Nuts
 

Sheesh....I've been eating a lot of these prohibited foods, and the Brazenette seems to thrive so I refuse to worry about it. Of course, I let here eat cake at a birthday party this weekend, so I don't count on winning any Healthy-Eating-Mommy-of-the-Year Awards...

Sheesh again. At 6 months, the Brazenette nurses less than that. Morning, when I get home, bedtime, and rarely but ocaissionally once at night. I guess I am truly blessed...


Bn'(now she'll be up 8 times tonight just to prove me wrong)B

Dating Question: related but different
 

College Advice (long question)
 

The first thing you might want to do is have her tested for some form of a learning disability. 1. If she has one it would go a long way to explaining her history. 2. I didn't have this pattern in high school, but I did have it in college, and it turned out a severe learning disability was the reason. I only wish I had known so before law school because it would have helped me with point 3. which is, you can use the good grades to show her potential, explain away the bad grades with the learning disability and convince a good college to accept her while 4. she works on overcoming whatever it is that causes her to have study problems, thus not doing the same thing in college she did in highschool.

Of course, she could also just be lazy, which suggests she needs some time to mature. In that case I'd send her off to the community college to grow up a bit, or have her take a year off and just work.

Normally there is a reason when a smart kid has a lot of trouble. It is possible to explain away grade problems, but you need to figure out what the reason is first, or you won't be able to explain it.

College Advice (long question)
 

First, see if that grade in the Jr. year can be cleared up so there's no explaining to do there. My understanding is that the junior year is where it matters the most.

Is there an explanation for the sophmore year? Something going on at home or at school that could demonstrate that she otherwise would have made the grades but she was distracted, etc.

Also, some extracurriculars definitely help.

College Advice (long question)
 

She could take some time off between HS and college, travel, join AmeriCorps, join the Army, write a novel, anything...and then in 2 years, apply to colleges and write essays about how young and unfocused she was in HS, but how she's grown and matured so much from doing whatever she's been doing for the past two years, and now knows she'll be successful as a student because she is so much more fundamentally mature...

It's bullshit, I know, but it got me into law school...

College Advice (long question)
 

At least she didn't get denied National Honor Society b/c too many teachers opposed it (even though grades were well above the cut-off).

I probably should not have thrown that book.

Or mooned the gym class.


Edited to add that I laughed and laughed and laughed at all of the poor souls who got in and subsequently complained nonstop about the excessive amount of community service required!

Sorry, Burger, dumbass rule.
 

But because of your status as a moderator/admin, I cannot put you on ignore. So any promises I might have made about leaving you alone are out the window until (a) you stop being a moderator/admin and I can put you on ignore or (b) someone changes that dumbass rule and I can put you on ignore.

College Advice (long question)
 

IMHO, based on not entirely dissimilar personal experience:

You are correct that the primary goal should be to ensure that she ultimately takes her BA from the best school possible. Clearly, this girl must get herself motivated to do this, because her parents aren't doing the neurotic pushing that the kids she is competing against are getting. You should not call her parents idiots (let me do that: "idiots!"), but letting her know that some people have different priorities and think it is important to have broader options in their lives, might be advisable.

She needs to do the SAT (and ACT, depending on where she is applying), and she needs to do well, really well. I had middling grades for the schools I was applying to, and I had interviewers look at my grades and look at my test scores and say "you had a lot of fun in high school." Being labled a slacker sucked, but without that there is nothing, absolutely nothing, in the universe that will make an admissions reviewer believe she is any brighter than her grades would imply [edited to add: other than a late-diagnosed learning disability - nice catch Leag]. Fortunately, the SAT is biased towards really smart slackers.

Re: the missing grade, she needs to get that fixed pronto. With that expunged, she has a shot at convincing someone that the sophomore F thing was an isolated incident and she is a "reformed sinner" who has learned the error of her slacker ways. (An essay that doesn't state but illustrates that would be helpful.) If impossible, she needs to address that Jr. year F up front and convincingly - i.e.: she had better have a goddamn good reason why the project wasn't in on time and a letter from the teacher assuring that the grade is, really, not reflective of her performance in the class.

Re: starting out at a weaker school and transferring up, this can work. The time between HS and the transfer, combined with absolutely superb grades at the college, will take the curse off of the iffy HS performance. It will not work from a community college, though. Ideally, she should try to get into the best 4-year state school she can get her butt into, and transfer from there. (i) Good grades at community college count for nothing, and (ii) if it is a state school she can plead $$/not ready to venture far and wide yet, instead of "no one wanted to accept me first time around so I am hoping to fool you guys now." If she goes this route, she should NOT, under any circumstances, apply out of HS to any school to which she may want to apply to as a transfer. They keep the applications, and they will almost surely not take her if they rejected her once. However, after a year or so of college, she will have the experience to be relaxed and confident in the transfer application process - and that can make all the difference.

BR(blew off HS, got rejected by my top 4 schools out of HS, got in everywhere I applied as a transfer)C

College Advice (long question)
 

I second the year-off idea. If she screws around at a community-college, that's not necessarily going to help things.

Sorry, Burger, dumbass rule.
 

Just click really fast past his posts and it will be as if he is on ignore.

Even(cannot be ignored)Odds

How To Tell Office Morale Is Poor
 

Other than that people are paranoid, no. Besides, such things are not really FB fodder.

A New Record
 

I knew someone would come through for me.
How can a sock bitch about something that even if you only read the board once a week, you would see anttwat somewhere. Or at least do a damn search.
Thanks Thrasher - I enjoy being your sock.

A New Record
 

What was wrong with being wwld?

Wind Speeds
 

This is a good question. Actually I had some questions about this myself - and I know this wasn't the point - it's that PMS thing you were trying to raise.

I thought that it was important, in order to prevent either cervical or ovarian cancer, to have regular periods. As a youth I had very irregular "cycles" which really sucks when you think, you know, you might be, you know, but whew when you actually find out that you're not, you know.
But I'm sure that the gyno said something to the effect that I would be a candidate for cervical or ovarian cancer if I didn't do the bcp thing to regulate the cycles.
So if you only have 4 cycles/year, doesn't that increase the risk of some sort of cancer and why would anyone want to do that?
Sorry Burg, I guess it's the amish in me that wants to know.

skip if you don't want to read about periods
 

It says some women stop having their periods altogether.

I can't imagine that is a good thing in the long run. But that isn't based on any scientific viewpoint, it just seems to me screwing with the human body that much can't be good. Everyone thought hormone therapy was a great thing and look where we are now.

http://www.contraceptiveinjection.co...th-control.htm

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/979259/posts

http://www.msnbc.com/news/949294.asp


I did learn today though that it is possible for menstrual cramps to be worse than the contractions during labor. That's wild.

http://www.wdxcyber.com/ncontr14.htm


Edited to add another article that looks pretty good

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/livin...ods011030.html

skip if you don't want to read about periods
 

Unless, of course, they're your cramps.

My wife has literally passed out from cramps. It can be frightening. Childbirth - piece of cake. Talking about leaky breasts -- comes with the territory.

Glad I could share...

Wind Speeds
 

Please tell me this somehow relates to the TdF.

skip if you don't want to read about periods
 

I think the counter-argument, from a medical point of view, is that in the natural course of things women would have many fewer periods because they'd be pregnant much of the time. Thus, having 13 periods a year, every year, is really what is unnatural.

skip if you don't want to read about periods
 

That is why I thought it was wild. I have (well had it more when I was younger) the same problem. It makes me a little less afraid to go through labor to know they won't be that bad. I'll refrain from describing how it feels for the more delicate amongst us.

I've never gone on the pill though.

(No I'm not pregnant it is more of a general wow I bet labor hurts a lot, and this in turn makes me think maybe it wouldn't be as bad as I think.)

skip if you don't want to read about periods
 

If it will put you further at ease, the pains are different (I am told by a most knowledgeable source), with bad cramps often lasting much longer and having more of an "edge" than labor cramps, which were relatively predictable, more of a dullish pain, and only had a real edge to them during the transition to "hard" labor, which, contrary to its name, was not as hard as the transition. So labor really was just nowhere near as bad as when the bad cramps hit.

(edytud fer speiling)

It does in fact. Thank you.

Wind Speeds
 

Your gyno was likely thinking that your iregular cycles were a symptom of someting called polycystic ovarian syndrome ("PCOS"). Many PCOS suffers have infrequent or absent periods, usually accompanied by a failure to ovulate. As a result they are at greater risk for developing endometrial hyperplasia, in which the uterine lining thickens to the point of becoming precancerous.

However, not all women with infrequent periods have PCOS, and it is accompanied by a panoply of other nasty symptoms. (FWIW, the rate is higher among lesbians than the general population, according to a recent study)

here's a link re the syndrome

Wind Speeds
 

Because I have to go to the Pyrenees 4 times a year?

Do you have reproductive plans you'd like to share with the class?

Wind Speeds
 

No, that wasn't it. The conversation centered around how your body is supposed to ovulate regularly in order to keep hormones in check and that the fewer times you ovulate you're at higher risk for ovarian cancer. As I recall. Anyway. Yawn.

IN OTHER NEWS...
Think you have what it takes to be the next Faith Hill, Enrique Iglesias or Alicia Keys? Tired of crooning in the shower and finally ready to take the world with your singing ability? Then here’s your shot to be the next singing sensation as NBC’s Today show launches a U.S. search for the next music icon called — “Today’s Superstar.”
Here’s what you need to do: fill out the entry form, print it out, and send it along with your VHS demo tape and contestant release form. The demo tape should consist of the entrant singing two songs a cappella and solo, with the songs no more than one minute in length. One song can be of the entrant’s choice, with the second song to be selected from the list on the entry form. Single performers only, sorry no group performances for this competition.


Damn, and I was going to do a duet with ncs.

Not in the near future, no. But it has come up of late, so it is something my mind has been pondering.

skip if you don't want to read about periods
 

Don't be so sure. Have you known women with seriously crippling cramps? Because what most of us have is nothing compared to some people. I went to college with a woman who literally (reminds me of a SNL skit) literally bedridden every month hot water bottle and meds in hand. I think that's the kind of cramping people are comparing to. I'm no expert, but my best friend said labor was the worst pain she ever experienced.

Wind Speeds
 

I don't sing. I only THREATEN to sing. Big difference. I also fail to see the interest in AI and similar shows, despite my love of the reality tv genre. Go figure.

In other news, I have a swollen lip and bruised chin from an unfortunate meeting with a metal bed frame today. Insert raunchy sex joke here.

Wind Speeds
 

I am assuming you made a midday nookie run, you devil, because if "today" meant "this morning, before work" you probably would have mentioned it during the freefall/diagonal discussion.

And now it's time
 

for something completely different.

Anttwat's stupid link of the day.
Click here to see a cookie sing.

yes there is sound and you have to download the mpeg. but it's cute.

singing cookie

Edited to add that there's a shameless request for donation. Ignore if you wish, just click on the cookie image to play.

A New Record
 

You are turning into quite the sassy one, aren't you?

But I digress. Apropos of nothing, your post reminded me of the huge numbers of peanut allergies that seem to be sweeping the schools here in Podunkville. I went to a reading event at PS 123 (I do a wonderful reading of the premises liablity section of "Prosser and Keeton on Torts"), and this classroom had all of these huge signs reading "NO PEANUTS!"

Amazing. I don't mean to minimize the danger (this girl will apparently croak if she eats a legume or a nut), but how and when did this explosion of severely allergic kids happen?

Wind Speeds
 

Thank god I wasn't caught when the Outlook reminder for my "Midday Sex Orgy" meeting popped up while a partner was in my office. How embarrassing!

And now it's time
 

You are not living up to the expectations created by your moniker, which are that you will be a thrasher tribute sock, a penske sock tribute sock, or a sock who comments wittily when it seems appropriate to say whether or not there is something wrong with that or when coochie is being discussed. In all cases, you should be funny.

You can't just do random, if funny, links, and expect the funniness to be attributed to you. It's just not right. It's not the FB way. And it's stealing.

And now it's time
 

OMG. so many rules. so many rules. Is there a treatise I can buy?
Can't I just worship Thrasher in all her worshipfulness? Do I have to be funny too?

Edited to add Hey, at least I had a Monty Python quote. Isn't that something? Can I be the all things Monty Python sock instead?

A New Record
 

Lots of theories. Not enough breastfeeding, too much formula. Immune systems unable to cope with increasingly polluted environment. More premature kids with underdeveloped immune systems surviving. Bad karma.

tm

And now it's time
 

There are a lot of rules to follow. That is why lurking for years is suggested before becoming a poster (or, in the alternate, being really freaking funny). That way people just assume you are a sock for an existing poster and you get to be in on all the inside jokes. But never fear, if you really fuck things up, you can always just change to a new name and retire the ant twat moniker.

Good luck, dear poster, and godspeed.

[Note: starting out as a Thrasher tribute is not a stellar beginning, but I'll forgive you that one mistake.]

Twat wit
 

With a name like anttwat, you have to be funny. Monty Python quotes are not funny in themselves, and the one you quoted isn't funny at all. It's all about context. For example, if you were mortally wounded, say nearly decapitated by a flying stop sign, and you had enough life in you both to think about what you wanted your last words to be and to express them, and you were to say to me, or even better, to write -- because the injury would of course render you unable to speak, and maybe I would have one of those small dry erase boards handy for just such a purpose -- "it's only a flesh wound," now, that would be a funny use of a Monty Python quote.

Think about it.

Allergies
 

There are opposing schools of thought, and it is likely that both contribute to the increase. One is that we have an ever-increasing exposure to "chemicals" - (best interpreted as organic and immunogenic compounds not commonly found in nature). Perhaps more relevant for adult onset asthma and similar conditions.

The other is that we are too clean. By preventing exposure to viruses at an early age, our immune systems are altered to be predisposed to allergies. In which case sending the young'uns to day care would seem to be a prudent health precaution (to maximize exposure to everyday pathogens).

Twat wit
 

RP, you need a tribute sock. You're spending too much time worrying about other people's tribute socks. G3

A New Record
 

SEATTLE -- Researchers have found a surprising link between C-sections and allergies developed in childhood.

New research may give certain women a strong reason to question the procedure. A C-section may be setting up their babies for food allergies.
A normal delivery accomplishes more that just getting the baby out of the womb.

"A normal woman has a number of bacteria living in the birth canal that turn out to be beneficial to the baby that passes through the birth canal," said Dr. Michael Kennedy, with the Northwest Asthma and Allergy Clinic.

That bacteria is crucial. It plays a role in setting the baby's immune system in motion, so later on, allergies can be resisted.

But when the baby is delivered through a C-section and the mother has a history of allergies, researchers say it could spell trouble down the road for baby.

A new study found those children were four times more likely to have an allergic reaction to eggs. Parents reported an even higher chance of allergic reaction to fish or nuts.


And this from foodallergies.com...
Kathleen: I have a one-month-old son. I've been a vegetarian for about 11 years and I'm breastfeeding him. I saw on the news last week that women who consume peanuts and peanut butter while breastfeeding put their children at risk for peanut allergies. Is that true? Dr. Dean: Yes, what we've found is that the peanut allergin shows up in the breast milk. We are assuming that could increase the risks for peanut allergies, but we're not quite sure how all that works. And it's been a long time in coming to show that what a woman eats can show up in her breast milk and affect her breastfeeding baby.
allergies link

and this link to food allergies