#rellephant rambles

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GUESS WHO GOT TOP SURGERY AT ASS O'CLOCK THIS MORNING AND IS NOW HOME BEING SNUGGLED BY AN EXTREMELY PERSISTENT CAT

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paint day paint day paint day my house is gonna be so brightly colored in a couple days

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suddenly remembering the time in high school my English teacher assigned a book and never gave us a due date to finish the last chapter, so the entire grade minus two people did not read that last chapter, because we had hours upon hours of work and projects for every other subject and weren't going to prioritize it til we needed to. After several weeks of not giving us an answer when asked about the due date, he threw a pop quiz on the final conclusion of the book, told us to just answer as well as we could based on our reading of the last chapter, and then verbally berated and failed every single kid but those two for not finishing the reading.

My section was the first of the day, with several more to follow. Through sheer coincidence, of course, every single person in my year knew the answer they needed to get from the last three pages of the novel before the next section of the class. We made sure every single person in our grade, including the kids off campus for off periods that we had to track down, knew what they needed to pass that quiz.

It was movie-level high school teamwork like I have never seen before or since. Not a single person from that class chose to keep the information to themselves, even the most rule-following turn-in-cheaters kids. If that class was structured to create an excuse to to yell at kids for not doing unassigned work, well, have to have kids who didn't do the work to be able to yell at, eh?

My english teacher absolutely failed to teach the lesson of "always work ahead, even if there's not a due date" that day. He sure did unintentionally reinforce our collective sense of fair play, though, and willingness to maintain eye contact while breaking the rules so that someone in power can only pull a dirty trick once.

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THE DEED IS DONE

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great news lads I finally remembered that my cute lil url I’ve had for years was a Harry Potter reference and welp.

I Have Finally Returned To My Ancestral Url

hufflefluff-and-apple-pie >> rellephant

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[covered in blood] i styled an html table

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logging on motzash to report that okay yeah my Ashkenazi ancestors were definitely on to something with cabbage.

I think this is another combination of "the first person to prepare the vegetable properly for me was me" and "childhood palate almost certainly wouldn't have parsed the sweetness even with all the onions in there"--my dad could have made something like this when I was growing up and it would have been Bad ™ because the man had not yet unlearned 60s approaches to massacring vegetables, and even if it had been made well, I still wouldn't have liked the flavor of the cabbage (because I certainly never enjoyed it in any form before my 30s!)

which is all to say: holy shit that cabbage and farro soup was good. onion, head of cabbage, 3 cloves of garlic, farro, some red wine vinegar and lemon juice, chicken or vegetable stock; optionally a sprig of rosemary or thyme, and that's it. the cabbage really did become sweet as it cooked! this one's going in the family rotation!

next stop: maybe the cabbage in stuffed cabbage can be good too 🥺

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choir concert tomorrow let's goooooo

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