#spinneryesteryear

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Today is one of those days where neither time nor space are real.

Particularly undead-looking physical chemistry professor, on his nth cup of coffee for the day

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darkeststar310 replied to your post:

Please give your mom a hug for me and tell her that was a very me response

soldier-poet-king replied to your post:

tell ur mom I LOVE HER and what A Mood

spinneryesteryear replied to your post:

I feel like I know your family without ever having met them, because this resonates in my SOUL.

justhereforthesherlock replied to your post:

Your mom sounds a lot like me tbh. Introvert w/4 daughters, doesn’t people very well.  Kinda Learned How to Friend eventually...surprised myself the other day realizing I have FIVE WHOLE FRIENDS...(whom I hardly ever see and don’t talk on the phone to)

rj-anderson replied to your post:

I feel your mom on a molecular level.

I read my mom some of these responses and said “look mom, people on the internet like you” and first she smiled and then said “I’d bet they’d hate me if they knew me in real life.” 

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I am SO EXCITED to watch the reactions of those I have dragged into KH once the new trailer(s) drop.

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If I lose it one of these days and smash this balance on the floor, I'm telling you right now it will have richly deserved it.

Analytical TA, pointing at a balance with a terrible, persistent drift

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Word?

Joan of Arc was not stuck at the cross-roads, either by rejecting all the paths like Tolstoy, or by accepting them all like Nietzsche. She chose a path, and went down it like a thunderbolt. Yet Joan, when I came to think of her, had in her all that was true either in Tolstoy or Nietzsche, all that was even tolerable in either of them. I thought of all that is noble in Tolstoy, the pleasure in plain things, especially in plain pity, the actualities of the earth, the reverence for the poor, the dignity of the bowed back. Joan of Arc had all that and with this great addition, that she endured poverty as well as admiring it; whereas Tolstoy is only a typical aristocrat trying to find out its secret. And then I thought of all that was brave and proud and pathetic in poor Nietzsche, and his mutiny against the emptiness and timidity of our time. I thought of his cry for the ecstatic equilibrium of danger, his hunger for the rush of great horses, his cry to arms. Well, Joan of Arc had all that, and again with this difference, that she did not praise fighting, but fought. We KNOW that she was not afraid of an army, while Nietzsche, for all we know, was afraid of a cow. Tolstoy only praised the peasant; she was the peasant. Nietzsche only praised the warrior; she was the warrior. She beat them both at their own antagonistic ideals; she was more gentle than the one, more violent than the other. Yet she was a perfectly practical person who did something, while they are wild speculators who do nothing. It was impossible that the thought should not cross my mind that she and her faith had perhaps some secret of moral unity and utility that has been lost. And with that thought came a larger one, and the colossal figure of her Master had also crossed the theatre of my thoughts.

G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy 

This is exactly your aesthetic. I nailed this one. Let’s be real. 

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The lab coats were tailored for midgets.

Our grumpy and already short analytical TA

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spinneryesteryear replied to your post:

I don't know what's going on but I accept that theory.

i don’t know either bUT THANK YOUUU. (also I love that this is so frequently your approach.)

catefrankie replied to your post:

not to run with this further than you probably intended, but how long do you think she's been a vampire??  is she a few hundred years old??  or did she turn a few years ago and now is living with different principles and goals because of it?

this is EXACTLY how much farther i wanted to run with it!!! I’d be open to different thoughts because on the one hand she does kind of seem like she’s from the 1800s but also I like to think she turned right before Red- if there is an album about Heightened Emotion it’s Red, also happy birthday Red!! - but she doesn’t fully accept it until 1989 and reputation is her settling into it.

[scienceprofessorquotes]

...Aaaaaand another one bites the dust.

Chemistry lab TA, after the third volumetric flask was broken on the same day