Mockingbird, MPH, CHES
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Truly, thoughts and prayers for you. My dad had to do prep for it twice, because it got canceled the first time. He was so cranky and miserable I told my PCP there was no way I was up for it myself. She approved me doing the poop in a box test instead.
I think the billionaires who invest in schools came from private/super white bread suburban schools, because I hate everything they do. I’d probably start by underwriting counselors and nurses for every school.
This is more bank breaking, but for people who own a home, a whole house generator is worth the investment. It’s one of the only big things my parents have done to their house, and I’m really grateful for it living with them, and was even grateful they had it when I wasn’t.
Target has them as part of their summer collection this year. Washable cover, under $20 I think.
I wish we could magic you into a balcony apartment and those people into basement ones.
Having had Jewish friends growing up whose parents refused to buy German cars (and non Jewish people too, I swear that was still a common feeling in the 70s/80s), it was very strange to be riding in a coworker’s BMW her parents bought her as she talked about her grandmother’s holocaust reparations.
I’d had a bad experience dealing with her as a studio publicity assistant, but my opinion of Famke Jansen was settled when I leaned down to fuss over a delightful Boston terrier who enjoyed my attention, then looked up to her glaring at me. Your dog approached me lady!
I was out feeding the raccoons and picking flowers, and heard the whoosh of a crow landing in the tree above me. I was telling myself to be cool, like I was near a celebrity. But I snuck a glance, and he flew away.
Ours caw when I’m putting food out, I assume it’s a dinner bell call.
You can only repress/suppress feelings for so long before they burst out somehow. Living with my parents means at best I’m sitting in puddles of feelings I process alone or in therapy. I’m compartmentalizing a whole bunch to deal with later. Renting a storage unit for that baggage.
I greatly disagree, but his mentions aren’t the place for a soapbox session on consent.
My utopian dream would be for every kid to have a school experience as suited to their needs as mine was (when it was good).
I’m usually pretty stoic about pain but I sobbed hysterically when I got that bee sting. Thought about controlling it, figured I needed a hard cry and just went on until it was done. I like my shower chair but it means crying in the fetal position in the bathtub during a shower is out now.
I think the professor, maybe the TA, and I were the only ones in my health policy class in 2015 in grad school who’d experienced pre-ACA health insurance as an adult and those children were horrified at even the most average stories of what it was like.
Reskeet with your Sunday mood
I think growing up in majority minority public schools and exposure to private school kids and their parents outside school is why my most radical belief is that all private and parochial schools should be banned. Charters too. Invest that money and time in making public schools great for all kids.
Kavanaugh in his hearings made me want to have my back against a wall and the exits clearly in sight. I had a friend in high school who hung out with Catholic High guys and they gave me the creeps even then. It’s the entitlement. And I saw it in private school guys at UT, and in LA.
I love the ideas they’re talking about in that interview, and wish more of that had made it into the series. I also feel like maybe it was a bad choice of director. The handheld camera and constant cutting distracted me, but they’re part of a style I generally dislike so that may be a me problem.
You’re a really good friend. I think my parents being crap with emotions is why I rarely broke down even with friends. Having the first friend who handled me kindly at such a time later betray me deeply fucked me up further. I’ve done it with one friend since? And called my therapist too. Bad night.
Yeah, I advocate well for myself, and am still on my third pulmonologist in three years after reporting the first to the highest level of management I could reach for terrible care. The second still wanted to put my chronic cough down and breathing problems down to age and weight, not Covid ffs.
Y’all had the same guys. You’re probably being governed by them too. It’s the rich white guy school alum genus all over, just different species.
Reviews said there was one, and didn’t seem to like it, so I was watching distracted wondering what it was, and how it would affect things. Like you, it didn’t matter to me in the end. It felt tossed in to get a green light from a streamer known for scifi and not noir.
I haven’t watched the finale yet, but I’m with critics who say they should have revealed the twist earlier and incorporated it more into the story. It doesn’t fully work as noir of scifi, but Farrell and the rest of the cast is great.
I still miss Raffles a lot, but am glad he died before he became incontinent because I’d have needed a transfusion if I tried to bathe him. The three times he bit me were just from wipe/washcloth baths.
Same. I can just about handle doing that for our cats. There was several months several years ago where I was dealing with the last few months of life for my cat Badger and my rabbit Sarah Jane, both at the same time for a bit, and it was worth it to give them all that love, but much pee and baths.
Thank you for this. It was nice reading a man say her testimony was upsetting and not titillating, I’ve seen too many talking about how funny and explicit it was. I wish instead of a rushed to press biography, they’d let Daniels take her time, maybe given her a co-writer to play off.
I’m gonna have to put a few more plants in after the nasturtiums die. I wasn’t expecting monarchs until next year really, but I guess they knew us already from general flowers.
I’m very excited! And don’t know how they found them so quickly. Do butterflies have yelp for plants?
There was a monarch butterfly on the milkweed plants!
There was a short time when they made a “low calorie” version of hostess cupcakes with raspberry jam inside instead of cream and I still dream about them. Now thinking of how good a strawberries and cream Twinkie would be.
My ankle has been better for months, but the shower chair stays there because it’s just useful to have there. My face wash has to stay on a couple minutes to work and I can just sit down and breathe in the steam.
I’m glad Drew Barrymore has a job that lets her be with her kids more, but I wish she was still producing movies. I hope she goes back to directing, too.
Pretty Little Liars was never great tv, but it was ridiculously fun tv. I made it through the first season of Original Sin because teen thrillers are a dying breed and my standards have lowered, but I don’t think I can take more. It makes Riverdale look smart.
It’s not that, I think it’s just going to be a huge fight to get him to stop driving. And he hasn’t had a bike since I was a kid, if then. (I half remember him on one?)
I’ve thought about trying to get my dad to get a trike one when he has to stop driving, so he could still go to the grocery store nearby. I doubt he’d go for it though.
I’m truly bored of thinner, I want fun colors again.
If he’s that uptight stoned, imagine how he is sober. Also, he looked like shit 20 plus years ago when I saw him in a bar in LA.
Tv series based on the Practical Magic books, and we’re rebuilding the house from the movie. And five season guarantee.
A friend sent me a few when I did my MPH. I opened the box and started crying, and when my mom asked why I said, “Mila sent me STDs.” It took a second to explain that one.
Who knows where or when you’d end up if you stepped through that fog
I had an idea for a story set in an alternate, very libertarian world, and not wanting to research such views is part of why I abandoned it.
That is a great baby. Please give him extra snuggles from me. And maybe squish his perfect fat little baby feet?
I really only mind being an only child when it comes to being the only one responsible for my parents, and not having nieces and nephews. I have honorary ones at least.