny Cash's version of the NIN song "Hurt". I listen to it and just feel.

I'm really surprised they didn't give you any blood transfusions. I hemorrhaged 2L of blood when I gave birth (bp dropped to 50/18) and the doctors immediately ordered 2 bags of blood. Then the next day when I was still really pale I got another 2bags. That extra blood helped sooooo much.

I spent two weeks in Bar Harbor with the rest of my grad class and everyone was all "We have to try lobster ice cream! Just once!" And I was all "No." I'm originally from MA and I LOVE lobster, but it does not belong in ice cream.

I never let my dog off leash. He's cat-reactive and likes to chase anything cat sized or larger (squirrels aren't problems, but deer and foxes are). Since we live in the city but next to a park with lots of deer, cats and foxes I keep him on leash.

It might depend on your kid. My son is super fussy about being wet, and since the cloth doesn't wick the moisture away like disposables, it means that as soon as he pees he needed to be changed. We did a combination of disposable at night, cloth during the day for the first 4 months. But he really prefers the…

YES! It was so distracting. What good is a table that's not flat? My drinks will tip over.

I've decided I'm just going to ignore the science. And I'm glad they put all that in the trailer, because if I go into this movie planning on ignoring the science then I can enjoy the madcap fun of it. If I hadn't know, and watched this, I would have spent too much time being annoyed.

I'm rereading Way of the Kings now because I can remember a lot, but he has so many things that seem like small details that end up being really important. I was planning on speed reading it since I've read it before, and I thought I could skip a lot. Not so! There's just so much detail, in a good way. And I'm…

His hair is far too dry to be just out of the shower and in need of a towel. They should redo these but with wet, just out of the shower Foley. For the people.

When I was a kid I believed in God, but I wasn't Christian. Jews also believe in God, God isn't a Christian only figure, and not everyone believes that God is Jesus's father.

Eye color is a more complicated than a single gene like what they teach in high school, but I think that's okay to simplify for introducing the concepts.

I liked Lincoln Logs, but I remember always being frustrated that I never had enough pieces to make big houses. I wanted like 30 sets so I could make a mansion and I only had enough to make a one room house.

Genetics! Which I learned to love because I really liked punnett squares in freshman bio. Of course I hardly ever do punnett squares anymore, instead I inject RNA into zebrafish embyros and see what happens.

Oh yeah, that sounds annoying. My memoir at 11 would be "I spent the summer reading books. The End."

A successful defense is a successful defense! Congrats to you too! What is your subject?

I also liked things to be right or wrong. I did like english, because at least I could make stuff up (I hated writing essays, but my 9th and 10th grade english teacher let me write a short story in place of the assaigned essay).

Yes! I loved those. They were awesome. Simple to put together, but never the same twice. I can't wait to get them for my kid (he's still too young, will try to eat the marbles.)

As a woman in STEM, here are the things from my childhood that got me interested in science:

I love this. I want one so badly. And I don't think it looks that "twee" (but to be fair I barely understand what twee looks like). To me this looks like something I could wear to a luncheon date. I don't go on luncheon dates, but I would start just so I could wear this dress!

So my son hates being wet if he's awake. Hates it. We have to change him when the diaper is barely wet. When we used cloth diapers? It was once and hour. But during the night when he's asleep the wetness doesn't bother him. Doesn't seem to affect when or how often he wakes up, he wakes when he's hungry. So he…