#love peanuts

[freedarick]

How are these peanuts, that I am peeling the shell off from, already salty?

[alphabetsoupcup]

thanks for the tag @deviantsugaloaf ! here are my lockscreens :)

no pressure tags @skeltn @doomsdaybby @pretentious-blonde

[shopef5462-blog]

When we started our readings for the semester, I wondered what Dr. Hawkins’ intention was, aside for the prescribed learning outcomes. Each reading built upon the other from Haas to Hooks. Right now, I am sitting here on about an hour into writing this blog, and I have come up with two sentences excluding this one. I think about what I am going to say, and then I go over it, again and again, checking its validity, grammar, and fluency. I am also going through a mental checklist of how I was taught to write: make a hook, introduce the author and the work you will be discussing, start out speaking generally and narrow your discussion to your thesis statement. All of this is going on before I have even settled on my main ideas. This is how I get stuck. It is like a mental form of constipation. To remedy I go back over Peter Elbow’s Writing Without Teachers. His solution is to just write no matter what keep going even if it sounds stupid, by doing so you clear out the clutter in your mind and get to your main points. It was during that process that Bell Hooks’ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice to Freedom came to mind. Hooks refers to the classroom as being a source of oppression, and while I try to write this, I identify with that idea. I get so caught up in the structure that I lose my voice. When I read her book, she was making sense. I understood it and could identify with it. It was not until I actually dealt with it that it completely sunk in. While reading, I thought I was past such things because I was aware of them. My awareness did nothing for me. When my voice is not stifled by sticking to the structure, I managed to write easily, steadily, and coherently in about fifteen minutes.

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I got new shirts at UNIQLO. and new icon is from this Charlie Brown!

[missfoodcrazy-blog]

March 1st is dedicated to peanut butter lover's around the world who want to spread their love for this creamy crunchy delight on thick! So celebrate your nuttiness by creating and sharing your own peanut butter recipes!