Oof.

If you didn't get a raise of at least 5% this year and you're still eating food, you are falling behind.

Go out and look for the auroras. It's invigorating!

Yeah, I'm knee-deep in pre-K parenting. The "math" at that level is literally "know all of the numbers up to 20" (stretch goal up to 50), recognizing shapes, simple patterns, and spatial things like "which object is behind and which one is in front."

Lol

I was doing some genealogy a few years ago and tracked down a man in my father-in-law's lineage who was a "Union Civil War veteran" because he went on some calvary raids killing native women and children in the Dakota Territory in the early-1860s.

Ah yes, the sociopath factory.

I know a few people with advanced degrees in math and most of them are terrible at practical things like doing their taxes. They like numbers but they're not especially good at life. They're just regular people.

Ok, I'm just mad and can't move on.

Pre-K is almost ENTIRELY about social development. The kid is 4 fucking years old. The academic stuff is letters and colors and shapes. They're learning how to go to school, get along with kids, listen to the teacher.

You cannot "win" in pre-K.

FUCK!

Also this whole thing is bullshit.

Pre-K kids don't bring home report cards. All of the evaluations are delivered electronically because this is 2025. And pre-K don't have math "assignments." And no one is "good" at math in pre-K because it's all "can you count to 20 by the end of the year."

Other than being viewed as an odious troglodyte by anyone who has ever heard him speak, JD Vance sure lacks Nixonian qualities.

If my phone ever exercise-shamed me, I'd downgrade to a flip phone like an Amish person.

chin still too small

Oh shit you're giving me homework maybe I don't like you as much as I thought I did lol. I'll add it to my gigantic to-read list and maybe get to it when my kids don't turn my brain into mush every day. (And by then hopefully it's more history than current events.)

Submit this to poetry journals. Exactly as it's written.

You'll never write anything better than this.

That blood clot tried so hard to prevent this.

New kink unlocked.

This is 100% what you'll get.

The restaurant is never connected to a scuzzy gas station.

With all of their teeth.