The more recent trainings are telling us to “Run, Hide, Fight.” Meaning, first try to get out if at all possible, if you can’t do that, hide and prepare to fight like hell if the shooter comes into the room. A lockdown is still called, but that doesn’t necessarily mean everyone has to stay in one place. And locking…

I do the same thing. I make a point to go to all of my classrooms before the start of each semester and determine what the best course of actions would be if we had to flee or shelter in place. The really scary thing is that doors in most of our classroom buildings don’t lock, and they open outward so they can’t be…

Actually Villi and Mary Kay LeCrazyPants got divorced.

Poor Vili Fualaau. I read an interview with him when they were still married and he talked about his struggles with alcoholism. That horrible woman stole his life away from him at an extremely young age and really sealed the deal when she got pregnant when he was what, 12 or 13? It’s not surprising that he turned to…

I work at a university and have multiple escape routes mapped out in my head.

It working one time doesn’t change how dumb it is. These are powerful guns. A locked door isn’t usually going to stop them.

I teach at an elementary school. Per policy, my door is locked all day, and we all have a black cover on our door window that can be rolled down and secured so the room looks empty. I hate that this is a thing we need to worry about.

Absolutely agree. My daughter said they locked the door, turned out the lights, and kept quiet. That doesn’t fill me with confidence.

The old university job I had was in a department that required locked doors and access keys. It wasn’t impossible to get in, but significantly harder. We had one false alert during my time and I remember everyone cleared out of the lobby and into the admin/locked area.
While I knew we were safe and this was probably…

I teach at a community college. I regularly think about how my students could hide, exit routes from the classroom and my office, etc. The day someone decides that I, as a professor, need to be armed to teach is the day I will quit.

Also, I can’t imagine a more dangerous scenario than arming a bunch of academics.

I wonder how long until the news stops bothering to cover school shootings? I read about school shootings more often than I go grocery shopping, I imagine the news is going to get real bored, real fast of covering something that happens on average twice a week.

Now’s a good time to restate: once it was decided that shooting 20-or-so elementary school kids wasn’t enough for change, the door was opened for anything and everything.

Thoughts and prayers can’t get here fast enough! /s

This weird writing style of just putting pretty words together and hoping it makes meaning- it’s very thought-catalog. Adoption is a severe peace. Adoption is a rambunctious daydream. Adoption is an illuminating comfort. Adoption is an impassioned whisper. IT IS FUCKING NONSENSE.

It’s 2018. Eye-rolling is the proper response to Lena Dunham’s mere existence.

That is exactly the line that made me gag. What does it mean? A thrilling truth? WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN?

I wish I could go back in time five minutes, to the more innocent, happy time when I didn’t know anything about Lena Dunham’s ovaries. TMI, TMI.

Congratulations on your year! Yay you! Getting sober is one of the hardest things that anyone can do and I’m so happy for you!

But I can’t handle bad breath. Do you think Norman Reedus has nice breath?

Francis Bean Cobain’s post is beautiful. I just celebrated my first sober birthday back in January, and I feel a lot of the same feelings she expressed. I fought hard for my sobriety and my sanity, and hope someday that my story will help someone else, just like I know her words will.