School bulletin board ideas for september

In 2022 I received a bachelor's in history with a minor in English. Due to external struggles and bad mental health, my grades weren't the best, but I got it. As of recently, I've felt a rekindled desire to take on some sort of academic endeavor, possibly going onward into grad school, and the path that I've envision is complicated to say the least. Here's the short version.
1) Currently, I am taking Trinity CertTESOL courses so that between September and December, I can go teach classes abroad, probably in Japan through the JET program.
2) I want to take the classes online while I am living in Japan that would be required for me to turn my English background into a Bachelor of Arts with a creative writing minor. It would only take me like 30 credit hours to do this, and if I can, I would take classes year round over the next two or three years while living abroad.
3) After I am done teaching abroad, I want to use my improved grades from my second degree, the fact that I went back to school and did better, and the experience that I gained teaching abroad to possibly find my way into a master's program.
THE CURRENT PROBLEM: the classes that I would need to take with my alma mater to get the degree through them are either not currently offered or are not offered online as far as I can tell, and I don't know what other reputable universities might offer online programs to get some kind of Bachelor of Arts in English Literature.
Has anyone had a similar situation? How could I possibly find a way to take these classes and finish my degree online while living internationally?

Hi,
I passed my NREMT exam in May and my psychomotor exam in March. I am planning on working for my school starting in September. I would love to gain some experience over the summer, but am quite clueless on places I should apply. Is it possible to shadow or volunteer somewhere?

I cant feel pain if i dont exist. I would much rather have never been born but beggars cant be choosers so i might as well make do with the next best alternative. I have existed for 21 years, i have no prospects, no close confidants aside from the one person whose heart i broke and in turn broke mine, and no sense of direction or motivation. I made a choice i thought would protect her from pain and disappointment, and ended up causing so much pain and disappointment she could no longer bear the idea of being with me. She could no longer see a future for us. We had spent so long discussing possible futures, destinations, careers, even fucking pets, and in one moment i ruined that reality, or possibly rather revealed its unreality. If she couldnt accept me at my worst, most shameful state, did she deserve to see me at my most proud? If there is a God he, she, or whatever fucking pronouns they use are a cruel manipulator on a cosmic scale. 1.5 years may be a blip in the eyes of some master creator but im barely 2 decades old and this shit has been a massive fucking chunk of my life so far. I know theres other people, i know the key to happiness is working on myself, but why should i even fucking bother when all i want is to devote my life to her? Some find solace in religion, praising and worshipping whatever deity some guy thousands of years ago pulled out of their fucking ass and maybe that brings them peace. I wish it did for me. I wish i was able to keep believing that some guy in the sky created an entire race of sentient beings out of fucking dirt and then somehow had a son with one of these dirt gremlins for the sole purpose of this son dying ‘for the sake of our sins’. I wish so badly this made sense to me. Maybe then i could direct all my energy to that and find purpose in it. But i dont. And i cant. It just makes no sense to me. Id rather put my energy and soul into someone i can perceive, after all perception is the only confirmation of our reality. I cant see some sky daddy up in the clouds, but i can see her. I worshipped her, i praised her. If there was a God it took shape in her. They say he made us in his image but the only proof of that i can see is corrupt, selfish, and altogether destructive to itself and the world he supposedly created for it to foster. If we are the image of God then he is a vile, ugly, sadistic being. I remember learning in school about tragedies, and their main defining trait is that they revolve around the downfall of the protagonist due to a flaw of their own they were unable or unwilling to overcome. Humanity is a fucking tragedy. The only animal cursed with the knowledge that we are slowly decaying. What kind of existence is that? Im supposed to find purpose knowing im just a sack of atoms with an unknown expiry date? How do i live knowing everything and everyone around me will not only cease to exist at a certain point, but if our mess of a species manages to make it into any sort of distant future, most of us arent even likely to be remembered? I hate sentience, i hate existence, and i hate pain. I hate the way my heart aches when i see her. I cant seem to escape this prison of affection she has me in. i hate that i let myself be so vulnerable and then hurt her so badly she can no longer be vulnerable with me. I worked so fucking hard to earn her trust. It was a fucking grueling experience. And i would do it all again if given the chance. The looks of mistrust turning to a deep reliance, as i slowly peeled away the layers to her soul. She used to describe her trust as eggs she was putting in my basket, and the day she said i had all her eggs might have been the most loved i ever felt in my life. 2 weeks ago she told me i broke one of her eggs, and she had to take them back now to protect them. I dont think ive ever felt so much pain and remorse as i did in that moment. Not only for hurting the person i cared about most, but because i have to live with the fact that that unreality we had built together would stay that way, and it was all on me. I hurt her, and i hurt myself. I know theres probably someone out there with more shared interests, with more quippy one-liners, possibly someone im even more attracted to physically. But i just dont fucking care. What point is there in chasing that when it could all get fucked like this? I cant do this again. I wont do this again. Its too much. I think i might be done. One of these days i might finally get the fucking balls to do it. ive been so scared for so long. The afterlife, my family and friends, her. But fuck it. My parents see me as the problem child, and they wouldnt even be fucking wrong. My siblings barely know me and i barely know them. Visiting home is like a hotel where im constantly reminded of how much of a failure i am and all the ways everyone around me is better. And im genuinely not even jealous. I could care less about any of my cousin’s lifestyles, or my sisters much better academic performance and artistic skill, or my brother’s athletic prowess. I really am happy for them, they all deserve it and more given the work theyve put in. The only thing i give a shit about is the fact that i get treated less because of these things. I just want to be able to live my life without being put down for choices that im happy with. I just want genuine fucking support, and when i fail to not have it shoved in my fucking face as if i dont already feel like enough of a shit sack. I dont need a 6 figure salary i need a fucking support system. A small but significant part of me holds a deep resentment for my parents for actively choosing to bring me existence. When i get the fucking chance i might just have to take that existence into my own hands and strangle it away, but for now im too much of a fucking pussy to try. I dont even know how id do it. I want it short and painless, almost instant if possible. I dont want any chance of survival in the form of life support, so maybe looking into a dnr would be useful but i dont even know where to start with that. Ive heard of a trick with the car exhaust, but i dont own a car and i dont want anyone finding my dead body in their vehicle. I just want an easy death, life has been hard enough. I feel like im tipping over the edge

Hi guys, i'm a brazilian 17 year old guy that was happy, sympathetic and caring towards others, I am catholic and I participate in Sunday school every Saturday, but since the start of the pandemic in march 2020 onwards, i suddenly became brainwashed and paranoic with Christian conspiracy theories, mainly Qanon, and end times prophecies but in 2022 it only got worse, it all started at school when my sociology teacher who coincidentally was an evangelical pastor started talking a little about the end of times/Ragnarok and my friend said that between 2023, 2024 the apocalypse will begin, or it doesn't happen anything in these years, very probably in 2025 and 2027, and i searched on youtube and i saw various evangelical channels claiming that we are at the end of times and 2030 the world will end bc in that year Jesus will come back to only save evangelical christians and will only save those who are on the Life Book and will throw everyone who's those name wasn't on Life Book burn alive on the lake of fire of the hell alongside the antichrist, false prophet and everyone who followed him and God will destroy the universe and we will be living in the New Jerusalem, and they say repent of sins because the devil exists and they insist on saying that sin and the devil exist even though this has not even been scientifically proven, such as not wearing short clothes like shorts, jeans, not getting tattoos or piercings, not eating meat of pork, prohibiting homosexuality, free will, dating during adolescence and many others, they say that we are experiencing the greatest apostasy in history, which means that people are moving away from faith and and God and ignoring the warnings about the doomsday bc the world is becoming more ''sinful'' and the love between the people has been cooled and we are living like in the antediluvian days when Noah warned about the cataclysm but people ignored, mocked and called him demented and paranoid and instead they were eating, drinking and partying until the flood came and destroyed the world. world and killed everyone, and they keep repeating this saying that this is real even though it has been proven that it never happened and that it is impossible for a storm this strong to cover the top of Mount Everest, they think they are right and scientists are wrong, because science is an ''abominable sin'' against God, They say that God is merciful but he is also wrathful and cruel against those who do not follow his commandments. and they also talk about Jesus' appearance as if it were true at that time even though it has not yet been proven. i've watched some videos of these pastors and missionaries of my country and never got their prophecies and predictions wrong, all of things that have said become true
They say that geopolitical tensions are increasing which will cause ww3, it is no wonder that countless billionaires around the world like Mark Zuckerberg are building bunkers and selling several of their assets, i saw a letter written in 1873 that a American Freemason named Albert Pike who in his letter predicted the first two world wars, and is now supposedly ''predicted correctly'' the third world war, which would begin with a conflict between Zionist Israelis and Arabs, and also they claim that this war between Israel and Iran -Hamas is also the prophecy of Gog and Magog being fulfilled, They also say that the world will enter an unprecedented global economic crisis worse than the great depression, which would increase prices absurdly and this would culminate in the greatest famine the world has ever had, surpassing the great famine of the Middle Age,
They also say that elites such as the World Economic Forum, the UN and the Bilderberg Group will launch a gigantic EMP weapon that will shut down all energy and appliances in the world, and that they will then enact global martial law that will taking citizens off the streets and homes via buses and putting them in concentration camps and killing mainly white and conservative Christian groups and burying them in FEMA coffins which will start the famous New World Order and mass depopulation through the great reset and agenda 2030 and will put an end to all cash and create an electronic currency where payment is made with the global fingerprint, which they also say will replace passports with this global biometric password, they also say that They will do away with clothes and food and will replace them with processed foods made from insects, GMOs and laboratory-grown meats and everyone will be forced to wear the same clothes and have their names changed they also say that they will install government cameras inside the houses to know if any intruder is entering the empty houses
and all of this will begin the antichrist's rise to power, he will be a powerful leader who will unite all sovereign governments into one government and people will worship him and will implant the mark of the beast, where no one will buy and sell without it and will kill everyone who does not accept the mark, which means that everyone in the cities will die, only those who go to the fields or mountains will survive, it is no wonder that they are asking to stock up on water, non-perishable food, batteries , flashlights, medicines especially ivermectin (so much so that I've seen reports of people curing themselves of COVID using this medicine and chloroquine) and radios to survive between 2025 and 2027, because according to them, there will be a pandemic 30 times more lethal than the previous one that will kill almost 400 million people in just two years and that will be the period where seal the seven-year peace agreement between Christianity, Judaism and Islam and will sacrifice a red heifer in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, where it will be destroyed in sequence to begin the construction of the third temple where the throne of the antichrist will be during the final three and a half years
They also insists that global warming is a lie bc all of these disasters that are happening such as frequent strong earthquakes which happened in turkey, morocco, japan and taiwan recently, floods that left the southern of my country almost destroyed, tornadoes and hurricanes becoming stronger and killing more people and wildfires becoming more frequently is caused by these globalists, for example, the recent wildfires that happened in hawaii, canada and chile was caused by massive lasers coming from satellites and these floods and earthquakes caused by HAARP, and the fact-checking and social media such as reuters and afp is lying bc they are owned by rothschild and george soros for example
And i'm worried to have a cancer or a fatal heart attack when i become 20 years old that they discovered that in the last years have an increase on cases of cancer and fatal heart attack on young people, and they claim that is bc of the vaccines bc they contain aborted fetuses and microchips and graphene
And they also talk about the woke agenda, where defenders of this theory claim that globalists use films, video games and series to misrepresent characters from these entertainment industries to promote progressive agendas such as LGBT, black lives matter, abortion and feminism, for example, they made Ariel from The Little Mermaid black in live-action instead in white, as a way of indoctrinating masses and grooming children to be subjected to being perverse, it's no wonder that Disney is in one of the biggest crises in its history by excessively promoting identity issues in every film they release. And it's also no wonder that the number of abortions in the world increased over the last years
What I am most afraid of is the claim that globalists have knowledge of future events that makes the masses accept the event when a certain thing happens, this is called predictive programming, for example, in many disaster and science fiction films, there is a subliminal message in numbers called ''923'', supporters of this number mean that something very bad will happen on September 23rd, but obviously nothing happens, in White Noise for example, there was a train accident in the state of Ohio and in 2023 a train derailment with toxic products occurred in the same state as the film, Black Mirror ''predicted'' several technological innovations, The Simpsons for example predicted the September 11 attacks and Trump's victory in the elections, The Matrix also predicted predicted several technological innovations, such as the redpill movement and the production of babies in uterine machines. As for the Leave the World Behind', they say that the film predicted the accident of the ship that collided with the bridge in baltimore, Lastly, the film The Knowing is incredibly identical to the plot of the biblical apocalypse, but these claims are already debunked by fact checks
And i became scared of these prophecies that have been ''fulfilled'' such as Ezekiel which mentions that Dead Sea became filled with fishes and signs in the sky and stars disappearing
i will mention some of them:
They discovered recently that the moon have some rust pigments and the sun are frequently producing giant black spots which in apocalypse 6:12-17 means that the sun became black and the moon becoming blood
The days are passing faster, which on matthew 24:22 mentions that unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened.And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened.
The Euphrates River is drying up which in apocalypse mentions that the sixth angel poured his bowl over the Euphrates River and its waters dried up and released four demons who destroyed half of the population
Some Rivers and seas are becoming red, which refers to Apocalypse 16:4 that the third angel poured his bowl on rivers and seas and became red as dead blood
And I started to think that some mathematical calculations they do are simply not coincidences, they took the year the Black Death ended in 1353 with the year the WHO declared a global COVID emergency in 2019, subtracting those years would give the result in 666 (2019-1353=666 to be simpler) which alludes to the number of the beast and nd other math that they also thinks its a proof that we are at the end of times uf we use the word ''CORONA'' as a code where the alphabet is corresponding to its letter in ascending order (for example a = 1, b = 2), it would give the numbers 3, 15, 18, 15, 14, 1 will also give the number of the beast is correct if we multiply these numbers.
I'm trying to follow channels that disagree that we are in the end times and treat people with love, like the method of preterism where it states that the apocalypse happened in the year 70, but they say that this is heresy because in Matthew 24:24 it says that in the last days false prophets will emerge deceiving many people and in 2 Peter 3:3 where it says that at the end of time many will mock and disagree with the imminent Return of Jesus
i'm asked my parents and my friends to repent of your sins and believe in the Word of God, But I bothered them so much that now they don't even want to hear it,
however after all that, I started to think that these evangelical channels only preach fear in people, thinking that Jesus is going to return physically and that I have been superior all the time for no reason at all. I researched these things so much that now it appears when I search for an account on Instagram or YouTube, I would like to thank anyone who could give me some tips on how to get out of this and get rid of these pests, how i do?

AU where Anne notices Andrias attempting to attack Marcy, her powers flare back up long enough her to push Marcy out of the way and into the portal, taking the blow for her while Marcy and the Plantars are warped back to Los Angeles.
• Before the portal warps Marcy back instead of the "I-I'm sorry... for everything." that Marcy gives, Anne tries to comfort Marcy, saying "D-Don't worry, M-Mar-Mar... I probably w-would have done the s-same if I had to be separated from y-y-you and Sash...".
• While back in Willow Brooke, Marcy can't bare to confront her parents so she decides to stay with the Boonchuys. Obviously, after she explains why she ran away and her need to get everyone back home, they let her and the Plantars stay as long as they need. Marcy tells them about Amphibia but, like Anne, leaves out the parts about the evil king....... and the fact that she saw their daughter get stabbed through the torso and possibly die... instead she lies that Anne is still perfectly fine back in Wartwood.
• Marcy is more angsty about this whole thing than Anne appeared to be in canon. Made even worse by the fact that every time she sees the people she now lives with, she is reminded that her cowardice cost them the most important person in their families. She also finds being the only one of her friends to make it back to the place that she tried so hard to run away from as a form of twisted irony. A cosmic punishment for tampering with a mystical artifact that was far beyond her understanding, leading to her friends and their loved ones paying the price for it.
•A lot of the same plot beats still happen such as Fight at the Museum, Fixing Frobo, If You Give A Frog A Cookie, and Mr. X but episodes such as Thai Feud and Temple Frogs don't due to Marcy obviously not having the same familial bonds as Anne and Adventures in Catsitting due to The Boonchuys being unable to schedule a dentist's appointment for a child that is not under their legal guardianship.
• Marcy wears her blue Newtopian cloak even with her casual clothing just in case she sees her parents and needs to hide her face from them under her hood so they don't recognize her. (There is a running gag through season 3 where she has to make sure she doesn't stand under any sprinklers in case her cloak spontaneously combusts.)
• Back in Amphibia, The Core, now no longer having Marcy, decides to take Anne. Now calling themself Dianne, they use Anne not for her mind... but instead for her power and to use it for it's namesake.............. to bring about Calamity.
• Andrias still sends out the Assassin bot to Willow Brooke to kill Marcy and the Plantars in order to tie up any loose ends in his plans.
• Marcy's Calamity powers awaken while protecting the Plantars in the Supermarket and finds that her powers allow her to use magic though the use of any staff-like object. In this case, a metal pipe in the storage freezer that she was going to use to bash in the robot's head, and summons a blast of energy to send the Assassin bot packing. Marcy later buys a foldable walking staff from a drug store and carries it around in her satchel in case of "Magical Girl emergencies" as she calls them. (Her powers are an homage to Matt's original idea for Marcy to be a sorceress.)
• In this version of Anne-sterminator, it's laundry day and since Marcy can't go back to her house to grab clean clothes, she has to wear some of Anne's, namely her iconic St. James Middle School uniform. When the Assassin bot comes to kill Marcy, it sees Marcy in Anne's clothes and gets confused allowing everyone time to escape. In the junkyard, Marcy whips out her staff and uses her Calamity powers to cast an Anti-gravity spell on the Assassin bot, launching it into orbit where it's bomb detonates. Marcy finally has to come clean about Andrias and what happened to Anne. While the Boonchuys are devastated about Anne, they know that Anne would have wanted to get the Plantars and Sasha back home and use that as motivation to keep going.
• While in The Core, Anne's Fantasy world is one where Amphibia and Earth are merged into one and she doesn't have to choose. (A tongue in cheek mocking of Star vs' ending) She gets sus when she notices everyone acting off. When Anne calls bull on the whole thing, The Core leaves her in the darkness with only the light of her phone containing her real memories to keep her company.
• During The Core's invasion, Dianne uses Anne's Calamity powers in their fight against Sasha making it far more of a brutal beat-down than a proper 1v1. When Grime sacrifices himself, it causes Sasha's Calamity powers to awaken, making it a fair fight.
• While battling Andrias, when Marcy starts running low on Calamity juice, Andrias starts mocking her. Telling her that "If she wants to, he'll gladly let her use the music box to take her to another world where she can run away from her problems.... again.**" and this, along with the Boonchuys playing "As If It's Your Last" by Blackpink over the city's loudspeakers to remind Marcy that she's doing all this for Anne leads to an epic tear filled "I'm... Done... Running..." as she twirls her staff around, her powers flare back up, and she gets her second wind.

I left the CofS in 1980. I've watched or participated in the community of ex-Scientologists in the decades since then -- on BBSes, Usenet, ex-Scn message boards, Yahoo Groups, Facebook, here on Reddit, and with many humans in real life. One element that comes up over and over is how other people expect ex-Scientologists ought to behave in regard to the subject. Most of the time, the conclusion someone expresses in an online community is, "You should think and behave the way I [the speaker] does," whether that's a loudly-expressed "It's all bullshit" attitude or something more nuanced.
I'm not speaking here about the division between Freezone/Indy and Completely-Ex people. That's an understandable issue because we fundamentally disagree with each other about the value of the tech and... it's okay to do that. Over the years, most of the Ex-meets-FZ community has found peace with each other. Or at least I grant them full respect for their opinions, and I hope I behave in such a way that they choose to respect me, too.
But rather, the larger question encompasses things like, "How much do/should we say publicly about our past involvement in Scientology" or "What does it take to become an activist to bring down the CoS," where the alternative is, "I did that, it seemed like a good idea at the time, and I'm done with it now." Plenty of people moved on.
Ultimately, we all find our own ways to deal with our past and to choose what/whether to communicate it, as well as to whom.
Sometimes the issue is made more difficult because many people who left the organizations did things while they were in it that they now regret. That forces other Exes to struggle with forgiveness, and that's not an easy thing to do when the other Ex caused conscious, lasting harm to oneself. For instance, there's one guy in particular who deliberately lied to me, causing me to take actions I would not otherwise have taken. I have not yet found it in my heart to forgive him because it was a moral failing and not, "Well, I was following policy, and it seemed like a good idea at the time."
As a result, I'm incensed at the video from Aaron Smith-Levin in which he tells ex-Scientologists that if they had any of the jobs he listed and they remain under the radar, they need to come out and provide documents/statements or he will dox and out them. Nope nope nope. One of the reasons I left that organization is that they wanted me to behave in a certain way. Dude, you ain't the boss of me.
It'd be easy for me to climb on the Personality Parade and make this about ASL, but I'd rather take a step back, here, and discuss amongst ourselves the expectations we each have for communicating about the CofS or those who are or were involved. My own conclusion, after many years, was: Be kind to each other. We all thought we were doing the right thing, at the time and I have the right to decide what I say about Scientology, publicly or privately.
I'm at the end of this long message and I'm not sure exactly what my takeaway ought to be. Other than: Nobody has a right to share my private information because of his own agenda.

I was playing with a friend today and he was running a BP Croc deck with 4 Ms. All Sunday blockers + 4 Gravity Blade Raging Tiger, from mid to late game it was impossible to deal damage since he just plays GBRT, stalls for many rounds until I had no board or card in hand, then he plays his higher costs characters. Any ideas on how to play around this? Besides dropping 8+ cost characters?
I played with Belo Betty and Rob Lucci decks, lost both matches for his combo. The only match I won, I was playing with Katakuri. It doesn't have to be advices on theses decks, any advice is appreciated.

what if there was a dumb guy
and the dumb guy was really, really profoundly dumb
what if he was so dumb he spent all day every day all his life pooping himself and playing with his poop
what if he spent so long pooping himself and playing with the poop that he pooped
so very very long pooping himself and then playing with the poop that he accumulated that magic malcolm gladwell 10,000 hours, and then still way even more hours than that, under his belt, of self pooping experience
and in the course of playing with his own poop the dumb guy learned to make intricate and baroquely ornamental poop sculptures from the poop
like some kind of a poop savant
and sometimes the dumb guy tries to show the poop sculptures to people because they're so beautiful and ornate
but everyone runs away. because no matter how exquisitely formed all of the poop is it is just too disgustingly smelly
but one day someone with with a little curiosity and a strong stomach strays a tad closer to the dumb guy than most do
and that someone is perceptive and sensitive enough to notice that there may just be something special here about these poop sculptures, that the dumb guy may well have something to give, if only his poop didn't stink so bad
so the someone takes a deep breath, puts a clothes peg on their nose, and says Yes i would love to look at your poop sculptures tell me all about them
and the dumb guy is overjoyed beyond words. he is swept away with ecstasy at his undreamt fortune. a non-dumb person who doesn't play with their own poop wants to talk to him and be his friend and be interested in the poop sculpting together
the someone, in their turn, is graduallly captivated and charmed at the dumb poop guy's endless passion and enthusiasm and willingness to share it. they even think things to themselves "i wish i loved anything as much as this dumb guy loves playing with his own poop"
but the peg stays on their nose, of course
the someone also knows the pain the dumb pooping guy feels from his isolation. the someone thinks it isn't fair. the someone wants to fix it. the someone wants to help.
so the someone goes to the art supply store (they cannot take their dumb friend there, obviously) and at their own expense they purchase a smorgasbord of workable material: polymer clay, beeswax, silicone resin, salt dough and more, in all the colors of the rainbow
and with extremely tactful and diplomatic grace, they carefully broach the possibility of the dumb guy exploring different mediums to display his sculpture skills in
specifically, odorless ones
well, the dumb guy is intrigued. he is a bit confuzzled about why exactly anyone would want to make sculptures out of anything aside from one's own poop; but the someone is his best friend now, and if it makes the someone happy for some reason he's right on board
the dumb guy launches himself into his new task with gusto. it's heavy going at first, and there are some false starts; the consistency of the odorless clay is not quite the same as that of his poop, and he can't quite make it do the same things. compared with his poop sculptures, the new pieces are honestly quite mediocre.
but the someone tells him they're wonderful and he should be proud of them. over and over. and even in his profound regardation he can tell something is changing with them. he doesn't know why, but the more time he spends on making the bland and indifferent clay sculptures, and the less time he spends masterpieces out of poop, the happier they seem and the more time they want to spend together
one day, the someone even takes the peg off of their nose. by now, the dumb guy barely smells of poop at all
they come up with a suggestion: it's time to open the doors and introduce the world to the newly clean guy, whom in the absence of any poop stink it is questionable to even call dumb anymore. an grand exhibition, open to one and all, of the plain old guy's normal-smelling masterpieces in various plastic media
it's a little scary but it's exciting too. the guy is so grateful to the someone for helping him and putting the time in when no one else would. that long standing ache in his heart is almost gone. privately, he has absolutely no idea why the someone thinks his new stuff is so incredible; but he still wants to show his friend, and the world in general, gratitude and beauty by making the best pieces he ever can
so while the someone is busy with all the invitations and arrangements, the guy plans a suite of last minute adjustments and reornamentations so his gallery will be as stunning as it can possibly be
and he gets down to it
yes he gets down to it
on the day of the grand exhibition, a crowd has formed outside the grand hall. there is an anticipatory hubbub in the air. the someone proudly cuts the ribbon and throws open the doors
and their noses are powerfully assaulted by a tidal wave of stench. the stench of pure poop.
all of the mediocre and uninspired clay sculptures have been transformed into rancidly putrid masterpieces, by the addition of intricated and delicately sculpted layers of the dumb guy's poop. poop is his best medium, and the public deserves better than mere clay
in the middle of it all is he, squatposed, smeared even more deeply with poop and being more gross and dumb than he ever was before
in that moment the someone's heart breaks and shatters into one krillion seventy eight kajillion brillion tiny little bits. and with no words, no words at all, not even the cries of horror and disgust emanating from the rest of the crowd, they leave and run far far away and never come near the dumb guy ever again
and the dumb guy doesn't understand. he has no idea what he did wrong. no matter how much he thinks, it just doesn't occur to him that poop smells bad and people don't like it
because he is too dumb
grieving the loss of this deep friendship is an extremely painful and lonely process for him but he manages to make it and bounce back, by the sole means of - you guessed it - pooping and playing with his poop and making even more wonderfully accomplished poop sculptures
after all, the only possible reason everyone ran away from the exhibition must be that his poop sculpting skills weren't up to par. that's gotta be it. gotta spend more time poopsculpting. poopsculpting, poop grinding for the rest of his life. one day he'll make it. one day it'll all go right. just gotta keep pooping.
so yeah what if all of that happened

Have to make a object that costs NO MONEY whatsoever for this book probect at school for this book Speed of Life by Carol Weston, any ideas?

For context me 22F and boyfriend 22M have been in a relationship for 7 months, but known each other for 4 years. We went long distance last year for 4 months and everything went good. In september, he has to move 2-3 hours away from me to keep studying what he likes. Yesterday he told me that a girl from his class will likely move to the same city and it would be easier for him to adquire an apartment with someone he knows instead of what his family wanted him to do which was to share an appartment with 4-5 strangers (whom could also be girls). The thing is he made sure that I was confortable with the idea and even wants to introduce me to this girl so I can feel better. There's no reason to not trust him because he has always been loyal, treats me perfectly and expresses his commitment and his excitement for a future by my side.
We've voiced our concerns about doing long distance for that much time, however, we both want to fight for oue relationship. I would never want to hold him back so I agreed with everything but I'm still a little concerned about him living with a girl for a year, especially considering the fact that I've been cheated on in the past. Anyways, should I be concerned? What would you do in my situation

Background: I live in Ontario. I am going back to school in September 2024. I need about 4000 to get into my colleges dorm, I need this money by August. I do plan to apply for Ontario's student loan but they don't give out the money until the second week of September and by then, the room they have on hold for me would be given to someone else. I was looking into payday loans, but they don't really look like a good idea. What should I do? Is there any alternatives?
Edit: I recently had a job, but I was just let go, and I live in a small community. I am applying, but it's not guaranteed that I will get a job before September.

First one’s got two girls and two guys and functions in a four panel (?) strip format. One of the girls and one of the guys definitely end up falling in love but they’re part of a friend group with the other girl and guy. They are all chibis and probably kids? I specifically remember one strip where one if the girls is taking out her pigtails and her floppy eared dog sees her and wonders how she’s undoing her ears. I remember one other strip where one of the girls and one of the guys are walking in the cold with their friends and they end up holding hands in their pockets.
Second one is about this guy who gets his period in the shower and starts dating at his school and is too feminine for the girls and too manly for the guys. It’s a boarding school and whenever people graduate they’re never seen again. He has some big love interest which I think which is a guy and the whole time they make a big deal abt him picking a gender. At the end, it’s revealed that the academy is for souls that haven’t been born yet and when thry graduate they’re born. The main character is actually twins and he has to pick his gender bc the one that’s not picked dies in the womb (he picks girl and the boy twin dies). Seventeen years later, she and her love interest from before she was born meet for the first time on a bus.
Help me find these please!!!

Drop both trolley problem, replaced by domino effect. Drop 1 tracking and Sheriff for 2x snake oil salesman. The idea behind this is it significantly helps in match ups against flood paladin as your big guys are already pretty cheap so you can play the domino effect to clear and win board. Snake oil is for tradeable and a 1 mana draw, as well as another chance to have a cheap minion on turn 1 to fight for board. Even in mirror matchups it's decent as it can help you trade and keep a minion or two up instead of having to full trade.

Hiya, as the title says I have been putting off getting a diagnosis for my ADHD for a really long time, as it feels very overwhelming and I seriously have no idea where to start. I keep hearing about how bad the situation is with ADHD medication too. I have been living on my own since September 2023, and it has truly highlighted just how much I am struggling. I cannot clean my room. I leave plates, notes, clothes on the floor, I have no sense of time. I miss shifts at work because I confuse them with other times. I forget things. I feel like I am losing my sense of spirit and socialising feels like something I don't want to do anymore because I just want to sort my life out. To be fair, I did get out of a two year relationship in October of last year and I was subsequently sexually assaulted in December, the depression that followed was severe but I have mostly managed to be stable now. It is however a separate issue as I have questioned if I have had ADHD for nearly 5 years when I started to get a glimpse that I did not feel "normal" and I would be too scared to google things. But I feel incredibly stupid. I have my thoughts, I have so many things im aching to do. I have begged myself to save money. But I can't do it. I seriously can't do it. Where do I go from here? I am also looking for a therapist I really liked and I am on the waitlist so that I can deal with my other issues but this is something that I feel is holding me back from here. Any help would be really appreciated as I am struggling.

Hi, I'm 25F and I grew up dirt poor. Neither of my parents ever had two dimes to rub together and so I received zero financial advice from them (not that I would have taken their advice- they have both filed for bankruptcy at one point or another and neither has any savings). The relevant country is Canada if that matters.
Through hard work I have managed to save $15k, with a good cushion in my chequing account as well. I want to start investing this money but I have no idea where to begin. What accounts grow, and grow quickly? Googling this or looking it up on YouTube is no help because I don't have the foundations of financial literacy to understand where this money needs to go.
I do have some debt. A lot of student loans (which I am not paying into yet as I am still in school), and $17k on a car loan that matures in 2028. I was thinking of maybe putting $7k on the car loan to put it under $10k and investing maybe $5k to start with? Just so I still have a little in savings. Growing up so poor has made me extremely hesitant to spend it all and have nothing in my savings. What do you all think?

So context. I’m in a campaign with five other players and this issue relates to a situation where my character is in the minority when it comes to an opinion.
What happened was that we needed to clear out a room in a building that was filled with difficult enemies. So two players decided on bombing the room with fire magic and lamp oil. This led to the rogue NPC and my character going to steal the oil from a shop. My character morally disagreed with this idea. But it made sense mechanically for her to accompany the rogue since she had the second highest stealth. Plus plot wise, she felt she needed to make it up to the rogue NPC and one of the PCs for her cowardly actions in the building earlier.
The oil was stolen successfully and the rogue got it back to the building, but at the cost of my character getting caught outside past curfew and sent back to the tavern where her employer was. This meant that she got an earful despite her not being directly involved in the bombing and she got to see most of the aftermath of the whole incident, making her feel even more guilty. It led to a later conversation where my character finally piped up about not wanting to do something like that again.
Out of the six characters, three of them were very on board with this plan (two of which were the ones who planned it), one of them wasn’t at the session we did this on but agrees with the plan after being briefed on it, one character is staying neutral on it and focused on keeping NPCs safe and my character was heavily against it, but had a hand in it due to what I mentioned earlier. There are also a few NPCs with differing opinions on the plan too, but only one of them agrees with my character (her employer).
I don’t mind my character being in this position in terms of plot and roleplay. It’s actually kinda interesting. But I don’t want this to affect other player’s fun in terms of gameplay. I don’t want to judge everyone’s play style on one incident. But if we’re going for a chaotic campaign, my pacifist Bard who wants to spare as many people as possible might clash with the characters who are more willing to kill a little more, especially if she’s literally the only one who thinks this way.
How do I strike a balance? The campaign is still in its infancy, so I don’t think I need to go as drastic as making a new character. But my character is now fleshed out enough where I like where her main personality is.

Hello. I just want to get a general idea or breakdown on the possible expenses, including weekly or monthly allowance, needed during college if sa manila mag-aaral, specifically sa big 4. I’m eyeing kasi these schools but nag-aalala ang parents ko na baka di nila kayanin expenses kasi dalawa kami ng sister ko and may dalawa pa kaming siblings na sa abroad nag-aaral. It would be much help if you can make a list and estimate the expenses. Thank you so much for your help!

My friends and I are going on a cruise on Enchantment in early July. We like to play board or card games when we get together as a friend group. Is there anywhere on board where there would be decently sized table or something for us to hangout and play while on board? Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks.

Not sure if this is exclusive to my family but… I was over at my cousin’s place yesterday for her birthday, she just turned 25. At some point family members had settled in the living room and the discussion switched to my cousin’s new job. Background here is she used to work at Google as a solutions engineer or something… idk. Now she has this new job as a solutions architect. Anyway, the entire family started talking about how much money she’ll make (not actual numbers more like in the future hypothetically making more money) and not to settle for someone who makes less than her etc. her younger brother chimed in and said, “everyone (at school—he’s in hs) thinks we’re rich” and immediately her (my cousin) and her mom said “omg don’t say that” idk if it was because they were embarrassed by him vocalizing what they wanted the rest of us to think or because they didn’t want to get bad luck because it was said out loud but the thing that fucking annoys me is… you are constantly talking about money, how much you make, how much I make and now apparently calling you rich is too over the top? I mean they’re definitely an upper middle class family so why pretend that that’s not what you are? It’s like this fake veneer of modesty they want to put on for who I have no idea. Honestly growing up with them it was like this constantly even when my cousins didn’t have jobs (her older brother is a dr) even when it comes to the places we live. They’re always making fun of the city I live in because there’s a higher immigrant population than theirs and on the surface it all seems like a joke but there’s an underlying layer of competitiveness and superiority from these comments. On top of that I make so little money in comparison and I’m five years older lol. I can definitely admit it’s jealousy on my part but I just feel like that entire family wants to be the main character in my story haha. The most annoying part is my cousins grew up much more privileged than my sister and I… our parents both worked and didn’t have skilled jobs so they didn’t progress up any corporate ladder whereas my uncle was the sole breadwinner for his family but had a skilled professional job which paid well so he could support his family of 5 on a single income. Tbh it’s also a matter of drive, I’m not as ambitious as my cousin’s family but ugh just so sick of people talking about income constantly. I can’t even tell if anything I wrote is coherent/resonates with anyone but whatever I’m not double checking this.

Hi I’m a freshly graduated (high school and vocational school) trans girl and I want to join the Air Force. My plan has been that I would go through BMT and tech school, get a job, then medically transition. I’ve been speaking with a recruiter, taken the picat, filled out the background check forms, and I’m taking the asvab this week. But it occured to me that with my current job and newfound independence I can both afford and access hrt through informed consent clinics. And from what I understand, if I did start on HRT then I would have to be stable on the hormones for 18 months prior to being eligible for service. So I could either go with my original plan or take something like a gap year while starting my transition. At first I was considering it because I desperately want to start hrt, but also if I take the gap year I can be with my parents and they can help me with things like taxes and insurance and stuff like that, which is an added bonus. So is my new idea misinformed or is it’s good alternative to my original plan. And if it is and I go through with it what do I tell my recruiter?

I’m in Downer’s Grove, a suburban locality southwest of Chicago. I’m sitting at a brewery having earned an internal reward for writing up another edition of the Week Ahead newsletter. Now I’m going to sit here writing up these blurbs for Charlottesville that double as a prompt for tomorrow’s radio appearance on WINA. I was going to skip tomorrow so I could explore Chicago, but there’s so much happening this week that I want people to know about.
So, let’s go:
DOWNTOWN MALL
I’m quoted in this week’s C-Ville Weekly article on the Downtown Mall which is also weird because I write a weekly column for that publication as well. On Monday, Council will be presented with recommendations from a committee that has suggested ways to reform the mall and how it managed. They’ve also made suggestions that have been floated before but didn’t get anywhere, such as adding parking meters and adding more seats. They also suggest a revisit of how outdoor cafes are regulated, with a possible idea of changing their boundaries to allow for more pedestrian flow. Also possibly charging more. There’s a lot in the report worth reading. (there’s a link in my summary).
150 to 190 AFFORDABLE UNITS at 10th and Wertland
We can now look at the first image of what a six story building at the corner of 10th and Wertland would look like. This is the first major development under the new Development Code, and the first of three projects in the University of Virginia’s affordable housing initiative that seeks to construct between 1,000 and 1,500 units on land owned by them or the UVA Foundation. The Board of Architectural Review will take a first look at their meeting on Tuesday. Take a look at the picture with this segment. This infill development will transform Charlottesville and make a move to a more urban character. But is that road even close to handling the traffic? What do you think? (read more)
TRANSIT PLANS
On Tuesday, Charlottesville Area Transit will hold a virtual meeting on their transit strategic plan. Public comment is being taken through May 31, and this webinar offers an opportunity to learn how changes will be implemented gradually as the number of buses come online. I admit I follow this closely because I’m an avid fan of taking a bus if I don’t have to drive. But I really want people to pay attention to transit policy as the core of Charlottesville community prepares for more density. (this is a story I wrote last week) (learn more about the meeting)
PRIVATE SCHOOL REQUEST
At this point, I cannot provide empirical evidence that private schools, particularly Christian schools, have seen increased enrollment in the past few years. I do know that entities like the Christian Community Academy state that they have more and more applicants but don’t have the space to accommodate them. This Thursday, the Places29-Rio Community Advisory Committee will have a community meeting about a special use permit request from CCA that seeks to be able to build 9,000 square feet worth of modular buildings to accommodate their middle school enrollment. As part of the packet, they’re saying they will come back with a rezoning for a new building and to increase enrollment further. I’d like to read a story about the growth of private Christian schools that seeks to understand why. But not one that demonizes the parents who make the choice to take their kids out of the public option available to them. Is this how we further the cultural divide that threatens to tear us all apart? (learn more about the meeting)
OTHER ITEMS:

• Louisa County Supervisors will consider a budget supplement of around three-quarters of a million dollars to cover a shortfall for fire and rescue services (learn more about the meeting)
• The Albemarle Architectural Review Board will consider an amendment to add five more units to what had been proposed as six (learn more about the meeting)
• The MPO Policy Board will adopt the long-range transportation plan and endorse Smart Scale candidate projects, a process that is transparent but depends on reporting to let the public know what’s happening which is what I do. (learn more about the meeting)
• Nelson County’s Planning Commission will discuss a series of recommendations about how to alter the zoning code to better implement the recently adopted Comprehensive Plan. (learn more about the meeting)

Any extra edge in this installment is created purely by writing this in Downer’s Grove, Illinois, a place right next to the place I spent years four through six. I am beginning to feel like so much of me comes from here, a place I spent formative years but then ended up in a suburb of Lynchburg. I’ve not been here for 44 years, and here I am for one more night only. I’m convinced my sense of place and community is created by being ripped away from this one. I know at least one of the reddit readers prefers it when I don’t talk about myself, but my journalism wouldn’t exist if I hadn’t learned to read about three miles away from where I hit send.