March 2011
8 posts
HOLY EFF, LP. CALM DOWN
All those self-help books say just to let the guilt go. You feel guilty and there is no reason why? Just let it go! You apologize too much? Stop doing that! You wake up at 2 in the morning filled with dread that your children will grow up to hate you? Don’t! Don’t feel guilty, don’t apologize, don’t worry. And then I feel guilty for feeling guilty, apologizing, and...
I think that is part of why I love being a librarian and make a good one. I’m really good at the beginning of a conversation! And if I have a specific topic then I can keep my end up! So some child comes up to me and needs books! I can help! I can get books and explain why these books and where these books and how these books. Woo! And then (here’s the really great part) child...
Last night I read a post about how awful it is that everyone nowadays is describing themselves as awkward. “Awkward is the new random” was one phrase they used. And they were especially upset when people who are neurotypical call themselves awkward. So … just because I’m not autistic I can’t be awkward? I almost feel like tumblr encourages these kinds of feelings...
Part of the rant that got deleted was non ranty but instead explainey. I think I’m in the middle of a neurotic breakdown. And typing it all out and posting it for the world to see tends to help. BUT if I do that on my regular tumblr then I get a phone call from my mom about how not to be neurotic. And that isn’t helpful. It is, in fact, the opposite of helpful.
“Let me put it to you this way. Rape culture is a culture in which people who...”
– (via moonlitstreets)
!!! I had an argument with husband’s friend (note to self: need new nickname for HIM too) last night and I WON! Ish? “Ok, I will never joke about rape in front of you ever again.” Better than nothing? Probably another reason for my breakdown last night.
And I just hit the wrong button and deleted my...
The one that I cried as I wrote! BUT! PLUS SIDE! Nobody had seen it yet, I don’t think, and I still have FEELINGS so typing it up again with added FEELINGS is not a bad thing, right?
Also tumblr isn't letting me look at the actual...
I don’t know what’s up here. It’s all old. I need to redo it. I know. WHATEVER. Shut up. I’ll get to it.