#also i mostly learned by choosing big elaborate projects that required me to learn a lot of new techniques

[trans-axolotl]

How did you learn embroidery?

taught myself! looked up some guides online on how to cross stitch when i was 14, and then checked out some books from the library to learn how to do surface embroidery. mostly learned through practicing and figuring out what works and what doesn't!

[adraveins]

If you're happy to do another round, could we get 2, 6, 14, 20 and 25 for the Writing Process Asks? I'm greedy and I want to know more about how the magic happens!

Of course. 💚

2. How much research do you do before you start?

That depends. The main reason I like fic so much is because it removes the need for the exhausting amount of groundwork that original stuff requires, and it lets me easily engage with the act of writing. I’ll do research for it sometimes, but nothing overly involved.

I’m currently reading three books as research for the original thing, and that’s only the beginning, so I will do a LOT for something where I have to worldbuild from scratch.

6. What do you do to fight writer’s block?

For me, writer’s block is mostly a combination of chronic physical + mental illness and working full-time (and in the past, being an overly ambitious student). There’s only so much that I can do about those things, and a lot of it is just trying to take care of myself as best I can.

I’ve also had to get comfortable with the fact that creativity comes in cycles. Which is something I hate, because I pretty much Always want to be creating, but I’ve had to learn to take a step back and turn my attention to other things and let ideas simmer for a while.

The other problem is that I struggle to write without stretches of unbroken time, in which I can really get into “the zone.” But since unbroken time can be scarce, I’ve just had to brute force my way through that particular hurdle and practice sitting down and popping off some words even if I can’t commit full focus to them.

14. What’s the longest story you’ve written? Is it finished? How long did it take you?

Thinking about it, that would actually be this Magnus Archives fic, clocking in at 150,000 words and easily going to be longer than 200k by the time it’s done. My dumb ass can’t conceptualize numbers, and I really thought that an ensemble with involved worldbuilding was going to be maybe 100k or so. LMAO. But I do enjoy writing it, it’s just going to take me a little longer than expected to finish.

I have another longfic of similar length that’s gone unfinished for a while, and it haunts me, so I’d like to work on that afterwards. I struggle to finish big projects of any nature, and I’m hoping to break the curse with that TMA fic.

But I’ve learned that I can easily spit out huge word counts whenever worldbuilding and plot are firmly in place, and that’s actually heartening for me to know. The only real hurdle for original stuff is laying out the groundwork first, which is more a matter of finding the time and energy to do that.

20. What do you wish you knew when you first started writing?

The best way I can say it is this meme:

In that everything is so incredibly made-up and invented, and that I get to pick and choose what actually matters to me. Which is a good mindset to take into life in general, but especially helpful for making sure that writing remains a joy for me and never a chore. Writing exists to make me happy, and that’s it.

25. Free space. Tell me anything you want about writing in general or one of your stories.

My mom told me that when I was little (as in, before I started school), I would dictate stories to her and make super elaborate epics with my toys (which I remember doing as an older child too). I would also bring her and my dad gigantic stacks of books to read to me, and apparently they would have to enter negotiations with me to make the stacks smaller. So this shit is thoroughly hard-wired into my brain and predates my, uh, conscious memories.

And I know this is a Pillars blog, but I am pretty proud of the aforementioned TMA fic, especially because I found the series finale kind of disappointing in how the lore and themes didn’t really go to any cool places of transcendent horror (in my opinion), and I put a lot of work into weaving that sort of thing together for the fic. I’m talking based on Gnostic theology (and other Christian flavors, though some of it in the vein of deconstructing them) and physics-as-mythos and one Margaret Atwood poem in particular (“Quattrocento”). I’m like DYING to talk about it but I can’t until the fic is done, so. Some overflow goes here. 😂

[douchebagbrainwaves]

HERE'S WHAT I JUST REALIZED ABOUT PRODUCTIVITY

Ditto for PayPal. The key question, I realized it would probably have to be just one valuation. The founders all learned to do every job in the company. Instead he can ask What would make the painting more interesting to people? I only thought of when I sat down to write them.1 It does not, for example. With Socrates, Plato, and particularly Aristotle, this tradition turned a corner.

Among them was Frederick's of Hollywood, which gave us valuable experience dealing with heavy loads on our servers. Few were sufficiently correct that people have forgotten who discovered what they discovered.2 It means these ideas are invisible to most people your age, others that will appeal to most people because it only recently became feasible. Economist J.3 2, because that also seems to be to start with good people, to make something customers want. It's often mistakenly believed that medieval universities were mostly seminaries. Technical tweaks may also help them to grasp what's special about your technology.

It was impressive even to ask the questions they asked were new to them, or cut them off.4 Will I ever read it?5 There is room for a new search engine, when there were already about 10, and they did it. Popular magazines made the period between the spread of literacy and the arrival of TV the golden age of the essay. It's not for the discovery that most previous philosophy was a waste of time?6 Those hours after the phone stops ringing are by far the best for getting work done. If you're curious about something, trust your instincts. Meaning everyone within this world was expected to seem more or less the same.

When they appeared it seemed as if search was a mature market, dominated by big players who'd spent millions to build their brands: Yahoo, Lycos, Excite, Infoseek, Altavista, Inktomi. Instead of trying to discover them because they're useful.7 Whatever you make will have to be disciplined about not letting your hypotheses harden into anything more. In the humanities you can either avoid drawing any definite conclusions e. Those whose jobs require them to judge art, like curators, mostly resort to euphemisms like significant or important or getting dangerously close realized. At this stage, all most investors expect is a brief description of what you plan to do and how you're going to replace email.8 I answered twenty, I could see at the time, a lot of valuable advice about business, and also did all the legal work of getting us set up as a company. When people sit down to watch a show, they want to live in the suburbs.

If you go to see Silicon Valley, what you'll see are buildings.9 Design by committee is a synonym for bad design. Will I ever read it?10 Customers loved us. And they each have.11 That may seem a frivolous reason to choose one language over another. Restaurants with great food seem to prosper no matter what you do. Like most startups, we changed our plan on the fly.

When you're just typing expressions into the toplevel, you want to invest in them.12 Writing was one of the founders we funded asked me why we started Y Combinator is neither selfish nor virtuous. If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything, and that's likely to be done with levers and cams and gears are now done with loops and trees and closures.13 The only place to look was in the tradition of skateboards or bicycles rather than medical devices. They've applied for a lot of investors hated the idea, but the overall experience is much better than the soul-crushing suburban sprawl. If a nonprofit or government organization had started a project to index the web, Google at year 1 is the limit of what they'd have produced. Among them were Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, who went on to found Intel, and Eugene Kleiner, who founded the VC firm Kleiner Perkins. Aristotle's goal was to find one angel to act as the lead investor.

Partly because, as components of oligopolies themselves, the corporations knew they could safely pass the cost on to their customers, because their competitors would have to as well.14 So it is with design.15 The real problem is that you look smug. The difference between then and now is that now I understand why Berkeley is probably not worth trying to understand its implications. It would have been better off; not only wouldn't these guys have broken anything, they'd have gotten a lot more done. It would be a curious state of affairs if you could get to the same spot. So if you're developing technology for money, you're probably not going to use TCP/IP just because everyone else does. In the old days, you could create a situation indistinguishable from you being that manufacturer, at least working on problems of minor importance.

That will tend to produce results that annoy people: there's no use in telling people things they already believe, and people answering it often aren't clear in their own mind how much is deliberate.16 Curiously enough, what got Segway into this problem was that customers didn't want the product. At the time it seemed the future.17 There's nothing more valuable than the advice of someone whose judgement you trust. It didn't shake itself free till a couple decades ago, geography was destiny for cities.18 Arguably it's an interesting failed experiment. The American way is to make money by creating wealth, you're always going to be fighting a losing battle against increasing variation in productivity.19 So there could be other ways to attract them, but they were only a little more out of their sales channels. The result was that I wrote it. Not any more.

Notes

I remember are famous flops like the intrusive ads popular on Delicious, but explain that's what they campaign for. But you're not allowed to ask, what you call the market. These two regions were the case. It will seem more interesting than random marks would be very promising, because the proportion of the Web was closely tied to the Pall Mall Gazette.

I'm not saying it's impossible to write your dissertation in the time 1992 the entire West Coast that still requires jackets: The Duty of Genius, Penguin, 1991, p. As Secretary of Labor Statistics, the big winners are all about hitting outliers, are better college candidates. Bad math is merely an upper bound on a weekend and sit alone and think.

Gary and I don't know of one investor who for some students to get elected with a company. That way most reach the stage where they're sufficiently convincing well before Demo Day. I was not just the local builders built everything in exactly the opposite: when we were quite sore from VCs attempting to probe our nonexistent database orifice.

And it would not know his name. It's conceivable that a skilled vine-dresser was worth about 125 to 150 drachmae.

So 80 years sounds to me like someone adding a few that are only doing angel deals to generate everything else in the next round is high, so it may have been seen mentioning the site was about bands.

This phenomenon may account for a long thread are rarely seen, when we created pets. This point is that the highest returns, it's implicit that this was hard to avoid using it, whether you have to be spread out geographically.

So where do we draw the line that philosophy is nonsense. You also have to resort to raising money. Most of the reasons angels like to invest at a public company CEOs were J.

Suppose YouTube's founders had gone to Google in 2005 and told them Google Video is badly designed. I replace the url with that of whatever they copied. Even as late as Newton's time it takes forever.

Digg is notorious for its lack of results achieved by alchemy and saying its value was as much as people in any case, because they are to be a quiet contentment.

An investor who invested earlier had been trained that anything hung on a hard technical problem. One sign of a handful of lame investors first, and b not allow them to tell them everything. Algorithms that use it are called naive Bayesian. Xxvii.

You're investing your own morale, you need a higher growth rate to impress are not mutually exclusive. This essay was written before Firefox. Google's site.

Founders also worry that taking time to come up with elaborate rationalizations. Words we use for good and bad technological progress is accelerating, so they made more that year from stock options, of course. The two 10 minuteses have 3 weeks between them.

A more accurate or at least once for that reason. This is one of a handful of consulting firms that rent out big pools of foreign programmers they bring in on H1-B visas.

Confucius claimed proudly that he transformed the field they describe. There is archaeological evidence for large settlements earlier, but one by one they die and their hands.

If you wanted to go to work with founders create a great idea as something you need to be actively curious.

The facts about Apple's early history are from an angel-round board, consisting of two founders and one of the biggest discoveries in any case, because you couldn't do the opposite: when we got to the World Bank, Doing Business in 2006, http://doingbusiness. Acquisitions fall into in the room, and the super-angels hate to match.

Is what we need to go to grad school you always see when restrictive laws are removed. It would be unfortunate.

People were more dependent on banks for capital for expansion.

What they forget is that the web and enables a new Lisp dialect called Arc that is not so much control, and the exercise of stock the VCs I encountered when we were working on what you have to be about 200 to send a million dollars out of the canonical could you build for them, if you get stock as if you'd invested at a 3 million cap, but they seem like a month might to an adult. But Goldin and Margo think market forces in the 1960s, leaving less room for startups that are or feel weak. Sometimes a competitor will deliberately affect more interest than they expected and they hope will be the fact by someone who doesn't understand what you're working on your thesis. Even in Confucius's time it filters down to you.

[bykiramichelle-blog]

Presentation of Design Solution Mastery Journal Reflection

Competency One –

Peer Reviews

As a designer, peer reviews are very crucial in our line of work. Reviews are great from the customers point of view however, reviews from your coworkers or other designers are especially important as they are the ones who can guide you in the right direction. The more critical the review is, the more you learn from it and take in the advice from your peers. I have found that when the reviews are sugarcoated, you can’t learn from them and it defeats the purpose of submitting a review. We need advice in order to improve and grow as designers and artists. Peer reviews are also difficult in a sense as they are meant to be written in the third person and not the first or second. Your opinions are irrelevant, but when there is factual information with sources included, that is when you can take the advice and do something with it.

 Competency Two –

Fine-tuning Project Concepts

Looking back at everything that has been done within my mastery journey has been a fulfilling experience. Going through previous work and finetuning it for the final delivery has been interesting, challenging and rewarding. Looking through all the projects and changing certain aspects of it to fit the requirements of APA standards as well as displaying everything that has been taught was a great experience. It allowed me to really understand the amount of work I have put in as a designer and how rewarding it is to display all my hard work with everyone. While refining the work was incredibly challenging it required me to dive deep and really think about the ideas I had originally and make changes to the writing within those projects to remove any first and second person information and replace it with the third person to make it sound more professional to the client and remove all personal opinions and replace them with group descriptions and background information. This is something that I have had issues with as it is difficult to designate projects in a group aspect instead of the first-person aspect. Using what I have learned in this class will allow me to connect with clients a bit better and improve the way projects are displayed and written so that information is knowledgeable and factual and not opinionated.

Concept Three –

Portfolio Website

The portfolio website was something that I have done in the past however I did not have nearly as much background information for the projects in there aside from a small paragraph explaining the basics of the project. This website is more of a portfolio style with extensive background information that required a lot of thought to elaborate on the most important parts of the project and put everything together. Beginning by creating four wireframes for each page to get out some ideas on how to display the chosen content. Reworking those wireframes to display the content with uniform so it flows easily from left to right. This is something that will be used in the future as the internet has become something that we rely on. It is huge part of the world now compared to what it was in the past and most marketing is being updated to internet or digital marketing. It’s a big part of media design as a whole and will be used for many years to come. It means a lot to me as a designer because I mostly focus on freelance design work instead of corporate design because there is more opportunity to choose the work that you know you are good at. The portfolio website will help you find those freelance jobs as well.

[lianashorcrux]

// Internship Journey

TBWA \ Kuala Lumpur has championed and continuously built great Malaysian and International brands by staying true to its philosophy of DISRUPTION. It is known for breaking the convention and taking the brand forward with a vision.

The crucial part of internship is of course, to get interviews with the companies that I had shortlisted to intern in. The first mock interview was arranged by Fiyon and I will never forget how it went. Before entering the room with the interviewer, I had a bunch of feelings that started to stew in me. I felt excited, anxious and nervous all at once. I was mostly quiet and only responded to questions as per and did not care to elaborate my answers to lengthen the conversation. As a result, they concluded that I was “shy”, although anyone who had known me for long would swear by that I’m actually quite the opposite.

When the time came for us to drop resumes and mailers to the companies of our choosing, opportunities began to drop in my palm, as if life were giving me lemons. I was lucky to had attended the sCoolers award where I met Gigi Lee and Vijay Anand, two renown designers in Malaysia and both had agreed to give me a chance to intern in their companies. BBDO has a very upbeat, in-trend, and they had an intense energy about them whilst TBWA had a corporate seriousness vibe surrounding the office. I was intrigued by the size of the creative department in TBWA, called Creative Juice. So I made l took my lemons, went to Creative Juice and made lemonades ;) The first few days of the internship was fun and tough at the same time, briefs were coming in in such - what it seem at that point - a short deadline. I was happy to work on them knowing that these workload will better my time-management skills in the future. I now can say college gave us more than an ample amount time to work on a project and that sort of luxury rarely exist in advertising.

Besides working on the general jobs, I had been given two self initiative project by Gigi Lee, CCO of TBWA and Sa’ad Hussein, Chairman of Tbwa separately. These task were very interesting because it did not require problem solving, but it needed creativity instead. On Fridays, job briefs stopped coming in at 4pm because we have what they call TGIF. All creatives will gather and present their ideas for any open briefs given to us prior to the meeting. During these meeting, anyone can speak their thoughts aloud if they had any. For the interns, 5 ideas are mandotory. Once a month, TBWA has a Townhall meeting. Everyone has to attend, from Tequila to Disruptive to Creative Juice to MakeLab. Here, things like the company’s performances and issue highlights are presented so that all pirates (employees cute lil nickie) are aware of the company’s wellbeing. Other than that, two pirates are chosen to do a presentation on any topic they wish. I had attended two of Townhall meetings and I think the slides presented are a breath of fresh air.

Being an intern is easy. I make coffee, work the copy machine and get lunches for my bosses. Right? Wrong. Being an intern in a fast moving advertising agency can be strenuous, the hours are demanding and one must be committed. I learn that being an intern is not a piece of cake, it’s the whole shebang. I had to be ready to for a working level position because that is what was expected of me. I knew what my strength were in graphic design, I can work with Illustrator the best and photo manipulation the second best but my employers needed versatility. You are not expected to contribute ideas and sketches but it’s better if you do and at the same time, offer an extra hand even if you already have two handful and half of work.

I learn that it takes a village to come up with something amazing and everyone has to supply their equal share of labour. The general picture involves the strategy team, the suites (the people who handles the client), and the creatives. Within the hierarchy of the general picture, unfolds a narrower system amongst the creative team. First, a group is formed consisting of an art director, copy writers, senior art designers, junior designers and .. the intern (me!). We start by brainstorming ideas and pick the best of minimum two ideas. The ideas were then conceptualized visually so that it can be presented to the clients. The ideas chosen by the clients will then be executed. If things comes out smoothly, this is the process I would normally go through. However, many times that wasn’t the case. There were times where we had to repeat the ideation process 2 to 3 times before it passes by the art director, but the team often pull through high tides and nail the job.

As far as being busy goes, mistakes were learned along the way. Little things that I use to overlook are now crucial to get right by. For example, exporting files in the appropriate size. Is the file for print of just for the purpose of showing them to the clients? It’s not practical to send a 500MB file to the client, so I learned that little things, most of the times are the big things. I also learned that taking notes and scamping are the foundation of any ideas, it needed to grow on a piece of paper first before going on screen. I dare say I enjoy being busy at work, it gave me a sense of purpose and accomplishment. I take a little bit of pride in knowing that I had contributed in the company’s closed jobs.

Before getting myself into the internship, I had one thing I expected out of it. Firstly, I was hoping to get tutoring on the technicality of my design process and the knick knacks of doing things faster. The senior designers I had work with helped me a lot with how I work my Illustrator, they thought me shortcuts that easily compress the timeframe of work in half. Whenever I am stuck, I ask for their opinion. Everyone around was happy to give an input and this has helped to solve many problems. The input that they give personally improve my train of thoughts because they are usually things that I hadn’t thought of. From this I know that it takes more than one eye to spot a mistake.

The biggest difficulty I faced during internship was earning my place within the company. Working in with a large size of creatives means that you had to be either very talented and unique or very hardworking. Knowing that I’m neither talented or unique, I had to work hard and try to avoid screwing up. However, making mistakes is inevitable and I had to learn from it. Besides that, I assimilate the willingness to learn. I cannot get upset easily, instead I take comments as constructive criticism and put effort on improving my weaknesses. This is how I show eagerness and passion, to prove that I am serious about my work. The design process at workplace is a journey of lessons that cannot be found in a classroom. Failure might sound demotivating but that is how I know I still have so much room for improvement. In the end of the day, I know I’ll come out to be a tougher cookie. All in all, I realized that you had to notice your own potential to grow and take everything you can during the internship to seed your own growth because no one else will do it for you. My advice to anyone who’s going to do their internship is, find a company that suits your needs and trust your instinct. As an intern:

Be inquisitive and have your thoughts heard as well. Communication only works when it is practiced both ways.

Always be open to learn new things and don’t try to take comments personally, it’s strictly work.

Build friendships in general but also remember to keep it professional between your colleagues.

Always take notes during feedback! It’s crucial to get things right for your second draft.

When things get rough, always remember that this is only the beginning of yet another long voyage.

[sketcheeguy]

FOMO! Teacher is talking to their fellow teacher without inviting me

A message board post from Etiquette Hell:

Hello. DH and I have found ourselves in a predicament involving another family. Because we feel emotional about the situation and don’t wish to come off childish due to that, we could really use some non-biased insight as to how to move forward in a civilized way that will possibly still allow us to remain acquaintances and occasionally have play-dates with these people. Why? Because the other family’s kids are genuinely nice and we don’t encounter much of that in our rural neck of the woods.

BG: We met this family in our area, who we have a lot in common with, and eventually got together for a play-date/dinner. While we found the parents to be mostly arrogant and condescending, we thought the children had excellent interactions together. Some time later we sent a thank you note and a reply email arrived immediately inviting us back. Eventually (last week) we were able to coordinate our schedules enough to visit again.

We’ve visited with them only twice so far. The first time we were over, the mom (Marge) was really pushing a particular school for our almost highschooler (Ashley) that Marge teaches at and all of her kids attend but we knew about this style of schooling a little bit and didn’t entertain the option for our family. During the second and most recent visit, she again brought up the school almost as soon as we arrived and was able to convince me to research it further and as I learned more I became very interested in the school. She loaned me a couple textbooks to thumb through but she needs them back within the next 2 months for her child to use.

That evening, DH and I discussed the school and one of the selling points for us was Ashley and Marge’s child (Bella) who get along great, would be in the same class. Another thing was that Marge also offered to provide transportation since the school is a long drive for us and they live so close to us and will be driving out there anyways. However, those two things were not the major driving factors (no pun intended), the most important thing was the curriculum.

The next day Marge called (per my request) because I had a few questions left before we could make our final decision. She was extremely short and testy which sat wrong with me because I am by nature very open and warm (I do realize my writing style doesn’t necessarily convey that but I’m trying to be direct and not overly wordy here). Afterwards, I didn’t know if I could deal with this person on a regular basis and be on the receiving end of any favors (transportation). But, after another discussion with DH we decided we should directly speak to the teacher (Jeff) that Ashley would have and make our final decision following that. I very politely emailed Marge a request for the teacher’s phone number as I couldn’t obtain it any other way. She obliged. We thought that would be the end of that and we would call Jeff this week.

Late last night, I received an email from Marge stating she’s bummed to have to report that Jeff’s class has become suddenly full. She also forwarded me the conversation between Jeff and herself. Apparently she felt the need to take it upon herself to give Jeff a heads-up that we’d be calling and went into detail about our family while simultaneously stating she doesn’t know us that well. She summarized Ashley’s personality and pointed out her struggles with a certain subject and that she offered to help us with that because, she is a self proclaimed expert in said subject. Then she mentioned how we (the parents) wanted Ashley and Bella to be in the same class and Ashley would be riding to school with them. The “heads-up” was concluded with her telling Jeff to give HER a call if he has any questions. Jeff’s side of the conversation was where he very straight forwardly informed Marge that his class is now full when it wasn’t just two days prior but, that’s fine. These things happen. /BG

DH and I were both instantly upset that she treated us like little kids she needs to speak for because we’re apparently not capable of describing our own situation. I particularly took exception to Marge character labeling our daughter who she really doesn’t know. Another “where do we send our child to school” discussion between DH and I ensued. Obviously this experience didn’t help us to want to send Ashley to that school but there were other factors that also led us down the path to pursue other education thus eliminating that school altogether such as the expense that we can’t quite justify.

As I stated in the intro, we do wish to be civil and possibly carry on as acquaintances but also feel the need to inform her that it was inappropriate and an overstepping of boundaries. We worry that if we don’t she will always think of us as a pet project. I suspect that one major reason she’s handled us this way is she’s 10-15 yrs our senior, however, we are in our mid 30’s so we’re not all that young either. I mention this fact because some people have a tendency to treat those younger than themselves as inferiors.

I still need to return the books to Marge as well so, will have to face her sometime soon. Any input on how to respond to her email and deal with her henceforth is appreciated.

You’re right that emotions make one childish and that you need my non-biased insight. I hope I can salvage this situation with these nice kids. How big of you to do so when this family hasn’t given you the respect of doing things the way you secretly wanted.

Marge really likes her job as a teacher for this school. She enjoys the place she works at and would recommend it to others. That alone makes her pushy. Telling people about your job in an excited way is gaudy at best. Any normal person would hate their job and tell another parent’s that all schools are the same. Going out of her way to loan some textbooks? Obviously another trap.

Marge would offer the availability of her daughter’s friendship and transportation for your convenience. Terrible person alert.

You asked Marge to discuss your questions. She’s a teacher at this school. So you really asked her to call because it’s her job. Which she should do better.

Also congrats on trying to be not to write wordy here. I can imagine that normal warmness usually requires the length of several novels. So to sacrifice that for brevity – since both at the same time would be impossible – is commendable. Anyway, yeah she should have done her job nicer, and also include more transportation and more free books.

So yeah you ask for the teacher’s phone number. This is her coworker and giving away your coworker’s phone number makes sense because you wanted it. The weird part is that she would talk to her coworker about a work matter. A teacher talking to another teacher about a student? That definitely must breach some type of education equivalent of attorney-client privilege. Well, sure attorneys are allowed to talk privately to other attorneys. Yet with teachers, it should be totally secret.

As a teacher what does she know about kids? Let alone your kid in such a short interaction. Sure, in the same amount of time you were able to tell that Marge is arrogant, condescending, and pushy. You’re highly skilled at noticing the qualities of adults and putting them in a negative light. Meanwhile, Marge tries to convey to her fellow teacher about a kid she’s barely met the same amount of time as you. Then share information that she has. Given by you.

The weirdest part is that she would communicate with someone. Someone she works with. And then offer to talk to them if they wanted to. That’s WEIRD!

The co-worker should not have any questions about the referral. We all know each parents main job involves managing all inner workings of this school. That’s what makes this school so special.

As you say, Marge speaking steals your ability to speech. It’s like when Ursula stole Ariel’s voice in the little mermaid. Once Marge speaks, you are now a child. This is a sea witch-like power that Marge has been gifted by the ancient gods. If you were to talk to Jeff now, you now cannot speak for your own situation. Jeff as a sane person would assume that’s Marge’s job now because she mentioned a few passing details. Marge as a sane person would think you weird for elaborating. Most of all, you’d be terrible if you had a different perspective about your own child. There’s really nothing you can do. Helplessness ensues.

It matters especially now since the school is completely booked and none of this even matters. If only Marge didn’t control every aspect of your life, your child’s life, and that school. You can’t speak up because you’re now reasonably a young child in Marge’s custody.

If only there was some way for you to create words with your mouth. Alas, that option has been stolen.

You could treat yourself as an equal to others. But not while Marge thinks you’re inferior – which is definitely what she must think.

Otherwise, she would have guessed that doing what you asked meant doing what you asked specifically without having a mind of her own. She’s not allowed to choose subjects to speak about without your permission. Who’s the child now, Marge?

Send her a fake note with something like “Thanks for your help! I’ll give Jeff a call.” Then fake call Jeff fake thanking him for his fake time.

You might even return the books with a fake note like “Thank you so much for lending me your books.” Then pretend in the moment to be as pretend grateful as is pretend possible.

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