The best way to avoid tornadoes is if you have a secure storm shelter.

My sister-in-law, too, with the periods. She was over 3 months before she suspected.

Nice comeback.

People get pregnant while using birth control all the time. As sex educators always say “No method is 100% effective.”

I have heard rill and dill my whole life, and I think more commonly among surfers...but it’s not your experience, so I guess we’re different people.

I know. She should just have done her hilarious Apu from the Simpsons impression. That always brings down the house.

Damn. It sounds like she doesn’t even have senility as an excuse, which is how I can try to buffer my mom...even though she’s pretty lucid otherwise.

Are you a surfer?

Well, the whole west is full of loco in one way or another. And I’m a westerner.

Thank you for the encouragement. I am not handy. Do you think I could become handy?

I would make fun, but my So Cal roots leave me saying both Rill and Dill (for deal). It just comes out.

Chicago is a great city.

The last time I moved, I didn’t have some basic stuff for a week, like my bed and a fridge. Combine sleeping on the floor with having to keep my milk in a pan full of sweaty ice with banging my shins on every unfamiliar thing and not being able to find stuff, and it IS sob-worthy. It will get better. I promise.

You are not alone. I would start telling everyone. People will get you the job far faster than you getting the job by yourself.

Oh, what a gorgeous guy. I’m so sorry.

Sounds like my old boss. She was the most freakishly horrible self-centered person I ever met. I asked her re: her new car, “Doesn’t it get horrible mileage?” and she said “Yeah, I don’t care. I only have one child and she’s not having kids, so if the ice caps melt, it’s not my problem.”

Is there a reason not to pluck mole hairs? A friend dated this horrible woman who had seriously 4” long facial mole hairs and I wondered if there was a medical reason not to remove them.

I have a pubic hair by my knee. Just one. I will pluck it and forget about it and then suddenly it is there again, all poky and weird.

Thanks for the encouragement. Part of me is throwing up my hands, but the other part is like, hey, all these OTHER people have houses...you can, too!

No, north, but still coastal CA. I was born here. I love it here. And I don’t really want to leave my life, but man. I’m single, make about $80k, but even rent is a fucking stretch. Sorry to be a privileged whiner, but I’m tired and discouraged.