So. Bored. Waiting for Boy to finish stuff with his parents, so I can find out if we're even doing anything tonight or this weekend. Trying not to call until 830, but failing at being productive until then. I've watched like 472 episodes of Frasier. Sigh.

Man, back in the day a diploma from Wellesley practically guaranteed you an Mrs. degree with a Harvard man. Now all I have is a promising career in medicine. For shame.

@Oleander: I'm new to the field, but I definitely had similar concerns initially! Usually beforehand, if I am not showering, I do a once-over with those bathroom wet wipes. If I have some amount of time before I know I will be seeing the boy, I'll try to go to the bathroom if I can. My stomach also overreacts to a…

@wildetypewoman: Update: the consistency was weird, but it tasted normal. Here's to no food poisoning! Thanks for all the responses :-)

@enidcoleslaw: "Fix You" by Coldplay. I listened to it on repeat riding a bus home after breaking up with someone. Probably 5 years ago now, and I love the song, but it takes me right back to that bus.

Does peanut butter go bad? All I want in the world is a toasted PB&J but the PB is like several months expired. It's been in the fridge the whole time...so I probably won't die?

This relationship is going through such an awkward phase. He's so swamped I don't even know when or if I should call, and I'm taking his stress more personally that I really should, especially since my lab work is a mess lately. I reeeally can't wait until August, and this rotation, and my qualifying exams, are…

@ekaterinaballerina: This is a stark contrast to my local Starbucks, where a new employee gave me something other than my Usual, I didn't notice until I drove away, but didn't mind much...and then three DAYS later, someone else who had been working that day asked "hey, was that a mistake, I know it wasn't your usual,…

@HidingInCanada: Um, no way, I went to high school in WeHa, too... Haha given that I said Catholic school, you can probably guess which one I went to! Feel free to PM me :-p

@HidingInCanada: I think in retrospect, it was good for me, socially, anyway. So, yeah, I didn't get to have language courses, teachers were sometimes inconsistent, one year the whole system was taken over by a corporation (actually I got to skip school to protest at city hall for that, that was pretty neat). But…

@stonebiscuit rolled a 1 on initiative: WORD. I could affect a vibrato at that age, too, but it takes years of coaching to have control over it...diaphragm and breath control, dynamics, sustaining the ends of phrases, grounding your high notes in your body. I'm not saying she isn't good for her age, but if she keeps…

@Spaceman Bill Leah: As someone who spent K-8 in Hartford public schools, my guess would be...a music program? Languages? Consistency in who teaches your classes month to month? Improving schools that are hundreds of kids over capacity and spilling out of portable classrooms? That's not even addressing the high…

#1: High school through college bf...his father slipped condoms into a college care package for him, adding "don't tell your mother." They were unlubricated, and thus super uncomforable for both of us. Weeks later, in the car (thankfully I wasn't there), his father asks, "So did you get what I put in your care…

In my over-sized bright red Mrs. Field's Cookies polo shirt and beige apron, likely smudged with frosting, from behind a counter that came up to about my shoulders. I was probably about 19. A tall creepy guy wouldn't leave the storefront, and kept asking me uncomfortable questions, and the look he gave me felt like…

@LutherNipperkin: Fat tissue contains the largest store of the enzyme aromatase, which is involved in the conversion of precursors like androstenedione to estrone, and testosterone to estradiol (the major form of estrogen in people). So it is partly the fat-stores for the production of estrogen in the first place,…

@The_Psycho_Linguist: I'm 24 and still waiting for my letter...

@JoStockton: He's not really an email person, but I do agree that he probably thinks there's been way more resolution (or at least, that it's less of a problem) than I do...he definitely doesn't know how upset I've been. And there is a light at the end of the tunnel, he's done with this at the end of August, then…

@girlinthegarden: Ugh, yes, you captured the cycle of feeling bad perfectly. We did start talking about it last weekend, but it's never a good time to finish. At the same time I feel like if I keep bringing it up and try to plan a conversation, it makes it into a bigger deal than it should be. I also don't want to…

@JoStockton: I'm MD/PhD, so I'm doing my in-between PhD years and he's doing his clinical years...we started in the same med school class and have been close friends the whole time, but only dating for 6 months or so. I think most of it is just exhaustion and he is not super demonstrative (I've known him long enough…

I'm really frustrated with the boy's new medicine rotation (we're both in med school)...I know the schedule is crazy and unpredictable, I know he's completely exhausted. But some kind of reciprocation of missing him, or any interest other than "depends on how much work I get done" when I ask about sleeping over the…