I'm not that entirely sure I'd like to date people who read the same shit I read.

I suppose it depends on how much you really really enjoy discussing and/or geeking out over what you read. I love The Boy madly, but he doesn't read, and I really, really wish he did, so we could geek out over books. Although he does read comics, so there's that.

Some people don't really care about discussing what they read with their SOs; the have a book club or other friends for that, so that's fine. And I have Buffistas to geek out over my books with, and that makes me happy. But still.

CPAPs are meant to be fantastic and make a huge difference.

As far as I can see the only bad thing is flying with them. Just know you're going to be searched and be grateful you aren't Arab-lookin'.

DH and I usually don't read the same books, but our tastes overlap enough that we can recommend stuff to each other every now and then.

Of course, what nobody tells you ahead of time is that once you have kids, 99% of conversations with your spouse will be about poop or how tired you both are.

The downside of studying in the library: I cannot cuss properly when the stupid PDF reader decides not to save all of the papers I looked for and into thoroughly the entire morning (including the notes I digitally wrote and saved on them) and fail at opening them. Thank God I had the brains to save in the file names the titles of the articles and the last names of their authors. But just to balance the last hour of retracing the damn articles from the web:

DIE YOU PIECE OF SHITTY, MISLEADING, TIME SUCKING SOFTWARE, DIE! kicks software in its metaphorical nuts .

And now, back to the cultural discussion on literature and love.

I don't need hugs as much as I need someone to give me an hour or two of sleep.

Maybe this is more of an LJ thing, but I've had a lot of stress at work. Then yesterday, I got a call from a neighbor about how our dog had been barking all. day. WHich he probably had because we are crate training after the neighbor complained about poop in her yard, which led to an electric fence, but then the dog was too scared to poop/pee outside, thus leading to the need to crate him during the day.

Well, said neigbor has a little 8 yo girl who has been rather mean to Ellie. I have bit my tongue because Ellie doesn't really get it and I hate this sort of interpersonal confrontation, but I mentioned it on the phone to the neighbor, and of course my voice got all wobbly, which I know men see as weakness, or at least I perceive it as such, and that led to me basically feeling lame for complaining to him when it may have seemed like retaliation (but I never would have said anything otherwise) and when I hung up the phone I just spent some time crying.

Basically, I feel like the people I work with hate me, my neighbors hate me, and their kids are mean to my awesome daughter.

(And you know, no one is sick or hospitalized, and I know many close to those of us here are, so I feel selfish complaining about people being mean to me.) But damn it, I would like a week or at least a day of people being nice to me.

But damn it, I would like a week or at least a day of people being nice to me.

That we can do!

Unlike the sick or hospitalized (where we DO do our best with the ~ma) being nice to you is well within our skill set!

I really admire you being very much an individual AND a military wife. The two do not always go hand-in-hand in my experience. Home births? Elimination communication? Bein' a big ol' hippie lawyer? DAMN WOMAN.

I believe that "Lonesome Rhodes"(Have you seen that movie? It's eerie...I wonder who Schulberg had in mind. Although you'd think it was Beck, more or less.) will ultimately have the highest-rated psychotic break since Howard Beale. Fox News will ultimately have to pay a huge fine cause they knew he came in that morning raving(like usual) but without pants(slightly less usual.)

Stephanie, hon, you are NOT SELFISH. At all. You've got significant emotional stressors in your life, and those are legit and causing you pain, and we're the best place I know to vent about that kind of stuff and get some comfort. Don't apologize -- we bring {{{{ }}}}

Stephanie, you and your family deserves to be treated nice, and not just for a day or a week. You, as mentioned, are not selfish.