No animal should be allowed to be this round
My students are up to something. They keep coming up to me and handing me pieces of fruit, and when I ask why, they just smile cryptically and say, “Don’t worry about it.”
Like, the apples I get. That’s a teacherly thing to give. But one of them just straight up handed me a grape.
I took a sick day today and sent an email to the first girl to hand me a piece of fruit, asking if I could have an explanation now.
Her response was to send me this meme:
That clarifies exactly nothing, thanks.
Walked into school today to an email from her saying: “There’s more to come, hope it doesn’t leave you *sour* (you’ll get that later).”
Ominous.
Just before my first class of the day, one of my students came floating in, a black cloak billowing behind her, hood pulled low over her eyes.
“An offering,” she said, handing me a plain white bag with a green ribbon.
Inside is this:
Life gave me a plastic lemon.
WE HAVE AN ANSWER!
Apparently this was the result of a number of my students playing Truth or Dare at a birthday party. I’m not sure which one of them came up with “I dare you to confuse Magistra by handing her a piece of fruit without explanation”, but I 100% approve of any thought process that ends with me getting free food.
That was wild until the finish.
“But you can’t shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love…someone to hold on to… someone–”
—
Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream
He committed to how pissed off he was
I love how petty this is
I hope he brought the video to traffic court to contest the ticket lol
I love the poetry that this gifset ends with him running into a police car.
This is a tactic called Uncivil Obedience: where you follow the law so stringently that it exposes the injustice the law causes.
My last birthday, I was surrounded by people who loved me, and the loudest thought in my head was still, ‘They wouldn’t even be sad if you died.‘
Neil Hilborn, “You Can’t Be Depressed”
Performing at Honey in Minneapolis.
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We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are (via wordsnquotes)
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