Thanks!

Brains are amazing. I was worried about becoming dependent on ADHD meds, but I shouldn't have. It just makes me feel like a normal person.

I've watched Scrubs too many times. Acute intermittent porphyria! He'll pass out when he poos!

I'm with you on DSM- as a psych major, I love it because it gives you a vocabulary to discuss behavior. As a social work dropout, I hate it because so many people use it to pigeonhole you.

I'm not surprised that Kim is in hiding. She got enough shit for being pregnant. But I bet we're going to see a super-photoshopped spread of "How I dropped the Baby Weight and Decided Not to Kill Myself!" And the 'tips' are going to be things like "I stopped eating cake and went for a half-hour jog three times a week.…

My summary: The function that the hormones ghrelin and leptin provide in the body relates to both energy balance and circadian timing. A reversal of normal sleep patterns may lead to eating disorders because the cognitive restraint required to maintain healthy eating habits uses the same hormones as those that…

The first post-partum mom I ever saw was my younger sister. I was a little surprised that she still looked pregnant about a week after having her son, and that's fucked up.

And that is EXACTLY how I felt through every one of my psych and social work classes!

The Hermione in me is super excited that someone wants to read things!

I've put the attachment-related info on my blog (not really my blog, but it's here, so I guess it is?)

I've posted the part I wrote about attachment on kinja

Okay, back home now. Here's the info for the paper:

That DOES make me feel better! I've been disappointed with evolutionary psychology many times, because I have higher expectations. David Buss is fantastic, and he doesn't look for easy answers. The papers that come out that essentially say "We're like this because evolution. Hunter/gatherer. Man have club! Hit…

I'm not at home right now, but I'll post them when I get back to my computer

I love watching the back pedal so much. I once interviewed for a valet job. They kept coming up with reasons why I couldn't do it (after offering it to me based on my resume where I used my initials instead of my full name.)

I disagree with this study. But then, I disagree with most evolutionary psychologist's conclusions.

And yet I've been asked, in one form or another, at EVERY job interview. I've been asked flat out, "Are you married? Are you planning to have kids soon?" I've also been 'sneak-asked.' They'll say something like "What do you have going on in your life? What level of commitment and flexibility can we expect from you?"

Watch out, because she seems smart enough that one of these days she's going to rig a ladder to the ceiling to check out your hidden camera claims. When my niece was about two-and-a-half, she climbed under the car to see if there really were hamsters on wheels making the car go. And dragged a shovel to the back yard…

Haha, this would be my niece, too. But she's scared of dragons. She loves, loves, loves dinosaurs. Knows all the different species, and has two imaginary dino friends. But dragons are like *wrong* dinosaurs, so she's disturbed by them. I need to tell him about the smoke detector thing. It might work longer than…

I did one of those "Your Year" facebook things. (It pulls random statuses from the whole year.) One of them was me saying that Amanda Bynes was the only former child star that hadn't gone completely batty. I waxed rhapsodic about how much I was looking forward to seeing her work in the future, and how I thought she…