The Most Heroic Response To The Susan G. Komen Foundation You Will Ever See

redcolumbine · 1 day

questionTimeELIF · 2 days

Yeah, I have an "African-American" friend who is actually Jamaican-Canadian. She gets a kick out of it mostly.

ElyMinnow · 4 days

I was in a household that didn't really "believe" in depression

With a bipolar dad?! Those are some almost admirable avoidance skillz.

Seriously, though. My sister and I were abused as kids, and my mom beats herself up for not noticing at the time. No way I would have gone to her then, though, since she was totally zonked on depression. I watch my sister with her kids, and am amazed at their relationship - her kids trust her to handle any information and situation, and she listens to them and takes them seriously even over small concerns. It seems to me that it's more important to have open lines of communication than to watch for any signs - especially since, as you say, many of the signs look like normal teenagerhood. Then again, I'm not a mom, so I hesitate to say I know anything about parenting.

Anyway, props to you. fistbump

Oh, and if your kid is a girl, check out Neil Gaiman's Blueberry Girl, it's a beautiful expression of what (I assume) we all want for our girls.

sandelion · 5 days

Yeah, like I told the other guy, I 'liked' it because it posted links to interesting articles. I never really thought of it as a good discussion site since everyone, owner included, was kind of dickish, but it was a decent source for news. :(

sandelion · 5 days

I 'liked' them because they link to interesting news articles pretty regularly. I don't really pay any attention to the discussions that go on there, or to the fundraising - although I have seen it advertised - but I am feeling conflicted now, with all this suspicion. It never seemed like a problematic page, sigh.

youngluck · 6 days

Nice to have you back, sir. You've touched a lot of lives. I'm glad you're back on the right side of the fence. Take good care.

fapficionado · 6 days

According to at least some ways of reckoning it is #1: "Murders are up again this year in Philadelphia, and the city still has the highest homicide rate of the nation's 10 most populous cities, according to stats provided by each city's police department." (FTA)

But I take your point - Phila is no Motor City.

sesla · 6 days

Technically, according to prescriptive grammar, I think you'd need a 'with' before the 'any other guy' for your first meaning (he'll sleep with you as with any other guy). As it is, 'any other guy' should be a second subject parallel to the first.

That said, in the real world, it's potentially ambiguous.

quincy1998 · 7 days

/Burned-out lawyer turned teacher

Huh, interesting. I'd be curious to hear a little about how the jobs compare - they are such wildly different professions, although they share a number of central aspects (based on public self-presentation to a degree, requires attention to detail and some grasp of basic psychology...). Also, my husband is a teacher turned burned-out lawyer ;)

pinkzebraprint · 8 days

I like Glinda. You got the Good Witch background and the hard g.

Lithros · 12 days

gratissima magistrae est fabula! I'm so glad I decided to drop by the /r tonight to see if anything was going on :) Maybe another discipulus could offer a translation, or write a response to this? Scribite, O discipuli!

countingchickens · 14 days

I'm not averse to moving the time back some, an hour earlier, even 1.5, would be ok with me if that's easier for people. Feel free to put up a new post on the subject and let others weigh in. Maybe it won't help for tomorrow, but the following week could go easier on you.

galactica216 · 14 days

My uncle - who was treated for many years at MD Anderson, BTW, and they were amazing - said that chemo made everything taste nasty and metallic, and that adding a little tabasco made it better. I hope you'll never need to find out if it would work for you.

Everybody's rootin' for ya :)

countingchickens · 15 days

The kind of amazing thing is that I was not expecting them. I should know better. But I do love W Phila :)

countingchickens · 20 days

Latin is totally awesome. BUT ancient Greek is awesomer ;)

I'm going to put the audio up in the dropbox tonight, and I saved the full chat to the last page of the vyew room. Yes, it will be peculiar, but at least it's there...

Cheers, and thanks so much for your engagement tonight!

countingchickens · 20 days

Someone else had this problem, so I created a dropbox where I uploaded the audio, and she had no problems with that. Send me an email (doc.chickens@gmail) for the details; others who are interested can also email me for login info, I just don't want to post them here for various reasons.

technomad · 21 days

You'd be surprised how many teachers are introverts. I have only personal experience as evidence, but I'm in education so know a lot of teachers. Anyway, the kind of interaction required of being in front of a class is qualitatively very different from the kinds of social and professional situations this article is mainly talking about.

Actually this got me curious. Here's a discussion about introverts as teachers on an educational forum, i.e. teachers talking to each other about their experiences. This is an article studying correlation between personality type and teaching styles (I only read the abstract). So...

In an effort to bring this back to something near the topic: there are such interesting studies recently on using group work in classrooms and the inefficacy of lecturing. I guess, like everything, it's about finding a good balance.

catsinmypajamas · 21 days

I think the whole internet is trolling me. I'm going to look this up in a book tomorrow to verify.

catsinmypajamas · 21 days

I sew frequently and fairly well, and I'm still pretty convinced it's mostly magic.

catsinmypajamas · 21 days

'Ague' is the one that still throws me off. Listening to an audiobook I heard it pronounced 'ay-gyew,' which is uglier than I expected. On the plus side, it's not like I'll ever need to use this word in conversation...

not_your_normal_girl · 21 days

Y'know, you're neat. You have such a positive outlook, and haven't let the past color your hope for the future, and seem to have found a pretty decent balance of realism and optimism. I aspire to such an attitude. Interesting AMA and I wish you all the best for a long and happy free life. Also, your construction skills are awesome, and that's what pushed me over the edge into commenting :)

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