#(the email was sent 2 weeks ago)

[dionysus-complex]

just sent my advisor ~30 pages of writing and I feel like I can breathe again

[druidgroves]

my coworker is gonna make me burst a vessel i swear to god

[dankovskaya]

OH MY GODDDDD huge land back victory for the biggest and oldest sacred site in the area i could cry

[anyataylorjoys]

Bro how does anyone still have a twitter account at this point... watched D'Angelo's twitter video and there are so many conservative gays who are transphobic on there it's insane and it's more than a corner community, it's like everyone on there being openly transphobic, homophobic and racist, the algorithms of twitter actually promote this kind of rage-bait to your dashboard no matter how many times you attempt to curate your space to not see that type of content. That place is a cesspool and needs to be destroyed it's actually terrifying and worse than I knew about.

[sasquatchandleatherjacket]

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[ikeasharksss]

facing the horrors (applying for summer stuff)

[lexkent]

every single day at work I think of posts I wanna make about work when I get home (funny, stressful, crazy, nice thing that happened etc) and every single day I come home and don't even consider posting about work my mind is wiped

[dreamspring]

welp…… apparently i have to resit an exam i did last term they didn’t mark 😭

[paleode-ology]

finally the tag clearing project is over!!!! yippee!!!!!!!! now I just have to go through my tagged posts in order to compile links/books/songs etc., but i'm glad to have the first part done at least bc now I can actually clear out my liked posts on a regular basis and consistently update my bookmarks and lists >:))))))))

[iknityounot]

(Long post, sorry y'all)

A little more than two years ago now, my grandmother passed away. She and my grandpa had moved down to my home town a few years before so we could take care of them. I brought them groceries once a week, helped them write checks, fixed tvs, and found lost things. I was really close with my grandma.

In addition to her hilarious personality and dry wit, one of my favorite things about her was that she was a painter and a crafter like me! She used to crochet, and I took her to the craft store a couple of times so she could get more yarn and books on crochet. But her arthritis and the shaking in her hands kept getting worse, so she eventually had to stop.

She kept her most recent project, a granny square blanket, safely packed away in a plastic bin. She told all of us she was going to finish it one day.

Her hands never got better, and when she got sick, and we found out it was cancer, she rapidly deteriorated.

After she passed, I went to work helping my mom clean out my grandparents apartment so we could move my grandpa in with her. In our frantic cleaning, I found that bin again:

DOZENS of granny squares, dozens of half used skeins. I asked my mom what she wanted me to do with it, and she said she didn't care. I set it aside and later took it home.

Maybe a month later, that tumblr post about the Loose Ends Project was going around. It felt like a sign--I was never going to learn to crochet in order to finish my grandmother's blanket. But they might be able to help!

So I filled out the interest form. They got back to me SUPER quick. And maybe 2 weeks later, I was paired with volunteer in my state (only 2 hours away!) and the box of yarn, granny squares, and my grandmother's crochet hook were in the mail. That was at the end of January this year.

Over the next couple of months, my "finisher" emailed me regular updates on her progress, and asked me questions on my preferences for how she constructed the final blanket.

At the end of August, the blanket was done!

I had always intended the blanket to be a gift for my mother. So I cleaned it up, put it in the only bag I had big enough to fit it, and drove to my mom's. I gave the blanket to her and she was gobsmacked. I explained to her all about Loose Ends, and how someone volunteered to finish the piece for us. She was speechless. (I was quite pleased with this, because I am not the best at giving gifts, so this was a pretty exciting reaction!)

She said that it was the most thoughtful gift she had ever been given. She said "your grandma would love this". To which I replied, "yeah, I know she really wanted to finish it a couple of years ago". But that was when my mom dropped the bomb of a century on me--she told me that my grandma had started making those granny squares OVER 30 YEARS AGO. She had started the blanket when my grandpa was staying in the hospital, but that was back when my mom was younger than I am now! My grandma had packed them all away, planning on finishing it, when my grandpa was sent home from the hospital. Then it went from house to house, from condo in Chicago to their apartment in my hometown. All that time and my grandma had wanted to finish it, but couldn't. First because she was busy, then because she forgot how to do it, then because of her arthritis, and then because of the cancer. My mom said she had given up on expecting my grandma to finish it. 

She said I brought a piece of her childhood with her mom out of the past.

And really, all of this is to say, if you have seen or heard about the Loose Ends Project and have an uncompleted project or piece from a loved one who has passed away--these are your people. They were so kind and treated my project with such care. That box probably would have been found by my own grandkids one day if I hadn't heard about Loose Ends.

Five stars, absolutely worth it!

(From what I understand, you can sign up to volunteer too! If you have time to share, it might be worth checking out!)

[thesingingrevolution]

ok im kinda sad why did no one invite me to that party my department has a party im not there the man im obsessed with was not only there but he was cooking i feel ill im happy i got to see him happy but i should have been there im about to cry i think it was the other prof but i really wish my prof did the event she was planning. because i like her and i want to go but mostly because im in love with that guy in the department

[somekindafairy]

very important thing does not come in mail, contact them, they say they will send another, second one also does not come...

[butterflies-and-bumble-bees]

About to go on a i8lling spree never before seen in the tri state area

[dumbass-ducks]

group work with business majors is an idea designed by the devil

[tvgays]

i think i’m done with january. let’s just skip the rest of this month

[bookwyrminspiration]

the situation is such that now I'm trying to schedule the course

occasionally i'll make a post or two talking about studying nahuatl and how much i love learning languages but I cannot emphasize enough the absolute hell it wreaks on my schedule every single semester without fail