I was just gonna reply to him with a fuck you, but this is much, much better. thanks!

that I am out here too, doing the hard work of continuing to accept and love myself as I am, even if it turns out the plot twist at the end is that no one else ever will.

I have never understood this.

BEN & LESLIE > JIM & PAM

I have a lot of family and friends in Alabama and...I don’t know. A surprising number of them see this shitbird for what he is. I have hope.

I hate when people turn their personal Facebook pages into sales pages. “here’s a picture of my kid, here’s a picture of me wearing Raspberry Rose in Lipsense! Buy Lipsense!...here’s the family at disneyworld...”

I mean, that can be true for hip-hop as well. My students don’t know shit about selling drugs or murdering people but they sure do rap about it a lot.

A lot of the Frontline documentaries on terrorism and the conflicts in the Middle East show graphic imagery like beheadings and murders. When I show students the documentaries I pre-watch them and skip over the gruesome stuff. I get so sad when they get upset with me! “We’re not watching a beheading.” WHY…

Yes. I had a young student pass away. I walked up to the casket and I regret it so much. I hate that I remember her that way instead of the sweet little girl that she was.

I’m SO GLAD you said that, internet stranger. I had those exact thoughts and I thought I was the only one!

everyone was VERY attractive and out of my league

I downloaded it once and deleted it in like 30 minutes. There’s no way the entire app is full of extremely attractive mid-30s doctors.

Those videos of her walking around by herself though...they don’t look like “2-3 drinks” drunk. My dad used to take heart medication and when he drank it fucked him up, even after a few. I wonder if the epilepsy medication she had in her system did the same.

They’re also the “stand for the flag and honor the troops” people while simultaneously being the “i need to stockpile guns in case i ever need to shoot soldiers or cops when i’m saving myself from tyranny”

Agreed. I didn’t post about it *immediately* but when my dad died, I wanted the people who loved him to know, but I also couldn’t pick up the phone and say the words.

I THOUGHT IT WAS CHARO!

SAME!!! I loved Leo SO MUCH. Leo and Ryan both had a huge part in my young adult fantasies.

I agree, somewhat. I remember my students telling me a few years ago that “Facebook is for grown ups” but I also think Facebook had a lot to do with that since it has changed so dramatically from what it started out as.

Just this morning on the news they said something about, “When we come back—what the president JUST TWEETED” and I said out loud to myself, “We live in a dumb time.”

I didn’t know any of that so I looked it up.