#WHAT FUCKED ME UP WAS MY ASS FORGETTING OUR PROF HAS US DO ASSIGNMENTS ON ANOTHER SITE

[loafbud]

Just took my first biology exam and got a pretty decent score of an F! 🎉🎉🎉

#i already have an F in biology anyways #HERE'S WHY THO #learning the course material for me is manageable #WHAT FUCKED ME UP WAS MY ASS FORGETTING OUR PROF HAS US DO ASSIGNMENTS ON ANOTHER SITE #(and my missing a full week earlier on by forgetting- which just HAD to cover 2 chapters worth of content yaaay) #but also that this is the most disorganized course i have #our prof is new so idk if that plays a part in it #but like??? theres no regular updates like 'hey guys dont forget to do this and that!' #like i get it #its college #they emphasize self-discipline so really its on us #but like uggh #what fucked up my overall class grade too (which is already an F btw) is the missed hw #like???? just?? hw that was never included in the module???? like BAM SURPRISE 0 GRADE NOTIFICATION SPAM ON OVER 10+ ASSIGNMENTS U MISSED!! #absolutely wonderful #deadass wanna drop out of this course and just take it again in the next term #so i can get another prof coz i dont like how disorganized this one feels tbh #literally my only complaint about college #but again the blame's on me too for not actively looking so i take accountability #the exam itself was a breeze at the beginning and end #it was just 80% was of the fucking week i missed #my bad for not doing a study speedrun whoopsies I SLIPPED

[miekasa]

mie….could we please get college au eren headcanons👉🏽👈🏽

Of course. I’m always thinking about his big head anyway <33 might as well put it good use.

One thing he learned in college is how to make his hyperfocus/fixation episodes work for him; that’s why he schedules all his classes as close together as possible. He’d rather have class back to back for 5 hours, than have it spread out with hours in between lectures, because that increases his changes of cutting.

You can always tell when he’s in class and/or what class he’s in by how much he responds to your messages. If he doesn’t text back at all, he’s in a class that hard or one he enjoys, or both. But if he’s sending you iMessage games, then you know he’s in his elective that he couldn’t care else about (and is probably cheating in someway somehow lmfao). 

He usually puts his phone on dnd when he’s in a class that’s important, but you’re in his favorite contacts, so your messages always ring through. What if it’s an emergency and you need him for something? Advanced Roots of Human Biology can wait. 

Some days there are one or two our breaks between his lectures, that’s just how the scheduling works out. When that happens, he usually sneaks into one of your lectures, or goes to your place to take a nap. Your roommates have become accustomed to him, honestly they’ve been considering giving him a key. 

Once, he didn’t realize that your lecture was basically a seminar, with you, the prof and maybe six other students. He still stayed lmao, and the prof was so amazed by his dedication, that she didn’t even mind. Occasionally, you’ll catch the two of them talking after lecture. It’s pretty cute the way she’s adopted him into the class even tho he’s not on the roster. 

You... have to show him where the library is lmfao. He genuinely has not stepped foot in one until you bring him to one. He likes it tho lmao once he gets used to it. 

Speaking of which, do not give him standard directions to find your classes on campus because all you’ll get is, “Babe, I’m gonna keep it real with you, I’ve never heard of the ‘West Quad’ a day in my life. What building are you near.”

He usually comes to see you in the library after all his lectures are done for the day. Sometimes he does homework, sometimes he’s just fucking around on his computer, sometimes he’s just bothering you. When you have to leave to go to class, he stays behind to watch your stuff so you don’t have to pack everything up and come back. 

Very protective when it comes to keeping your seat for you. No, you cannot take that chair to your table you good for nothing freshman; it’s reserved for you. 

He’ll drag you out of the library if you’ve been cooped up all day, tho. Eren will use his height and his strength against you to get you up. Placates you with kisses when he sees your angry expression, and promises to buy you food.

He takes your backpack for you when you’re walking together,m. His backpack is frustratingly light all the time, even during midterms. You swear all he’s got in there is a pencil and some flashcards. 

If you have night classes, he sticks around to walk you home after, especially in the winter when it gets dark faster. If he’s not already on campus, he’ll walk/drive back to meet you; he just doesn’t like you going home alone. Even if your friend/roommate is in the class with you, Eren will walk or drive the both of you home for his own sanity. 

He plays sports, so he usually has practice most evenings, but he’ll find a way to make time. If practice was particularly brutal, he’ll probably crash at your place.

He loves it when you come to meet him after practice. His whole face lights up and he waves obnoxiously, before he gathers up his stuff and all but sprints towards you. You get a cold water bottle to the face, or a bit of water splashed on you usually, which he takes immense amusement in. 

He knows it’s not possible for you to make it to all of his games, and usually it doesn’t bother him much; you’ve got your own life, and work to worry about. All he asks is that you wear his jersey, or any item of his sports apparel/merch on game day (he’s partial to hoodies).

By the time junior year rolls around, he’s not all that interested in attending parties that aren’t hosted by your friends; so, unless it’s at Connie, Jean, or Reiner and Bertholdt’s place, Eren will usually decline. Even team parties, he’s not crazy about unless it’s to celebrate a championship or something. He’d much rather celebrate with you. 

He does get excited about hosting parties though, and he and Jean become pretty damn good co-hosts. They don’t throw ragers, and that’s probably why Eren likes it so much. It’s usually your friend group and a couple plus ones, some good music, games, weed, and take-out. 

He’ll buy you coffee whenever you ask for it. The first time, he just orders something plain, not really knowing the difference between anything; but give it two or three tries, and he’ll get it perfect. He becomes so good that he can order you something new/different and you’ll love it. 

That’s kind of the start of his own coffee addiction, and more often than not, when he buys you a cup, he’s on his second or third of the day himself. The flavor has really grown on him, okay. 

He much prefers your apartment, but on occasion, he’ll ask you to come to his. You’ve been studying for so long, a change of environment should do you good, he claims. He’s a fucking liar tho because that’s all Eren Talk for “I do genuinely want you to come over, but my plans are to coerce you out of doing your assignments and doing me instead.”

Lmfao he adds you on Apple Watch Rings just so you can see him close his rings every day and laugh at you. Even if yours get closed by virtue of walking around campus or working out or whatever, his numbers are stupidly high because he fucking has practice at least 4 days of the week. 

Of course when you’re running on a soccer field for 2 hours every day, you close your Move Ring five times, Eren. Leave the rest of us alone. 

He buys you guys matching accessories for your keychains. It’s something pretty cute, and slightly random, but it reminded him of you. It also serves as a reminder to himself to take his fucking keys with him when he leaves his house. 

He sleeps like a fucking rock, so do not let him fall asleep in the library. Waking him up is a mission, and he’s never happy to be woken up. He looks kinda cute tho. 

He schedules dates for you and his friends. Usually by accident, but hear me out. Sometimes he’ll make plans with Armin, then forget that he has class or a test or something; so his solution is to text you, “hey, i forgot min and i were supposed to go some aquarium tomorrow but i have a midterm so here’s the pdf of my ticket, go with him for me, thanks babe love u” then, boop, you and Armin have an aquarium date Friday evening. 

The same thing happens with Mikasa, though, she usually catches the scheduling conflict before Eren does, and invites you out herself. You and Mikasa hang out quite a bit anyway, so it comes to the point where she tells you when she’s gonna hang out with Eren, so you can make yourself free for when he inevitably remember he has a game that day. 

Mikasa is most amazed that you’ve put up with Eren this long lmao. You’ve certainly lessened her Eren & Armin babysitting hours, and for that she’s eternally grateful. Also, she’s just happy to have another close friend. She loves Eren and Armin, but they’re not the most social beings, and she was literally their only friend besides the other for all their childhood PLEASE she’s so happy you’re around. 

It’s Mikasa, however, who babysits you and Eren whenever you both get too drunk. Says you guys are two peas in a pod (affectionate<2)

If you tell Eren something important that happened, like an internship you got, or a good grade in a class, or something, he usually relays that information to his mom pls. He texts her every day, and if she doesn’t ask for an update on you first, he gives her one.

Carla calls you sometimes, too. At least once every few weeks, just to check on you herself. She really likes you for Eren, and is grateful someone is willing to put up with her hotheaded son. 

Eren’s always using your fucking chapstick. Always. You know he has his own, so why he needs to use yours is beyond you. Finds time to make some dumbass comment about how it’s an “indirect kiss” every time he uses it too. Like bro, we’re dating, and have had many direct kisses why are you like this.

He posts on Instagram every few weeks or so, but you’re on his story every few days. Usually, it’s just a video of you minding your business and doing your work while Eren slowly zooms in before making some loud noise to surprise you, all so he can get your reaction on video and laugh at it. He’s annoying. 

He’s a bit of a copycat when it comes to the products you use. He’ll buy the same brand of pens as you (for that matter, all of his school supplies mirror yours because what does he know about the difference between A4 and A5 notebooks?), put a little hand sanitizer on his backpack like yours (and a lotion, too, for good measure), he even copies your Starbucks order until he finds one he likes for himself. It’s one of his love languages <3

If you’re wondering where your eyelash curler went, Eren stole it to try it on himself, hurt himself, vowed to never use it again, went back because he wanted to “do it right and not give up,” liked the results when he didn’t pinch his eyelid, and now it’s his. 

That being said, stop trying to put your Fenty lipgloss on him, it’s never going to happen. Eye makeup, maybe, only if you sit in his lap and he can have his hands on your ass while you do it. 

What he does love is letting you do his skincare. He will set aside dedicated skincare nights, he adores it. Easily one of his favorite things ever. 

You have his wallet. Not because he’s your sugar daddy or anything (although, if you want something, he’d definitely let you use his card to get it; and even if you bought something without asking, he wouldn’t think twice about it), but because he put it in your bag once and never took it out. 

When you tried to give it back, he just shook his head and told you to keep it, “I have my ID in my phone case anyway, and you’re less likely to lose it. Plus I put all my cards on Apple Pay, so I’m good.”

When you do make it to a game of his, he’s all over you when it’s over. Not in a cocky athlete boyfriend kind of way; in a very sleepy boyfriend kind of way. He’s usually got ice on at least one part of his body, and he’s got half his body weight on you as you walk to the car. 

By the time you guys get back to your place, he’s practically sleep walking. The only thing on his mind is taking a hot shower to soothe his muscles, and heading to bed. The aftermath of game days aren’t all that bad though, because even if you didn’t show, you’re always there to kiss him when he’s home and massage his shoulders, and cuddle him to sleep; and that’s his favorite part. 

#anonymous #hes so fucking cute hes my fucking BOYFRIENDDDDDDDDD #eren x reader #aot x reader #eren jaeger x reader #aot imagines #eren fluff #eren smut

[ceasarslegion]

its 2:30am and i havent made much leeway on this paper but i just need to vent for a second yall

im sick of this shit

i had lower expectations for myself going into this year because of the [gestures vaguely] but man im sick of being the one whos expected to lower that because the system refuses to change or accommodate anything

what has online learning even been? i only have 2 classes that are actually synchronous,, the rest refuse to make accommodations for anything and essentially lay the blame on us if we cant basically teach ourselves the shit that we’re paying THEM to teach us

and what have we done, really? i havent absorbed shit. im too preoccupied with madly flailing in the ocean of bullshit that is online learning just to keep myself afloat to actually learn how to swim. you cant learn that safely without solid ground to retreat to and someone to pull you up in case something goes awry, and they just threw us in the middle of the pacific and blame us when we get saltwater in our lungs. My only goal this year academically is just to PASS, but its hard not to feel stupid when you have a prof who throws in 3 graded quizzes every week and refuses to give partial marks when you get SOME options on multi-option questions right. I’ll tick 3/4 of the options right, but it’ll mark the whole question as a 0. I’ve failed a lot of quizzes in that class that I would’ve done well on if he just gave partial marks. I got most of the answers right. Why are you perpetuating an all or nothing mentality right now? If you talk about how much you care about your students’ mental health in one more class email im gonna throw my whole laptop out the window. Fuck.

and that’s not an outlier. all of my classes are pulling this shit to some extent. Not that specific case, but... a million more assignments and readings than previous years and fuck all else. Total disregard of time spent per class per student because who gives a shit when it’s asynch, right? 60 pages of readings, minimum, screenings because I also study cinema, massive papers, and then 4-5 hours of lectures? All in one day? How many hours do you think are IN a day?! “noooo dont speed up your lectures you might miss vital points!” yeah and i cant get anything fucking DONE if i dont bump it to 2x speed. “make sure you get enough sleep!” on your schedule? 4 hours is my batting average. I closed my commission. I stopped my hobbyist writing, which is why y’all haven’t seen an AO3 update from me since August. I don’t draw anymore. I don’t read anymore. If I’m lucky I might have the mental energy after all this to play 15 minutes of Animal Crossing, but then I get a headache because it’s more. fucking. screen time. Don’t blame me for splitscreening my lecture and notes with discord or tumblr when you’ve consumed my existence to such an extent that I only get a reprieve when I sleep. God forbid I allow myself some fleeting sense of joy, for it may take away from the hammer slowly chiselling away at my psyche. I literally can’t afford to be burned out. But I am. And I’m tired, and I wanna lay down, and I wanna take a walk in a park again. I wanna sit down in the grass and read my book or listen to McElroy podcasts and toss nuts at the squirrels like I used to, and then forget about what I brought just to watch them for hours, like I used to.

Winter’s rolling in, though. Which means they’ll be hibernating until march. I really fucking hate the cold. I have 5 papers due in 2 weeks, all within 3 days of each other.

This isn’t even adding onto the fact that this is a psychologically damaging collective trauma that we’re all going through right now. This doesn’t even account for the mental shit I have that makes it that much harder to learn in standardized environments and that much harder to absorb material. I don’t feel like a person this year. I feel more like a shell.

How dare you charge me full tuition for this fucking bullshit. Take your fake concern about our mental health and shove it up your ass. If you really cared, you wouldn’t be charging me for memberships that are closed and slapping us with no-extension policies in the middle of a pandemic. Shove it up your ass. I should’ve gone to McGill

#vent post #plagueblogging #shut up dames

[x-men-x-imagines]

Imagine #14 Charles Xavier (Request)

Requested by @kkkkkennedyyyyy: Hello! So I came across your blog and being the slut I am for Xmen would like to request an imagine. If it is not too much to ask can I request a Charles Xavier one where he is jealous of your relationship with another xmen (maybe Erik Lehnsherr, or Alex Summers) and then the ending can be all fluffy and stuff... Also can it be through the reader's perspective? You are awesome. Thank you!

Not my gif

Words: 1934

Warnings: fem!reader, typos, swearing

A/N: So, I feel like I was half asleep writing this, I hope it’s readable! Enjoy! xoxo

„That’s it for today.“, you ended your lesson and then added: „And don’t forget your assignments, some of you can’t afford a bad score right now.“ Collective moaning accompanied the familiar sound of talking and laughing students gradually leaving your classroom to start their free afternoon. Some of them seemed to be in quite a hurry, you realized and grinned at Peter’s back that was just disappearing around the corner. He knew that you had referred to his grades before. And you knew that his essay wouldn’t be anywhere close to well done, probably not even close to ‘you tried’. Oh, what were you gonna do about that kid, you thought to yourself. Such a smart guy and so absolutely not interested in using his brain for anything else than pranks and music.

You were so lost in thoughts that you didn’t notice the figure sneaking up next to you and when you heard Erik’s voice, you almost jumped. And you might have let out a suppressed scream before turning to your best friend and hitting him with your notebook. “Jesus Christ!”, you hissed. “Just me.”, he replied and you rolled your eyes. “Your kid…”, you gestured vaguely towards the door, “is going to fail my class, if he doesn’t get off his ass soon. Tell him that. You can quote me.”

“Hey, he’s an adult, he can do what he wants. It’s not like he respects me particularly.”, Erik justified himself, as he sat down on your desk. You liked it when he did that, because that way, you were taller than him. You always had to look up at everyone. Well, except for the professor, you reminded yourself. But that didn’t count.

“Of course he respects you. Everyone does, you know that. Those who don’t respect you, have come to fear you.”

“So that’s what you think of me!”, he placed one hand on his chest and looked up at you with a pained expression. You hit him again. “You know what I mean.” “I do. Coffee?” And with that, he handed you a cup of black coffee. “I love you!”, you sighed, taking a deep gulp. Your coffee addiction would be the death of you. At least that’s what the professor always said. He was desperately fighting for the return of teatime into everyone’s daily routine. You grinned subconsciously.

“I know. Speaking of, any luck with our little fiery problem?”, Erik responded, putting down his mug on the table next to him. You sighed. He was referring to some difficulties regarding your mutation that had recently developed and that you were desperately trying to get in control of. Turns out, being able to control your fire in day-to-day life didn’t mean anything. A few weeks ago, you had managed to set one of the professor’s cars on fire. You weren’t even sitting in it, on the contrary. You had been in a meeting – a particularly boring meeting – and had simply lost yourself in one very specific fantasy, starring Professor Xavier, his office desk and some other utensils that you weren’t going to think about any closer, when suddenly, the car outside the window had caught on fire.

Everyone had realized that you had lost control, but only Erik you had told the reason why. And since then, the only thing he would talk to you about was this particular problem of yours. He seemed to find this whole situation very funny.

“There is no problem, as long as I don’t…”, you felt yourself blush like a teenager and took another sip from your coffee. “Indulge in any explicit fantasies about our dear friend Charles.”, Erik smirked. “Your dear friend.”, you corrected him. “I hardly know him.” “But you would like to change that.”

Before you could reply, there was a knock on the door that you hadn’t realized, had fallen shut. “Yes?”, you called and Erik turned to face the professor, who was just entering the room in his chair.

“Ah, excuse me, am I interrupting something?”, he asked politely. “No, perfect timing, Charles, I was just about to braid y/n’s hair. Afterwards I can do yours, if you want.”, Erik said, getting up from the table. He was in such a weird mood today, you thought, furrowing your brows and looking at him closely. Was he planning something? God, you hoped not.

“No, thank you, old friend. I promised Raven that I would let her do my hair later.”, Charles responded, placing one hand on his bare head. “I was actually going to ask y/n, if she wanted to get a coffee. Or tea. But given that you are obviously already cared for…”

“No, professor, wait!”, you interrupted, as he turned to leave. You felt your cheeks go red. “Uhm, you know about my addiction, I could need another coffee.” You smiled and hoped that it didn’t look too shaky.

“But y/n!”, Erik called indignantly. “Are you trying to replace me? Am I not the one to bring you coffee?” You shot him a glare, but he seemed to be having the time of his life. God, weren’t you all adults? On the other hand, weren’t you the one blushing at the thought of getting a coffee with your boss?

You turned to face the professor again. “How about I come to your office in a few? I have to grade some papers first.” That was a lie and you were hoping, that he wasn’t just now reading your mind. But he simply smiled and nodded. “Perfect. See you then.” And with that he left, conscientiously closing the door behind him.

“What the fuck is going on with you?”, you hissed at Erik. He simply shrugged and grinned. “So, you want me to braid your hair?”

 You hesitated, your fingers inches away from the professor’s door. So, were you supposed to knock? Probably, couldn’t hurt to be polite. It could hurt, however, to be an awkward fucking moron, you said to yourself. How does one manage to make a simple conversation this uncomfortable? Maybe that was a part of your mutation, you had always been bad at talking to people you liked. But most of the time, those people hadn’t been way out of your league. But whatever, you couldn’t chicken out now.

“Come in.”, you heard the professor’s voice and slowly opened the door. “Ah, y/n. How nice to see you.” He smiled and you couldn’t help but smile back. “Black?” You looked at him blankly. “The coffee?” “Oh, yeah, sure, black.” Moron, you cursed internally.

“Please, have a seat.” You sat down on the sofa in front of the impressive windows and looked at the garden, that was being coloured in a bright orange by the setting sun. “It’s beautiful, isn’t it?”, you heard the professor’s voice next to you and nodded. “It is. Thanks for hiring me, this school is the best thing that could have happened to me.”

You had only been here for about two months and before that, there had been nothing in your life that you would have described as positive in any way. Looking back now, it all felt like a bad dream. You had never imagined being alone to be such a torture. And only now you saw, how much of a blessing it was, being surrounded by people like you.

“And I’m sure, you are the best thing that could have happened to us.” You turned your head to look at the professor, but he was watching the trees sway in the gentle autumn breeze. “Thank you, Professor.”, you smiled, picking up your – fifth or sixth today – coffee from the table.

“Please, call me Charles.” Again, you felt yourself blush and hoped that it wouldn’t show in the dimmed light. He had told you that before. “It’s nice to see, that you’re happy here. The students as well as the other teachers all seem to be very excited about your presence here, too. And as I can see, you have already bonded with some of them.” His voice sounded vague and you weren’t sure how to reply.

“Well, yes, they are all very welcoming. I mean, you have seen the way Erik practically showers me in coffee.”, you said, trying to loosen up the tension, you hadn’t even noticed before. “You seem to have come very close to him in these past weeks. He usually is a lot less open.”

“Really?” You had realized that Erik tended to be a little grumpy at times, but you had never found it particularly conspicuous. “I have never seen him act like this around anyone. It’s nice to see that he has finally found someone, he can be happy with.” Something told you, that Charles wasn’t completely honest with you. Maybe it was the tone in his voice, or maybe the way he talked about you and Erik like you were married…

“Oh, no no no. No, we aren’t… I mean, he is a friend. Just a friend, we aren’t dating or anything, we’re…”

Something changed in the professor’s expression and he finally looked at you, his eyes shimmering in an odd tone of green as they met with the reflecting sunset. “You are not a couple?”, he sounded almost too surprised and you couldn’t help but laugh. “No, god. I’ll tell him that you thought that, he will find it hilarious.”

“Oh, I think he already knows.”, Charles replied and furrowed his brows, though not without smiling. “That bastard.”, he murmured. You stopped and shook your head in surprise. “Uhm… is… is everything okay with you two, professor?”

“Y/n, would you please call me Charles?” You nodded, still waiting for his reply. “And here I was wondering about his behaviour, but now it makes sense, of course.”

“With all due respect, Prof- Charles, none of what you’re saying makes any sense to me.” You felt the professor’s eyes on you and thought that he looked a little like he was trying to bring himself to jump off a cliff. And you could tell the exact moment he decided to just roll with it. He leaned forward and, in a movement that almost made your heart stop, reached for your hand.

“Of course you can’t tell that Erik has been acting weirdly, because he has been ever since you got here. Though today has been particularly conspicuous. I thought it was, because he had found an interest in you. Which might actually be the case, I don’t know just yet. But it’s not the reason that he’s been acting like this. No, he is trying to mess with my head.”

You furrowed your brows, lowering your gaze to your hand in Charles’ and trying to focus on anything else than your raging heart. For god’s sake, you were a grown woman, where the hell had you lost your chill? But just like that, it made click and you suddenly understood, what the professor was trying to say. Even though it didn’t make any sense to you.

“You mean, Erik was trying to…”

“Make me jealous, love.”, Charles added. “And did it work?”, you heard your own voice. “Are you jealous?”

You heard a chuckle and just as you raised your eyes to look at the professor, he leaned forward and placed a soft, short kiss onto your suddenly very sensitive lips. You didn’t move, didn’t even open your eyes, but your body felt like dancing, like flying. “Not anymore.”, you heard a whisper right next to your ear, before his lips met yours again in another soft, but not at all short kiss.

#xmen #xmen imagine #charles xavier imagine #charles xavier x reader #charles xavier

[canaryatlaw]

Okay it's late and I have to wake up at 6:40 so let's get this thing going. I woke up some time around 6 and my apartment was literally freezing. I check the thermostat and the temperature was already pushed up to like 75 or so so there was like nothing I could do, so I just went back to sleep and by the time my alarm went off at 11 it was fairly warm. I texted my roommate about it and she said the issue is the furnace is having trouble kicking on or something so when it gets down to a temperature that would kick it on it just doesn't turn on and it just continues getting cold. Lovely part of living in an old building, but hopefully we have it working better now. I just hate being cold, lol. But once I woke up again I started getting ready to head down to school for class. Walked to the train and it was fine, train to school and got there at like 12:40 for my 1 o clock class, and there's like nobody in the room. Am I in the right room...? Generally the first week of class everyone is here like at least twenty minutes early....but I checked online and it was the right room, so I sat down and pretty soon people started trickling in so I felt better. There were about 12 of us I think, that's generally where the larc III classes cap off. Ah yes, back to larc. Quick refresher, larc is my schools acronym for what's basically legal writing (it's "legal analysis, research, and communication," but it's legal writing) and I got a semester off of it because for second year they have the first half of the alphabet take it in the fall semester and the second in the spring (and my last name starts with M, which initially was the cut off for the fall, but then got bumped to spring). So I wasn't too thrilled about starting it up again, but you gotta do whatcha gotta do. The prof seems cool, she's an adjunct who works at one of the downtown firms. The actual class period was like, insanely boring because it was about researching for administrative regulations, which is as boring as it sounds like it would be. I mean she couldn't really do much writing wise until after we give her our first assignment, so she had to fill it with something. The first assignment is due in two weeks, just the argument section of a trial brief, 1750 word limit, so not bad. What will be fun from here is trying to figure out what exactly she wants as compared to what my larc prof from last year wanted. It's strange like, there's my concept of legal writing that I do on memos and finals (apparently well enough to get me A's and school boards to change their decisions) but then there's what you do for larc, which is basically an entirely different concept. It's difficult to explain like this, but it's just very very technical and requires extremely specific pieces in order to work right. So that should be interesting at least. I did pull an A in my last semester of larc, so that is encouraging (I mean, I worked my ass off for it, but I did get it). She let us out like 15 minutes early, so that was nice. Headed back home, where I pretty immediately started on laundry because that really needed to get done. Put a load in, then relaxed for a little while while also getting a bunch of little things done. I also decided to make this recipe I saw a few days ago for banana blueberry muffins that looked good, so I did that and they turned out very nice. Watched the latest episode of frequency, which I still need to set to record on my TiVo so I don't forget about it, lol. I'm glad it worked out that Raimy is *not* being charged with first degree murder for obvious reasons, although I have serious doubts of whether in that situation that actually would've happened. I'm also glad Frank didn't get busted with a guy in his trunk hahaha so that's good. It's interesting to see where they'll go from here, because it's almost as if by everything they've done to try and stop their mom/wife from getting killed has actually put her on the guy's radar all the more, and given him more motivation to target her, which is very scary because this douche is fucking terrifying man and I really hope they get him soon. I mean of course they won't really be able to take him down until the season finale, because television, but you know what I mean. I'm enjoying the show though. After that I didn't have anything else to catch up on so I switched to daredevil season 2 again, which saw the so called downfall of the punisher and then the arrival of Electra. I find the punisher to be such an intriguing character, and I almost wish they dug into his story more than they really do, because there's just so much there that they could've worked with. I mean I'm rewatching it because I know I missed a lot the first time around so maybe they will get into it more, but I remember being disappointed in their story of his trial (though that was probably more from a legal perspective) and how unhappy I was that Matt essentially abandoned being a lawyer this season because I need my lawyer superheroes, okay? (Don't talk to me about Laurel.) I'm liking that though. I have always liked Electra, but mainly from a superficial perspective because I never really dug into her story (most of my actual comic knowledge is DC, not marvel) I just knew about her as a character and liked how kick ass she was, and I definitely went to a superhero party dressed at her (which was like, a red shirt, a short red skirt, and red leggings) when I was like, 16 lol. So that was good. I basically just chilled out and did that for a while, which was nice to just relax and get some stuff on my to do list done. Around 9:30ish I started getting ready to go out for the party I was invited to. It was a birthday party for my summer job friend and another one of her friends who I'm friendly with, just at her apartment. So I ubered there because it was a Friday night and it was already 10 o clock, and there wasn't a simple public transport route there, and it was cold lol. But got there and started talking to some guys from classes, and talked about school because we're dorks like that and what else where we gonna talk about? Lol. It was pretty basic, didn't really do anything besides stand around and talk to different people while everyone else got sloshed and I drank coke lol. It was good though, talked to some different people. I ended up taking to two guys for a little while that were, for lack of a better term, quite stupid, which of course was...interesting. And they later like came back over to talk to me specifically and I was like.....okay haha I'm gonna go over here now. Sigh. I talked to a girl from my trial ad group for a little though and that was good, then various friends for a little, and some 1L's, just the usual about surviving first semester and what to expect post-finals and going forward. It's strange because I've met like, no 1L's this year besides my mentees haha so I felt like I should talk to them a bit. And yeah, that was pretty much it. Pleasant enough, as much as a party can be when you're pretty much the only sober person there. I left at like quarter to 1, because they were moving out to a bar then and there's not much point going to a bar when you can't drink, lol. I made plans with my spring break friend to meet up with her in the morning to drive to the donate a day that pad is co-sponsoring, so hopefully she won't be too hungover lol. Took an uber home for obvious reasons, and had a very nice conversation with the driver about the world and politics and everything, and then about my work and fostering, and she was saying that she had considered being a foster parent but didn't because she thought giving them back would be too hard, and I said that yes it absolutely will be hard, but we so need good people that are willing to make hard decisions like that for these kids that need to be loved even if you have to give them back, and she seemed to really take to that and said she was really going to reconsider it now, so that made me quite happy to hear. Got home and basically got ready for bed, and here we are, gotta be up in a little more than 4 hours to go volunteer to do something with some kids (I don't even really know what we're doing, something about an MLK Jr. peace rally, whatever that means, but it sounds like something our world could use about now) so that should be interesting, and I'm gonna get some sleep now. Goodnight peeps. Happy weekend.

#daily journal #January 2017