abcooper

[abcooper]

On March 20th, the Trump administration released an executive order calling to close the Department of Education. We must urge Congress to oppose all efforts to dismantle the Department. Call, email, and contact them on social media!

[abcooper]

I know language changes and my inability to keep up is a sign of my aging brain rather than anything wrong with The Current Youths but I HATE that “crashing” now means losing ur temper. When I was a teen it meant I was going to fall asleep drunk on ur couch at 1am bc I did not make a backup plan for how to get home before we got into your mom’s tequila, and that was a much better meaning. If you make crash mean lose ur shit, how are u going to express ur dire 1am couch needs?

[abcooper]

[abcooper]

metrics of success

[abcooper]

Thanks so much for all the congrats and well-wishes, you guys are nice 🥰🥰🥰

Baby has been in the NICU finishing up a few last minute chores that he didn’t get to before being born, like drying out his lungs, but he is now healthy and thriving and gets to come home with us tomorrow!!

Pregnancy Update: I gave birth! The world’s cutest and littlest lad is now my roommate

[abcooper]

Pregnancy Update: I gave birth! The world’s cutest and littlest lad is now my roommate

[abcooper]

Passed this today, and I want to nominate it as the PG version of “I’m all out of fucks”

My hecks have all been cashed. I have no remaining heck budget.

[abcooper]

Today a student taught me that staplers have 2 different settings, I am finally becoming educated at the elderly age of 34

[abcooper]

Pregnancy update: I refuse to be this uncomfortable for the entire next month of my life, I am going to dig this fetus out with a trowel

[abcooper]

Homestar Runner, Mystery Science Theater and Space Ghost Coast to Coast is superwholock for people who listen to They Might Be Giants

[abcooper]

Maintenance guys just came in to cheerfully have a HORRIFIC discussion about the state of my classroom. “Oh yeah, mold has got these floorboards crumbled into basically nothing, that’s a hazard for sure. We can get the money to fix it since it’s so obviously dangerous, but probably can’t get the guys until summer”

[abcooper]

A fun thing about me is that I haven’t been able to enjoy television since I started antidepressants 7 years ago, it turns out that I was watching it in a dissociative obsessive “if I just ignore reality hard enough it might go away” kind of way, and once I started to enjoy reality that wasn’t fun anymore.

And I’ve never in 7 years been able to figure out how people watch tv in healthy ways and do it myself, but now they’re making a Buffy reboot so - I’ve got a deadline to learn this skill????

[abcooper]

You can do it! (Throwing a little tantrum along the way never hurt)

This is a special print for patrons this month! ✨

[abcooper]

Pregnancy update: I’ve got gestational diabetes and it’s making me weird about food. All my stymied desire for sweets is being redirected and gaining force. If I don’t get some sichuan peppercorns I’ll die

[abcooper]

I bring in treats for my advisory on every kid’s birthday, cuz it sucks if no one acknowledges your birthday at school! And a couple times this year, I’ve been sick or swamped and my wife has been nice to me and baked the treat

But now the kids ASK which of us baked it every time I bring something in, and they’re disappointed when it’s me because they think Allyssa’s stuff is better haha

Lyss loves it, shes enjoying the ego stroke so much that she’s starting to say things like, “I think they deserve little treats at the holidays too, I’ll make them something on Valentine’s Day”

[abcooper]

We are having a lovely time cleaning out our apartment to make room for a baby. I think my wife is some kind of fae, and Buy Nothing is the domain of her power. Three times she has gone to list an item, and found that the front page had somebody who’d posted an “in search of” for that exact item - she has granted wishes for a shoe rack, a whiteboard, and an elderly 2011 kindle. In return, she’s gotten us 20 free baby bottles and a free high chair. Community is magic, idk.

[abcooper]

We’re cleaning a LOT of old stuff out of our apartment to make room for a baby, which is like making room for an entire 3rd roommate, and most of it I can either chuck or donate. But one set of things I have that I would be sad to throw out and unlikely to get takers for on the local Buy Nothing is old fandom posters and merch. If you want some 13th doctor fanart or a Gunnerkrigg Court poster and are willing to venmo me the cost of shipping, I will happily send it to you. I may post more old shit like this over the next few days, I don’t even know what I own lol