'Beneath You'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Where have you been struggling with it, Tep, Facebook?
Yeah, on friends' posts about it, where their other friends (who I don't know) make ignorant comments and I try to not have an aneurysm OR start arguing with them. My blood pressure is probably sky high.
This latest thing with the yearbook is just hitting SO MANY of my triggers. High school sucked. I thought I'd at least somewhat put it behind me. I guess not.
This latest thing with the yearbook is just hitting SO MANY of my triggers.
OMG yes.
I know the Ford story is awful. And the Ramirez story is awful in a different way. But the business about all the "jokes" about poor Renate?! Holy shit I want to BURN IT ALL DOWN.
This is fucking intolerable.
And I got into it on Twitter with some asshole who was all "how can you ruin someone's life based on weak allegations". I pointed out that a lifetime appointment to the federal judiciary is hardly a life ruined, and Kavanaugh didn't have to accept Trump's nomination.
I know that there's stuff about me that got past the yearbook censors my senior year. I've deliberately never read most of the stuff in that yearbook. I read what my friends wrote, and I read the stuff written about the dorky academic clubs that I was in, and that's it.
"innocent until proven guilty"
I usually say, "Do you lead off with that in job interviews?"
"Innocent until proven guilty."
"You know you're supposed to say, "perfectionism" or something like that when the interviewer asks you what your worst quality is, right?"
Ha!
The weird thing for me is sort of bonding with a bunch of other former DC-area private school women on Twitter, as if those girls didn't make my life miserable for the 4 years I was there. But I went to Holton-Arms (same school as Dr Ford) so I'm in the in-crowd now, I guess.
Holy shirt I want to BURN IT ALL DOWN.
Yesterday I actually had a bonfire and sat outside reading fiction by the fire. While all the while thinking Burn It All Down. It was soothing.
But I went to Holton-Arms (same school as Dr Ford) so I'm in the in-crowd now, I guess.
DH and I had the public vs private school debate, as I suspect most parents do. I went to private and he public. His arguments won and I agreed to public schools for the boys. As fraught as all high school experiences may be, the stories I hear out of the private ones really are worse.
I was the only one of my siblings to go to private school - I had previously been in a math/science magnet program, but didn't get into the math/science high school so my parents started looking for alternatives. In retrospect I wish I had gone to our local public school instead. I found my tribe in middle school, and lost it as soon as I entered 9th grade.