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final nut identification: bitternut hickory ✅
#our camper called it a ‘beech pine nut’ and we were like#well. that doesn’t seem right but we don’t know enough about nuts to dispute it#so we’ve just been calling it the beech nut up until now#but ig it’s the hickory now!
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associating a character with a mountain goats song has nothing to do with the content of the song itself and everything to do with whether the song’s narrator and the character have the same neuroses.
#brought to you by: basically every single song on my [REDacted] playlist#i have some WILD songs on there - but the fact is that i’m absolutely right about all of them#the mountain goats#tmg
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maybe if i eat a big fucking bagel I'll feel better
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i resent the idea that i would ever be wasting away in margaritaville. i would be thriving
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Ultraviolet (live)
#i did NOT know there was a Mountain Goats version of this song#most interesting thing to me is how the guitar DOESN’T sound like There Will Be No Divorce#which is the thing that originally stuck out to me about the Extra Glenns version#it’s also somewhat similar to Love Love Love but at a different tempo#but the guitar part is EXACTLY the same as There Will Be No Divorce - just in a different key#so it’s cool to hear that it wasn’t originally like that#tmg
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I love getting older. I’m hotter, more confident, more intelligent. Ageism is a dirty trap. Don’t get caught in it.
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got the conversation flowing by confirming that the bench one of our campers “died” on today is, in fact, in memorial to one of our other campers’ dead grandpa…
being sooooooooo funny in the texts tonight to try to get my best friend to text me back to no avail :((
#you know… normal topics#they’ll be in the same age group next year so we HAVE to make sure that this doesn’t happen when they’re on the same camp lmaooooo#like. it’s not funny - but it’s KIND OF funny
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the singer onstage referenced The Continental, but suddenly *I’M* the bad guy and “disturbing the peace” for screaming about Edward Everett Horton in his little booty shorts #DoubleStandards #FreedomOfSpeech
#the gay divorcee can have… SOME rights…#i’ve never attempted to explain the horror of let’s knock knees to anyone irl but i feel like my time is coming#i NEED a wall calendar with booty shorts Edward Everett Horton as the photo for every month#that’s gonna be my 2026
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being sooooooooo funny in the texts tonight to try to get my best friend to text me back to no avail :((
#probably he just went straight to sleep but like :((#i am sad and i had a long day please talk to meeeeeeeee#i just feel really alone right now and it sucksssssssss#i need to make more friends who actually give a shit - you know?#actually check up and all that#bc i’ve gone through so much this past year and had very little support#and i’m just emotionally exhausted at this point#my best friend is - in fact - very supportive#i just mean that i need more friends like him so i’m not just relying on him all the time#i could have multiple people to joke around with - you know?#i miss when we all talked on here#that was nice#but i need people i live close by to as well#i need everything honestly#i feel like a puddle on the floor
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blocking people that show up on my dash with mid to bad takes like I'm mr darcy and my good opinion once lost is lost forever
#ME but it’s about blocking this person at work who I knew for almost three years#because they decided to take out unrelated frustrations on me out of fucking nowhere#because they thought i’d be too weak to defend myself#if it ever happens again their ass is getting reported to HR soooooooo fast#my good opinion is SO fucking lost and will NEVER come back
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one of the most baffling Never Played Live mountain goats songs for me is Million… like. he really wrote the line “you had questions only a masochist would ask / written all over your big brown eyes” and then decided no one needed to hear it ever again????? hello????????
#he should play it when they tour with Isa Burke again… it would go hard with violin backing#like. it’s not one of my TOP top favorites - but i love it and it’s REALLY good#most songs i really want to hear he’s played at least once#and MOST he’s played within the past two years#but a couple of them he just never has#which is his right but also Why#the mountain goats#tmg
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so I’ve just worked out everything for my fall work schedule and literally both my manager for my second job AND the field trip chair for my birding organization emailed me back to back about fall scheduling - what if i DIED
#like. this is all important and good and needs to be done#but also WHAT IF I FUCKING DIEDDDDDDDD#i’m WAY less overwhelmed than i was last week and earlier#but it’s still like oh my godddddddd#i just want to chilllllll - when can i chillllllllllllllll??????????#(the answer is fucking NEVER lmaooooooo)#(i’ve done 59 extra hours without overtime pay at my job this summer alone ha ha ha)#(my boss is really nice and is letting me put them wherever i want though - which is cool of her)#(my fall vacation is completely covered!)
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see, before I thought that Pink Pony Club was a nice and cute song and I wished that there had been a song like that on the radio when I was a young queer kid figuring myself out to help me feel more confident and less alone, but last week at camp this one kid who’s coming to terms with the recent realization that he’s queer was SCREAMING Pink Pony Club in the bathroom at the top of his lungs and later sang it together with another queer kid at our camp and now every time I hear it I start crying.
#like. yeah i *AM* gonna keep on dancing!#we have come SUCH a long way from me blushing and looking out the window whenever that Macklemore gay is okay song came on#desperately hoping that my mom didn’t Suspect me#she did not#and also she ended up being accepting#but i was so ashamed and terrified and alone when i was a kid#and so the fact that so many queer kids in this generation AREN’T alone#that means so much#it’s gonna be a hard road for him no doubt#but he’s got a lot going for him too#including two loving and accepting parents and the ability to find queer kids his age who Get It#PLUS queer adult role models to look up to#and i had none of that at his age#so i have a lot of hope for him#I’m going to start crying just typing this so i’m going to bed now GOODNIGHT
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everything is a horse if you are wrong about what things are
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literally sooooooo proud of how my friend (the camp director) and I have succeeded in making our park’s camp a safe haven for kids who struggle in other settings… autistic kids, disabled kids, queer kids, kids who struggle to manage “disruptive” behaviors, kids who are used to being discounted and hated by peers and adults alike all have a home at our camp. we have literally 6 kids currently in the 10-12 year-old range who love our camp so much that they want to WORK FOR US as junior counselors in a few years when they’re old enough… this shit is so important and it MATTERS.
#we have some absolutely wonderful autistic kids at our camp that remind me sooooo much of me as a kid#and they all cling to me like glue#and this one kid is going through his queer awakening in the messiest way possible and we’ve helped him as we can#and his parents are SO grateful and love us SO much…#i would literally hire all of them lmaoooooo#fingers crossed i’ll be the hiring manager by then#but we shall see#i will exert my influence to get them hired regardless#as i have said many many times and will say again: we have the best kids in the world at our camps#i am proud of us and i am proud of them
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u ok? your tags have been purely categorical recently
#the week before last when i stopped posting bc i was so anxious i felt like i was going to DIE#i’m better now! :))
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i think getting an undergrad degree should come with a free "second try" voucher, where if you want to go get a second different degree from any school because you picked the wrong thing as a 17 year old, its totally free to try again
#this is why I don’t think that people should go directly into college from high school#unless they have a REALLY strong feeling about what they want to do#but sooooooo many people just pick something they have a vague interest in or go in undecided and waste their time and money#when they COULD be making money WHILE getting work experience and learning what they like and don’t like#to actually narrow down what degree they should get#and many degrees can be completed entirely online for way less money AND you can keep working while you do it#or you might find that the career you want to go into doesn’t require a traditional 4-year degree at all#either way you will have saved thousands and thousands of dollars and years of your life#i will preach this wherever i go it is SO important to me
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