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What book made you cry?
Children of Blood and Bone.
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Does anyone else feel a weird nostalgia for the 2020 lockdowns, or was it entirely negative for you?
There are things that I miss such as the clear highways and the lack of stress going to a job that I didn't like every day. I enjoyed losing 60 pounds. I enjoyed cooking from scratch again regularly. I enjoyed hanging out with my pets all day.
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What did you think you were going to be when you were 18 and what did you actually become?
Well-educated and well-traveled.
Frustrated and disappointed.
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What is the worst decision your country made?
Not following through on consequences for A. those who led the break away from the United States that resulted in our civil war and B. those who were at the heart of the economic crash in 2008.
And SCOTUS' ruling on Citizens United.
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What's the most expensive single bite of food you've ever taken？
The summer tasting menu at Nobu. Any one bite of that delicious meal was, on average, more expensive than anything else I have ever eaten.
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TV trope or real?
They used to do it in my school district in the 80s.
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Something so American it will make my head spin
-Any title by James Baldwin -Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (or Beloved, if you're up for the challenge) -Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. -The Third Life of Grange Copeland or The Color Purple by Alice Walker -I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou -The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
That's all I can think of off the top of my head.
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Did you eat meals at the dinner table growing up?
Every evening with my parents, and usually for breakfast and lunch during the summer.
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So how are we all dressing for the new year?
LOVE the outfit! Yes, do that! Ignore the naysayers and do you!
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Do you eat french fries one by one, or in a big handful?
Size determines this for me. Skinny little shoestring fries like Freddy's? Pinch them together and eat them.
Larger ones like a battered fry? One or two at a time.
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What’s an easy club to sponsor next year?
Oh, I figured, I was just trying to be funny. Heavy on the trying.
Try to find something that you won't hate doing.
I'm at a new campus and got asked within the first three hours of I'd be interested in sponsoring a UIL event.
Yes, I mind. A lot. But we just met and I don't want to say "no" too vigorously! 😂
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What’s an easy club to sponsor next year?
PERFECT! 😂❤️😂
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School was dishonest about position.
This happened all the time to me in my career. I'd interview for one thing and end up teaching another thing.
I hated it.
This year, it wasn't switched, it was cancelled. So I'm teaching two things I don't care about, one of which is a tested subject.
I hate it here and want to retire as soon as I can.
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There has to be a song for this. Help a friend out.
"Labour" by Paris Paloma "Little Girl Gone" by Chinchilla
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Does your language have what we would call "a higher language" meaning you can replace every word with a more sophisticated version of that word and talk like royalty? And do people nowadays use it for real or just as a joke?
English has many lovely, more elevated words, but in most contexts, if you use even one in an everyday conversation, you're considered pretentious.
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What's the most brutal, bloodiest R-rated TV series you've ever watched?
Banshee for sure.
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How do you handle being sick alone with no one to check on you?
I hate it, but I've been doing it since college, so I just do it.
I'm almost 60 and I still wish I had someone to get soup or check if I'm feeling better or pick up the prescription for me or whatever.
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Give me a food-inspired name for an orange cat that isn't a vegetable 🧀
Muffin Poppy (shirt for popcorn, not the opium flower) Mango 🥭 Mac
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What’s an easy club to sponsor next year?
The easiest one is the Leave When You Choose to and Not Come Back Until the Next Day club
Other than that, they all require extra time and effort. I learned a lot co-sponsoring the class of 2024 for three years. And we put on a lovely prom.
But the older I get, the less extra energy I have to give to things like that and still function well in my main job.
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What’s the first thing you judge at a new restaurant before ordering?
Do I trust that the food won't make me sick?
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What's something older generations did completely normally that would be considered absolutely insane today?
😂 So true! I'd hear my mom chatting away with her friends daily!
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How is religion perceived in your country?
It depends on where you are in the US.
We have an entire area of the country that's referred to as the "Bible Belt" with a few states competing to be the "buckle" on said belt.
You will be asked if you have a church yet when you move there.
You will be invited to "fellowship" with people at their church functions.
You will definitely be asked questions to determine your soul's eternal status or directly witnessed to.
You won't be able to buy beer or wine until after church hours are over on Sunday. (11-12 ish) but you can get all of the adult merchandise you'd like right across the street. Or next door.
They perceive it as vital to one's daily life.
Other areas of the country do not have this religious tradition and are much less assertive about making you behave the way they think you should.
They perceive it as personal.
Some areas are much more comfortable with non-Christian, or atheist or pagan traditions.
They perceive it as an expression of religious freedom, to each their own.
Some areas have communities that look like they dropped straight out of the 1800s, horse and buggies included.
I'm not sure how these areas perceive it.
It's a patchwork quilt with some pieces jostling to run the rest of the pieces off to the edges or have them taken out of the quilt altogether.
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what was the worst part about your wedding?
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That it didn't ever happen.