Oh, yeah. We've eaten out every day for like two weeks for at least one meal. Take out of course, I wouldn't go inside to eat anywhere anytime soon.
I think it's just like. We're inside pretty much all the time. Yes I could cook the pasta like I have so many times before, but also I could spend money and get something that's not IN the house instead and we can pretend for a little while that the world isn't fucked.
In the beginning I feel like I coped pretty well and made sure everyone was busy and things like that. As it's dragged on I've mostly relied on retail therapy, which isn't great for the credit card.
@ganymede Students will always complain about grades where they don't get A's. @Aria definitely has a reason to complain, but as someone that has been teaching for over a decade now (god I am fucking old) so long as you are clear in your responses as to why points are lost there's usually not room for argument.
I mean they still will argue. Last round of papers I got a four page email from someone about how they should have the two points I docked back (they didn't get them back). It's a fine line to walk with "I understand things are rough for everyone right now so here is some empathy and wiggle room" when there are students who will send you sob story after sob story and you will move deadlines and they still will not meet them and then not understand why they failed why are you so mean, but there's only so much you can do.
In a year or two you will get an email from someone saying you were the reason they became a better writer or better at what they do or are why they graduated or decided to go back to get a degree. And you'll feel like it's all worth it.
Until evaluations roll in. Because 9 out of 10 will be glowing but you will remember that 1 that rates you as the worst and blasts you.
It's still worth it. Probably.
Even better: there are actually more pyramids in Nubia than in Egypt. However there are a lot more people with dark skin there than in Egypt so it was thought for a long, long, long time by archaeologists (George Reisner was the wooorst) that they couldn't possibly have had a real society there and anything of value that was there was stolen from Egypt.
Africa, as a whole, really gets shit on due to racism in all kinds of ways. That's also why we know more about Neanderthals than we do about Early Man because Neanderthals were in Europe. Where white people are. And Early Man is not.
Good times!
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper. I memorized the whole poem for a 6th grade reading project and I still remember it.
And a Swiftly Tilting Planet was my favorite L'Engle book. I've got the poem from that one memorized as well.
Can I just RP making candy and being forgotten in the kitchen the whole time?
I actually recently reread them. I remember hating Taran Wanderer as a kid because Eilonwy isn't in it at all but as an adult...wow. It's up there as one of the better ones in the series.
@Aria Weirdly enough when I was in high school I babysat for this family I became really close to. One day I was reading one of those books when they came home and the mom said, "Lloyd Alexander...did he live in Pennsylvania?" and I said, "Yes." And she said, "I lived across the street from a Lloyd Alexander when I was young. I used to go over and he'd play his violin for me when I was a little girl. Did that one play the violin?"
I've never been so jealous.
The Book of Three series by Lloyd Alexander. The ending book, The High King, is still one of my favorite books ever.
I just hate the show for its overall treatment of women. Although I think these three words basically sum up why the show is terrible:
Racist ghost truck.
@TheOnceler Sounds like someone's about to take a header down the stairs.
He was my favorite actor until the whole "sometimes a woman just needs to be hit" thing that he then would double down on later. Since that point I've always sort of cringed to like anything he did.
@Macha So I had very bad swelling in my feet and ankles a few months ago--came on during a heatwave when we moved so I thought it was just that I was on my feet too much and not drinking enough. Lasted for two weeks though so I went to the doctor who ran a slew of tests that came back fine and was like 'Uhhhh here are some water pills this is unexplained but probably heat related edema.'
Through trial and error it turned out my new comfy slippers that I finally had a reason to wear cause new house? I'm apparently allergic to. Stopped wearing them, haven't had an issue since!
Might not be your reason, but if you've got wool slippers...
I wish my boss would take my complaints seriously. There is one guy on the networking team that is hands down the fucking worst. He is severely under qualified for the job and to make up for it will talk circles around a simple question (making it clear he just doesn't have the answer/has no idea what he's talking about but he will never admit it), will push off things he doesn't know how to do for OVER A YEAR and then when we go with another solution say that was what he was aiming for the whole time, and when presented with how he screwed something up and a request to fix it, will try to get us to move entire platforms because he doesn't actually know how to fix something. Conveniently his idea of moving platforms would be someone else's problem to deal with (usually mine).
I have complained about him multiple times. And in all instances I am basically told that well, changing platforms might not be a bad idea. Or that the end solution we found after a year of him stonewalling us was a better solution than the first one we had anyway.
HE IS NOT DOING HIS JOB! That everyone else has to scramble and make things happen and come up with alternate solutions IS NOT A GOOD THING!
But I'm just being a bitch and not a team player I guess. Also doing most of his job for him and not getting paid for it.
@Tori said in MU Things I Love:
Having a character I play added as a part of a chargen's relationships. I signed up for the possibility months ago, but it's still like - hey you, we trust you with our new person! It gives me good feels in a time when good feels are in short supply
I tried to ask everyone I put in to the ones I wrote up because I found it pretty jarring to see myself on the list for a brand new roster. And I definitely was trying to think of people that would be nice and helpful with new players!
Branching out and finding new, fun, really cool people to RP with.
I don't dislike dogs, but I do dislike dog owners that either let their dogs run without a leash or even on a leash let them jump all over people. My youngest is terrified of dogs since my mom's dog bit her when she was handing it a snack when she was two (not the dog's fault, she should never have been given the treat to do it and I was pissed when I figured out what happened). So when those "s/he's friendly!" people smile as their dog approaches my screaming child, I am never pleased because it seriously traumatizes her every single time. She's not screaming to be cute people, she's screaming because she is legitimately terrified of your dog, it doesn't matter how friendly it is.
The other day I was walking down a little path by our house and a big dog who was not on a leash ran up to me, then stood up and put its paws on my chest. "He's very friendly," his owner said with a smile as it left paw prints all over my shirt. He stopped smiling when I told him to put it on a leash.
You're overlooking the fact that the voice of the people are going to elect Trump again because Americans are fucking stupid.
"Per @NPR Justice Ginsburg’s deathbed statement is this: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new President is installed.”"
This sounds weird, but it must have killed her to die now.
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck we are all so fucked.
RIP RBG
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-dead/index.html
