A friend of mine does. Plaid skirts and bow ties all!

I am sorry that this is happening to your friend, but I am grateful to you for asking how to support her. My sister just died one year ago of Stage four breast cancer. She asked her good friends to visit her, call her when they couldn't come over, let her bake for them on her good days. She was an extreme extrovert so those things made her feel good. Your friend may not feel that way, so please ask her and her closest support network how you can help. They may ask for you to take up chores to free up their time or to help take her places like chemo or doctor appointments. They may ask you to come over and be with her while they get other tasks done. Whatever they ask that you can do is a blessing to them and to you too.

Sometimes. But this year I think I will be in the ER waiting room. I brought a friend in because she's having an emotional breakdown.

I was missing all lateral incisors. The orthodontist moved my canines over and shaved my canines. I have no troubles with them. My oldest has peg laterals. The first orthodontist tried to align them so they would hold space for eventual bonding. Even with him following all the protocols, it didn't hold. He's back in braces (4K more!!) And the new orthodontist (we moved) is expecting to bond soon after he's done.

I was missing all lateral incisors. The orthodontist moved my canines over and shaved my canines. I have no troubles with them. My oldest has peg laterals. The first orthodontist tried to align them so they would hold space for eventual bonding. Even with him following all the protocols, it didn't hold. He's back in braces (4K more!!) And the new orthodontist (we moved) is expecting to bond soon after he's done.

Be aware that customer service is minimal and they seem to leave from the gate early. We ended up with a surprise guest who was trying to get back to Israel but went to the bathroom at the beginning of the loading process and got left behind. She didn't get any help for three days.

Tootsie roll bits smooshed around the trap trigger thing. Best bait ever.

I thought I was the only one following the soap (in my case usually just hot water and washcloth, sometimes soap if I'm really sweaty) and TJ lotion (used to be Costco lotion until they stopped making it)!!! My skin is amazing looking from it so why change!?

Jinx! You owe me a RC Cola; I don't like Coke. :cheers2:

Hold up now. Are these honored founding fathers you mention the same ones who held slaves? The compromises they and their descendants came up with were harmful to even more people in their day. That rebellion started the Civil War. Things stay the same don't they!

I got some at Dollar Tree last year....

I'm glad your congregation is safe. I hope that you will be able to have peace now and in the future.

I'm so sorry to hear this bad news. I hope you shake the trees for the best cancer team you can put together - travel if you must. They can coordinate with your local guys. I'll be praying for you.

My husband is up for a position at UT. We've started to crunch the numbers. Housing is expensive where we live in Boston, but even more in Toronto! It's going to have be a very good salary for us to keep our current standard of living...

My husband likes that too. But in the end, especially if you are paying for this PhD (and even if you are not), will this all be worth it if you cannot find a position in your field? If you don't live in a place with an abundance of academic positions, will you move to find a position? Move to a really rural area, because that's what new academics inevitably get. If you will be happy just doing the work and not getting a position, then I think you have to figure out the logistics and make a decision. But if getting a job is the goal, think about your potential future. Ask those people in your field your real prospects for a job (tenure track if that's what you want) from that university.

I was going to comment earlier in the day but then I got on my plane(s). Basically, what everyone upthread said. If your goal is to try to get a tenure-track position, you need to focus 150% on your classes, dissertation, networking, and article publishing. I don't see how you would have time to adequately homeschool multiple children. It's all a game of being more persistent than the next guy and more dogged in your pursuit of your degree (not resting on your laurels when you get into dissertation work).

Actually, that sounds about right got a fuzzy logic rice cooker. I have mine from Japan and with the regular cycle that is how long it takes.

Another great book for this is Hold Me Tight by Dr Sue Johnson. Emotionally Focused Therapy talks about this issue. Like the One to Tango book, she says research says that it is an emotion issue and that how you both deal with it will determine if and how you resolve that argument.

Please, please, PLEASE ask your sister to stay on her hormone-suppressing drugs. They just found out that they help keep potential re-growths from re-occurring. My sister was also 29 when she had her first bout with BC. They did a lumpectomy, chemo, and radiation. Then hormone suppressors for 3.5 years. She got off them to try to have a kid. Four months later she had Stage IV. She fought for two years and died in January.

Not to discount what the study says, but if you think you see an obvious factor that you think should have been examined, the researchers may have done so and factoring that in screwed up the results in a way that isn't helpful to them. I'm not saying that they are being malicious, but social scientists can focus on the factors they want and kinda ignore the ones that might stir up trouble. Signed, - a social scientist's wife

This year we went to Bermuda for three days in April. It wasn't warm enough to go in the ocean, but we hit the pool and walked a lot. We keep kosher so we didn't try the food but it looked really good. Only a couple of hours from the East Coast, reasonable on the shoulder seasons.

In addition to all the fun of my life, my husband just finished with an interview at the University of Toronto (main campus) for a very top level job in one of his fields. From everything that occurred and from a comparison of CVs and such, we think he's got a very good chance of getting the nod. That doesn't mean he will take the job, but I have to start to get my ducks in a row. What do I need to know about homeschooling in Ontario? He was told that our oldest (16, supposed to be a junior, but with his issues this year, I'm calling it a gap year at best) wouldn't be able to get into a university. Now I know homeschooling is legal so I assume HSed kids get into good schools or any school for that matter. Please help me!!! Tell me everything I need to know.... Thank you in advance.

My DH travels pretty frequently (2-4 times a month, sometimes back to back). He snags 1st class or business class seating as much as possible (since he travels so much that's pretty easy with upgrades) so he can lie flat and sleep some. He immediately jumps to the new place's time zone. But honestly he's just used to it. It only really hits him (and us) on the second day, maybe also the third day, even for East Coast-Asia trips or East Coast-Israel trips. He/we get up early but push through as much as possible.

How about a Spi-belt? http://a.co/18XxKOr

Did you get the vasovagal response as well? Fainting, nausea, feeling like someone kicked you in the family jewels (LOL)? The pain is only a couple of minutes. The vasovagal response makes me stay lying down for a bit then staying in the MD office for at least a half an hour to make sure I don't go down. It doesn't happen with any other medical procedure.