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and now we just have ai to read for people, even fewer opportunities to build those literacy skills

i almost put both little miss sunshine and inside out on my list! both extremely excellent!

yes i did do that nyt best movies of the 21st century poll; no i’m not sure you’re going to think i have good taste (but i think i do)

i have been very resistant to watching lady bird, probably on account of my own mother issues. i should watch; you know i love your recs.

and somehow, i do think i’ve become—for him—a pretty good parent

there was a stretch of time where that didn’t seem possible, but he’s such a good kid, and actively loving him does make me a better person. but i hate that kind of rhetoric, so i don’t think that experience is exclusive to parenting. this is just how it happened for me.

i don’t recommend my way of parenting but it really was the only way it could have worked for me given this problem you’ve cited here

“i fucking forgot a knife” is a totally normal thing i just yelled to myself while walking to work (but to be clear, the problem is that i can’t cut the cake i’m bringing to the office)

they put some in me last year when i had to be zonked out for back surgery and though i have no memory of it, i think i probably enjoyed myself!!

listening to these children on the bus discuss music and one asks the other if they’ve listened to my chemical romance. the other child replies, “i prefer to listen to my music, not my parents’ music” 😂😩

still have my old account info and it is mortifying and delightful all at once. what an embarrassing, earnest dork ie once was.

in one of my favorite memories with my grandma, we were in my twin bed together watching enemy of the state. i was maybe 14. she never really cared for movies, but who could deny the excellence of a gene hackman movie?

came to work early so i could complete tasks before the rest of the main office arrived but i’m stuck in restart mode with my old lady computer (she’s an elder pandemic purchase) and it makes me want to scream

i’ve got to say, watching the federal government work to destroy your profession—work pretty critical to society’s continued existence, i’d argue—while millions of your fellow citizens cheer its collapse is perhaps some of the most demoralizing shit i’ve ever experienced

what do you mean i have to go to work again today?

nye at 40: took 10mg of melatonin at 7:30 and am going to read ao3 until i pass out

i never thought the shape of water was about or cared much about sex; it was about being seen, and it just so happened that one way to be seen was to touch each other intimately.

not to play favorites but strip is truly one of the best

“it’s clear that you have a love for music, and you like to try new things.” excellent thesis, a++

the spotify wrapped ai podcast is HORRIBLE!! if it were a student, they are FAILING this assignment; vaguest, dumbest bullshit, AND they referred to florence as florence plus the machine (also called sara bareilles as sara baraye) good work, ai!!!

why is this so frequently cited as THEE marker for true adulthood? i am a full grown up, i’d argue, but i haven’t hit this milestone quite yet…

torn between looking forward to a rest after the slog of this semester but feeling the familiar, all-consuming dread of having to return to ml, that hideous place

i’m sure i’ve told you this but an evergreen professor’s feedback to my (admittedly not great) short story was that it was unbelievable because “mothers don’t just leave their daughters” 🤡

shall i start again?

in class yesterday a student said it was their birthday this weekend—nasty nineteen, they clarified—and i felt a thousand years old

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