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About a month before I was freaking out about my student loans and my mom said “maybe you wouldn’t have so much student loans if you didn’t have to transfer schools after your first year” (my first year of college I went away and was very depressed and then transferred to a school closest to home but lost my scholarship due to the transfer)

I honestly desperately wish my parents did not have children lol

Thinking about a couple weeks ago when I was freaking out about a medical bill that was not that expensive (about $100, but I’m very broke rn and actively looking for a new job) and my mom said to me “maybe you wouldn’t be freaking out about this bill if you had a job that paid more”

I struggle to imagine the brain of someone who thinks that that’s ok/helpful to say to someone anxious about money, especially your own child lol

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Thinking about a couple weeks ago when I was freaking out about a medical bill that was not that expensive (about $100, but I’m very broke rn and actively looking for a new job) and my mom said to me “maybe you wouldn’t be freaking out about this bill if you had a job that paid more”

I struggle to imagine the brain of someone who thinks that that’s ok/helpful to say to someone anxious about money, especially your own child lol

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This is what it’s like applying to jobs in 2024 lol

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"Friends with benefits" and the benefit is being my friend :)

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Yeah quiet quitting is great and all but have you tried chaotic working?

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.

Anyways. Be chaotic. It’s more fun that way.

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ur twenties is just reciting "life is tough but i am tougher" 500 times a day. sometimes thru tears

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Reality tv has become the place to do social experiments you couldn’t get board approval for

#I’m watching the ultimatum

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shit man this got me emotional

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the urge to bite while feeling overwhelming affection is completely normal. sorry if you don’t experience that but it’s not my business. get help

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{Juansen Dizon, I Am The Architect of My Own Destruction page 24/ Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966/ Alice Hoffman, The Red Garden/ Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955/ Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood, page 276/ Michael Ondaatje/ Catherynne M. Valente, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden/ D.H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works; The Plumbed Serpent/ Jean-Paul Sartre, from No Exit/ Alice Notley, from In The Pines: Poems; "In The Pines,"}

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The Vision of the Empyrean by Gustave Doré (1832-83)

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— April 27, 1915 / Franz Kafka diaries

#franz you must chill

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while you were hitting the juul, going to college, having casual sex, driving your car, and eating takeout food, i died horribly under mysterious circumstances in a national park. and my body was never found again

#basically what I feel like my early 20s were

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i achieved my wildest little creature dreams this weekend and turned my regular bed into a mossbed and it’s everything i’ve ever wanted in a snooze spot