Feisty Harriet

my students are discussing how the experience of The Tell-Tale Heart (which uses no gendered pronouns for the protagonist) changes if you assume the protagonist is a female rather than male and it is FASCINATING

In my Aluminum Era

one day we’ll just turn around and instead of twitter there will be a Spirit Halloween

Saaaaaaame!!

Several boxes of bulbs still on the way + lots of seeds to plant as it cools off so they'll be ready for spring. CAN'T WAIT to see everything next summer!

Tree List
8 Black Hills Spruce
2 Ginko Biloba
2 Crabapple
1 Autumn Blaze Maple
1 Purple Ash

Zone 3 limits options, but these will be so pretty!

In the last 4 months we've torn out dozens of dead/half dead trees & bushes, & added hundreds of sq.feet of gardens.

Today I finished planting the last big plants, all together we added: 14 trees, 3 hydrangea, 3 peony, 2 lilacs, 2 red twig dogwood, 2 wild/ mountain roses, so many flowers & veggies

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A couple of years ago, my wife and I attended the wedding of two people who had been friends of ours for years. One year ago, the woman left the man for another man. We heard all about it from the man but heard nothing from the woman as we live in separate towns. We received a Christmas package from the woman who made no reference to her infidelity -- an act that affected all who were friends of the pair. I felt the need to thank her for the gift and card, but I didn't feel as if I should ignore the issue of her leaving her husband. In the end, I wrote a thank-you note and told her what I thought of the situation -- not in excoriating terms but in bluntly honest ones. Was this boorish? GENTLE READER: Yes. Had you wished to register your disapproval you could have written her a dry letter of thanks; had you wished to register extreme disapproval, you could have returned the present. Miss Manners is afraid that “Thanks, slut," is not a proper communication.

my favorite Miss Manners column (from 2002) was on my fridge for years and it finally gave up the ghost. found it to print it out again, and it seemed selfish not to share.

Blep.

Basic Bitch season.

Also? It's like 90 minutes to get to Target, so Imma enjoy this without any shame.

Anyway, it's time to make dinner. AGAIN.

This is ours right now

It's a full time job, lol

At the top of the page, the logo of The Daily Tar Heel. The rest of the page is a stream of block letters, getting smaller as it goes down the page, that reads: ARE YOU SAFE?WHERE ARE YOU? ARE YOU ALONE? GUYS I'M SO FUCKING SCARED. HEY- COME ON SWEETHEART- I NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU. CAN YOU HEAR ANY GUNSHOTS? PLEASE STAY SAFE. BARRICADE THE DOOR OR IF YOU THINK YOU CAN RUN AND GET TO A PLACE THAT CAN LOCK DO SO. MY TEACHER IS ACTING LIKE NOTHING IS HAPPENING AND I'M LOWKEY FREAKING OUT. I WISH THESE NEVER HAPPENED. STAY CALM AND SAFE -WE LOVEYOU. IAM SO SORRY THIS IS HAPPENING. 1 LOVE YOU. WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING? MULTIPLE VOICES AND LOUD BANGING. I'M IN CLASS EVERYONE IS LOSING IT PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY SHAKING. STILL GOING ON AND COMING CLOSER, HOPING IT'S COPS. I'M GONNA FUCKING THROW UP. KINDA WISH I HAD SOMEONE ELSE HERE THOUGH. PLEASE PRAY FOR US. PLEASE STAY WHERE YOU ARE AND KEEP YOUR DOORS LOCKED OR FORTIFIED. LOVE YOU SO SO MUCH. ARE YOU HOME? SOMEONE IS ALREADY SHOT.

Powerful front page of tomorrow's edition of The Daily Tar Heel, UNC's student newspaper. From text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday.

I started working with a weight lifting coach a couple times a week, and my leggies and biceps are SO strong and have major endurance. 💪🏼

My triceps and traps are weak little babies that would hardly survive in a fully stocked Costco by themselves.

A guy at a party told me, completely serious, “I know someone who knows Kevin Bacon” and I lost the ability to use human language to describe why I found that so funny.

A chonky white pitbull snoozing on my legs.

Sorry, Manager, I can't go back to work this afternoon, I'm trapped under a 65 lb snoozing house hippo.

I'm so sorry, it's such a brutal kind of heat too, just no relief for infinity days on end.

They were delish!!

"Xitter" is pronounced the way you pronounce President Xi's name.

The phrase "bone dry" needs to be retired. Most bones are moist while in use. I have a biology degree

Before / After

Quinoa, roast beets THAT I GREW BY MYSELF, baby spinach, parsley, goat cheese. 👩🏼‍🌾👩🏼‍🍳

Notes from the Field (An Archeology of Gender), by Jaclyn Foster Whenever Chris Pine comes up in conversation, I can barely breathe. Breathlessly, I talk, and talk, and talk about him to people, as if I’m begging. “Please, hear what I’m telling you about me.�...

Truly awesome article by @jnfoster.bsky.social, part of one of my most favourite online couples, about gender 🥰

I felt the same about Harry Connick Jr, he was the romcom lead in movies with Sandra Bullock and I just could not find him at all attractive.

When you can only experience emotions on the beige spectrum.

Ugh, I'm so sorry friend! That has got to be so mentally/emotionally taxxing.

Wednesday caught a live mouse outside tonight, I didn't realize what was in her mouth & told her to drop it when she came back inside, I assumed it was a sock. Gad a) mouse was already damaged/unable to scamper, b) she dropped it on a hard floor, & c) I was still wearing my shoes.

Boom squish. 🤢

Still very impawtant part of his circle of stuffie frens.

"Monster, do you want to snuggle with me?"

**Insert hilarious montage of him trying to get up on the couch, those short legs, lol**

🐾 Mawm, I just so tired, holding up dis big noggin doin me an exhaust. You do a hold? Hold for Fatboi? Fanks, Mawm. 🐾