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Everybody told me Andre Agassi's Open is one of the best memoirs they've ever read.

Nobody told me it would make me want to read Andre Agassi/Pete Sampras RPF.

#alas there is only one fic on ao3 #where are the people who were shipping this in the 90s?#I knew who they were but I did not follow tennis

It’s only taken me almost 47 years, but I’ve finally realized that one thing making me anxious is something I can sort of deal with, but two or more really is the anxiety that really puts me in fight or flight.

#work stress #kid stress #other stuff #it’s probably all nothing but I catastrophize so all three together feels huge #I know my general anxiety levels #are unsustainable and I should probably be on meds but I also have anxiety about being on anxiety meds.#however the perimenopause specialist told me I’ll probably die young if I don’t go on meds #which is an additional fun thing to worry about!#but maybe something to take seriously.

At a new salon for the first time because it’s been seven years in this city and I can’t seem to find a stylist who 1) understands my hair and 2) uses the brand of dye I prefer and 3) does not play annoying cat and dog videos on a big screen TV the entire time. But this woman uses my brands and has a kid the same age as mine and her music is a playlist that can best be described as “Lilith Fair 1998,” so things look promising.

plain-flavoured-english

As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

plain-flavoured-english

Excuse me???

ruffboi-mags

you are right and you should say it.

instantduckninja

Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

fluffmugger

The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see:

#the odyssey #jason mantzoukas #the obvious choice

Is there anything more beautiful than a cart of brand new books?

#and about half of them were free thanks to various lifetime guarantees from vendors #these won’t make it onto shelves this year and I am #definitely eyeing some to take home over the summer.

sanscest69

I just realized that many many people have jobs

Rb with your job, wtf do you people do while offline???

#I’m an elementary school librarian.#my job has its ups and downs (middle school would have been my first choice #but full-time librarian positions—especially in schools—are unicorn jobs)#but I enjoy it for the most part.#however I will forever miss being a reporter.#my nine-year anniversary of being laid off was last week #and while that job also had its ups and downs #(mostly an unstable manager who should not have been a manager)#I loved the work and would happily have done it until retirement.#it was so much fun to learn new things and talk to interesting people.#and I loved that I had the opportunity to tell untold stories and give a voice to people whose voices #weren’t often heard.#I like to think I have the same philosophy as a librarian.#I’ve had a few kids tell me I’ve inspired them to write and it makes me so happy.

thepollingstation

Are you confident you are the only person alive with your full name?

yes

other

Voting ended onMay 21

#definitely not the only person with my first name + husband’s last name #but legally my name is first name middle name (fairly uncommon) maiden name married name #and yes I’m pretty sure I’m the only one with that name combo.

porcupine-girl

Granola recipe

I posted this recipe to Livejournal a million years ago, and luckily I gave it a very distinctive title so I can still google it now to find it. However, I'm guessing either the baking community or LJ itself won't be around forever, so I'm copying it here as a backup (yes, I've also sent it to the wayback machine):

Ingredients (all amounts are approximate):

4 cups old-fashioned oats

1 cup chopped or sliced nuts (almonds in this batch, I've also tried cashews)

1/2 cup ground flax seed

1/4 cup brown sugar

2 Tbsp (or more) cinnamon

Other spices to taste - I often throw in ginger and nutmeg

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 cup olive oil

1/4 cup + 2 Tbsp honey

1/2-1 tsp vanilla

1-2 cups dried fruit, chopped if needed (dried cranberries and apples shown here)

1. Preheat oven to 375. In a big bowl, mix the oatmeal, nuts, flax seed, brown sugar, spices, and salt.

2. In a small pot, heat the olive oil, honey, and vanilla until warm and easily pourable.

3. Pour the wet ingredients over the dry and mix until the dry ingredients are well-moistened all over.

4. Spread mixture evenly in a jelly roll pan or cookie sheet.

5. Bake for 12 minutes, stirring after 5 min. Watch closely after 10 min in case your oven is a bit different from mine b/c the edges can burn easily - you'll smell the burning before you can see it. It should be a nice golden brown all over when done. If you don't want to risk burning, it can be baked at a lower temp for longer, I just like getting it done quickly

6. Let cool in the pan until it hardens. Break up back into the bowl, add in dried fruit, mix it up, and pour into a gallon ziplock for storage.

Notes: If you like your granola clumpy like I do, they keys are the honey and letting it cool in the pan. If you want to cut down on sweetness but not clumpiness, cut down the brown sugar, NOT the honey. And if you don't want your granola clumpy, only let it cool a couple minutes before pouring it back into the bowl and mixing in the fruit.

Also, note that the oils in flax seed can go rancid when not refrigerated, and cooking them can speed up this process a little. This size batch lasts me 1-1.5 weeks and I have never had a problem with this, but if you want to make big batches that last longer than that you may want to cut out the flax and instead sprinkle a tablespoon on each bowlful of granola before you eat it.

#recipes #granola #for future reference #I’ve been meaning to find a good granola recipe.#we accidentally bought regular oats instead of quick-cooking and I need to use them.#(regular are great but quick-cooking work better for overnight oats #which is my usual breakfast). I have all the ingredients I’ve just been too busy to look for a recipe.

fraterrisus

Can't believe this didn't happen on Tumblr. We're slipping, people. Thread under the cut. Source attached to post.

#this is fantastic

statisticalcats2

There are gonna be people who won't like hearing this but if you want to live in a world where mixed marriages, families, and adoptions (particularly POC adopting outside their "race") aren't maligned and discriminated against, then you have got to get more chill about seeing someone partaking in something cultural that you don't think fits the "race" you perceive them as.

statisticalcats2

It's a vague memory now, it was a vague memory even at the time I made this post, but I think what sparked this was remembering stupid comments I saw about a Chinese-American cookbook that were complaining about it being written by a white woman and then I looked the white woman up and the briefest research showed she was adopted as a child into a Chinese-American family and just....

*pinches nose*

Fellas, is it cultural appropriation to inherit your family's culture but you don't pass the blood quantum test?

All of you are literally just racist. You've come full-circle. You're working under the belief that people are supposed to "keep to their own kind" and that means the socially invented concept of "race", and "race mixing" of any sort is unnatural.

asteroidtroglodyte

What discussing Cultural Appropriation was supposed to be about: why does Cheryl get to wear Dreads to work but Tyrone doesn’t?

What it became: Segregation 2 electric boogaloo

#the same can also be said about the debate over who belongs at Pride.#oh you don’t think straight people belong at pride?#what about straight people who were raised by gay parents #and were raised in the queer community and grew up going to pride events?#(this is not a hypothetical it applies to several of my friends’ kids)#you’re just going to ban them from the community they were raised in because they happened to be straight?#come on.#(and of course parents friends and allies belong at pride events too)

The problem with not having many local friends is that I never have somebody to give an unbiased opinion while shopping.

#still looking for a formal gown for this wedding next month.#my Seattle bff is out of the country and also hates shopping.#my husband went with my yesterday but he has stuff to do today.#a bunch of people suggested rent the runway but that won’t work #because the maximum rental period is only eight days.#and the wedding is in Europe. so we’ll be traveling for a while afterward.

indigosfindings

which of the three "superwholock" shows have you voluntarily watched at least one full season of?

supernatural only

doctor who only

sherlock only

supernatural & doctor who

supernatural & sherlock

doctor who & sherlock

all three

none of them

unsure/see results

Voting ended onMay 21

#doctor who only #my ex-BIL tried to get us into Sherlock but I fell asleep during the first episode.#those episodes were just too damn long.#don't make a movie and tell me it's a TV show.

penny-anna

hokay so i was curious as a point of contrast to the Guardian list how well tumblr would do on a best 100 SFF novels list. so i went looking for one and google directed me to NPR's top 100 novels list and i'm like aight i'll just use that one keep it simple. but as i scrolled down the list i was like wait there's been no Octavia Butler at all?? which i honestly found quite offensive but i was deep into adding books to my list challenge by that point.

also the version of the list i was looking at only had 97 entries on it; i am unsure if that's a counting error bcos some of the entries are series or if it's just missing 3 items off the NPR list but i opted to rectify both issues by adding 3 Octavia Butler books on the end.

so here is my list challenge of the 97 book long NPR top 100 list but I added Octavia Butler:

NPR top 100 books except there were only 97 on the list so I added 3 Octavia Butler's on the end. why in the world the original list had...

How many of the NPR: Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books list have you read?

0-10

11-20

21-30

31-40

41-50

51-60

61-70

71-80

81-90

91-100

Voting ended onMay 23

where a series is listed you can count that as the first book or the whole series at your discretion.

#17 which is more than I expected considering these are not my preferred genres.#honestly shocked to see the eyre affair on here but I think my opinion is colored by the fact that I read it #in its entirety while I was in labor with my older child.#(it was neither a long nor a painful labor I was just very determined to finish before he arrived.)

yesornopolls

Do/did you personally know 3 or more sets of twins?

(You don't really have to be friends with them now, just at any point in your life, did you know them/interact with them in some capacity. They don't have to be identical. Idk if we want to count triplets/quadruplets/etc. in here, ig we can. Lol sorry).

Do/did you personally know 3 or more sets of twins?

Yes

Voting ended onMay 8

#I currently teach three sets of twins.#both of my maternal grandparents + two great grandfathers were twins.#my dad has twin cousins.#was friendly with two different sets of twins in high school.#and one of my library school friends is an identical triplet.

yesornopolls

if you take handwritten notes with a pen, do you usually use a color that isn’t black? for example i like to use blue ink!

If you take handwritten notes with a pen, do you usually use a color that isn’t black?

Yes

See results

Voting ended onMay 17

#yes #purple #specifically pilot v5 which I have used since high school #(roughly 30 years)#before that I got purple ballpoint pens from a random little store and I loved this specific pen #because it had a purple grip and clear barrel and the color was just right.#I think it was discontinued and I have searched for years but haven’t found any trace of this pen #on the internet.#I prefer the writing experience of Pilot v5s anyway and I will use other colors #(light blue green or black) but purple is preferred.

I was really dreading today. Tuesdays are, in generally, my toughest day because I have eight K and first grade classes and only a 25-minute lunch break. (I have eight class on Fridays too, but the spacing is such that I have 90 minutes after the 4th grade lunch I supervise so I have plenty of time to eat and get work done. Also, I’m not reading out loud all day long.)

So I got to work and steeled myself for the first grade onslaught after a dream of a K class and then I looked out the window and … all the first graders were getting ready for their field trip!

So I went back to my other building to work and my Demco order had arrived so I got to start putting genre labels on the books. What a great Tuesday.

itshype

Quick question. When someone asks what age you were in a certain year do you give the age that you were before or after your birthday that year?

Do you give the younger or older of the two ages you were that year?

I give the younger (age before your birthday in a given calendar year)

I give the older (age after your birthday in a given calendar year)

Voting ended onMay 15

#my birthday is in the middle of the year so it’s usually the year I turned that year.#now if you’re asking how old I was in x grade that’s easy #because having a June birthday means I was always the same age #for the entire school year.

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