#‘murica

[msfcatlover]

After fervently avoiding the news all day but being unable to sleep, I decided to google the election results so far.

Felt like a bucket of ice cold water dumped over my head. I don’t think I’ll be sleeping tonight.

[flyingfishtailoutpost1]

I work in a school

A para just came in and handed me a pile of laminated items made out of construction paper, and said, “I need these laminated.”

Me: They…already are laminated?

Her: Yeah, these belong to Ms J. I need them laminated.

Me:

Her:

Me: Do you mean…you want me to scan these, print them out, cut them out, and laminate them, so you can have your own set???

Her: Oh. Yes. I can come back for them in, what, fifteen minutes?

Me: Try an hour?????

We need a collection development plan written for our media center. I’m not supposed to be in charge of it, because I’m just a librarian and not instructional staff.

The literacy coach is supposed to do it. She has no idea how.

They give it to the AP to do. He has no idea how.

I fill out the collection plan. All I need the AP to give me is one paragraph of information. He emails it to me 10 minutes before it’s due. It’s a block of text written in all caps with no punctuation, full of spelling errors.

I’ve been trying to order supplies for a month and a half. The person issuing me the quote keeps having to reissue it. They got the school wrong, then the number of items, then the type of item, then the person it was issued to, then the number of items again.

I have a cartload of books to be shelved. Ask my TAs from the high school to shelve them. Have to keep explaining what “alphabetized” means. There are two stacks of books on the bottom, with post-its that say FOR DISPLAY DON’T SHELVE THESE.

They shelve them, except for the top two books with the notes attached, which they give to me and remind me not to shelve them because they’re for display.

Principal offers me Textbook Coordinator position. The previous one is like, yeah, I can’t train you, I don’t know how it works.

Me: But you did it for a year???

Her: Yeah but I didn’t know what I was doing at all.

So I figure at least organizing the textbook stock so you can move in the storage room without being crushed is a good place to start.

Everyone: You’re a miracle worker!!!

Me: I opened some boxes and put some books on the shelves, my god you guys.

My beloved library volunteer who saves my sanity, trying to encourage a student to try checking out a book: Come on, we have books about AWESOME stuff. I bet EVERYONE can find a book about stuff they like in here.

*turns to his teacher, standing nearby*

Ms V, what do you like to read about?

Teacher *rolling her eyes*: I don’t read.

Us: ….ok.

Student: *walks away*

Also, and I cannot stress this enough:

[mbrainspaz]

me sometime in the early 2000’s: gee I sure am glad I live in modern america with none of those scary old-timey plagues and where we have life saving medicine and comfortable modern amenities and I’ll never have to worry about getting shot while walking down the street like they did back in the wild west.

me in the 2020’s surviving a pandemic while working on a ranch with no access to healthcare, living in a leaky trailer because I couldn’t afford housing on a 50 hour work week, afraid to go to the grocery store in case some wacko white supremacist decided to shoot it up that day: so I was wrong.

[saucywasp]

Rot in hell Henry Kissinger 🎉

[jerzwriter]

Well, thank God we are “protecting” kids from drag queens!!! You know, PRIORITIES. 🙄🙄

[msfcatlover]

Okay. I’m not… I’m not putting myself through this. Or my followers. I found some funny and/or uplifting posts on the topic, I’ll shove them to the front of my queue, and then I’m going to go take an extra dose of my anxiety meds.

Still don’t expect to sleep, but I can read fanfic or something. At least for tonight.

[flyingfishtailoutpost1]

My kid’s preschool just sent us all a notice that the league of women voters in our county came and gave them gun locks to give away. In case any of us needed a gun lock, so our kids don’t accidentally shoot themselves.

Which—yay safety! But also, I live somewhere where preschools have to give out fucking gun locks.

[the-one-and-only-vic-lociraptor]

life liberty and the pursuit of oouuggh

[msfcatlover]

Wasn’t there a point where some govt. organization was investigating this, trying to find out who “Dorothy” was because she was clearly in cahoots with all the gays?

So I was going through an image gallery of these old Wizard of Oz promotional pictures and uh-

...🤐

[coolitemsyay]

I think if failure means starving on the streets in your twenties that cheating is valid.

[gilettefusion5]

I think a large part of why I want Puerto Rico and Washington DC to become full states (aside from the obvious) is the sheer havoc it’ll wreak on the American flag. We’ll have to redesign it, the number of stars is the whole point. And every single flag in the entire country will have to be replaced. Lawn flags, car dealership flags, t shirts, wall decals, thin blue line bumper stickers. All useless. The economy will be in fucking shambles. I can’t fucking wait.

[tokyorandomengrishshirts]

Admire

Better late than never

Fabulous

Plenitude

[zorostier3sub]

funny story is i’m a natural swimmer. my father always told me of this one time when i was very young he threw dive weights into the bottom of the deep end in a pool. Id swim down and get them for fun and other pool visitors were freaking out the first time to see a toddler dive to the bottom of the deep end for weights and apparently were very unsettled to see said toddler resurface 100% fine and laughing, asking to go again 😂

Please reblog and add your nationality in the tags along with what you answered! I'm very curious about this; and it's not to shame anybody, so don't be rude!

[jerzwriter]

Luigi is charged with TERRORISM. Get the living fuck out of here. Fuck you. This is America - a CEO matters - regular people, SCHOOL CHILDREN do not. FOH.

Fuck this POS country. Hard.

[ghostlingpupversailles]

this seems self-centered you know “stereotypical American bs” but I’m curious

[msfcatlover]

Here’s hoping “No Facism Tuesday” is a holiday the whole* nation agrees to celebrate today.

*At least enough to keep the actual fucking convicted felon/wannabe dictator out of office.