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sometimes it means taking a week off work, not going anywhere, doing some chores you've been putting off, and setting up a cheap above ground pool for the season. If life cooperates, you get to spend one of those days sleeping as late as you want!

Okay, I completely understand that getting time off work can be a Sisyphean ordeal these days, but every time I run into the whole "only rich people go on vacation" discourse I'm thinking surely I'm not the only one whose childhood experience of "going on vacation" was piling everybody into the car and driving for six hours to pay twenty dollars a day for the privilege of setting up some leaky tents on a fifty-foot-by-fifty-foot patch of dirt next to a mosquito-infested pond in a "private campground" whose only standout features were a. an outdoor miniature golf course that hadn't been maintained in twenty years, and b. a truly breathtaking fire ant population.

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Ask A Manager is an excellent resource for job hunting, and navigating the working world in general. Also it's just good fun reading.

if it’s okay to ask id really like if you or any followers had any tips on getting a job and how not to panic when trying to find one

I’m graduating college in like a week and just can’t seem to figure out how to just get A Real Job and my parents say if I’m just going to be working at Walmart or something I should just go home - I don’t want to do this

Fuck what your parents say.

There's no such thing as a Fake Job.

You don't live to work, you work to live. A "good" job is whatever job lets you lead a happy life outside it. Apply everywhere that seems doable and if you don't hate it, stick around. I used to worry myself to shreds about this, trust me, it's way easier than you think it's going to be.

You can try and find out if your town has a ministry office or outreach building that has job listings available. Ask around at the library for help. Get a LinkedIn account. Apply on a bunch of job search websites. I've been full time employed for years and still get offers in my email.

Whatever job you get, be polite and timely and kind. The people you meet are your greatest resource. Everyone knows somebody looking for reliable help.

There Is Honour In Humble Work. Don't trust anyone who says otherwise

#job hunting #Ask a manger

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huh. I had not, until now, considered Crawford "Call me Mutt, everybody does" Muttner as a trucker-hat-wearing redneck. I envisioned more like an 1800's fur trapper look. I love it, primarily for how it surprised me.

Great TAZ but I had to hear griffin say “whalussy” twice

#taz liveshow #the adventure zone #Taz vs Moby Dick

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What’s your favourite line from good omens?

The invisible and unbreakable one that joins Crowley and Aziraphale.

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gazing in wonder at the wikipedia page for meander

Out of all the terminological categories in the English language, geological terminology is the most intensely poetic; who could fail to be moved by metamorphism and orogenesis? There is something awesome and mythic about it.

Anyway as I was reading this article I recalled a dim, possibly inaccurate memory of Chinese mythology where four dragons transformed themselves into the four rivers that flow through China.

I've been taking walks beside the creek. The creek has "an erosion problem" as it was once described to me. I notice on one bank the creek cuts underneath the roots of the trees and threatens to collapse the bank, and on another it deposits a low, broad beach of broken stones and mud.

The recent history of humankind would mislead us to think that erosion is a linear process of degradation, but the article for meander tells me that rivers move, the loops in their channels steadily rolling along the river's length, like the slithering of a snake over a time scale of thousands of years...

A river is a kind of dragon.

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#taz is my heart's home but #rude tales of magic #Is also very good

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Video game where the first cat you encounter leads you to one of your first quests but all other cats you encounter after that lead you to an empty food bowl and look at you so so sad

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i was born in '77, and my name is Jennifer. i bought a house a few years ago in a nice little neighborhood with folks all around my age. idk about the whole block, but i do know this:

next door - Jennifer, my age

my house - me, also Jennifer, also my age

other side of me - Eddie & Diane, retired boomers

other side of Eddie & Diane - a whole ass 'nother Jennifer, also my age.

In my junior year of high school, my english class had 6 different jennifers, all of our last names started with H or G, so our teacher just did a lot of pointing. that was nowhere near all the jennifers in my grade.

you can't swing a dead cat in a room full of white women without hitting half a dozen jennifers

We're everywhere.

because I was genuinely curious, I looked up how many babies were born in 1972 in the US. About 3.2 million. Assume about half were AFAB, so 1.6 million. Of those, 63,602 were named Jennifer.

Almost 4% of afab babies were named Jennifer that year, three times as many as the next most common name.

but 71,000 of the amab babies were named Michael.

in the 70s there were:

1 Michael 707,458 Jennifer 581,753 2 Christopher 475,526 Amy 268,996 3 Jason 462,821 Melissa 253,274 4 David 445,842 Michelle 249,138 5 James 444,823 Kimberly 229,106

out of 17,107,561 male births and 16,462,535 female births according to the social security administration. If you wonder why names got weird for a while? THIS is why. GenX had like 20 names, total, for everyone.

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Love her. She also did some great work under her give name, Ursula Vernon. I'm particularly fond of the omnibus edition I have of her webcomic Digger, which is complete, free to read, and features a talking wombat engineer as the main character.

Just a lil rant about my newest beloved fantasy author

Something I love so, so much about T Kingfisher's (@tkingfisher) work is how she portrays the mundane as something so beautiful and wonderful. The majority of her protagonists are all quite regular people, with regular lives, regular hobbies, and regular bodies. And how despite that, all her characters are so interesting, so lovable, and so deeply and utterly human.

Its amazing seeing a series where multiple female romantic leads are plus sized, and there is a mix of both body positivity and body neutrality. Because like yeah, they are gorgeous. But also, at the end of the day bodies are just bodies. A bit in Paladin's Faith got me thinking about this, where the male lead asks about the female lead's stretchmarks, and its very much treated as just a normal thing that she has as a woman, not detracting from her beauty, not adding to it. They just are.

And don't get me started about how nearly all of her male romantic leads, who are for the most part, big, strong, sword-wielding paladins, have knowledge of some form of textile craft, and how it doesn't detract from their masculinity at all. And instead it is something that would actually be very useful for a soldier to know.

Tldr if anybody else is obsessed with T Kingfisher's work as much as I am please let me know so that my long suffering reading friend can have a break from it.

#t kingfisher #ursula vernon #digger webcomic #saint of steel #paladin romances

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#The Hero and the Crown #Robin McKinley

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anyone else seeing weird mysterious failures on Tumblr

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#ok

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guys I just found the greatest video on the internet

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This is Gimli erasure and I won't stand for it.

[Un]conscionably, Tolkien's works have been severely underrepresented in the world of Tumblr sexymen. Now is[n't] the time to change that.

On a related note, did you know there is a Sexypedia Wiki? The research I do for these polls continues to surprise.

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Maids, cleaners, janitors, and sanitation workers are all the most important people of civilization by far. Even 12 hours without them is VERY noticable and they simply need to be highly compensated for it

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downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

followed by

is such a funny sequence