Just a note that if you come into my replies with individually targeted criticisms of someone else’s sexual ethic, regardless of your “side”, all related replies will be hidden and you will be (temporarily!) blocked.
“If bell hooks were here, she would say…” then “I really shouldn’t speak for bell hooks because I feel that her spirit will rise up and strike me down nonviolently” @timonmlee
The highlight was that when I had the realization I was already over an hour from home so I called @timonmlee (also traveling) to call a neighbor to check but Timon almost didn’t ask because he thought I was paranoid. Timon asked, the neighbor checked, the cast iron was red hot.
me: I am stronger than my anxiety
my anxiety: [bench pressing a car] what if you turned a stove burner on high before you left the house and just forgot about it and now your home is burning to the ground
In the age of cell phones, the area code has become the ancestral clan name or heraldry. It is a marker of old stories, loyalties, a statement that says "there was a land I came from but am there no longer"
@natgrace79 The student affairs exodus right now is REAL. thankfully my institution has recovered! We’re actually VERY low on housing rn and admissions is still…admitting… which is causing an unexpected type of nervousness around the office
@natgrace79 I’m in res life/housing/conduct 😵💫 I have previously loved the rush of training/move in but we are suuuuuuuper understaffed (on the pro staff side) this year and I am mostly dreading the impending chaos barreling towards me