#and i then realized my prof who studies and writes about video games for a living

[emmadcm315]

I Never Thought I Would Be Writing a Tumblr Post for College Credit

Shout out to Professor Angell and WSU for giving me the privilege to pursue an education and learn about American media and culture in a way like no other. 

“What's your major?"

"Oh, Communications!"

"Oh, and what does that do?”

Communications is such an umbrella term for an incredible area of subjects that I cannot explain to someone in a normal conversation. I could explain that it’s the study of how humans communicate with one another, which is very true, but it often gives people the wrong idea and feeds into assumptions about it (which we will get into later). Here’s the thing: Communication is, in my opinion, one of the most underrated fields of study, and it took me a hot minute to realize that.

After high school and having already been accepted to WSU, I was unsure if I wanted to go to university at all. I initially wanted to study criminal justice because teachers I was inspired by my CJ teacher my senior year (shoutout to Mr. Russell) who pushed me to do great things with a CJ degree, even if I didn’t know what I wanted to do with it.

Turns out, I hated it, had an identity crisis, and my parents said, “Just get a degree”. 

I took an Intro to Mass Communications class my sophomore year of WSU (also with Prof. Angell) and thought, wow this is so easy and not boring I might just declare a communications major and call it a day!

And I did. And it was probably one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

Like any major, Communications is filled with assumptions; it's “easy” but doesn't have a lot of employment opportunities or a lot of income, and most people who study communications end up in a journalism career, but I didn't let any of that discourage me. I was taking a sociology class at the same time as my Communications class, and this professor encouraged us to go to school for something that interests us and something that we can find passion in regardless of how much money it makes because: 

 Most students who graduate do not pursue a career that requires their degree. 

Life is too short to not learn about the things that you love or are interested in.

This is what inspired me to continue a communications degree, and I am so happy I did. This field applies to real life more than people know. As a member of Gen Z, a generation of people who have only known the internet, I would consider Communications to be the backbone of current American media and culture.

I blame my father for my love for my early love of mainstream media, the internet, video games, movies, music, and TV shows. He was (un)fortunately the gateway to my nerdy side which was a little bit of a struggle growing up. I wasn’t like other girls ˚୨୧⋆｡˚ My hair was pink and purple, I would wear Legend of Zelda hoodies and anime t-shirts to middle school, begged my mom for cosplay wigs from Amazon and to take me to conventions like Comic Con. I still haven't been- BUT I HAVE ADULT MONEY NOW! I continue to love social media platforms like YouTube, Instagram, Musically (now TikTok), Pinterest, and Tumblr. And I would like to believe it was a universal experience when everyone wanted to be a YouTuber in 2014. 

When I learned I could pursue a whole college degree in how people interacted with each other on these platforms. the bond that is created between strangers who share similar interests in subjects or people (celebrities, pop stars, content creators, etc.), and how money can be made by content creation via sponsorships or monetization- it shifted my world, and I realized I had found what I am passionate in learning about.

Billions of people consume so many forms of content for hours on end every day (social media, news, books, radio, etc.), but the beauty of media is that it can be consumed mindlessly or mindfully- when it is analyzed in behaviors, patterns, and numbers.

Communications is more than just journalism and reporting. It's something I'm passionate about and have gained so many new skills from; analysis of any piece of media, writing, critical thinking, video editing, working with digital cameras, adobe programs, graphic design and art, public speaking, managing social media and analytics, AND journalism.

Here's what I have learned:

Nothing is as easy as it seems -> So. Much. Writing. So. Many. Papers. BUT it's so worth seeing your progress as a writer.

Find something that you can be passionate about. Find something that fuels your fire despite its ups and downs -> I have written an 8-page paper on the One Piece anime (1999-) and how it has had an overwhelmingly positive impact on the LGBTQ+ community.

Put yourself first, don't let stereotypes or assumptions define who you are, what you do, and what you pursue as an education or a career. Life is too short to not experience everything.

[adobe-outdesign]

I posted 3,458 times in 2021

1827 posts created (53%)

1631 posts reblogged (47%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 0.9 posts.

I added 4,152 tags in 2021

#five nights at freddy's - 673 posts

#bendy and the ink machine - 610 posts

#pokemon - 601 posts

#anonymous - 585 posts

#that's comedy - 489 posts

#entomology - 288 posts

#reblog 2: electric boogaloo - 242 posts

#ask - 241 posts

#fnaf: short stories - 216 posts

#video - 207 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#doesn't matter how many pics of rhinoceros beetles i see they're never gonna stop looking like sculptures to me and not actual living things

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

my never ending search to acquire more and more obscure pieces of Pokemon media has lead me to understand some wild shit in gen 1 and 2. like anytime you think “oh that’s weird, why is [thing] like that” it’s probably either some obscure shit or something got changed in beta

for example, you know those weird-ass pokedex entries for Kadabra that are like “lol a kid turned into one of these once. no we’re not explaining anything”

well there’s this book in Japan called Pocket Monsters Encyclopedia released in 1996 that was never translated. It’s notable for basically being the Forbidden Adult Pokedex(TM) that we all want, as it has much longer ‘dex entries for each Pokemon along with more scientific data. While large portions have been retconned over the years, it offers some massive insight into what was going through the dev’s minds when writing this shit, and is 100% canon (for the time period it was written in).

anyway, while it was never translated,��DidYouKnowGaming?, being the hero we all need, purchased a copy and had the same translator who translated the games themselves translate the book. Part 1 of the video is below, and I highly recommend you check it out if you like obscure vintage Pokemon shit.

Anyway, the point is that this is what it says about Kadabra:

FUCKING KAFKA. IN MY POKEMON. IT’S MORE LIKELY THAN YOU MIGHT THINK

So basically the ‘dex entries are referencing an in-universe book plot that’s a reference to The Metamorphosis, except due to a lack of space they fucking cut out the part about it being a book, which seems kind of important, but hey what do I know

(Side note: the ‘dex entries saying stuff like “it is rumored that” and “a theory exists” don’t quite line up with it being a book plot, so it’s possible this was retconned, or the book was based off an in-universe event. but this at least tells us why these weird-ass entries exist in the first place and that’s enough for me)

anyway the most important part of this is that the Abra line is confirmed to not be based on foxes, possums, or cats, but cockroaches. thank you for coming to my TED talk

3371 notes • Posted 2021-07-28 21:00:53 GMT

#4

Pokemon except it’s like real animal taxonomy so there’s like 550 different species of Cutiefly that can only be separated by DNA tests

4199 notes • Posted 2021-06-07 21:01:26 GMT

#3

okay was anyone gonnna tell me that this is how TMs look in FireRed/LeafGreen

can you imagine someone handing you a TM and you go “oh I know what to do with this!” and then smack it directly on your cat’s forehead

5516 notes • Posted 2021-09-30 21:01:43 GMT

#2

Can asexuals feel lust for life? What about bloodlust? Lust for power? Lust to run wild? Or does nothing have power over you?

I can't speak for other aces but personally I constantly experience bloodlust

8790 notes • Posted 2021-08-12 02:22:06 GMT

#1

I realize it’s just because they’re trying to introduce the audience to the concept of Pokemon and everything but nothing will ever be funnier to me than prof oak being like “these are creatures called Pokemon, they live in all sorts of environments!” like imagine if you met a biology professor and they were like ‘I’ve been studying these intriguing creatures called “animals”’

50822 notes • Posted 2021-04-30 21:00:53 GMT

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[morimallow]

Kurōo with a male reader but reader actually animated and draws really well, can do realism easily literally any art style. And has worked fir anime studios & even made their own anime animation b4?

And he finds it out because he and Kenmawere snooping around?

WAIT, THIS IS SO CUTE. LET ME.. CHERISH THIS. I will entitle this..

Strokes

〖 This is fluff and crack (but I'm not funny?) despite the title, believe me. 〗

You were at your university studying a course totally unrelated to arts, same old poorly made up excuses for you not to go and enroll for Fine Arts running through your mind on a daily basis.

If you think about it, it's fine. Your parents decided to let you go and do artsy stuff after you graduated from whatever that course is.

But then again, this is you and you know you'll get rusty if you won't draw and just focus your mind on lengthy equations and pain-in-the-ass Language lessons and field practices you're sure you won't even use it in real life. Not with your chosen real career choice.

So, you decided to give it a go. You will be immediately offered a job if people can already see your potential.

You'd draw in your free time and also in not your free time and send those samples to animation studios. You use digital and paper and pen alternately... just because.

You would say you're popular. You have an art account, not using your real name because who the hell knows what your parents might do?

You would post there your WIPs, some original characters you made, an character you saw in a manga you read a long time ago that you forgot the title, your commissions with a large DO NOT REPOST or SAMPLE in the background, rough sketches of your boyfriend who doesn't know he was drawn, not that he would mind if he did know.

But the thing is, he really doesn't know. Nope, not a clue. None.

Not until you asked him to use your laptop, which was full of your drafts and placed helplessly on your study table, to send an email to your professor.

You have 4 accounts all in all: a personal one, your art account which you use for digital art stuff and to communicate with other artists, your account for the university and a formal one for.. formal stuff, I presume.

The things is, the account that was currently logged in was your art account and the animation studio you work at sent you your schedule the moment he opened your laptop.

Which means he accidentally opened it.

Kenma was sitting on your swivel chair, doing something on his phone. He was Kuroo's ride because they had somewhere to go after your boyfriend's done with what you made him do.

Kuroo briefly scanned the content of the mail before switching accounts so he could send the file you wanted to pass to your prof.

After telling you it's already sent.. he went back to your art account and whispered to Kenma who was too bored he joined Kuroo in his shenanigans.

Were they thinking you're living a double life? Yes. Did they scan your files? Yes. Did Kenma accidentally stumble upon an open box filled with tons of sketch books and old tablets you used for digital art? Yes. Did they start their search for whatever they're searching there? Absolutely.

For Kenma, he grabbed the sketch book with a label with the same name as the game he's addicted to at the moment. They were drafts then the final designs for the characters.

Kuroo didn't really feel angry or irritated you didn't tell him this. He knows you'd answer him honestly if he just asked but he can't.. stop.. looking at your works.

He was mesmerized. He has a lover so good in arts? HELL, YEAH. He's now convincing Kenma to join him to commission you because you deserve it.

You knew Kuroo would know about your work the moment you entered your dorm with their shoes still by the door. You leaned on the door frame, looking at them still smiling fondly at your works and you were thinking how to approach the situation because.. you weren't really angry? Your works have been out in the public for so many times. Why would you have an issue with Kuroo and Kenma looking at the original ones?

“What do you think?” you asked.

“You didn't tell me you were this amazing! I didn't even know you draw,” Kuroo said pouting but still feeling proud and happy if that's possible.

“I thought you already knew when I asked if I could practice on you?”

“What? When— I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO BE BETTER AT KISSING SO I SAID YES.”

“I was on my phone.. drawing you..”

“You weren't scrolling through videos on how to kiss?”

“What made you think I was scrolling through kissing shit when I was holding my phone at a weird angle because that was the first time I used my phone for digital art?”

“Well, did it turn out good?”

“Absolutely, I caught your ugliness and enhanced it to make you uglier.”

Bickering, teasing, and Kenma not minding you two.

Kuroo then asked what your plans were after college and told you about the schedule he accidentally saw earlier. He knew then about your work, about when you made your own anime that was one of Kuroo and Kenma's top 10 faves. It was a short one but definitely caught their hearts.

Kenma had been planning to develop his own game and wanted you to design the characters, get your own crew to develop the graphics and all that artsy stuff (because I don't know anything).

“Kenma, you're my best friend but you can't just steal my boyfriend from me!”

“Kuroo, stealing and hiring are two different and obviously unrelated things.”

After a few more hours of planning and telling stories, Kenma decided to go home and Kuroo stayed for a sleepover.

He asked you where the hoodie he lent you a few weeks ago was because he didn't bring any change of clothes and you said it was in the top drawer.

Just as he was about to close it, his eyes caught a glimpse of a picture.

No, it wasn't a picture. It was a digital portrait of someone..? Maybe a late relative or your close cousin? The person (?) in the frame had some of your features. It was too realistic it didn't cross his mind that it was one of your works.

“Hey, babe? Who's this?”

The moment you realized what he was holding, you stopped breathing. He wasn't supposed to find that but then again, maybe you shouldn't have hid it in one of your drawers.

You mumbled your answer.

“What? Come again?”

“W-What our c-child would look like,” you looked away, blushing.

I realized the title had nothing to do with the content. Maybe this is why I never win in essay writing contests. LMAO. 💀

[cfiesler]

the tenure-track detective agency

I tweeted about a dream, then realized it should be a television show, so I tweeted the whole first season plot. Featuring an academic who has to solve a murder so she doesn’t have to teach another class, and her librarian sidekick who is very helpful because of the research she’s done while writing Sherlock and Veronica Mars fanfiction. The whole thread is on Twitter, but copied in plain text below the cut for your reading pleasure. #sixseasonsandamovie

The Tenure-Track Detective Agency: Season One

I recently dreamed that one of my colleagues was wrongfully accused of murder, and because of the trial, could not teach their fall class. I feel like an "oh god I have to solve a murder so I don't have to teach an extra class" anxiety dream is like next level #academiclife.

S1 opens in mid-summer when a tenured computer science prof is found in his lab surrounded by simple robots testing conversational agents, busily chatting about top-voted reddit posts while he dies from blunt force trauma. The murder weapon is a dusty teaching award.

Our hero, an overworked assistant prof, is updating the syllabus for her machine learning class that just doubled in size, when she receives news that she has to pick up a section of intro programming b/c the instructor was just arrested for murdering another faculty member.

Our hero has THREE WEEKS to exonerate her colleague so that he can teach the class as planned, instead of her. Her tenure case hangs in the balance. What follows is a montage of frantic syllabus writing and murder investigation.

She visits the scene of the crime. A PhD student is frantically deleting data from a hard drive, and claims the IRB made her do it. Our hero distracts her and pockets one of the prototype conversational robots in the hopes it might have been a witness to the murder.

Our hero has a conference call with the set of brand new PhD students who will be teaching assistants to the intro programming class and informs them that their jobs start now and they need to dig through Lexis Nexis for case law about chain of custody and robots.

She visits the library and finds the librarian who usually answers questions about copyright, because she must know the most about law. Cue enthusiastic quirky sidekick, who actually doe knows a lot about murder investigation because she writes Sherlock fanfiction.

She visits her colleague in prison. She should probably be investigating the murder he is wrongfully accused of, but instead has many questions about the syllabus for his class she is now forced to teach. She tries not to sound bitter as she asks him for his slide decks.

Her colleague, clad in his orange jumpsuit and holding a prison phone, is understandably very upset about having been wrongfully accused of murdering another professor. But as she stands to leave, he calls out, "Wait! Do... do you think this will hurt my tenure case?"

She visits the detective in charge of the case. He says that her colleague's alibi for a 3-hour time period surrounding the time of murder is damning. "Who spends 3 hours answering email?" he demands. "Besides, professors don't work in the summer!" She fears this may be hopeless.

With the help of her librarian sidekick who convincingly impersonates a lawyer, our hero gets her hands on the the transcripts from the police interview of her colleague after his arrest. She assigns a PhD student to conduct a rigorous grounded theory qualitative analysis.

Word has gotten out that she is investigating the murder. Someone pins a note to her office door: "FOLLOW THE GRANT MONEY." She pulls up the dead prof's CV on his website only to find that it was last updated in 2003.

She interviews his PhD students after (out of force of habit) having them sign consent forms that detail data storage practices. None of them had seen their murdered advisor in person in years except when he mysteriously appeared to add his name to their published papers.

The librarian sidekick uses a bobby pin to break into an admin's office to retrieve grant spending records. It appears that the murder victim has been funneling funding earmarked for students and travel into "equipment." Almost $1m of invoices from a mysterious tech company.

(In case you were wondering, the librarian sidekick also writes Veronica Mars fanfiction and ABSOLUTELY knows how to pick a lock because of important research. She also wrote House fanfiction so let's hope she gets to diagnose Lupus by the end of this tale.)

Meanwhile, the PhD student has finished her grounded theory analysis of the arrest interview, and concludes (with an appropriate limitations section) that the interrogation was conducted under duress. The police officer promised to write him a tenure letter if he confessed.

Our hero buys many pizzas and puts the qualitative analyst in a room with the teaching assistants doing legal research and tells them to work on a motion to get the confession thrown out. She has to promise them they can all be co-authors on a major journal publication.

Cut to a scene where our hero spends hours answering emails from students trying to enroll in THE CLASS SHE SHOULDN'T BE TEACHING b/c they're on the waitlist but they need this class to graduate & also will she be taking attendance. Between emails she studies 18 U.S. Code §3501.

She visits a clinical prof at the law school to ask for help. You remember that this is TV so wonder if he is the obligatory love interest. He suggests they discuss 18 U.S. Code §3501 over drinks. She laughs: DO YOU THINK I HAVE TIME FOR THAT. You write hero/librarian fanfiction.

She interviews more students. Admins. Faculty. They initially were shocked the murder victim got tenure, but he'd seriously stepped up his game in the last couple of years. Not just more productive research, but he spent time on his teaching! And service! And apparently... sleep!

This trend becomes more shocking when she finally visits the victim’s family. They too noticed a change. They’d seen him *more often* in the year leading up to his tenure review. Now our hero doesn’t just want to solve his murder, SHE NEEDS TO KNOW HIS SECRET.

Meanwhile, the librarian has tracked down shipments from Mysterious Tech Company not to the victim's office but to a Mysterious Storage Unit. This is a clue! They brose YouTube videos about breaking into storage units. (YT tries to show them flat earther videos but they resist.)

HOT ON THE TRAIL, our hero makes the mistake of checking her email. She has a nastygram from a journal editor who reminds her that her promised review of a paper is 1 week overdue. The murder investigation halts while she spends hours on labor for which she will not be paid.

Our hero reluctantly suggests "major revisions" even though she knows this means more unpaid labor in a few months, and then regroups with the librarian. They head to the storage unit; we discover that the librarian drives an impala convertible.

They are nearly there when our hero's phone dings with a calendar reminder; she has a committee meeting in fifteen minutes. She can't remember which committee it is, but they turn around anyway. After the meeting, she still isn't sure which committee it was.

Our hero gets a phone call from her colleague who is wasting away in prison while wrongfully accused of murder. He doesn't ask about the progress of her investigation. He's just called to ask her if she can take over some of his committee assignments.

FINALLY our hero & the librarian get to the storage unit, which with the help of YouTube videos they break into & discover... rows of gently humming servers, and also robot parts everywhere! It's very uncanny valley in there, y'all. You're like, woah is this show actually scifi.

Our hero sits down at a computer. Did you know that even CS profs can have terrible password practices? Our hero read @lorrietweet's papers so the first thing she tries is "monkey" and VOILA she is inside a private github repo. (She has an ethics-related twinge, but he IS dead.)

Our hero emails the students enrolled in her machine learning class, sends them the github repository, and offers them extra credit for a forensic analysis. This is the best service learning activity she's ever come up with.

Our hero checks her email again (WHY DOES SHE KEEP DOING THIS) and has a message from her department chair reminding her that murder investigation does not count as a service activity. ('We've already had discussions about tweeting as not a good use of your time' he reminds her.)

We're getting very close to the season finale, and there's another montage: meeting with student investigators, tinkering with robot parts, answering emails about course overloads, talking to the police, revising a journal article that is due soon, formatting a new syllabus...

Over a bottle of wine in her office, our hero and her librarian sidekick put together the final pieces by doing rigorous affinity diagramming on a whiteboard. There is one final thing to verify. They enlist one of the murdered prof's PhD students to help. This is very exciting!

She visits her wrongfully accused colleague one last time in jail to give him the good news about her findings. He doesn't listen, far more concerned with making sure that revisions on his latest journal article get in on time, so she helps him & then leaves to go exonerate him.

Our hero gathers the relevant parties: detectives, faculty, PhD students, a public defender who she forgot existed. They meet in a windowless conference room. She has prepared a powerpoint presentation. It shows a table of contents: Intro, Methods, Findings, Discussion.

She speeds through the beginning (stopping to answer a question from a prof about the sample size for the qualitative analysis) and finally gets to the point: "I have discovered that the murder victim had a dark secret. And in the process uncovered the REAL killer!"

(Her librarian sidekick cheers from the audience. She is wearing the deerstalker from her Sherlock cosplay, which our hero reluctantly refused, saying that she probably shouldn't cosplay at work until after tenure.)

Our hero continues: "Our analysis of his private github repo revealed the REAL source of increased productivity in the year leading up to his tenure case - particularly striking since he also managed to save a failing marriage. Impossible, you say? That's what I thought! But..."

"It turns out that he solved the problem of not enough hours in the day for assistant professor levels of research, teaching, and service with ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE!"  The department chair nods. Artificial intelligence can indeed solve all problems.

Our hero reveals a beautiful powerpoint slide that details their analysis of the code and its conclusion: Prof. Murder Victim had programmed an AI to do all of his service and administrative work, most of his teaching, and a big chunk of his research collaboration.

From answering emails to grading assignments to delegating tasks to student collaborators to reviewing papers (ESPECIALLY reviewing papers), Prof. Murder Victim had managed to streamline his duties into the things that were most important for tenure & avoid everything else.

And he was able to do what can be so rare in some departments - have a lot of time for himself, which repaired his relationship with his family. "But then..." our hero began ominously, "he thought... why can't I create an AI for that too so I can spend more time on my research?"

Our hero gestures at the door, and in walks a PhD student with a humanoid robot in tow. It is a half-finished, uncanny valley nightmare of the murder victim. "He was murdered by his own creation!" our hero shouts, as she reveals her final slide with a list of collaborators.

There is a long, heavy pause in the room. The detective looks stunned. The librarian sidekick pulls out a flask and toasts our hero. Then suddenly, the department chair leaps to his feet and says, "HE WORKED FOR THE UNIVERSITY, WE OWN THE PATENT!"

The room erupts into a flurry of activity. PhD students start updating their CVs. The prof who teaches tech ethics immediately starts writing a paper. The department chair posthumously grants the murder victim full professor status in recognition of his contributions to robotics.

The detective quietly comes over and asks our hero for her evidence. She produces a full paper with 12 figures, 78 citations, and 17 authors. He says that it may take some time to sort this out. She says, the guy you arrested starts teaching in one week, better be sorted by then.

Our hero has approximately thirty seconds to bask in the glow of her triumph when her phone dings informing her she has a committee meeting in 10 minutes. She checks her email and 4 students are asking for copies of the syllabus for the class she's hopefully no longer teaching.

That night she receives an email from the dept chair: (1) Remember this is not part of your tenure case; (2) Our colleague has been released from jail & will resume teaching his class; (3) The ethics instructor just got a grant with a course release so you'll need to teach that.

Before she can start sobbing, she opens an email from one of the students in her machine learning class, telling her that the work they'd done analyzing that code was the most amazing learning experience of his life and can they please do more stuff like that.

After a long moment, she opens up a new document so that she can start creating a syllabus for Computing Ethics & Responsibility. She adds a sentence: "You may be occasionally asked to participate in real-world problem-solving activities as part of your grade."

The season finale ends with the librarian joining our hero in her office and producing a sign to hang on the door: THE TENURE-TRACK DETECTIVE AGENCY. It is a joke, of course.   ... or is it???

If you read to the end, I feel like I should mention how difficult it is to write a story linearly while not knowing the plot and without the ability to edit at all, and also that it would make my life to see hero/librarian fanfiction on AO3. :D

And if you’re a TV exec or literary agent:

(And if you’re someone who is going to write tenure letters for me: don’t worry, I also did a lot of research, teaching, and service today. ;) )

[purplesurveys]

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What was the last thing you threw at someone? A piece of meat for my dog to run for. Well, walk and sniff around for. He’s an old guy and doesn’t run anymore unless we’re taking him out for a walk. Do you follow recipes? I always certainly have to, since I don’t have any one dish memorized. I’ll start off with a collection of recipes for sure, but I’m hopeful that I’ll be at least a decent cook over the next few years. Where's the last place you had an itch? The area behind my knee.

Do you look people in the eye when you talk to them? It’s always important to have eye contact to show you’re paying attention so yeah. But I know it can get uncomfortable for most people at some point – and me – so I’ll give my eyes a break and look at their forehead, their nose, the space between their eyes, etc. When you look into someone's eyes, can you see their pain? Uh no, I don’t look that intensely lmao. And even then, I’ve learned over the years that most people are very good in hiding or playing off their true emotions that even if I try to find something off, I’ll likely turn up with nothing.

When was the last time you sneezed? Midnight today. How do you act under pressure? It will depend on how much there is to do and how much time there is left. I don’t have one permanent behavior for every time I feel pressured, which is pretty often. Who did you last say "I love you" to? My dog. Do you ever call people just to hear the sound of their voice? Yes, back when everything was normal I’d sometimes call my girlfriend just to drop by and say hi, and also because our schools are a little far apart and I’ll miss her in the middle of the day. School usually stresses her out so I do that as a pick-me-up for her. When was the last time you used a glue stick? January maybe? Our profs always ask us to submit index cards with our contact details and a 1x1 photo at the start of the semester, so there’s a good chance I asked to borrow glue from someone to paste my photo onto the card. What was the last startling noise you heard? Some dipshit on my Twitter feed decided it was good fun to share a jumpscare disguised as an innocent, cute video at 3 AM. I was mad about it then and I’m still mad as hell about it now lol. Do you ever look back at your yearbooks? I did this a lot as a kid. Idk why, I found it interesting to get to know the people in my school and read their write-ups I guess. I stopped looking back on them precisely because I did it too much when I was younger. Do you ever want to be prom queen/king? No. I did not give a shit about prom at all. I really would’ve happily skipped out on it but my school is a complete killjoy and made both attendance and bringing a date mandatory for everyone. No stags, can you believe it? It’s like when Captain Holt from Brooklyn Nine Nine said “Have a good time, I specifically requested it” lol Are you tired? Tired of this quarantine, yes. But I took a nap not too long ago so I’m not feeling to sleepy in that sense. Have you ever ran from the police? I haven’t done anything for them to have to do run after me, so no. Are you afraid of clowns? Not really. I was never exposed to them much so I always just saw them as people in heavy makeup that do balloon animals and other funny tricks. Have you ever written on someone's face in your yearbook? HAHA yes. When my sister and I were kids we bickered a lot, and in one of our fights I thought it’d be funny to doodle on her kinder portrait. She didn’t think so and she started wailing - just in time, I heard my mom coming home and I had to think fast so my sister a) stopped crying and b) wouldn’t tell on me. So I did the stupidest thing and also doodled on my own prep portrait to make her feel better. She calmed down and my mom never found out. When was the last time you made dinner? I *helped* my dad make dinner a few months ago. I haven’t completed a meal myself. Do you have any special plans coming up? They’re gonna be mellowing down the lockdown rules in my province by the 15th and I’m really hoping to see Gabie soon. Realistically I doubt it would happen as I don’t think both our parents would agree to it, but it’s still nice to keep hoping. Did you just lose the game? Yep, but I really only found out about this game from Reddit a few months ago and I didn’t grow up having to play it, so I’m never all too pissed off or like emotionally invested in general whenever I lose it haha. What is a class at school you are interested in taking? There are global studies electives that I was unaware of until someone told me to take them after I enrolled for my last sem in collefge. There are courses on Turkish culture, global gastronomy, and they also had past courses on ‘Diversity on Perspectives on Peace and Conflict,’ ‘Cultures of Disasters,’ and ‘Cultures and their Global Entanglements.’ They all sound right up my alley and am disappointed no one told me sooner. Do you hold on to your dreams? Some of them, the ones I know I have a chance of attaining. Obviously I’ve had to let some go, like wanting to go to the moon or becoming a firefighter. Do you follow rules or break them? Follow. I don’t like getting into trouble. Is there someone you are dying to see? A lot of people. Who do you want to be buried next to? I’ve given this zero thoughts. Are you double-jointed? Nope. Did your dream last night involve blood? It didn’t. I’m not even sure what my dreams were anymore. Who was the last person to yell at you? My mom, probably. How do you feel about the new president? I wouldn’t call him new, he’s in the latter half of his term now. I hate him and I hope he dies soon. Do good things come to those who wait? Sure, it can happen. What is the last song you played on iTunes? I haven’t used that in a while. The last one I listened to on Spotify was Sudden Desire by Hayley Williams. Petals For Armor is still on loop, surprise. What is the last thing you looked up on youtube? I was showing my sister the hilarious Vine of Beyoncé where she thanks a talk show host who tells her “You are Beyoncé,” as if it was a compliment looooool, so I looked up “you are beyonce thank you.” When is the last time you went to the grocery store? March 9th. What is your favorite fish? Tuna or eel for raw fish, tilapia for cooked. What kind of calendar do you have? A digital one. Have you ever been two hours late for school? Oh hell no. I’ve been late before, but if it’s as dramatic as being an hour late I usually just cut class to save myself the embarassment of having to do the walk of shame entering the class. What is your favorite stuffed animal that you own? I don’t have any stuffed animals. Who did you hang out with yesterday? My family, as has been the case since March. Has anyone stolen your heart yet? Yes. Have you ever won a gold medal? No. I’ve won first place before, but they didn’t issue out gold medals. Do you have any trophies? Also no. Do you work out? I don’t. When you introduce yourself, do you give hand shakes? Sometimes, but tbh I just picked it up from Gabie who’s a big hand-shaker. I preferably wouldn’t cause it seems so formal to me. Is there a limit to how many best friends you have? Yeah, like I wouldn’t want to have a lot; I like keeping my immediate circle small. I’m more than content with my two best friends. When's the last time you went to a dance? 2016. What grade are you in? Soooooooooo unbelievably close to graduating college. Are you in a band? I’m not and haven’t been. Have you ever been in a talent show? No thanks. Have you ever won a contest? Competitions, yes. Contests, no. How do you feel about germs? I’m quite particular about them. I don’t like sharing clothes with people; I pick which friends get to eat off of my spoon or sip from my straw; I’m super iffy about touching someone else’s keyboard; I really don’t like having to touch other people’s hair and with that is also the fact that I never borrow or lend hair ties. Holy shit so I’m more germaphobic than I thought and all I had to do was list these things down......................... Do you like screamo music? Not really. What does your wallet look like? Pink and a lot thinner now that I haven’t been given an allowance since they stopped school. Do you have any hickeys on you? No. At this point, I really wish I did lmao Would you rather have money or love? Money. I love love, but I won’t deny that I also love being able to afford the lifestyle I want to live haha. Do you have any family pictures hanging on the wall? Not on the wall, but we have several frames lined up on the first few steps of our stairs. Which do you prefer: bath or shower? Bath after a long hard day. Shower most days. Do you have a lamp in your room? I used to, but I removed it after realizing the light just keeps me from falling asleep faster.

Do you have windows vista? No. Do you have the strength to say goodbye forever? I’ll deal with it if I had no choice, but I’ve never handled goodbyes well.

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SLBP introduction

I was tagged by the ever awesome @shioune, thank you!! ^^

All are welcome to fill this out!!! You don’t need to be tagged to do it!!!!! @ing your friends helps get it going, but regardless please tag it #helloslbp so it’s easy to find.

1. WHAT GOT YOU INTO SLBP, AND HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN THROWING MONEY AT VOLTAGE?

My friend introduced me to it. It was around the end of july/august when she told me she found this app, it has samurai and it’s really fun~ and also there’s this cute guy who blushes at everything & and the ninja who doesn’t give a shit about the MC. XD At first I was very skeptical because I didn’t have a good opinion on mobile app games (bad translation, poor storyline etc) and I was really proved wrong on Nobu’s route (I’m actually so glad I chose that first, it got me into the game eventually). And I’m playing it ever since! I love japanese history but the sengoku period somehow always eluded me. (I remember the time when I had to study it for my history exam... it was a lost cause, my notes&brain were a complete mess haha) So when my friend showed me an image of the lords I only recognized Nobunaga’s and Hideyoshi’s names and: *suspiciously eyes Ieyasu’s name* “wasn’t that guy a shougun???” NOW my prof would be proud of me lol ANYWAYS good humor, angst&drama and a great protagonist are the factors that sell a game for me and I found these in SLBP. The historical setting is the cherry on top.

2. WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER, AND WHY? WHAT FIRST DREW YOU TO THEM? 

Mitsuhide! Yasu and Nobu are close to my heart too, but I’m going to gush about Mitsuhide here anyway, because I feel he’s so overlooked in the fandom.

I fully intended to choose him on my first run (because he appealed to me most aesthetically) but I found him boring in the prologue so I went with Nobu instead. I liked his serious and intellectual side but didn’t really start getting interested in him until I read his events and particularly one of his POV epilogue, where I realized there’s a lot more to him than he shows.

The thing is Mitsuhide goes great length to appear perfect all the time. The perfect gentleman, the perfect samurai, the perfect retainer. But sometimes he lets his true personality slip through and that’s where the interesting part starts for me. As he says in one of the events, that’s a part of himself that he does not care for. He’s surprisingly cunning, impulsive, possessive and has a closet yandere side which really fascinates me. When it comes to the MC he’s very caring and protective but it’s also canon he likes it rough in bed. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

He’s also a total workaholic, there’s no stopping him when it comes to work. I laughed a lot at that event where Nobu tried to force him to take a break and sent him to a hot spring and somehow he managed to turn that into work too. XD

And then there’s his cute side. He has no idea how to relax or be fun like Hideyoshi&he mostly bores people and that bothers him a lot, so he secretly practices telling jokes. He’s the worst at it. Not to mention he babytalks to animals and he’s not even aware of it!

I also love his “I’m surrounded by idiots” looking sprite.

Now I concede that his main story is an absolute borefest (I barely got through it myself), they clearly halfassed it and/or had no idea what to do with Mitsuhide’s character at the time of writing. Easily one of the worst routes in the game and I’m angry because that’s probably the first impression players get of him and I have a ton of ideas how it could have been easily fixed.

/tl;dr: Reasons I love Mitsuhide, an essay by WG/ 

3. ARE YOU STILL PLAYING THE GAME ITSELF, OR ARE YOU JUST ACTIVE IN FANDOM?

I’m not too active in the fandom, but I religiously play the game. XD

4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE THING ABOUT THE VOLTAGE FANDOM?

Can’t speak about the Voltage fandom as a whole, but I love that the SLBP fandom is so kind, welcoming and supportive; I love seeing your posts&enthusiasm on my dash (even if I’m just a lurker/observer from the sidelines ;^;)!!

5. WHAT DO YOU WISH YOU’D SEE MORE OF IN SAMURAI LOVE BALLAD PARTY?

I would like to see more events where Mitsuhide shows his true personality and possibly opens up more to the MC about himself and his past. And honestly I would be beside myself if we would repeat earlier events sometime. Also SHIGEZANE and I wouldn’t mind if Voltage announced Nobuyuki’s route. Oh, and don’t forget about Hanbei in Hideyoshi’s events (#BringBackHanbei2k17) please and thank you.

6. END WITH A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF

Hey, it’s Whiskas, hobby artist from Hungary! I studied italian&japanese linguistics and hopefully I’ll be an art student next year. I love cats, pink and everything sparkly. I mostly draw, play otome&video games and watch movies in italian in my free time. :3 My favourite otome game series ever is Hana Awase (when will the 4th game come out?? ;A;) it got me interested in japanese poetry and actually inspired me to start studying classical japanese language. I’m also in the Dragon Age fandom, because that game ruined my life.

Aaah I really don’t know who to tag anymore, I think everyone already was...

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one of the most difficult decisions of my life

I know that this is solely an art blog, but what I’ve decided recently is something that I know will impact my life incredibly, and as a result, my art as well. I’m going to drop out of my college studies in game design. It’s also a personal vent (sorry, I know this is an art blog lol, but this has been affecting me so much). 

I drew a whole comic today about it on twitter

, but I also wanted to write about it too since I haven’t expressed everything I wanted to.

First, I want to clarify one thing- I absolutely love this program, the facilities, professors, and my peers. I’ve learned so much about game design that I never knew before, they’re not just anything you can learn online, you are given the experience of working in teams and developing prototypes and games. I think it’s great for preparing those who are interested in entering the game dev industry.

But it was just- just too hard for me, I guess. Or too different. And also, it wasn’t the way I wanted to pursue my career in game design. I’m passionate about designing games, but I’m more passionate about the theories, narratives, and visual aspects of them. And I also felt that it held me back artistically, that I couldn’t improve as much as I wanted to.

I remember last semester, at some point I noticed I had been drowning myself in school work that I didn’t have time to draw at all. I decided to give myself a break and do an environmental study. At this point, I hadn’t drawn anything outside of games for 3 months. 

I was painting a picture I had taken on an autumn night, small trees creating a small path by the sidewalk. While I was painting, I took note of the colours, and learned that in that lighting, colours that were orange looked green when placed next to brown-red colours. It blew my mind!! As I kept painting, I studied the way the trees’ branches would cross each other and grow, and the shadows they cast on each other. 

I was just. taken into this place that I noticed, I haven’t been in so, so long. And that was because I wasn’t in an art program, I’m in a design program. I couldn’t help but keep thinking that I could’ve learned more things like this if I had chosen an art program.

This feeling kept getting stronger and stronger, until I’ve finally made my decision just recently.

But the one thing that was holding me back the whole time-- the thought of leaving my friends, kept eating at me. It’s still hanging on to me right now, since I haven’t told all of them yet.

They’re like family to me. They’re the best people I’ve ever met, and I just... I don’t want to leave them. It was so hard, but I know that this program isn’t what I want.

The past 2 years that I have gotten to know them, they’ve been a constant light in my life, one of the only things I ever look forward to when I wake up every day. They’re the number one reason I’ve gotten this far in game design.

But this semester, I was put into a class where I wasn’t with any of my close friends. I felt really isolated, pathetically alone, but it was the eye-opener. It was what made me realize, I can’t keep going just for them. And if I stayed solely to be with my friends-- doesn’t it mean I’d follow close behind if they dropped out later on? I can’t live my life like that.

A few days ago, I had been trying to design a level for a platformer. I had no idea how to do it, and researched a lot, watching videos and reading articles, drawing a bunch of drafts and trying to put it together. But I couldn’t do it, and I thought, “ok, why not, just program the parts of the platformer first, and then try to put it together like that?”

I was using a script for a platform moving back and forth from my teammate. The code made the platform move up and down, and I wanted it to move from side to side. Easy, right? Just change the movement from y to x. I did that... and it didn’t work!!! I don’t know why, it was so simple!!

My chest started aching, and I had trouble looking at the screen. I didn’t want to ask for help, for fear of my peers knowing how pathetically incompetent I was (they already know, and they didn’t care, but I did). I just sat there, and tears were welling up in my eyes, and I... it was just so easy!!! And I couldn’t even do that! I couldn’t design a level, and I couldn’t alter one line of code!!

My friend noticed something was wrong, and it was the first time I said I wanted to drop out seriously.

I want to get better at programming and designing, I really do. But I think that it’s because it was within the context of education, that I put too much expectations on myself to excel at it, even though the reason I was there in the first place was to learn, not prove that I’m good at it. I think that- if I rearrange the focus of my studies-- art first, programming and design second, it might benefit me.

But it’s been so hard, haha. The past few days, whenever I looked up from my computer screen and looked at my classmates, I kept thinking, “this might be the last time I see them.” I would look at the profs and the slides and think, “this might be the last time I learn such cool things like this.” And just like that, I had already adopted the mentality of a drop-out, and my desire and motivation for this program, friends aside, slipped through my fingers.

It feels bad because for so long, I had been holding on just for my love for my friends, and for the hope that I’d improve in the ways I wanted to in art, and in designing games.

I have this silly “handshake” (not really a handshake) thing I do with a friend, where when we see each other, we do a high kick and form an X with our legs, haha. We call it our Chun-Li kick. I almost forgot about it, and when I saw him yesterday, he told me to do it. It just made me. Really sad, all of a sudden, because I don’t ever want to stop doing the Chun-Li kick with him!!!

Also, when I told another friend that I was dropping out, he told me, “don’t ever say you’re bad. You’re good at so many things, you’re so hardworking, and you’re one of the best artists in our program, everyone knows it.” He gives me such high praise all the time. I know I’m going to miss it.

Then, he said, “we’ll still be friends, and we’ll always be there for you.”

And then that set off the waterfalls from my eyes. The only thing I mourn while I drop out is not being among my friends anymore. But I hope, with all my heart, that I continue being friends with them, and I can still see them. I love them so much.

What I’m doing is for myself and my art. I know it’s right, but god, my friends. I’ll miss them so much. But I know that as long as we all remain in the game dev community, we’ll still be connected.

That’s all. I know that this was just a really huge rant about my feelings in the end, but it’s been something that was eating away at me for a long time. It’s probably still going to stay with me for the rest of this year. I’m going to be a NEET very soon again, I’m scared of that too. Currently, I’m planning to apply for several art programs. But for now, I’ll cry until I feel a bit better.

Thanks for reading. ♥

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The Dolphins Are Awful. Brian Flores Is Fine.

DAVIE, Fla. — Before agreeing to become the head coach of the Miami Dolphins last winter, Brian Flores consulted his former high school coach in Brooklyn. The response was, sure you’ll have to face New England twice a year, but even Bill Belichick has to retire at some point.

“They won’t be great forever,” Dino Mangiero, who coached Flores at Poly Prep Country Day School, advised him. “Miami might be a really good place to land.”

And at some point for Flores, it might be. It is impossible to judge an N.F.L. head coaching career that consists of two games with a franchise that has gutted its veteran talent and is rebuilding with fragile youth and the hoarding of draft picks.

But after losing to New England by 43-0 on Sunday — the Super Bowl champion and A.F.C. East rival for whom Flores worked the previous 15 seasons — the winless Dolphins have been outscored in two games, 102-10. The team might not be merely bad, but historically futile.

To many observers, Miami’s front office seems to be tanking to secure the first overall pick in the 2020 draft. Safety Minkah Fitzpatrick, the team’s No. 11 draft selection in 2018, asked out and was traded to Pittsburgh on Monday. Every position, Flores said recently, is up for evaluation.

On Sunday, the team’s owner, Stephen Ross, told reporters that he remained committed to rebuilding for long-term success. The Dolphins have five first-round picks and four second-round picks over the next two drafts. Flores, 38, has a five-year contract.

“I think he’s the right guy to lead us through these times,” Chris Grier, Miami’s general manager, said Tuesday.

Still, black head coaches tend to have the most precarious hold on jobs with the most vulnerable teams and the most limited opportunities for a second chance helming a staff elsewhere. Last season, five African-American head coaches were fired.

So far, Flores has shown a rare ability to remain even-keeled during one of the rockiest starts to an N.F.L. head coaching career, with no outward sign of anguish or regret. That stoicism is fitting perhaps for someone whose life has been built on a refusal to despair. He is the son of Honduran immigrants, born to a family who lived in the frayed Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, where violent crime has declined but where official neglect, gang feuds and ruthless poverty have been corrosive.

It is one thing to lose football games. It is another to grow accustomed, as Flores has said he did, to helping his mother carry groceries up 20 flights of stairs when the elevators failed at the Glenmore Plaza housing project.

“I’m very prepared for difficult moments,” Flores said Monday. “I learned resiliency at a very early age.”

Flores and three of his four brothers have master’s degrees. And Brian appears to have become only the eighth N.F.L. head coach in the modern era from New York City, — no one’s idea of a football hotbed — according to the Elias Sports Bureau, the league’s official statistician.

Flores possesses a singular identity in professional football — black and Latino at a time when there are only two other African-American head coaches (Mike Tomlin of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Anthony Lynn of the Los Angeles Chargers) in the N.F.L. and one other Hispanic coach (Ron Rivera of Carolina).

While Belichick, Flores’ mentor, is the epitome of a gruff, taciturn coach who reveals little, Flores possesses a blunt candor. During a training camp practice, he played eight consecutive songs by Brooklyn-born Jay-Z as a rebuttal to then-Dolphins receiver Kenny Stills, a social activist who criticized the rapper as being tone-deaf after he formed an entertainment and social justice partnership with the N.F.L.

But Flores also gave an impassioned defense, rarely done by the league’s coaches, of the right of Stills and the ostracized quarterback Colin Kaepernick to kneel during the national anthem in protest against racial inequality and police brutality.

“They’re bringing attention to my story,” he said. “I’m the son of immigrants. I’m black. I grew up poor. I grew up in New York during the stop-and-frisk era. I’ve been stopped because I fit a description before. So everything these guys protest, I’ve lived it, I’ve experienced it.”

The Flores family story reflects the classic American immigrant experience. Yet his ascent in America’s most popular sport comes as the Trump Administration attempts to bar most Hondurans leaving a Central American country overwhelmed by poverty and violence from seeking asylum in the United States. The administration has also tried to end the protected status of some 57,000 Honduran immigrants, many of whom have been in the U.S. for more than 20 years.

“What’s interesting about Flores is that he’s part of multiple identities,” said Danielle Clealand, an associate professor of politics and international relations at Florida International University who studies Afro-Latinos in Miami.

As an N.F.L. coach in a sport fundamental to American identity, Flores has challenged the notion in a divisive political climate that immigrants do not belong in the United States, Clealand said.

“We have to think of the diversity in those communities and how they have integrated into our society, ” she said.

Asked what he thought of the President Trump’s plan to severely restrict Hondurans from entering the United States, Flores said Thursday through a team spokesman, “My journey is the answer to that question.”

With Flores on the sidelines, the Dolphins, are the only N.F.L. team with a black head coach and a black general manager, Grier. Ross, the team owner, is the founder of a nonprofit called RISE — the Ross Initiative in Sports For Equality — whose mission is to use sport to help improve race relations.

But Ross’s reputation for progressiveness grew complicated in August when he held a re-election fund-raiser in the Hamptons for President Trump. Stills, the receiver, criticized Ross via Twitter, writing, “You can’t have a nonprofit with this mission statement then open your doors to Trump.”

When Stills also criticized Jay-Z and Flores responded with his calculated playlist, the move drew mixed reaction. Mangiero, who coached Flores in high school, said he chuckled at Flores’s feistiness.

But the Miami Herald responded harshly on its editorial page, saying that Flores’s musical choice was insensitive and “looked like a smirking taunt, giving the back of his hand to a real-life American plague.”

Flores said he was challenging Stills to perform at a higher level and to not become distracted by events outside the team. Whatever scrutiny he received, Flores said at the time, he would continue to coach his own way. “If anybody’s got a problem with that, we’ve just got a problem,” he said. “We’re going to agree to disagree.”

Days later, the Dolphins traded Stills, an extremely popular player, and Laremy Tunsil, an emerging star at left tackle, to Houston. Asked if the trade was personal or political, Flores told reporters, “Not at all.” The compensation received by the Dolphins, which included two first-round draft picks and a second-round pick, “was something we couldn’t turn down,” Flores said.

He seemed taken aback by the widespread attention paid to the Stills/Ross/Jay-Z controversy. To Richard Lapchick, the founder and director the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida, Flores attempted to perform a delicate balancing act. In playing the Jay-Z songs, Prof. Lapchick said, Flores appeared to be “toeing the company line.”

But Flores’s plea for social justice was something few coaches outside of the N.B.A. ever address, Lapchick said, excepting the mass demonstration of solidarity that occurred across the N.F.L. on Sept. 24, 2017, after President Trump criticized protests during the national anthem.

“He realized, ‘My players do have opinions,’ and if he wants to successfully coach them, he can’t be dismissive, as the playlist seemed to indicate he was,” Lapchick said.

As a New Yorker, Flores is another sort of rarity in the modern N.F.L. His only current compatriot is Jacksonville’s Doug Marrone. Other New Yorkers who have coached include the legendary Vince Lombardi and the less than legendary former Jets and Eagles coach Rich Kotite, with his career record of 41-57.

Flores’s parents — Raul and Maria — immigrated from Honduras in the 1970s, speaking no English, seeking a better life, and his father spent as many as 10 months each year away as a merchant seaman. An uncle, Darrel Patterson, then a Brooklyn firefighter, became a father figure, taking the Flores brothers bowling and on trips to a video arcade. Traveling home one evening when Brian was 12, he said he spotted a Pop Warner game and asked his uncle if could play.

Patterson, 66, and now a fire safety educator, remembers the football origin story somewhat differently: He visited the family’s apartment in Brownsville on a beautiful fall weekend, only to find the brothers watching television. When asked why they were indoors, Brian or one of his siblings, replied, “Mom doesn’t want us outside; she thinks it’s too dangerous.”

Patterson said he took the brothers in his station wagon to a youth league game in Howard Beach, Queens. Brian ran an impressive 40-yard dash and was pointed to the team equipment van, where he grabbed a helmet and shoulder pads. But no one in his family had ever played football and the shoulder pads felt awkward.

“He had the pads on backward,” Patterson said. “We turned them around and from there he excelled.”

Flores received a scholarship to Poly Prep Country Day, an elite academic and football school, commuting more than an hour across Brooklyn by bus and subway. He struck Mangiero, his coach, as Flores strikes many people — serious, driven.

At Boston College, Flores played safety and linebacker, but a leg injury in 2003 ended any slim chance of playing professionally. So Flores famously wrote to every N.F.L. team looking for a job. He took an entry-level post in the Patriots’ personnel department in 2004. His duties included getting coffee and picking up dry cleaning. He slept on an air mattress in a friend’s attic for a time. He climbed from scout to assistant coach, to the de facto defensive coordinator last season as New England won its sixth Super Bowl.

Miami players describe Flores as New England players did. Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick: “He’s been great being upfront.” Linebacker Vince Biegel: “Steady Eddie.”

Flores often recalls his mother, Maria, who died of breast cancer in March, shortly after the Dolphins named him head coach, forcing him to practice his reading when he was little and wanted to cut the lessons short. She would grab him by the ear and tell him, “We’re going to do this right now.” So that is how he plans to rebuild the Dolphins: Move forward. Persevere.

“You always know that if you put your head down and work hard,” he said, “things normally turn around and get better.”

Alain Delaqueriere contributed research.

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Reflective Journal 1 (10.29-11.04)

10.29 Monday

After 6-hours-class, I went home and had a rest. I didn’t buy anything at that time, because I did not want to write too many things today. However, I am already thinking about buying something unusual to make my journal interesting. :)

10.30 Tuesday

I woke up until noon, and got full of energy! A good day began with cooking. Although I was not a good cook, I still enjoyed the time cooking for myself and took my time eating them all. I did not go outside, so I did not buy anything. Maybe staying at home is a helpful way to save money! (Sometimes)

10.31 Wednesday

Wednesday was a day with many gains!

My purchase today began with a small table. After the French club, I met some of my friends, and we wanted to walk around because of the rainy weather. We went to sub and saw an old lady sold all kinds of handicrafts made by herself. I regarded them as reused products because useless jeans and clothes made some of them. However, the materials did not influence the appearance design of products, so I wanted to buy them. There were rings and small bags made by jeans (I forgot to take pictures), but the rings were too large for me, and the little bags were made for putting hand knitting yarn, so I didn’t buy either. I finally chose apron because I needed an apron to avoid oil and brings me a better mood to cook. This one looked good! I also thought it was a good idea to reuse useless materials instead of throwing them. The latter behaviour was more like a waste of resources.

Nowadays, many companies and individuals provide smart ideas with the public to show how to change waste into useful things in simple ways, and they post short videos in general to share these creative ideas.

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This video teaches me how to use a plastic bottle to replace moulds of cookies.

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This video shares an idea about how to use remaining cosmetics when people almost finish them.

Except for sharing some tips, I also learn another way of recycling. I can make the best of something instead of throwing them to garbage bins. At the same time, I SAVE MONEY because I create the tools by myself rather than buying a new tool. Furthermore, the process of creation gives me gratification, and some of them also provide better options with me to solve problems in my life. Therefore, I think it is a positive way to learn some tips to make individual efforts to environmental sustainability. Meanwhile, it reduces the number of objects in shopping lists to some degree.

11.01 Thursday

Today is one of my friend’s birthday, so I bought a birthday gift for him. It is a small badge with the symbol of “BU”. After sending to him, I just remembered that I forgot to take a picture.

It is made of metal. I bought this gift to express the real benison that I hope he can remember the happy time studying and playing with us (friends) at Bishop’s University. Tonight we celebrated for him, drank a little bit, and had lots of fun!

11.02 Friday

I usually have lunch at home before my urban dance practices on Fridays, but because of today’s group discussion of a presentation I came earlier to school. I bought some snacks in case getting hungry, and a bottle of orange juice prepared for dancing.

Indeed, the most interesting thing I bought today was the “ticket to die”. It was like a detective and a role play game. Each one has an envelope including information of their characteristics. The participants are suggested to remain with character, keep questioning and observing, and trying to find the murder. During the night, we (the participants) were free to eat and drink. It was the first time for me to participate in this kind of activity.

I am so interested in suspenseful movies and activities, so I attended without hesitation. A new experience is vital for me to live my good life! Therefore, I would like to pay and try for anything out of the ordinary, which gives me the feeling of freshness or even helps me grow. This is another reason for my consumption.

11.03 Saturday

Because of the rain and snow mixed weather, I stayed at home the whole day doing some homework and enjoying the time I spent alone.

I feel comfortable both staying alone and with friends, however, I find the moments of time alone are pleasant to think and know more about myself. I can do anything I want without considering others’ feelings at that time. It is real freedom! Meanwhile, I take my time to do things I like. I am a person who absorbs more while watching and listening instead of reading. So I watched the video that prof. Mitchell posted on moodle again. I got impressed with the concept of “simplify your life” (Etzioni, 2012). He says that I did not need to follow the fashion to buy the latest products. I realized the importance of being myself. I was not a fashionable person, by contrast, I always got behind the fashion. However, I find that I began to pay attention to fashion and try to follow it. This change cost me lots of money. I did buy something fit me, but I also bought many unnecessary products, which make me feel wasteful to the desert but useless to keep them. I conclude that it is better to have a subtraction life to give myself a less worrisome living condition, also contribute to environmental sustainability. Thus, I can learn more dress tips instead of buying all kinds of clothes.

(If you want to watch the video, please click here: You don’t need to buy this)

11.04 Sunday

Due to the limitation of my apartment, I cannot have pets. So I went to my friend’s apartment to see her cat and brought a small gift for her cute cat!

After playing with her cat, she invited me to shop with her. We went to Walmart and bought lots of food!

Reference 

Amitai Etzioni. (2012, September 09). You Don’t Need to Buy This. [YouTube video].  Amitai Etzioni. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN3z8gtDUFE&feature=youtu.be

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My dear future

Well, I sometimes call myself stupid for forgetting why I choose accounting/auditing as my career path in the first place. So, yea, it was in grade 12 when I decided that I want to choose accounting/auditing as my career path after attending many career workshops, doing career/personality test, and meeting people from such career. But these two years in US, the more I am closer to my goal, the blurrier my vision is.  But you know what, by today, I realize that I did not forget or my mind vary. It is just because I am in the right path, and I found myself too comfortable.  This is crazy, you know. I think my life is like a puzzle. Everything just matches ever since I dedicated myself to choosing accounting major. Well, it can be said that that personality/career test really help me in the first place.  So, how is the puzzle I am talking about? Before I decided choosing any major in high school, I did two tests. And both answers were exactly the same: accounting/audit. Then, I told myself that path will be for me, like made for me. So, I went on. When I got to US, the first time, I did another personality test, and you know what? The same answer! When I worked as HR assistant, I found myself loving designing, by designing the book. But, whenever it came to book keeping or working with qualitative data, I was in love - with numbers lol! Along the way, I was selected to enroll in Leadership in Action, where I had my mentor, Tom, who is CPA and business owner. He gave me guidance, showed me around his office, and let me talking to his employees. One thing I took away from him was that: everything I learned in Accounting class, I would not need to remember that. It would be there just for me to get the sense of accounting process, and everything will be done by computer. That time, it was a relief for me that I would not have to stress about those classes. Knowing that it was the right path, but my goal was shaky. When I took financial accounting class, I found myself not loving it. I did well, but I just did not really love it. But I found myself loving Managerial Accounting as it was about running business. Plus, I started working at TF and SJ, and the passion inspired from my parents for running business, I thought to myself that maybe working life isn’t a thing for me. Also, those times, I involved myself a lot with photo and video editing. B.P. told me that maybe I should start my career in graphic design instead of business field. I thought a lot about that, and it sounded logical. But you know what, I was also interested in computer science, writing programs and stuff like that. But, the challenge rumors I heard sort of bother me - the stress, gender equality and creativity (which I am poor at) to create new programs. Also, I have concerned about getting CPA. I read a book during the summer, and the author said, getting to be professional/license, you just get yourself stuck. Also, I was concerned about choosing between Finance and Accounting. Then, when I looked at how people coming to US to study management, international business, and other great skill, I started to think if I am wasting money and opportunity to come here and just study accounting? But yesterday, 9/17/2018, I found the pieces of my career path back again. It was in Intermediate Accounting I class when Prof Tate talked about careers in Accounting. She said that we would have 2 paths: going public or going to corporation/industry. In corporation/industry, there are varieties of job available for accounting student. And, with degree, we won’t start with lower level - clerk. We will start at mid level - accountant, then controller, and then CFO. But we may climb up a lot in the accountant level, but not gonna be controller and CFO easily, unless we change the company. But in public field, everything is stacked by the years of working - staff, senior, director, and partner - we cannot skip any level, but we are guaranteed to go up by the years since it is structured. We can do audit, tax and consultant. The audit part, we get to travel to different companies (clients) and work there. The pro of this is that we get to talk to many positions - from clerk up to CFO of that company. And within the range of years, we will get to work in many companies in different field. After certain of years, we can change the place. If we choose to go private, we can work on the top level (Controller and CFO) - which is much better if we first start off at private in accountant level, and stuck there for years before/never moving up. (This is the best part that matched my taste. With little experiences, but I get to meet and learn from many inspiring people from different fields, and then to discover the field I like to work on in the future - either work big or running business). The cons that people always talk about accounting is the long working hours (up to 60h per week) during tax season. And prof said (just like my mom always said), if you don’t have kids or family, why bother about that? If you don’t work, what else you want to do? Spending time watching movie, gaming? But prof said that it would not be every week though. Earn money in that age, and use the money earn to treat yourself. Want gym, gym in the weekend. And also, regarding concern for going out with friends to retain friendship, if you work that much hours, you get to meet many accounting people in the same field, learn from them, and you can hang out with them. (It’s a win-win.)  So now, I decided that this is the career path that I want. So, here’s the plan: Talk to advisor if I should get CPA -> Graduate with BS Accounting -> Work here -> Moving out and have my own apartment -> Be a busy and working woman who meets many important people while being financially dependent woman who earn and spend money on herself -> After several years (maybe in 30s) either go private or run business. And if I have a chance, I will squeeze MBA-Management in my timeline (since I am interested in HR, and I will need that skill, too). My dear future self, fighting! 09/18/2018 

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What type of movies do you get into the easiest? I’d be drawn to anything as long as it isn’t a western, comedy, fantasy, or overwhelmingly crime.

If you could learn to play any instrument, what would you pick? Piano. That got away from me.

What is it about a stranger that makes you interested in them? If they speak intelligently, I’d want to know them immediately.

Are you materialistic? Aren’t we all...

Do you think more with your heart, your mind or your body? Sometimes heart, sometimes mind.

What types of things fascinate you? Horror, cultures, pro wrestling.

Do you think it’s all right to completely ruin someone’s life on purpose? If it’s like a pedophile’s or a rapist’s life then yeah totally.

What are your opinions on bullying? I don’t think there’s ever an excuse for it. Even if you say that it’s got something to do with the bully’s personal life, that doesn’t mean they could go right ahead and ruin a smaller kid’s day. I was quite the bully before and even I think that’s bullshit and shouldn’t be a free pass to start being an asshole.

If you were a writer, what type of stuff would you most likely write? News, editorials, similar articles.

Do you have any mental disorders or diseases? I’m positive that I do, but in my almost 20 years of existence I haven’t gotten myself checked. I can’t led my parents find out.

How do you feel upon seeing someone who’s missing an appendage? I get curious about how it happened and want to approach them so they get to tell their story; I don’t judge.

Do you feel you’re more beautiful inside or out? Inside. I do my best to make people happy and feel loved because heaven knows all of us need those these days. I don’t really pay attention as to how I look.

Do you let music move your body, or do you hold back? Hold back, definitely. Even when I’ve had a little to drink - you would never see me letting loose. Dancing just isn’t my thing.

Are you willing to do whatever it takes to have fun? Anything is a huge stretch. I’ll pass.

What is something that is often on your mind (besides specific people)? How worried I am about this semester being that I have four terror profs. One has high standards, one knows her shit, one is a bitch, and the other is a Mega Bitch who embarrasses students. FUN! My mental health is in for a ride. 

What kinds of feelings do your hobbies leave you with? Happiness and comfort.

Why is your favorite store your favorite? I don’t really have a favorite store. I buy from wherever a thing I need could be bought. Do you prefer touch screens to non-touch screens? Touch screen. It’d be refreshing to get to use a phone with buttons though.

Can you handle the stress of working in food/customer service? I’d never need to, as I’m an intelligent person who likes to have a real job. < Yeesh. My dad is an executive sous chef and is one of the most intelligent people I know. And it is most definitely a real job; he showed me around his office(s) when he brought me to the cruise ship he works in. Don’t discriminate and don’t invalidate. Anyway, while I realize that there are people who still think like this, I probably couldn’t. Mad respect to them for handling hundreds of entitled, screaming, angry customers every day.

Are you ever rude to people on purpose? If they’re rude to me first then I have the right to be rude back. But normally, no.

Can you feel the rush of energy a band brings when playing live? Oh my god YES. BRING ME TO PARAMORE PART II.

How do you feel when you’re around a lot of people you don’t know? Nervous. I always make it a point to be around a familiar crowd, because my anxiety could always pop up at any second. 

Do you pick up on the feelings of others easily? Very. I’m super sensitive when it comes to that.

Would you let your child have a pet? Not their own, but yes I would want both a kid and a big dog.

Where were you raised and what’s it like? For the first quarter of my life I was raised in Tondo, which was the most liberating and stress-free time I’ve had since I was basically a kid of the streets. It made it easier to blend in and understand the jologs culture (Google it) while the rest of my upper-middle class friends are grossed out by it. For most of my life though I lived in suburban neighborhoods in Antipolo and it was mainly quiet, isolated, and boring.

Is there a reason behind your name? My parents say I was named after the singer Robyn, but they occasionally change their answer when I ask where my name came from. Until now, I’ve never gotten to the truth.

Are you in love and if so, for how long? Yes. Five years.

How many times have you thought you were in love? I’ve only decided that I was once, and it is the same one I have now.

How did you know you were in love? I knew I wanted to be with her for a very, very long time. I felt comfort with her presence. That’s simply it.

Have you done drugs and if so, which was the best? Never.

Do you recycle, or do you feel guilty about not recycling? Sure. I segregate more often, though.

Have you ever been sexually educated? Nope. Had to piece it together all by myself when I was around 11. That’s how it works in the Philippines.

Did you attend public or private school? The education system works different here, but just to answer the question I went to private school all my life. My university is public, though.

Are you an only child or do you have siblings? I have two siblings, both younger.

What age did you lose your virginity? 18.

What will your life be like in twenty years? Hopefully financially stable. And with a kid. Or kids.

Have you ever offended a celebrity? Yeah. CM Punk has me blocked. Understandably so, though; I was a little prick of a fangirl at the time.

Would you marry someone if you thought their parents were insane? It would be a problem but I don’t think it’d lessen or tarnish what I felt for my partner. Thankfully I don’t have to face this because my girlfriend’s parents are the kindest, sweetest people.

Have you ever been at home and wondered where everyone went? No, but I’ve woken up* and thought the same thing.

Did you know grape juice and baking soda can be used as invisible ink? Cool. I’ll keep that in mind if the need to use invisible ink rises.

Is it fun to be mean to little kids? It’s always good fun to tease them, but I could never be mean to one–unless they’re a huge asshole at like 5 (which happens a whole lot.) My mother has been continually mean to me all my life and I remember every single crappy thing she did when I was a kid myself.

Have you ever wanted to be a teacher so you could be mean to little kids? No, that’s the worst. But some teachers are so disgustingly mean that this question is making me think that they applied to be a teacher solely so that they had the space to be like what they are. Hi, Ms. Belen, Sir Ruel, and Sir Johnny!

Have you ever been embarrassed to discuss something with a doctor? A little. I had a hickey on my belly the day of my medical exam, and when she was checking my bare torso she saw it and tapped on it and asked me what it was. I was flustered and said I didn’t know before insisting I was fine then she moved on. My dad was waiting outside so he couldn’t find out lmao.

Do you enjoy talking to people over webcam? No, because the Internet connection here is a huge hassle.

Is there a video game that you have beaten everyone you challenged at? Nope, I don’t play video games to beat people; mostly just to roam around in open world games, really.

Would you ever push someone into the middle of the street? I don’t think I would have the balls to.

Are you desperate for things to change? No.

Do you talk to people about your problems? Just my girlfriend, and sometimes Angela.

Have you ever become unconscious? Welp other than sleeping, I’ve fainted a few times before due to hunger.

Do you hate being the first person to start a conversation? Sometimes.

Would you rather die or eat another human being? I think I’d much rather die than having to resort to cannibalism. In any situation.

Do you think people who say that they ‘don’t have regrets’ are telling a lie? I always say I don’t have regrets and my reasoning for it is that the now-wrong thing I did or had was what I wanted at the time, and I’m not gonna invalidate what I wanted before. Yes, I’ve had stupid decisions, but I don’t like the idea of taking them away from me by regretting them. And I don’t lie about this, so... that’s your answer.

How many cups of coffee do you have to drink to totally become hyper? Not sure. I don’t drink coffee to be hyper.

Do you ever get hyper off of sugar? I don’t think that has ever happened, no.

Would you ever become a psychologist? How about a psychiatrist? I wish. I wanted to and still want to take up BS Psych and work in that field, but alas I’m stuck somewhere else.

Do you know what the difference between a psychiatrist and psychologist is? I do.

Does/did the last person you text messaged go to the same school as you? Nope, she studies like two cities away.

Is there anything worrying you? Right now I just want my phone to be as alive and USEFUL while I wait for my dad to come home and lend me his iPhone because that’s how most people contact me. Mine is practically useless and dies after using for like 20 minutes.

If so, have you talked to anyone about it? Yeah I told my dad about it, said I had to wait 14 more days before he gets back and deals with it.

What colour are the eyes of the last person you held hands with? Dark brown.

Is it possible to be “just friends” with someone you have feelings for? Yes, if you haven’t admitted it at all. Not so much, if you’ve admitted and they’ve said they don’t feel the same.

Is there someone of the opposite sex that you can talk to about anything? No. 

Are you looking forward to anything? YESSSSS. There’s a vegan place on campus now and I plan to try it later and I’m way too excited for it.

Should you be doing something else right now? Eating breakfast and getting ready for school.

Is it important to be on a similar intelligence level as the person you’re with? That is very important to me, yes.

What’s your favorite Ben & Jerry’s flavor? I’ve never tried Ben & Jerry as it’s ridiculously expensive here, where B&J is seen as one of the snootier imported brands. It’s like 575 pesos for a small ass pint. That’s $11 for something I can finish in one sitting, and believe me that’s overpriced in the Philippines. I’d much rather buy the local 1.5L tub of cookies and cream ice cream for P245/$5.

What do you really watch on TV in the middle of the night? I don’t even watch TV during the day.

What’s your favorite song to sing in the shower? I don’t sing in the shower.

Have you ever had your phone taken away at school? No. I never brought it at least until the latter months of the school year when the teachers stop caring, since surprise inspections are a thing in my old school.

How old were you the first time you dyed your hair? I’ve never done it.

What do your slippers look like? I don’t use slippers around the house. I never got use to it as I didn’t grow up doing it.

Do you think your ex still wants to be with you? She did. Now she is with me.

Where were you two hours ago? I was in bed, sleeping.

Has anyone ever cried in your arms? Yes.

What was the last thing you randomly decided to buy on the spur of the moment? I reeeeeally try to avoid impulse shopping now, hahaha. It’s worked so far, since I can’t give you an answer to this question.

Do you get along with your best friend’s parents? Yes, I love both Angela’s and Gabie’s parents :(

What’s the closest thing to you that’s blue? My school bag.

Are there any foods that you love but can’t eat, for any reason? Thankfully nope.

Are you hiding something from someone at the moment? No.

What flavor was the last ice cream you ate? Cookies and cream.

Have you ever told anyone that you never wanted to lose them? Yeah along the lines of that. Then Sofie faded out of my life. Then Gabie was away from the picture for a while. Shit happens, and that’s okay.

First name of the last person to text you? Gabie.

What are your plans for the weekend? Drown in readings for my Tuesday class.

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How long ago did you take your last survey? I did one an hour ago. I was called for dinner, but now I’m starting a new survey. Would you rather have hot tea or hot coffee? Pass. I’ll never be caught drinking anything hot. I’ll take the coffee, but chances are I’ve dumped ice in it. Have you ever been told you were a good writer? Yeah. If I get any compliments at all, it’s about my writing. What name do you think is pretty for a girl? Isabela, Olivia, Arden, and Harper are all pretty girl names. If you had to name your daughter after a Disney princess, which one? Aurora.

Do you think telepathy is real? No. If I ever foresaw what someone thought, it’s probably cause I know them well enough to expect what they would think or say. When you were little, did you ever think you would be a magician? Hahaha I don’t think so. I always looked forward to magicians in all the parties I went to though. When did you last draw something for fun? I don’t ever draw, not even for fun. What is your opinion on poetry? I’m envious of people who can write tragically, beautifully, and both. Poetry itself isn’t my forte as I struggle to understand symbolism and metaphor, but I appreciate it whenever I can. Did you play with Barbies as a kid? Nope. I had toy soldiers and foldable robots, mainly because my sister and I were the only girls in the family. What, if any, TV shows do you have on DVD? I have like, this bootleg DVD copy of an 80s sitcom that my parents introduced me to. It’s called Perfect Strangers and I ended up loving it so much. Would you rather go in a hot air balloon or go sky diving? Hot air balloon - I’d want to take things slowly. What do you put on your baked potatoes? I rarely have those, and the last time my mom made some for me it had bacon and cheese in it. That’s all I need.

Homework--would you rather do it on a Friday or Sunday? I would rather do them Friday, but what ends up happening is I do them Monday anyway. Once a procrastinator, always will be I guess.   Will you ever understand hate gangs? I’ll never understand anything rooting from hate. Do you remember every birthday wish you've ever made? I never made any. What do you want to do right out of high school? Welp I’m out of it, and all I wanted was to study in UP and take up journalism. I’m doing that now. At what age do you want to start working/What age did you start? If I could start next year (I turn 20 by then) that would be great. But holding it out till I graduate isn’t a problem too. I would be 21--not big of a difference at all.

What cartoon character did you have a crush on as a kid? Brock from Pokemon. How did Team Rocket ALWAYS know where Ash was? HAHAHAHA and I had just mentioned Pokemon. I mostly forgot the episodes by now, but didn’t they have a Meowth air balloon? Maybe it made it easier to spot where he was. Would you say you have a stable, good internet connection? Nowhere in the Philippines can you say stable connection exists. Just a while ago ours was acting up. At what time of the day do you like to take showers? Just before sleeping, although when in school I usually take a bath in the morning and that’s it for the day. Do you lie on surveys to make yourself seem cooler? Hah maybe when I was 12 and had just started making surveys? Nowadays it’s my one outlet where I can be completely honest and carefree, so lying to ‘be cool’ is pointless, especially when that’s not the purpose of doing surveys. Was that a lie? Not at all. Does the number 27 have any significance to you? It’s an inside joke between myself and Angela, but no more significance to that. How do you study for tests? Well er I would put it off until the day before. I’d rewrite my notes on another sheet of paper since it helps me remember; I have terrible attention span, so merely skimming through them on my notebook itself would be pointless. By the time I’m done rewriting I would have had memorized most of the pointers, and by then I’d just need short reviews a few hours at a time until the time of the test. Were you ever a tree-climber? Noooooo. Trees here are adorned with fire ants, and you wouldn’t want to fuck with them. Do you keep a diary/journal that you update regularly? Just this blog. Writing by hand is too tedious. Have you ever tried to start a blog? Many times. Always abandoned it after one post. I’ve had multiple Tumblr accounts but I doubt they would count as a blog. What video games have you beaten? Hah. What is your mom's occupation? She’s always done secretarial stuff, but I never knew her titles. Who makes the most in your entire family? My dad. Have you ever been on a farm? Not that I know of. Do you like writing essays? I DO. I. Love. Essays. I could do them forever. I love profs instantly when their requirements include essays and research papers, since it’s finally something I could sink my teeth into. Would you ever study abroad? I’m too loyal to my university, so no. If a cosmotoligy class was offered at your school, would you take it? Cosmetology. And nope. Have you ever known someone who smoked? Did they stop? Yes, Gabie. She stopped for my sake, but also because she realized she hated it. Do you think weed should be legalized? Cigarettes illegalized? Uh I really don’t know anything about tobacco and drugs just stay safe everyone I guess??? Would you rather run or ride your bike? Well I can’t ride bikes, so run. Where do you buy your make up? I don’t do makeup. What is the last fruit you've eaten? When? I got a tomato from Angela’s lunch last Tuesday. What is the last junk food you've eaten? When? Mils was handed free Chippy last Tuesday when we met up, so she gave them to me. Would you call yourself an enviromentalist? Sure. I was practically raised in an eco-friendly school, so I learned to appreciate and be aware from a young age. What is more practical: Glue sticks or white, regular glue? Glue sticks. The liquid ones can get messy and even get on your skin. Do you like the purple glue sticks just because they're purple? LOL yeah I’d probably find them fascinating just because they’re purple. If you could make your lips bigger, would you? Nope. Do you think plastic surgery is no big deal? Not really? Like some people get it for health and practical reasons, it’s really just what people like Kylie Jenner does that give it a bad rep tbh.