Hooray random Swedish biking Grad Students! *cheer* We need a lot more people like you and you’re awesome!

Oh god I’ve had this nightmare. My anxiety/panic attack’s first route of expression is dry heaving and or rando puking. I’ve had the stress dream where I puked during my defense, or puked during a committe meeting, or puked wile teaching just like, a fire hose of Exorcist proportions. But this little gal held it…

Oh god, it’s every car I ever drove as a theater tech. Replace the cheerful British man with a scowling petite dark haired, mean looking potato ghost of a costumer who is also tone deaf and gets the Jesse Tyler swat when SHE wants to swing too

One of my friends and former labmates married an adorkable Indian engineering student and they love each other to bits. She’s a tall German valkrie type with an accent, tattoos, and as many degrees as he has. His mom went on a hunger strike when they announced their intention to marry. Really put my mother in laws…

I saw Sarah Coburn perform it a while ago now and I don’t think there was a dry eye or fidgeting person in the house, it was AMAZING and one of those performances that keeps you coming back every season hoping “Maybe I’ll see something like THAT again!”
Die Fledermaus it is! Our opera program always has the same…

Not gonna lie - I LOL’d pretty hard and the dog jumped off the couch! I did once watch a director attempt to explain “Cats” to his cast. Couldn’t be done, aside from “This was uh, based on a weird little book about gelical cats and its advent meant that professors, music teachers and casting directors everywhere had…

Then it’s time for me to embrace the fact that I don’t hate Gilbert and Sullivan and it looks insane so yeah, I will go see that opera!

“What’s my motivation?” “You’re dying of tuberculosis...and you’re also sad about love. GO!” “Whats tuberculosis?” “Remember Moulin Rouge? Nicole Kidman had it.” “OH OK!”

It’s, as far as I know, just “Queen of the Night Aria” and it’s in German. So that much harder to make it sound pretty and effortless

I think there’s a good chance she’ll be excellent as an adult performer with training, especially if she takes good care of her voice. I hate seeing those like “OMG 6 year old opera prodigy” where the kid parrots out their best rendition of a complex, emotional song and it’s technically pretty correct but flat and…

Yep! They have to try hard to make her look un-cute. She’s friggin adorable.

Sophie is actually a blonde IRL, they just give her amazing color treatments for the show so it doesn’t harm her aaaaamazing hair. (She’s one of the few actresses who isn’t wearing a 6,000 wig or two at all times, like Maisie Williams/Arya) I know way too much about GoT hair.

Then will come the ultimate gut punch - when their adult children don’t give a fuck about living up to their sky high expectations (or cannot live up to those expectations, I’m looking at YOU poor college kids I taught who realized they were NOT going to med school) that would “make it all worth it” and complete the…

The people who give you crap about your daughter who is in the care of a nanny not being “socialized” realize she is a human child and not a puppy, right? Also just, MANY rounds of applause for not throwing very small children huge themed birthday parties.

But can someone please please just take a moment and talk about Kim Chi’s Mom Homage drag look? It was pure incredible fantasy. The Korean Historical Soap Opera Queen hair, the FRIGGIN DANDELION PUFF BLOWING SEED FLUFF INTO HER HAIR LIKE ORNAMENTS. The white hanbok. SO MANY LAYERS. I was fucking transported.

If there was one thing I took away from college level Chinese it was if you didn’t want to get any work done in class that day, mention a country that starts with T and is anywhere near China. BOOM the class is now a rant about the ungrateful Tibetans/Taiwanese. So as sad as it is, I can totally see China being like…

If I posessed even like, a sliver or a tiny fraction of this EVERYTHING (attitude, expression, poise, flawlessness) I feel like I could go much farther in life than I have.

Slang wise I am, admittedly, still stuck in the era of flossing, whips, and pimpin’ at various levels. Occasionally I catch up, but I have accepted that I am less in the “cool, young and hip” marketing demo, and more the “sensible mid sized sedan and steam mop tech” demo.

But my best guess is that “Becky” is the…

You are awesome and as a fellow zoo person (albeit one working with the less charismatic animals) I salute you for your well made and written points.

They totally have though - Good book by the name of “Tiger Bone and Rhino Horn” has a blurb and a quick hit here: