Duolingo killed my friend streaks. 🥲
June 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Duolingo killed my friend streaks. 🥲
I made the mistake of stretching both of my legs while randomly waking up in the middle of the night. Talk about wanting to scream, but can't because I'd be waking up the whole house.
So now I have to deal with both of my legs having Charley horses. 🫠
So now I have to deal with both of my legs having Charley horses. 🫠
May 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I made the mistake of stretching both of my legs while randomly waking up in the middle of the night. Talk about wanting to scream, but can't because I'd be waking up the whole house.
So now I have to deal with both of my legs having Charley horses. 🫠
So now I have to deal with both of my legs having Charley horses. 🫠
I smell the scent of freshly cut grass and the flowering trees are in bloom. The sun is out with a few fluffy clouds and the temperature is mild. Spring is really back. 🥹
April 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I smell the scent of freshly cut grass and the flowering trees are in bloom. The sun is out with a few fluffy clouds and the temperature is mild. Spring is really back. 🥹
I've been slaving away at the grill and stove all day.
April 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I've been slaving away at the grill and stove all day.
I tried Raising Cane's. 🙁
April 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I tried Raising Cane's. 🙁
Work updated the operating system to Windows 11 and I can't stand my taskbar being at the bottom. 😣
April 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Work updated the operating system to Windows 11 and I can't stand my taskbar being at the bottom. 😣
My sister got Saratoga just to try it out and I took a sip and it made me feel like a Victorian child with the way it burned down my throat. 🥴
April 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
My sister got Saratoga just to try it out and I took a sip and it made me feel like a Victorian child with the way it burned down my throat. 🥴
My duolingo friends really don't play about me. 🥹
April 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
My duolingo friends really don't play about me. 🥹
Had provolone cheese in my sandwich for lunch and that crap tasted like throw up. It threw me off so bad. 🥴
April 4, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Had provolone cheese in my sandwich for lunch and that crap tasted like throw up. It threw me off so bad. 🥴
Having an ocular headache is pretty jarring. I ain't know it could happen like out of the blue and lead to a regular migraine. 😵💫
March 23, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Having an ocular headache is pretty jarring. I ain't know it could happen like out of the blue and lead to a regular migraine. 😵💫
I feel so tired, but I don't wanna go to sleep yet. 🫠
March 22, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I feel so tired, but I don't wanna go to sleep yet. 🫠
I'll be sleeping when the Lunar Eclipse happens tonight. 😞
March 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I'll be sleeping when the Lunar Eclipse happens tonight. 😞
I found out how to do Uptown Downtown.
March 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I found out how to do Uptown Downtown.
I need to up my cologne collection. I need spring cologne recommendations. 😮💨
March 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I need to up my cologne collection. I need spring cologne recommendations. 😮💨
Last night, I deep conditioned my hair and it was feeling like my scalp was dipped in Dr. Bronner's eucalyptus soap. 🥴
March 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Last night, I deep conditioned my hair and it was feeling like my scalp was dipped in Dr. Bronner's eucalyptus soap. 🥴
Best way to send off this month!
Day 28: A More Perfect Union, by President Barack Obama
Iconic, yet very important speech made by President Obama. It was a speech focused on race relations and a response to his pastor that almost derailed his campaign.
Here it is:
www.npr.org/2008/03/18/8...
Day 28: A More Perfect Union, by President Barack Obama
Iconic, yet very important speech made by President Obama. It was a speech focused on race relations and a response to his pastor that almost derailed his campaign.
Here it is:
www.npr.org/2008/03/18/8...
March 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Best way to send off this month!
Day 28: A More Perfect Union, by President Barack Obama
Iconic, yet very important speech made by President Obama. It was a speech focused on race relations and a response to his pastor that almost derailed his campaign.
Here it is:
www.npr.org/2008/03/18/8...
Day 28: A More Perfect Union, by President Barack Obama
Iconic, yet very important speech made by President Obama. It was a speech focused on race relations and a response to his pastor that almost derailed his campaign.
Here it is:
www.npr.org/2008/03/18/8...
I went through so many pieces that didn't have a way to read them online, it's insane. 😮💨
Day 27: My God, It's Full of Stars, by Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith is also another poet laureate! Her pen was definitely hot when writing this poem.
Here it is:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55519/...
Day 27: My God, It's Full of Stars, by Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith is also another poet laureate! Her pen was definitely hot when writing this poem.
Here it is:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55519/...
February 28, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I went through so many pieces that didn't have a way to read them online, it's insane. 😮💨
Day 27: My God, It's Full of Stars, by Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith is also another poet laureate! Her pen was definitely hot when writing this poem.
Here it is:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55519/...
Day 27: My God, It's Full of Stars, by Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith is also another poet laureate! Her pen was definitely hot when writing this poem.
Here it is:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55519/...
I feel goofy for this, but hear me out.
Day 26: Twenty-Six Ways of Looking at a Blackman, by Raymond Patterson
It was a poem that was inspired by Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen ways of Looking at a Blackbird," which also is very nuanced.
Here it is:
blowingajug.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/t...
Day 26: Twenty-Six Ways of Looking at a Blackman, by Raymond Patterson
It was a poem that was inspired by Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen ways of Looking at a Blackbird," which also is very nuanced.
Here it is:
blowingajug.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/t...
February 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I feel goofy for this, but hear me out.
Day 26: Twenty-Six Ways of Looking at a Blackman, by Raymond Patterson
It was a poem that was inspired by Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen ways of Looking at a Blackbird," which also is very nuanced.
Here it is:
blowingajug.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/t...
Day 26: Twenty-Six Ways of Looking at a Blackman, by Raymond Patterson
It was a poem that was inspired by Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen ways of Looking at a Blackbird," which also is very nuanced.
Here it is:
blowingajug.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/t...
With minutes to spare!
Day 25: The Hill We Climb, by Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in US history and she did this poem during Joe Biden's inauguration. The sense of unity and togetherness is strong within it!
Here it is:
contentmanager.med.uvm.edu/docs/the_hil...
Day 25: The Hill We Climb, by Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in US history and she did this poem during Joe Biden's inauguration. The sense of unity and togetherness is strong within it!
Here it is:
contentmanager.med.uvm.edu/docs/the_hil...
February 26, 2025 at 4:56 AM
With minutes to spare!
Day 25: The Hill We Climb, by Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in US history and she did this poem during Joe Biden's inauguration. The sense of unity and togetherness is strong within it!
Here it is:
contentmanager.med.uvm.edu/docs/the_hil...
Day 25: The Hill We Climb, by Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman is the youngest inaugural poet in US history and she did this poem during Joe Biden's inauguration. The sense of unity and togetherness is strong within it!
Here it is:
contentmanager.med.uvm.edu/docs/the_hil...
Four more days -- I gotta make it count.
Day 24: Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Very iconic book. It was meant as a letter to his son telling the experiences/realities as a black man in America and the challenges it presents.
Here it is:
iberian-connections.yale.edu/wp-content/u...
Day 24: Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Very iconic book. It was meant as a letter to his son telling the experiences/realities as a black man in America and the challenges it presents.
Here it is:
iberian-connections.yale.edu/wp-content/u...
February 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Four more days -- I gotta make it count.
Day 24: Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Very iconic book. It was meant as a letter to his son telling the experiences/realities as a black man in America and the challenges it presents.
Here it is:
iberian-connections.yale.edu/wp-content/u...
Day 24: Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Very iconic book. It was meant as a letter to his son telling the experiences/realities as a black man in America and the challenges it presents.
Here it is:
iberian-connections.yale.edu/wp-content/u...
I gotta stop posting so late!
Day 23: when the rainbow is enuf, by Ntozake Shange
I'm not posting the full name of this choreopoem. These were inspired by real life events from the author's life. There's seven women, each defined by a different color.
Here it is:
facolta.unica.it/studiumanist...
Day 23: when the rainbow is enuf, by Ntozake Shange
I'm not posting the full name of this choreopoem. These were inspired by real life events from the author's life. There's seven women, each defined by a different color.
Here it is:
facolta.unica.it/studiumanist...
February 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I gotta stop posting so late!
Day 23: when the rainbow is enuf, by Ntozake Shange
I'm not posting the full name of this choreopoem. These were inspired by real life events from the author's life. There's seven women, each defined by a different color.
Here it is:
facolta.unica.it/studiumanist...
Day 23: when the rainbow is enuf, by Ntozake Shange
I'm not posting the full name of this choreopoem. These were inspired by real life events from the author's life. There's seven women, each defined by a different color.
Here it is:
facolta.unica.it/studiumanist...
Sometimes I really wish I was good with cable management. 😕
February 23, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Sometimes I really wish I was good with cable management. 😕
I promise I'm awake this time.
Day 22: The Mothering Blackness, by Maya Angelou
I like the sense of comfort and homecoming that the poem gives. Very short poem, but there's a good amount of depth within it.
Here it is:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48991/...
Day 22: The Mothering Blackness, by Maya Angelou
I like the sense of comfort and homecoming that the poem gives. Very short poem, but there's a good amount of depth within it.
Here it is:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48991/...
February 23, 2025 at 4:36 AM
I promise I'm awake this time.
Day 22: The Mothering Blackness, by Maya Angelou
I like the sense of comfort and homecoming that the poem gives. Very short poem, but there's a good amount of depth within it.
Here it is:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48991/...
Day 22: The Mothering Blackness, by Maya Angelou
I like the sense of comfort and homecoming that the poem gives. Very short poem, but there's a good amount of depth within it.
Here it is:
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48991/...