Good luck and Godspeed and break a leg

my brother was making fun of me and our other brother for having the same haircut, and we were immediately like "what the fuck are you talking about? you had this EXACT SAME haircut like a year ago. this is your haircut too. jackass." so we start arguing back and forth until our mom stops us and says "come here." and she brings out her ID from when she was a teenager and... its the same haircut.

“Fuck it. Let them fight over it all.”

“Whaddya mean ‘toy’?”

One of the many benefits of the Biden administration is that they shut down a bunch of those for profit scam colleges. This business would buy a failing college, completely revamp it except it's now powered by The Glorious Hand Of Capitalism™, and get college accreditation grandfathered in since they bought the old college. They would never have been accredited if they'd gone about this the legal way. Someone finally noticed and shut them all down. Yay, no more preying on young, usually poor and disaffected youth.

I was a young, very poor, very disaffected youth that definitely got taken advantage of. The loans were astronomical, the credits from the school almost never transferred (despite their claims at accreditation), and once the site I went to shuttered, the credits didn't count for anything at all if you didn't have an actual degree. Which I did not. (I quit because turns out, I didn't want to be a chef (it was a culinary arts degree)) But that meant that as an adult, despite having a fair amount of schooling, I had no credits to my name. (This is a problem for another day, and another post.) Unfortunately, the loans I took out were passed from one creditor to another, so even though the school literally did not exist, I was still paying them. That was. An exercise in existential patience, we'll say.

However. As I said at the start of our program, the Biden Administration cracked down on this cartoon thievery. About a year ago my loans were halted (instead of paused, like during the height of the pandemic). A few days ago I got a piece of plot relevant mail that sat innocently on my desk not unlike a time bomb. A check for the full amount of what I've paid over the years. All at once too! Which was a nice heart attack in an envelope. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with this. But what I can say is that hey, government oversight does actually work sometimes.

Day 25

Unburnt

My sister told me the only gift I’m getting for all 8 nights is the Emily Wilson translation of the Iliad, bc when she was buying it the girl serving her was a fan and wouldn’t stop gushing and trying to talk to her abt the translation etc etc and she was like girl I almost didn’t graduate high school it’s obviously not for me. She suffered for Me. Gift that keeps on giving.

Best gift EVER

went to the pub for a drink on my first real day off in over a week and watched the girl behind the bar drop the entire cash drawer on the floor in the middle of the rush and then just stare at it at her feet for like a solid two minutes

A family poses in front of the Grand Tetons.

Wyoming

1980

Lord, grant me the strength to throw away this box that i'll never use, the courage to throw away this box that i'll never use, and the wisdom to throw away this box that i'll never use

self-portrait to end one weird and meaningful year ⭐️

guy who turns into a glass of milk when he gets angry and girl who turns into a plate of cookies when she's upset having a bitter argument with each other next to the chimney on christmas eve at 11:59 pm

Some more funny library signs.

Merry christmas eve eve from these amphibious gays!

Merry christmas eve from the only lover boys that matter! 🎄