#elementary school homework

[benevolenterrancy]

if you're not reading the last book of SVSSS right now do you mind me asking what you are reading? I'm just curious!

Definitely! (though I warn you, I'm fundamentally incapable of reading only one thing at a time)

For physical books, I'm currently reading The Warden by Daniel M. Ford, the novelization of My Neighbour Totoro, and trying to keep up on Dracula Daily (i am failing this)

For audiobooks, I've been relistening to The Series of Unfortunate Events (because I never actually read them all when they were originally coming out) and I juuust finished This Census-Taker by China Miéville and Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky this weekend. I'm about to start A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers.

[trashfromash]

[compacflt]

This is niche (maybe) but please share more about ice and mav at Oshkosh!! Do they go yearly? Or just the one time? Are they part of any aviation enthusiast communities???

yes yes yes!!! going to air shows is 100% a date for both of them. i feel like: a couple things:

- they’ve both probably seen the blue angels so many times it’s not super exciting anymore, and until they retire & become private citizens it’s also too big of a Thing for them to go, so they try to go to civilian/private air shows if they can

- one exception is fleet week for obvious rzns. They both probably have to do shit for fleet week on the reg. Ice especially

- i do keep thinking it would be funny for mav to do like a two year tour with the BAs at some point but there wasn’t room for that in the narrative so it’s Schrödinger’s headcanon

- before they retire their schedules are super crazy packed & don’t always line up, even if they request certain dates (like each other’s birthdays, Xmas, thanksgiving, Oshkosh etc) off in advance, so Oshkosh specifically doesn’t become yearly until after they retire. But after they retire they do annually fly in to Oshkosh in their p-51. lots of picnic lunch breaks in Reno/Omaha/Boise etc

- theyve been to the big international air shows (farnborough, Paris, NOT dubai for security/gay people issues, etc) together a couple times when they can swing it. (Me looking for any excuse to send them back to europe on vacation) but before they retire it’s also probably a Thing. So Thing-ness (public & Navy engagement etc) has to be accounted for when they’re planning their trip. they do have a responsibility to rep the Navy as best as they can etc etc

- Thing-ness also has to be accounted for when joining aviation enthusiast groups… after they retire & get married hell yes!!! they probably have a ton of civilian aviation friends & are pretty involved. not before their marriage though. It takes a while for them to come out of the hidden little shell they’ve been living in for thirty years & make friends as a real couple. but they do eventually.

[uraandri]

i remember one of my it classes in elementary where our teacher was explaining to us how to use the internet and i was really embarrassed cause out of all my classmates i was the only one without internet access at home (i knew how to use it cause my aunt had a computer and internet access but at that point i had maybe spent 4 hours cumulatively using it in my whole life) so i was very nervous of others picking up on this (i was bullied quite a lot and i was afraid this would become another target for them) and after explaining to us how to search up things on an internet browser she told us to save the image to a folder called V-1 on the D disc. i remember doing this immidiately only to realise that 4 of my classmates hands were up and when our teacher asked what the problem was they told her that they didn't know how to save an image let alone navigate where to save it. all four of them were my main bullies who i knew had facebook and were regularly talking about stuff they've seen on youtube. i was floored honestly

[yume-fanfare]

just saw a friend i hadn't seen since middle school!!! great interaction it went like "yea i think im skipping my next class" "??? i never would have thought you'd say that"

[rose-n-gunses]

unnecessarily emotional because my dad helps me with my homework

[varpusvaras]

Sometimes you compare yourself to your parents or grandparents or whatever, and think like "oh my god how did they do it and why can't I do it", like I was making frozen mashed potatoes for dinner because I didn't have the energy to peel and boil and mash the potatoes from scratch, and my thoughts went like "oh this is going to be really handy with kids...how did my parents do this with multiple children, why am I already thinking about ways of doing things the easy way when they didn't? We had dinner made from scratch every day even though they worked almost 10 hours shifts"

and then I remembered that first me and my older brother had our grandparents feeding us, then we had a nanny who would pick us up from school and feed us, and then when we were around 10 and 12 years old, it was us who peeled the potatoes and put the dinner to oven before our parents came home and they only had to finish the cooking

So, yeah. The answer is that they didn't do it, and most likely a lot of people you're comparing yourself to didn't either

[mintedaisies]

been desperately craving to go back to my bookworm days and, this time, delve into the world of monster romance novels

[flemmboyant]

of a similar note really wild to realize that anyone younger than me also doesn't remember the bombing??? like yea if they've been alive during it it was probably subconsciously formative or whatever but they dont have memories of it like i do? which i mean....good??? that's good??? but its also REALLY WEIRD TO THINK ABOUT

[skautism]

I HAVE THE WHEELY CHAIR IN DRAMA TODAY YAYYYYYYY

[diffenbachiae]

i have to resist the urge to tell my friends & loved ones i love them like every single time i see their face and i know i’m being weird about it, like i’m not supposed to say it as often as i do/ in front of as many people, but i genuinely don’t understand how i’m supposed to not say it when it’s all i feel. and it makes me sad too bc that makes me think maybe i feel it stronger than most people? and that can’t be true but like how is everyone else not BURSTING to say and express it.

[sedentatus]

When our youngest son was in 3rd grade (long ago) he brought the flea circus home with him. maybe he thought it was homework.

[upside-down-theater-kid]

*inhales* I WILL NOT GET NOSTALGIC FOR THE 2020-2021 OR THE 2021-2022 SCHOOL YEARS I WILL NOT GET NOSTALGIC FOR THE 2020-2021 OR THE 2021-2022 SCHOOL YEARS I WILL NOT GET NOSTALGIC FOR THE 2020-2021 OR THE 2021-2022 SCHOOL YEARS I WILL NOT GET NOSTALGIC FOR THE 2020-2021 OR THE 2021-2022 SCHOOL YEARS I WILL NOT GET NOSTALGIC FOR THE 2020-2021 OR THE 2021-2022 SCHOOL YEARS I WILL NOT GET NOSTALGIC FOR THE 2020-2021 OR THE 2021-2022 SCHOOL YEARS I WILL NOT GET NOSTALGIC FOR THE 2020-2021 OR THE 2021-2022 SCHOOL YEARS I WILL NOT GET NOSTALGIC FOR THE 2020-2021 OR THE 2021-2022 SCHOOL YEARS

[x-ladydisdain-x]

I got a c on a math test yesterday and the problems I got wrong were all for the stupidest things like I knew all the formulas and I did all the steps correctly and then I’d be like 7 - 5 = 12 like literally ever single mistake was messing up basic addition & subtraction

[peachiyyy]

J.K. Simmons played the role of Fletcher too well in Whiplash…anytime I see a picture of him, I get ptsd and my hands start shaking no bs.

[juyomiao]

the eternal dilemma every time i open google docs : do i write fanfiction or do i actually do my english homework