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When relaxing...

... becomes getting sick on your only week off...

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I’m over it…

But sometimes I still think about it…

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Because sometimes I daydream...

... then suddenly wonder what KHR characters would be like in a World Trigger universe.

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When You Realize...

... that third-day curry is really good, but really dangerous cause you found a bone in your potato.

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Sometimes...

...I have dreams that are like scenes from movies, but then I wake up and wonder if it is from an actual movie.

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Convo between my 7year-old students today

Josie: I have a new crusshhhhh

Matt: Me too! On a boy!

Pearl: You're a boy with a crush on a boy?

Matt: Yeah he's really cute.

Pearl: Oh.

(pause for a bit)

Matt: Boys can like boys. I just can't marry him because boys can't marry boys.

Me: Yeah they can. You can marry whoever you want.

Matt: Really?

Josie: YEAH my tia has a wife so now I have a titi and a auntie.

Matt: Okay. Then maybe I'll marry him.

Dave: (from across the room) No you can't you're seven.

(Age was apparently the only foreseeable problem anyone of my elementary schoolers could see with gay marriage.)

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[rosettes]

From one of my favourite books of all time

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A reminder to all that children are not stupid; they may be unconsciously naïve due to inexperience, but they are not stupid.

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Dear Parent:

As your (now-young-adult) hatchling, I will always listen to what you have to say. But as a being who lives in and experiences this time period, I can't blindly follow your words.

This is not defiance, or rebellion -- I hear the wisdom in your words; however, time is ever-changing so my thoughts and actions can never fully match your ideal no matter how much you try to pound them in.

So, Mom, Dad:

"... you've seen a lot of things and I think you're already decisive about it./But, as for me.../I still don't understand anything.../That's why I'm going to see everything with my own eyes and then decide what to do!"

- Kaneki Ken, Tokyo Ghoul

From your beloved hatchling

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Turtle vs. Tortoise

As a turtle, I'm a slow creature. Sadly, I don't have the steady factor like the tortoise in "The Tortoise and the Hare"; though on most days I wish I do.

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Introduction

Here lies the first post of the oppressive, bastard turtle. Though my disposition is neither oppressive, nor am I a bastard, I often find myself introducing my being as such.