Oh, got my period in the morning

I've been on tenterhooks a week waiting for it! As soon as my period comes, my breasts largely stop hurting so I can move at a decent pace again. (My ( Read more... )

hasn't come in ages. I'm not even remotely concerned.)

( Pads used )

Incidentally....

It never fails.

No sooner do I touch, or even *think* about touching something potentially burning to mucous membranes when I proceed to clumsily spread whatever it is all over the more sensitive parts of my body. If I cut up ginger, I foolishly wipe my eyes. If it's a chili pepper, I may pick my nose while in the bathroom. Once, in the height of stupidity, several hours (but no hand-washing) after cooking I went ahead and... well... it's best not to say, but let me say that that's just not the sort of thing that turns me on...!

Today it was tea tree oil in my eye. TWICE. How the fuck do I do that twice?

How this ended up on MTS, I don't know.

O NOES! ITS STUPID! SHE SAVED LIVES!

Here's the thing. Unless her school has a rule that states "discipline for breaking school rules shall be suspended (no pun) if, while breaking the rules, the student does something moderately heroic" the fact is they really have no choice but to punish her for skipping school.

Because she was, in fact, skipping school.

Unless her school is set up very oddly, I imagine that the only way to go home before the end of the day is to go to the office and tell them you're sick, and then wait for a parent to either pick you up or tell them to send you home. And she didn't do that. Which means she was skipping school and, yeah, breaking the rules.

And she says she was sick, but I said that all the time. And half the time I just either came home anyway or else never left home to begin with. I didn't "skip school to come home", I did it so I wouldn't have to go to school. I had no real desire to do anything, so I defaulted to going home and watching TV, or reading, or playing video games. (This all assumes she really did intend to go home, of course - she may have meant to just stop at home and pick something up before going out again, or to take the bus near to home and then do something else. Or maybe she was really sick, I don't know.)

"But she did something heroic!"

Yeah, through coincidence. And despite what everybody over there is claiming, she didn't really "choose" to be a hero. She kinda had that choice thrust upon her, as the other choice was "sit here and get seriously injured or killed, along with the driver and all the little kids". Not much of a choice.

"But don't they cancel out????"

No, they don't. They're two unrelated things. "Sure, he robbed a bank - but he gave some of the money to charity!" It doesn't really work that way, or at least, it shouldn't.

Okay, if she'd skipped school for the specific purpose of committing the heroic deed... maybe. "Yeah, he robbed a bank - but he only did it because it was the only way he'd be able to ransom his wife from the nefarious evildoers, and all the rest of the money went to the poor!"

Or if you said the policy was wrong, that the punishment was too much for the crime, okay. But I really fail to see how a day of Saturday detention is really that arduous. I mean, it might be, but... really? It's probably not.

OMG! DO YOU KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS?

Oh, I didn't believe it when I heard! I'm so excited! Today. Today is... it's... (oh, this is just too cool) it's...


National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day!!!!!

Are you aware that you can make a really cool sandwich with peanut butter and jelly? (And some bread, if you insist, though they taste just fine without the frills.) Go make yourself a sandwich! And enjoy it!












_{(It's also Worldwide Autism Awareness Day or something, but I think everybody reading this is aware that autism exists, yeah? In honor of *that* occasion, go read Kanner's original paper on the subject, and (in the comments) his follow-up years later. It's nothing if not instructive.)}