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Writing anything be like⬆️

what studying literature feels like

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TIL Dolly Parton was a producer for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There are ongoing talks to revive the show or as Dolly puts it "revamp" it. Buh-duh-dum-hiss

#BtVS #dolly parton #Unexpected pairings #how did i not know this

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The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge - Page 2

#books and libraries #gilmore girls #another reading list

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This is a complete turn around from when they used to lock the bathrooms and people had to ask at the check out desk to use the public restroom

In my area summer temps can easily reach 115+ degrees Fahrenheit. Many homeless people spend the day in the library to escape the heat. I went there to study today for the first time in a looooonng time and spotted this in the restroom

People can leave soap, deodorant, toothbrushes, tissue, whatever and those that need it can take it no questions asked.

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What about Buster?

#alas poor buster #i knew him well #mythbusters #discovery channel #*blows something up* #this is why it blew up #it's scince!

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I sometimes think I'm going to choke on all the screams I have to swallow.

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Yeah for eccentric idiots and fucking geniuses

I'm like if an eccentric genius was fucking stupid

#i myself am somewhat of an eccentric idiot

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Ah yes the proud nations of Colombla and Costarica (pronounced like America)

Two of my favorite countries.😄

#Hispanic pride month #work fail #how much did they pay for that? #spell check is your friend #nice try HR #life in retail

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I had a customer come up to the return desk today-

"I want to return this pan. It's defective."

Me: "Okay. What was wrong with it?"

"It's a rip off. I spent fifty dollars on this cast iron skill and it is already rusted after one use. Can you believe it came out of the dishwasher looking like this? I want a replacement."

Me:😬 "Yeah, it isn't supposed to go in the dishwasher. It really doesn't like water at all. There's a little booklet in the box that explains how to clean and care for cast iron."

"Well I know that now. Are you going to replace it or not?!"

And she got her replacement. I wish there was a button we could push on the register to deny refunds on the basis of customer stupidity.

#another day in customer service #my brain hurts #last week it rained #three people slipped and fell in under 2 hours #Management put up a sign #“When it rains the ground may be wet and slippery” #I'm open to suggestions for a new job #One that doesn't invole stupid people #theives #or Karens

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Love that these three posts were in a row

#tic #tac #toe #3 in a row

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The o.g. VCR. But why is she just holding some juggling pins(?). It's a print ad right? What is the purpose of that? Is she a model who was given some pointless props(likely) or an actual juggler just standing there(less likely)? Is it supposed to be a metaphor for juggling watching color! TV and doing other tasks? There goes my mind wandering off again😆

RCA TR-4 Television Video Recorder advertisement, 1966.

#still have my zenith vcr #kid do not put your hand in there #don't put your PB&J sandwich in there either #50 years until I sell all those disney video cassettes. #maybe #does anyone know how to program that RCA? #can't ask grandma #she's too old #can't ask granddaughter #she's too young

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Was this article written by a tumblrina??

Nature has created crabs at least five different times. Seems like a good mascot for this site. Point for @tumblerstaff.

#it's turtles all the way down #except #ya know #with crabs #it's crabs all the way down #the crabs keep coming back

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#necromancer brings him back # I spend the days leading up to the wedding with him # so annoyed #now I remember why I killed him the first time

As soon as I can revive him from the dead the wedding is BACK ON !!!!

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Unfortunately the artist's nightmare came true at our school. It kept getting worse and worse until my nephew took art in 6th grade. All book work and homework sheets about art history and maybe one art project per quarter. The supplies they were given were just enough to complete one project if they followed the teacher's instructions exactly and their projects were all supposed to look the same.

The school said it was because there wasn't enough money in the budget for art supplies but how much do you think replacing those art textbooks every three to five years cost them?

Made the kids hate art.💔

Actually, when I think about it this is how most subjects are taught now. It made me and so many others hate institutional learning . 😠

A musician wakes from a terrible nightmare. In his dream he finds himself in a society where music education has been made mandatory.

“We are helping our students become more competitive in an increasingly sound-filled world.”

Educators, school systems, and the state are put in charge of this vital project. Studies are commissioned, committees are formed, and decisions are made— all without the advice or participation of a single working musician or composer.

Since musicians are known to set down their ideas in the form of sheet music, these curious black dots and lines must constitute the “language of music.” It is imperative that students become fluent in this language if they are to attain any degree of musical competence; indeed, it would be ludicrous to expect a child to sing a song or play an instrument without having a thorough grounding in music notation and theory.

Playing and listening to music, let alone composing an original piece, are considered very advanced topics and are generally put off until college, and more often graduate school. As for the primary and secondary schools, their mission is to train students to use this language— to jiggle symbols around according to a fixed set of rules:

“Music class is where we take out our staff paper, our teacher puts some notes on the board, and we copy them or transpose them into a different key. We have to make sure to get the clefs and key signatures right, and our teacher is very picky about making sure we fill in our quarter-notes completely. One time we had a chromatic scale problem and I did it right, but the teacher gave me no credit because I had the stems pointing the wrong way.”

In their wisdom, educators soon realize that even very young children can be given this kind of musical instruction. In fact it is considered quite shameful if one’s third-grader hasn’t completely memorized his circle of fifth.

“I’ll have to get my son a music tutor. He simply won’t apply himself to his music homework. He says it’s boring. He just sits there staring out the window, humming tunes to himself and making up silly songs.”

In the higher grades the pressure is really on. After all, the students must be prepared for the standardized tests and college admissions exams. Students must take courses in Scales and Modes, Meter, Harmony, and Counterpoint.

“It’s a lot for them to learn, but later in college when they finally get to hear all this stuff, they’ll really appreciate all the work they did in high school.”

Of course, not many students actually go on to concentrate in music, so only a few will ever get to hear the sounds that the black dots represent. Nevertheless, it is important that every member of society be able to recognize a modulation or a fugal passage, regardless of the fact that they will never hear one.

“To tell you the truth, most students just aren’t very good at music. They are bored in class, their skills are terrible, and their homework is barely legible. Most of them couldn’t care less about how important music is in today’s world; they just want to take the minimum number of music courses and be done with it. I guess there are just music people and non-music people. I had this one kid, though, man was she sensational! Her sheets were impeccable— every note in the right place, perfect calligraphy, sharps, flats, just beautiful. She’s going to make one hell of a musician someday.”

Waking up in a cold sweat, the musician realizes, gratefully, that it was all just a crazy dream. “Of course!” he reassures himself, “No society would ever reduce such a beautiful and meaningful art form to something so mindless and trivial; no culture could be so cruel to its children as to deprive them of such a natural, satisfying means of human expression. How absurd!”

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, a painter has just awakened from a similar nightmare...

I was surprised to find myself in a regular school classroom— no easels, no tubes of paint.

“Oh we don’t actually apply paint until high school,” I was told by the students. “In seventh grade we mostly study colors and applicators.” They showed me a worksheet. On one side were swatches of color with blank spaces next to them. They were told to write in the names. “I like painting,” one of them remarked, “they tell me what to do and I do it. It’s easy!”

After class I spoke with the teacher. “So your students don’t actually do any painting?” I asked.

“Well, next year they take Pre-Paint-by-Numbers. That prepares them for the main Paint-by-Numbers sequence in high school. So they’ll get to use what they’ve learned here and apply it to real-life painting situations— dipping the brush into paint, wiping it off, stuff like that. Of course we track our students by ability. The really excellent painters— the ones who know their colors and brushes backwards and forwards— they get to the actual painting a little sooner, and some of them even take the Advanced Placement classes for college credit. But mostly we’re just trying to give these kids a good foundation in what painting is all about, so when they get out there in the real world and paint their kitchen they don’t make a total mess of it.”

“Um, these high school classes you mentioned...”

“You mean Paint-by-Numbers? We’re seeing much higher enrollments lately. I think it’s mostly coming from parents wanting to make sure their kid gets into a good college. Nothing looks better than Advanced Paint-by-Numbers on a high school transcript.”

“Why do colleges care if you can fill in numbered regions with the corresponding color?”

“Oh, well, you know, it shows clear-headed logical thinking. And of course if a student is planning to major in one of the visual sciences, like fashion or interior decorating, then it’s really a good idea to get your painting requirements out of the way in high school.”

“I see. And when do students get to paint freely, on a blank canvas?”

“You sound like one of my professors! They were always going on about expressing yourself and your feelings and things like that—really way-out-there abstract stuff. I’ve got a degree in Painting myself, but I’ve never really worked much with blank canvasses. I just use the Paint-by-Numbers kits supplied by the school board.”

Sadly, our present system of mathematics education is precisely this kind of nightmare. In fact, if I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child’s natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn’t possibly do as good a job as is currently being done— I simply wouldn’t have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul- crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education.

Everyone knows that something is wrong. The politicians say, “we need higher standards.” The schools say, “we need more money and equipment.” Educators say one thing, and teachers say another. They are all wrong.

The only people who understand what is going on are the ones most often blamed and least often heard: the students. They say, “math class is stupid and boring,” and they are right.

—Introduction to "A Mathematician's Lament" by mathematics educator Paul Lockhart. Full essay here:

#sit down #shut up #and do as I say #I put off going to college #i thought it would be more of the same #sometimes it is #school system

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Me going to the diagnostic center.

Mammogram technician "your breasts are very dense"

Excuse me they're trying their best.

A month later the ultrasound technician tells me I have some of the most beautiful insides she's ever seen and that feels like a major compliment l.☺️

my favourite medical compliments was when the nurse told me i had nice veins when taking a blood sample and when the new gp told me he likes working with complex patients (which is also a really good sign that he might figure out what is wrong with my digestive tract or at least take me seriously enough to refer to gastroenterology if he cant)

#health #mammogram #i'm pretty on the inside

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Oops... I was scrolling on mobile and hit the don't read fanfic on accident. I do read fanfic. Way, way too much fanfic.

#either it started on geocities #or that gargoyle fan site #The pit of voles is still a favorite