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an important part of my marriage is making gigantic scooby-doo esque sandwiches, eating half, leaving them out and then faking outrage as my wife scurries from the darkness to finish them off. hearing a six foot woman snort and giggle as she is chased around the house while scarfing down a special sandwich that i made for her is fucking beautiful. like of course i made that sandwich for you, idiot. you think i'd use use arugula when we still had spinach if i wanted that sandwich? you think id use normal mayo when we still had my garlic butter? no. i make them like that because you like those things. now run.

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“Do it scared” “do it badly” it’s time to drop the guide for do it alone

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If you’re adhd which is worse for you: lots of busywork and tiny assignments so it looks like you have a lot of work but each takes 5 minutes OR a few large assignments but without any hard deadlines until the end?

Because this is my midterms week and according to Canvas I have 45 assignments due but I just did 20 in maybe an hour? And I can’t decide whether to be more relieved or annoyed that they had to give me that heart attack for no reason.

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Hello I am back

Got really busy existing and getting sick and being Professionally Gay ™️ during Pride month and none of that has changed now except for the fact that I’m all of that and more and also on tumblr on the bus home at 1am.

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Queer Palestinian Books for Pride Month 🍉

Just a reminder: we do exist. ♥️

Please consider sharing this post, whether to show your support for Palestine, to boost awareness of these books (remember, reading is revolutionary), or to show your audience that you offer a safe space. I know it may seem small, but it makes a difference. Trust me. ♥️

Have you read any of these queer Palestinian books? If not, which would you consider reading first? ❓

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Yeah this

Mutuals who I don't know very personally yet I am holding a sugarcube out in my hand in the hopes that you will approach me like the noble horse

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Already changing sections of a class and going fully online 3 days in because my classmates kept getting in yelling matches with the teacher and i am not getting up at 7am after a night shift twice a week to listen to all that and also not learn math.

The good news is, one of my other classes looks way cooler than I thought it would be and I’m really excited to get into the coursework now.

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That first day of school feeling

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Hey gang I’m starting full time classes just in time for a busy pride month (I’ll be working 7+ big events — so far), while keeping a full time job and studying for the LSAT so if anyone has any really unhinged suggestions for staying organized and on track when your life is in chaos please share them.

Yes I already use Google calendar.

I also basically only eat while on my way to places or when I’m clocked in at my job, and I’m going to be getting my hair cut spectacularly short so I never have to do anything to it before leaving home.

Aaaand I take practice LSATS at work and do homework during class and send emails from the bus.

Sometimes when I get home from work at 2am and have to be up for class at 6am I sleep with the lights on so it’s easier to wake up.

Yeah I’m fine why do you ask

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Holy shit the semester is officially done!! My first 3 classes since 2022 (or 2021?) and I’m pretty sure I made it out with a 4.0 even working total 50-60 hours a week most weeks and having surgery mid term.

Now on to the next semester, this one will be a little longer and I’ll be in 4 classes that are all harder than the ones I just finished. June is probably my busiest month of the year, so I’ll be absolutely losing my mind for a while but it’ll be worth it when I finish.

I’m so happy and relieved that I’ve been able to get back into the swing of things and do well.

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It’s my last day to turn in everything for the semester and I have 10 small assignments and 10 hours, I think I’m gonna make it.

Editing in my progress as I work:

1/10: Mostly smooth sailing, took like 15 minutes, this class uses an auto grader and the first time I submitted the assignment it randomly graded me at 0% but I re-uploaded the same exact file and it gave me 100% so idk.

2/10: Also easy, took 15-20 minutes. I uploaded, had the same issue but the second time it also didn’t work, somewhere in trying to correct it my file reverted to a previous version so when it finally uploaded I got a bad grade and had to redo half the assignment because I couldn’t un-revert it. Finally got everything fixed and uploaded, the grading site showed me a 39% and a 100% on two different screens for the same assignment, and canvas said I had submitted 68 times (I absolutely did not) so I screenshotted everything and sent it all to the teacher. Overall, the work took 20 minutes and dealing with the website took 30.

3/10 Same thing AGAIN (these are very similar assignments, just freshman level busywork), took no time but the uploading is fucky, gonna wait a few minutes this time and see if it updates on its own. 2/10 is now showing a third, different score in a third, different place and I am deeply confused.

4/10 took longer but didn’t have issues with the upload thank FUCK. 2 more of these and I can switch to my other class.

5/10, 6/10 these were actually a little different from all previous assignments in the class and I learned several new things that I will definitely be using in the future for school and work - this isn’t something I can necessarily say for the vast majority of the material in this class (most of it was either stuff I knew or things I will never use for various reasons) so I’m happy.

With these assignments done I’ve now completed this and one other course both with A+ grades. Now all that remains to be seen is whether I can turn my B+ in Microeconomics into an A- or A+ for the semester, which I think mostly depends on how heavily the midterm and final exams are weighted.

Side note: I’m doing all my work in a cafe and ordered Vietnamese coffee for the first time today and holy shit, from the second I took the first sip I knew this stuff is gonna change my life.

Alright I took a break from homework to sort through my cloud drive and made sure my archives of this semester’s homework were organized. Also added the folders I’ll need for the next 3 semesters (I know exactly which classes are left) to, I dunno, manifest getting to take all the credits I need on schedule. Now to pack up and move to a DIFFERENT cafe that’s open later.

Six hours left for 4 assignments, I got this.

7/10 decided to take my final first and then do the boring discussions so I studied a bit and took it the first time to get a sense of what I needed to brush up on, since it tells you which questions you got wrong after the test, and you get 4 total tries.

8/10 did the first discussion assignment right after the exam, then went back over my study materials again.

7.5/10 went back for round two of the exam and aced it! I wasn’t expecting to remember everything the second time but I exceeded my own expectations.

Based on how the syllabus says grades for the midterm and final will be weighted, I’m pretty sure I could get an A+ in the class without even doing the last 2 assignments but I’m going to do them anyway.

9/10 I have left cafe #2 and returned home for the last two discussion assignments because I missed my dog.

^^This is how studying economics feels to me ^^

10/10 definitely

Misunderstood the question on this one and didn’t realize until it was too late but I’m not too worried about it honestly. Because I’m DONE WITH MY FIRST SEMESTER BACK IN COLLEGE!!!

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Ok market research:

Dirty talk with a southern (US) accent — hot or not?

I always thought the accent a little unpleasant and did my best not to develop one but now that I’ve moved all the way across the country some people seem to find it a bit of a novelty?

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I have had:

20+ piercings and want more

20+ tattoos and want more

4 surgeries

Countless covid, flu, tetanus, allergy, etc. shots

I’ve signed up for medical research for years for extra cash and have had needles stuck in me every time I go in.

I’ve considered a career shift to become a professional piercer

I’ve GIVEN MYSELF TATTOOS

I get needles stuck in me all the god damn time and don’t mind it whatsoever.

So why am I still nervous about giving myself a single shot?

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I am so desperate to be done with all this lower-level busywork. These assignments feel like the modern version of writing “I will do my homework” on a chalkboard 100 times a day.

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Spend $12 and 3 hours in a cafe/bookstore just to work on a random side project instead of my homework, whoops.

Good news is, I have started what is already a 17 slide PowerPoint inspired by that one map comparison showing the link between soil composition and election results in Alabama. Going to keep playing with this one for a while and see what else I can dig up (pun intended).

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would it be crazy if I tried to get into the hardest law school in my city and then tried to convince them to let me do a PhD in education there at the same time would that be insane of me

im a music school dropout in community college rn

just getting them to take my jd application seriously is gonna be an uphill battle

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I am a kitchen table, gilded with dents and coffee rings, adorned with the carved initials of past loves. I am a well-read book, dog-eared and worn, a story printed in skin. I am a gallery of my joys, fears, failures, and triumphs, every mark a testament to my continuance.

What is this body, if not an ambassador of the mind? I am a swirl of image and color, and so shall be my form.