Oh man,YouTube and children. That shit is just nefarious. I know past generations had their pearl-clutchers ranting about how television was evil and corrupted the mind of younguns, but YouTube is 100x worse.

I’m really enjoying it! The hours are weird depending on where you are, but they’re a serious company and there’s work if you are up for it. The students are mostly great, and really want to learn. The beginning can be discouraging, and for me it took a while to get going but now I have a steady booking of all the…

That is a level of commitment we all aspire to.

Thanks! And I want the damn Mondays off because 1) Mondays suck, always and forever, and 2) I work Saturdays and Sundays. I’ve been working 7 days a week for a while now, and I just want to be able to have one day a week off. Having it be Monday just makes it all the sweeter.

I’m an online kids’ English teacher, so the current state of my desk is part desk, part pile of random toys and props:

Me as a cow:

This is excellent.

I just expect better wigs from celebrities in costume. They don’t have to resort to Party City or Target like us mortals, dammit!

Hahahahaha, true, I asked for it! And I hate this song :P

I was a cow last night at my kids’ school party. I felt ridiculous but that’s what Halloween is for, no? I got compliments from many kids!

It is a river (more like a creek actually), but there’s a huge avenue named after it. Here’s proof!

I died laughing when you mentioned the corner of Ipiranga and São João, because many years ago my dad drove past that place pointing at it excitedly and saying “Look! That’s the place Caetano mentions in ‘Sampa’!”, and I remember thinking “God, what a fucking dump!” It’s downtown, and downtown São Paulo has beautiful…

Obrigada pelas boas-vindas! :) we got back home yesterday morning and now life returns to normal. The trip had its highlights and low points, as I imagined it would. I think you know that when you’ve been far away from family for a long time, returning to the old dynamics and dysfunctional behavioral patterns is…

Presidents are in a prime position to coerce women or casually assault them, like the scenario Lind describes. I’d venture a guess that Obama and maybe Carter (he seems like a decent dude) didn’t engage in that sort of behavior. The others? Probably all of them did it on a regular basis.

Aw darling, I’m so sorry this happened to you. Knowing the abuse is coming compounds its effects and makes it even worse. I went through something similar with my mom’s drinking and the abusive tirades she would launch against us, so to this day the sound of a beverage can being opened is still a trigger for me. These…

Yeah, very few things give me pause about moving away. One of them is having my daughters grow up without their paternal grandparents, which are great. The other is the fact I feel like I’ve abandoned my dogs. I don’t think it’ll ever go away.

Pra vc também! <3

Luna is a total diva too. After I adopted her I read up on the breed and it’s the consensus that St Bernards are easygoing and kinda detached. Luna’s pretty chill but she has needs and she’ll make them clear. Whenever she doesn’t get what she wants (such as BOTH HANDS to pet her, or room on the bed/couch, or your…

I’m dying laughing here. Maybe she’s a chicken at heart, and was hoping the eggs would hatch?

Nah, not really. He gave me that a lonnnng time ago, when we were still together. We haven’t kept in touch at all and actually I recently found some childhood pictures of him along with my own pile of photos. Now I’ll have to do the awkward Facebook messaging dance to get in touch with him and return them. :/