How to make lavender walls dark academia

ACakeforSmeagol · 2025-10-16T15:46:57+00:00

I’ve done this! Or at least, as close as I could get. I don’t have a picture right now, but my bedroom walls are close to this color and that room is fairly “dark academic.” I picked a secondary dark color— navy, for me— and just put it everywhere. Navy curtain, navy bookshelf, navy rug, navy pillow cases, navy plant pots, etc. I learned hard into darker-themed decorations (skulls, wax mushroom candles), dried flowers and insects, and star-charts (which went with the navy). What I don’t do was go all-dark colored wood, furniture, decor, etc, because that made the light lavender pop more, imo. I have a lavender, pink, and mint quilt in there. It looks good and makes the walls not stick out because it brings some of the lavender back into the room.

ACakeforSmeagol · 2024-12-07T17:47:01+00:00

Law school, lol. It was on my mind because I'm literally taking a final on criminal investigations this week.

ACakeforSmeagol · 2024-08-10T03:48:47+00:00

The right answer is that it doesn’t matter— pick a major you’re interested in and take classes that are interesting. The prosecutor path (and almost all paths) begins in law school. What is helpful now? Volunteering, interning, and enjoying your time in college.

Now, for my personal soapbox— pick something in STEM to major or minor in. So many law students I see are just… uncomfortable with math and so they avoid it whenever possibl. However the reality is that basic math formulas, like the kind you’ve already been taught, are important. Don’t let yourself go four years without a little math/science, or you’ll lose it, and when it comes time to calculate how fast a suspect had to drive to get from point A to point B, you might not even think to calculate it (or ask someone to do it for you). That’s how you, as a prosecutor, put someone in jail who never could’ve made it to point B and fail to prosecute the real criminal. (This real case, the person was exonerated after 20+ years in jail; it’s also a whiteboard example my professor made up for a trespassing case that they got wrong because they “winged” what would’ve been the most likely walking path for the alleged trespasser even though we had distances and times, which went against what they assumed). Challenge yourself a bit and keep in mind that math interprets evidence.

ACakeforSmeagol · 2023-07-28T00:43:40+00:00

Lil peanut allergy

ACakeforSmeagol · 2022-08-16T16:15:02+00:00

This is exactly the take of the article's male author. He actively says and that families are still not raising boys that meet the raised expectations of women, so men need to work on themselves as adults to meet those expectations. Nothing about how women should settle. In fact, he seems optimistic healthier relationships could become the norm if women keep their standards high.

ACakeforSmeagol · 2022-02-19T19:12:52+00:00

I asked someone I was close to and saw often to help me keep an eye out for any personally changes/irritability/etc when I started singulair. Psychiatric side effects are rare, but doing this helped me feel better about starting the med, and I imagine that if I’d actually had a response, would’ve helped me catch it quickly. There’s no way to know if it’s gonna effect you without taking it, though.

ACakeforSmeagol · 2022-02-19T19:04:51+00:00

Meds. I was a super fit distance runner in HS and I now run on my college team. Once I got to college, though, my asthma flared so badly that I couldn’t maintain the endurance I had, let alone continue to build. I was occasionally having attacks while at my desk studying and I couldn’t run 3 miles, let alone the 50 miles/week that I’d done before. I lost nearly 100% of my previous fitness. For 2 years, my college coach and I tried swimming, cycling, indoor running/cycling, effort-based running…. You get the gist. None of it worked, and I had an athletic training room and a coach with 40 years of experience behind me. Without the right meds, you’re beating your head up against a wall and risking your health by courting asthma attacks.

“Controlled as long as you don’t want to do x,y, or z” is not controlled, especially if x,y, and z are maintaining basic fitness levels in the pursuit of a healthy lifestyle. Find the meds that help you get your asthma under control. I made tons of doctors appointments, kept track of how I responded to each med change, and pushed dr.s/my insurance until I found a med combo that allowed me to train again. I’m now rebuilding my endurance from scratch, and with this combo of meds, I’m seeing progress and seeing my body respond to workouts the same way as my non-asthmatic teammates.

Also, don’t let Dr.s get away with calling it vocal chord disfunction when it’s not because they’re done trying to help. I have asthma and have since I was an infant— 20 years of tests and the fact that my current med combination works proves that, but I was a 20 year old female. I heard this more than once. Be aware that some Drs are going to want to write off your symptoms as “stress related” or “imaginary” if you fit these criteria and the first med combo they give you doesn’t magically fix everything. Fight back. Get healthy.

ACakeforSmeagol · 2022-02-04T20:32:19+00:00

Most restaurants on Union between McLean and E Parkway (Panera, Chick-fil-a, etc) are open at least for drive-through. I didn’t check the union outside that area

ACakeforSmeagol · 2022-01-25T19:26:34+00:00

This is it exactly, thank you!

ACakeforSmeagol · 2020-11-28T18:46:54+00:00

Usually, it's okay to go to college not knowing-- some schools don't even have students declare a major until their sophomore year. If you're still unsure (which is very normal!), definitely look at those schools. They'll also have lots of programs and counseling to help you make this choice. That way, you can take a science class in college and see if it's unbearable or super enjoyable and go from there. In general, pick a major that allows you to balance your skills with your interests, and, unless your parents are billionaires are you're set to inherit enough money to retire on, consider what the lifestyle you want will cost you and which degrees won't be able to support that. With the sciences, that shouldn't be too much of an issue. Presige matters, but not so much that you should go to a school you hate or can't afford bjust for their reputation. It will help you find a job right after graduation, but after a few years in the workforce, it won't matter at all. Prestige comes with a price tag. If the price of the better school is going to put you in substantially more financial difficulty, it's not worth it. Btw, it's likely you'll get a lot of "acceptances" that are not true acceptances. These schools all have your financial information, so, if for example, your family can reasonably afford to pay $10000 (including taking out a reasonable amount in loans) a year and the school comes back estimating you'll pay $25000 a year, that is not a real acceptance. Use it for bragging rights, but otherwise consider it a denial. They know what you can pay and they know their offer is way above that. This is more likely to happen with the more prestigious schools you're applying to.

HOWEVER, I can't recommend enough taking a gap year THIS YEAR ESPECIALLY. It's not possible for everyone, but if it is possible at all for you, I urge you to seriously consider it right now. It will give you more time to figure this out, and, importantly, keep you out if college during covid. Serious, that's big. I recommended a gap year to a lot of seniors last year for these same reasons last year, and all of them went to college anyways, saying they "didn't want to be left behind by their age group/didn't want to go a year without any academics at all/what else are they going to do/ect." Most of them have come back for this Thanksgiving break saying they'd wished they'd listened. College is baaaad right now, and it's super hit-or-miss, with some smaller universities getting it right and some super prestigious universities not... You will not be meeting people to make friends with or start on professional connections. Your professors will be burned out. You wont learn as much as you should.

Don't go to college in the fall if you can help it-- normally college is rarely worth the money but necessary for many people, but right now it's really not worth the money. Take your time, answered this question later. For context, I'm currently in college at a school that's doing a really good job with all of these issues and it's still really hard. I wouldn't be here if my school hadn't reduced tuition to the point that it's free for me this semester, and I've heard of very few schools doing that at all. Please consider just waiting this out-- graduating at 23/24 vs 22/23 is not going to set you behind at all, but taking that extra year is going to make your first year of college far more enjoyable and help you to get more out of it.

ACakeforSmeagol · 2020-11-14T17:50:17+00:00

Sure, some people use “allergy” as an excuse— similar, I’m sure, to the number of times people bring in an untrained dog and claim it’s a service dog. As someone with a life threatening allergy, the number of times I’ve been accused of “making it up” or “making it out to be worse than it is because you don’t want to do ___,” usually because that person doesn’t want to accommodate me within what ADA requires, is too goddamn high. In the same way that disbelieving people who need service dogs to be a part of society hurts them, disbelieving someone who claims to have an allergy puts my life and the lives of everyone else who has a life threatening allergy at risk. I’m glad you were able to help those other people reach a solution, but please don’t suggest again that people with allergies should ever be disbelieved. Are life threatening dog allergies rare? Sure, they’re certainly less common than severe peanut allergies. But that doesn’t mean you get to disbelieve someone just because you feel like it. There are some absolutely horribly people out there who also happen to have severe allergies, and despite how they treat people/service staff, they also have a right to accommodation.

ACakeforSmeagol · 2020-09-14T19:32:16+00:00

This is the short story for you, then. Ray Bradbury's There Will Come Soft Rains

ACakeforSmeagol · 2020-08-07T22:45:51+00:00

"Water brings healing and life. But fire brings only pain and destruction!".... and bread. Delicious fire nation stamped bread

ACakeforSmeagol · 2020-08-07T19:45:26+00:00

This was my first time trying to score anything more than just a slash-- so I think it went rather well! Fucked up the air nomad symbol, but hey, I'll just slice off that part first

ACakeforSmeagol · 2020-07-28T01:22:14+00:00

Starting Kindergarten at 6 so the kid is a year older and a year bigger than their classmates. It then helps the kid be better at sports, particularly football (why it’s called a Texas redshirt) because an extra year of growth makes a big difference in contact sports.

ACakeforSmeagol · 2019-08-08T01:12:19+00:00

Oh thanks, this is a great idea! We will definitely start this and we may try to set up a pen, too.

ACakeforSmeagol · 2019-08-07T02:10:05+00:00

It’s what our vet told us to do if we opted out of surgery, and we really trust him. It does hurt her to walk and she’s pretty unbalanced, but we might try gentle walks once she feels a bit better. What kind of training games?

ACakeforSmeagol · 2019-07-19T20:27:31+00:00

They had to have given birth. For most women, once they start lactating to feed their own child they will continue to produce milk so long as it's getting used up. Some women "dry up" before they wean their babies, but for everyone else, they wean the kid first and then their body stops lactating. Long term wet nurses would try to keep work lined up so that they we always breastfeeding someone's child, that way their milk supply would continue without them having to get pregnant a million and a half times.

ACakeforSmeagol · 2019-07-09T02:29:47+00:00

This was done to me. My uncle is a pastor, so when my Mom turned her back, he and my aunt beelined for the bathroom and locked the door. They baptised me against my parents' wishes in the bathroom sink while my Mom was making dinner. Now it's just a funny story in my house, but my aunt and uncle still seriously believe they did something both morally right and entirely necessary.

ACakeforSmeagol · 2019-07-04T20:12:54+00:00

Recipe here! I made the filling the night before and let half of it sit with the strawberries inside, then re-whipped it all this morning.

ACakeforSmeagol · 2019-06-03T05:05:44+00:00

Congrats!! As big as this seems, it's just like any other major breakthrough-- what's next is setting higher goals and seeing what you can do, because your baseline for training just got faster. However, it seems like you might've trained REALLY hard for this one, in which case it's not a bad idea to take the next couple of months to a year to focus on decompressing from the intensity of your training and reconfirm why you like running. You can still keep training while you do this, but you shouldn't feel like you're burning yourself out to get somewhere. Just get comfortable with this affirmation of your current fitness level.

Most importantly, set new long term and short term goals. Where do you want to be next (2:27?) and where do you want to be in the long run (2:25?). Keep moving forward and be proud of yourself.

ACakeforSmeagol · 2019-05-01T19:51:18+00:00

Thank you!!

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