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ugh I hateeee clothes shopping both online and irl for different but equally infuriating reasons but I neeeeed new cute clothes

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Jan van Huysum (Dutch, 1682-1749) Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, ca.1720

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that said, it is like heaven coming home to be with my own sweet precious child after dealing with these terrors all day lol

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omg my class right now is terribleeeeee

Mainly due to one rotten kid who needs CONSTANT reminders to follow instructions (he is smart and fully comprehends the rules, just chooses to pretend they stop existing the SECOND you so much as blink or glance away from him.). Like 10% of his activity is intentional play, the other 90% is getting into trouble because there isn't an adult actively hounding him. He purposefully prefers to do things he knows he isn't supposed to do. And I don't even think it's to get negative attention or a reaction, he just wants to do what HE wants to do.

That type of kid is honestly more frustrating for me to deal with than the sensory-seeking autistic or not-all-there kids. They're just like that and are usually happy to just vibe as long as you understand their deal and accommodate their needs. It's the wilful and deliberately disobedient ones that irk me.

Well last time I had a kid like that, I just stopped showing any reaction to their troublemaking and just silently corrected/redirected and their attitude flipped in like a week and we became besties. So I need to just do that.

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I hateeeee living in the same era as ai exists in because even though I've never so much as touched an ai program, I know that anyone reading anything I've written, be it a simple email or a creative writing piece or a school assignment, will have a corner of their mind analyzing whether it was actually written by me or not. Just feels gross writing this "personal statement" and thinking about the recipient judging whether it seems machine-made or not.

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so much of being an adult is sending emails and pestering people to make sure your paperwork gets done properly

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The Sadness, art by Natale Schiavone (1841)

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I've been letting my son watch me play pokemon alpha sapphire, and every time a pokemon faints he says "night night!" He also loves the move water gun and pretends to do it himself. He says "wa wa (pause) guuunnn!" And then blows on the screen lol

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white monster, or iced coffee.... asking the important questions. On the one hand, low calorie, on the other, a more reasonable caffeine level... hmmmm

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Most of the time when I make coffee it kinda sucks, but every now and then I'll end up with the platonic ideal. The problem is I just eyeball everything and can't replicate it so it's really a matter of fate.

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okay i’ll just dream about this for the rest of my life like i do with absolutely everything

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two different children at church yesterday asked me how old I was and then were shocked that I was 25, saying I looked way younger

nice to hear when I've already noticed a wrinkle starting on my face 😅

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we got a new set of very difficult twins at work. Their mom drops them off with their nanny every morning (why do you need a nanny when both parents are present and they are in daycare?). I saw them as they were being picked up one afternoon, and the nanny was sitting in the trunk so both twins could see her as she did a literal song and dance to keep them happy lmao. I mean better than ipads but like... let your kid realize that sometimes you just have to be bored in the car for a few minutes...

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WHEN DOES THE PROCESS END

There must be a destination, a point at which one truly is "over it," right? RIGHT?!??

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Hurst_P10-2011 by russell.porter on Flickr.

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