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[submersibletees]

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[ht80]

Modern day dating done ✅ right... this is the kind of swiping that will make you smarter after you climax 😉 . . . 💡Fast fact!! Studies have said that those who read a lot of books 📚 tend to be nicer, kinder and more empathetic people. So find one who kisses 😘 just as well as they read. #knowledgeisaturnon . . . Thanks 🙏 @marymartinbooks 📕❤️📗💚📘💙📙🧡 . . . #books #reading #words #theshiz (at Mary Martin Bookshop - Melbourne) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw6k5WegSFl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1o73mg9og057u

[theandysan]

Hanging out with MULLY in The Shiz! Miss ya, man! #throwback #shizuoka #theshiz #mully #shizuokaprefecture (at Shizuoka, Shizuoka)

[4wdtoyotaowner]

@ww_tim lensed the @bilsteinus #FJ40 built by @procruiser at #sema2017. #1972 #toyotalandcruiser #landcruiser #fj45 #bj40 #bj42 #bj42lx #theshiz #4wdto #4wdtoyotaowner #4wdtoyotaownermagazine http://ift.tt/2zrC7vD http://ift.tt/2iYHbjN

[mariahstephens]

@live-thee-life-you-love @ra-mecca @drugged-mind-pure-soul-blog @tragic-g00dbyes @bigculobitchess @bellaobsession-blog @radi8ing @love-the--darkness-blog @f4ith-iny0u-blog @yellowtunnel-blog @niacheetah-blog @slfd0314 @yourfriendlyneighborhooddyke @dafuqshaniqua @the-one-and-only-gingerninja @gtfoandlivebro-blog @maddie-theshiz @simply-brilliant @midnight-0il @dmothafuckinjones @partyhard-livelong-blog @irenesassob @lifeshouldbelivedas1bigpart-blog @whocaresman @m0tt0-blog @milmaneiras @thugjimmy @maypangie @dontlove-justlove @luciasun @u-gotta-know @dominhate-the-world @like-thoughts-on-acid @chrislor13-blog @alya-kim @bongsblunts-andbullshit-blog @illwriteitdownforyou @tellit2themtns @s0-addictiv3-blog @bitchesinmy-blog @mekenzie-emma @miguelopes16 @scumcious @wet-blanket666-blog @man-you-stoned-blog @simply-based @micahberry-blog @knigglet-blog @need-to-breathee @keepyourswordskyward15 

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[ohgod-itsvictor]

Works Cited

“A Cultural History of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.’” Edited by Thomesena Coates, The Novel's Statement on Religion, Mt Holyoke College, 2002, www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist257s02/students/Thomasena/theshiz/novelreligion.htm

Borland, Faith. “Leave Creation to the Creator: the Corrupt Creator in Mary Shelley's ‘Frankenstein.’” Digital Commons at IWU, Illinois Wesleyan University, 2014, digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=gateway.  

Ryan, Robert M. “Mary Shelley's Christian Monster.” The Wordsworth Circle, The University of Pennsylvania, 1988, knarf.english.upenn.edu/Articles/ryan.html.

Sokya, David. “‘Frankenstein’ and the Miltonic Creation of Evil.” Soyka, "Frankenstein and the Miltonic Creation of Evil", University of Pennsylvania, 1992, knarf.english.upenn.edu/Articles/soyka.html

Sy, Bintou. “Mary Shelley's ‘Frankenstein’: Prometheus Liberated.” The Institutional Repository, DePaul University, June 2018, via.library.depaul.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1251&context=etd

[marywollstonecraftworld-blog]

In this article, the author discusses an interpretation of how Mary Shelley was influenced by her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, in her writing of “Frankenstein.” 

[djuantrent]

I brought Kentucky to A-Camp with #TheShiz. #autostraddlecamp 📷cred: @tayhatmaker

[dessertedinchina]

A (long overdue) Day in the Life

My campus: the building I live in is on the left, the primary school is that pyramid-looking building straight ahead and the kindergarten is right next to it on the right... it's a pretty easy commute for me...

Now that I’ve been in China for a little over two months, I can say with authority that I’m ready to post a “day in the China life” featuring yours truly. And when I say that, with authority, what you should hear is “I could have posted this much sooner but I’ve been too busy living the live [aka too lazy].” So, here it is, from my two months in China the average weekday follows more-or-less this schedule:

7 AM

Around 7-ish I manage to roll myself out of my way-too-comfortable bed and drag myself to my shower [with a door! Such a rare thing to find in China, you gotta let to small things make you happy]. I wake up pretty early, but that’s just because I like to have my immediate mornings to myself. After I shower I’ll make some oatmeal and tea and read the news [aka scroll my tumblr feed], blast music and dance badly, eventually get dressed, and do some mental preparation for a day full of classes.

9AM-11AM

I commence 2 hours [2 classes] of singing and dancing with 5-6 year olds who, depending on the day, are either the cutest little precocious monsters or the absolute devil. Each class has about 40 kids, so I spend 30 minutes with Group A (about 20 kids) and 30 minutes with Group B before moving on to the next class and doing it all again. I see each of my classes once a week, so the first few weeks were spent doing really simple activities to give the children a chance to get accustomed to me and to develop a routine for classes.

People who know me might find it hard to believe that I spend my mornings singing and dancing with children who just want to hug me and play games but… believe it, I have the pictures to prove it. I even have one class that spends the 5 minutes before things get started to chorus out “teacher, I love yous” which is completely heart-melting, and this is coming from a girl who never, ever wanted to hold her own nephew when he was a baby. I’m not a “kids” person, but I genuinely enjoy teaching these kids (most days).

11AM-1PM

Because I teach at the kindergarten and the primary school, I get an extra-long lunch hour. The kindergarteners eat at 11 and the primary school kids eat at noon so I spend this glorious and absolutely necessary to my sanity break eating, napping, and watching Netflix. Not exactly exciting, but as an introvert I cherish that time to be alone and recharge for the next block of classes.

1PM-4PM

In the afternoon I teach 5th and 6th grade oral English. With the kindergarteners my job is easy and straightforward, I know I’m not really teaching them much English, my job is to make using English fun so that their regular teacher has an easier time motivating them to learn. At the primary school, most days are an uphill battle. I teach four forty-minute classes with a 20 minute break in the middle for the kids to do “eye exercises” which… I don’t even know how to explain, they deserve a blog post of their own.

Each class is supposed to be me teaching with a Chinese English teacher there to help keep the class in line and to give translations when necessary. Each class has between 60-70 energetic, excited, crazy, stressed, hard-working preteen kids crammed into a space large enough for a class 1/3 that size. I show up, and the kids know they’re in for a bit of a break and an easy 40 minutes. Sometimes a Chinese teacher is there to help me keep control of the class and sometimes I scream myself hoarse trying to teach these kids about inviting someone to a birthday party or celebrating Halloween. Sometimes it’s amazing and fun and sometimes it’s an absolute nightmare and I go home exhausted and annoyed. Most days I look around and see a bunch of kids who think I’m the most beautiful teacher they’ve ever had. It’s a toss up, I do my best.

AFTER SCHOOL

After school, I have a pretty solid line up of private lessons to earn a bit of extra cash for spending money (aka bar funds). Each class is between 1-2 hours and I charge 150RMB/hr which is lower than a lot of other teachers, but 1-2 hours most nights of the week adds up and teaching private lessons to a few students is so much easier than teaching the big classes at my school that I find that I enjoy doing it, so making money doing something that can be pretty enjoyable is OK in my book.

In addition to teaching private lessons after school, I take Chinese classes at a school near where I live. So twice a week, two hours each time I try to cram more and more Chinese into my brain. I’m pretty decent at Chinese, I know enough to get by in almost any situation but I’m planning to take the HSK 4 on November 8 and work my way up to the HSK 5 not long after so I have some opportunities to look at other jobs in China in case I decide I want to stay here longer than a year or two! I enjoy teaching now, much more than I ever thought I would, but I don’t think it’s a career I want to pursue.

After a full day of teaching at my school and private lessons with dinner squeezed in somewhere, I normally come back to my apartment swamped, pretend to study some new Chinese characters while actually just watching Bob’s Burgers on Netflix…. YOLO. 

[thesingularnoodle]

Do you guys remember when webkinz were the shiz in like fourth and fifth grade?

[dessertedinchina]

My date with a semi-racist, 27-year-old Peking Opera professor

Alright, to give this story some context we’re going to have to travel back in time to the day I left the Shiz for the National Holiday. I told my cabbie I’d booked a train ticket online and asked him to drop me off at the part of the train station where you can pick up tickets. He dropped me at the ticket kiosks you can only use with a Chinese ID card. Sooo I was running late, confused, and lost. It was in this state that I looked around for a friendly face to save me and found a nice-looking Chinese guy rocking a rhinestone Star of David. Now, I’m not Jewish but all the Jews I’ve met have been pretty good people so I thought to myself, “self, that’s the guy. He knows what’s up.” And that’s how I met the Chinese guy who has been sending me wechat messages almost every day since.

One thing you need to know about this guy is he doesn’t speak a word of English. So, at first I was like, “wow, cool! Someone to practice my Chinese with!” So, I generally replied to his messages. One cultural hint I can give to anyone thinking about coming to China/already in China…most of the opposite-sex friendships foreigners have with single Chinese people are much more serious to the Chinese person in question. For example, if a single Chinese guy invites you to his house for dinner with his family…that’s not friendly, that’s a date.

Luckily (?) my date with Mr. Star of David was slightly less serious than a full feast at his family home. He picked me up and whisked (I say whisked, in reality we slowly made our way through the daily “schools out” traffic jam) me off to a place apparently known for having very “clean” food. Yes, some restaurants gain notoriety for being clean. It’s casual. I’m no snob, my favorite noodles here come from a street-side tent. Anyway, back to the date.

After about 10 minutes in the cab, I knew with certainty that I could not seriously date a Chinese guy. No, no it’s not what you’re thinking (you’re thinking about the downstairs business, right? Oh, that’s just me?). I could never seriously date a Chinese guy because I have no idea how to carry on a conversation in Chinese for 2 hours and be myself. My conversational topics are pretty limited to what I know how to say as opposed to what I really want to say. So, after ordering way, way, way too much food I settled in to listen, nod, and respond as well as I could to whatever things Mr. Star of David had to say. Did I mention Mr. Star of David showed up wearing a shiny trench coat and a polka dot neck scarf? Yeah, it was kind of distracting. Also, he’s a 27-year-old Peking Opera professor that lives with his family?

Obviously, as we were on a date (at least according to him), the topic of dating came up. Mr. Star of David quickly informed me he had no interest in African people as their skin was entirely too black, he would prefer to date someone with much whiter skin. Well, if I wasn’t decided before this, that bit of information would have sealed the coffin. In all fairness, Mr. Star of David is not alone in his quest for a white-skinned mate, it’s actually a big social-cultural pressure to be light-skinned as light-skinned people are the “most beautiful.”

I would give the date a 2.5/5 – the food really was delicious.