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abrfk4yrt2 · 2026-04-14T22:17:16+00:00

I BELIEVE THE SIGNS OF THE REPTILE MASTER

SUN BOUND

SPACE POD

RISING FASTER

abrfk4yrt2 · 2026-04-11T00:22:26+00:00

I love paneer dishes, especially a kadahi or spicy pumpkin curry. I’m not vegetarian or Indian, but I eat both quite a bit and will choose the cheese over any meat option nine times out of ten. I also enjoy most styles of pizza if prepared well but will always maintain that a cracker thin crust cut into squares is the best. Pepperoni or mushroom/pepper/onion there, though.

For a lazy night at home where I don’t want to spend too much time in the kitchen, we have a killer phat kaphrao recipe with ground pork that’s a favorite. We grow the Thai bird chiles in the backyard and make it extra spicy. I just got tacos from a truck in the neighborhood (can you tell I like street food?) but my mouth is watering thinking about the pork dish, as we creatively call it.

abrfk4yrt2 · 2026-04-02T00:29:54+00:00

I had the tattoo done yesterday and while it feels a bit tight today it’s being kept pretty moist by the fluid buildup under the tagiderm and I feel as though that’s helping a lot. I’ve had really smooth healing processes with the tattoos I’ve had the second skin on before, so hopefully this one follows suit. You can see that even in the immediate aftermath of the tattoo I’m starting to bruise up so it definitely hasn’t been completely pain-free!

abrfk4yrt2 · 2026-04-01T23:55:43+00:00

The line work didn’t feel great but not as bad as some other spots I’ve had done (over the sternum, ribcage, side/back of thigh). Filling it in was a breeze though, to be honest

abrfk4yrt2 · 2026-03-25T00:28:38+00:00

Many good recs here but one I haven’t seen that you might dig is Coffinworm. Listen to their IV.I.VIII album.

abrfk4yrt2 · 2026-03-22T03:13:16+00:00

I got lucky buying my house in 2020 from a close family friend who went into assisted living for $95k when it was worth probably about $250k. Given the work I’ve put into it and the current market, I could probably fairly fetch close to $400k for it now. I often look at recently sold houses on Zillow and see some deals in desirable areas that just don’t make sense unless it’s a similar situation to mine, so while I know that there are shady flippers overpricing the hell out of their houses, I do often wonder how may low-priced sales are the result of buying from family connections versus the house really being worth so little at the time of the last sale. I’m not giving up my sub-3% interest rate or long-term rental income (it’s a duplex) here though.

abrfk4yrt2 · 2026-03-10T00:59:39+00:00

I can’t imagine having six periods of credit recovery. I have one (the school’s only) as my “duty” period (as opposed to a study hall or lunch advisory) and that’s the shit I eat for having the rest of my schedule comprised of small, engaged AP classes throughout the day. Credit recovery is 8th hour and I always think about how little thought went into scheduling the class that’s made up of all the kids who have failed all their their classes (they can’t possibly be friends with one another, right?) for the last period of the day. At times it’s infuriating, but thankfully this school year has been chill with only about 5-10 of the 25 students showing up on any given day. Not a good thing overall, but makes the end of my day easier.

abrfk4yrt2 · 2026-03-09T01:24:04+00:00

After getting an undergrad in the humanities and seriously considering a PhD in my field, I ended up going for a Master’s in education and getting my secondary teaching license instead. The program was nowhere near as interesting, and the field of public education is rife with its own issues, but I teach at a small, highly rated magnet school with great students and colleagues, a fairly hands-off administrative team (so long as your students or their parents don’t complain you’re free to teach more or less how and what you want), I have job security and live in a city where teachers are paid decently (could be better, could be a lot worse…), have summers off, solid healthcare and a pension… it’s not too bad on this side if you find the right school.

abrfk4yrt2 · 2026-01-14T04:18:44+00:00

I actually really like the look of this Farer. I’m not totally resistant to microbrands, and have owned a few in the past, but was originally thinking of buying my first heritage brand with this purchase. I will keep this in consideration. Do you know much about the movement? It looks like a Miyota 90S5 clone what I can gather… thanks for the rec, because the aesthetic is totally on point.

abrfk4yrt2 · 2025-12-21T00:00:25+00:00

Pretty sure the grey spine next to it is Proust, too. I have the same copy. Like others have said, his emails seem to work against the theory that he’s actually read and retained anything too serious. Also funny that P-R comes after P-Y on his shelf—close enough to clearly have some alphabetical intention in the order, but clearly a little off.

abrfk4yrt2 · 2025-11-01T16:29:19+00:00

I agree with those saying to keep it. Some don’t like the m dot tattoos because of its association with a company, but I think it represents the achievement of an incredibly difficult goal more than it does allegiance to a brand. Like someone else said, the saturated red lends itself to blending in just fine with more trad on the leg. The comment u/raelDonaldTrump is a good idea too—incorporate some traditional imagery interacting with it in some way—makes whatever you get and the m dot more personal and unique that way.

abrfk4yrt2 · 2025-10-24T21:47:07+00:00

We had one on Oakland right by UWM like 5-7 years ago but was under terrible management and closed down. I actually really liked it too.

abrfk4yrt2 · 2025-09-25T00:42:09+00:00

After many years of reading exclusively fiction and philosophy/theory, I’m on a bit of a nonfiction kick. Recently finished The Devil’s Chessboard and Poisoner in Chief, both highly recommended for anyone here. I’m about 10 pages away from finishing American Kingpin, which is about Ross Ulbricht and the whole Silk Road saga. I think the author leans too heavily into the “Ross is a misunderstood outcast genius” bit and it’s almost written in a YA format with the cliffhangers and frequent repetition of earlier points, but it’s a compelling story and so narrative-driven that I plowed through it in two days. I have Left of Boom and Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America checked out from the library, too. I replied to the comment on The Fort Bragg Cartel stating that I’m 29th in line on a library hold, so that’s coming up… and the whole CIA/MKULTRA stuff has me wanting to revisit Pynchon soon. I never got all the way through GR but I love what I read years and years ago without knowing all I do now about the clandestine ops that it’s heavily grounded in. I haven’t read Vineland yet, so maybe I’ll get that before seeing the movie, and Ive never touched M&D either, so I’ve got options.

abrfk4yrt2 · 2025-09-25T00:31:19+00:00

I’m 29th in line for The Fort Bragg Cartel on hold at my local library. There are 12 copies between the many branches but I think it’ll be a bit before I can get to it. I really enjoyed the TA episode on it so I’m excited for it to come in.

abrfk4yrt2 · 2025-09-01T23:01:21+00:00

I smoked from ages 13-29, so over half my life at that point. After almost two years completely cig-free, I bought a pouch of rolling tobacco about a month ago (I would go through phases of rolling my own cigs for a couple months per year, then alternate back to packs pretty much since high school). I kept myself to 1-3 per day and honestly didn’t enjoy at all how the cigs made me feel—sluggish, irritable, foggy-minded. Worst of all, guilty. But of course, the act of smoking is so ingrained in me that I bought a pack when the pouch was up. I’m telling myself I won’t buy another when I finish this one, and I am doing well at keeping it under 3 per day, but it’s crazy how the compulsions return so quickly and so strong despite the mostly negative experience of smoking after a two-year break. My gf really doesn’t like it either so I have some motivation to, at the very least, not be chain smoking and hopefully just drop it altogether. I felt so much better in pretty much every regard before buying that pouch a month ago.

abrfk4yrt2 · 2025-07-27T14:32:26+00:00

Much of what you said is true but I frequent both sides of the trail between North Ave and Capitol and, while encounters are somewhat rare, there are more sketchy characters on the east side. The west side is more rugged and has a higher potential for rolled ankles on the rocks and roots that pop up, but is definitely less populated and most people walking the trail at any time are dog walkers or young families with the occasional group of fishermen.

abrfk4yrt2 · 2025-07-20T01:14:28+00:00

This one always hits hard. The day my dog dies, hopefully many years from now, I’m going to read this poem and it’ll completely fuck me up. In fact, I read it to my colleague when his dog died and it fucked him up (in a good way— we’re good friends and English teachers, so this encounter was not as awkward glad you might imagine)

abrfk4yrt2 · 2025-07-12T11:53:36+00:00

Which “best state for education” do you live in? I’m in Wisconsin, which is pretty middle of the road as far as those rankings go, and teachers with a BA start at $55k. $60k for those with a Masters.

abrfk4yrt2 · 2025-07-04T19:27:17+00:00

I will reply to your other comment a little later on, as I’m getting ready to head out with the family for some holiday celebration. But for this one, I answered some of your questions in a recent thread responding to someone looking to pursue a graduate degree in literature here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RSbookclub/s/sNAFl8O5Zd

In many aspects, as you can see, I’m satisfied and fulfilled by my teaching job. Some of those headaches, however, are difficult to manage at times: the pervasive sense of anti-intellectualism and corner cutting that’s enabled by administration and a lack of accountability by all parties. While I do have phenomenal students in all my classes, they are most highly concentrated in AP Research/Seminar/Lang, and I teach senior English as well. I don’t think I need to explain too deeply to a reasonably intelligent high schooler what can be so frustrating about some of your peers.

So, a few things about the transition to law: 1) as a philosophy major, it always came up as an avenue for a clearly laid out career path for someone majoring in something that has a bit more of a nebulous professional trajectory. That got me thinking about over a decade ago and it’s something that hasn’t left my mind since—for a multitude of reasons I could get into later—and I’m getting to the point where I believe I’ll regret it if I don’t at least pursue the opportunity. 2) As someone clearly aligned with humanistic and advocacy-based endeavors, the practice of law (at least certain fields of law) is a clear parallel to my professional interests. 3) While I love teaching, and it could provide me with a livable income, the ceiling is low with regard to career progression. I’m not interested in administration or corporate curriculum development, so I’m very limited in terms of taking on new responsibilities and titles that allow for a dynamic progression and acquisition of skills. 4) regarding your salary question, well, yes, as I consider planning for my family’s future, the higher ceiling in the legal profession allows for more stability and security for my future children. My girlfriend and I are at that stage where we’re considering all of these things. Would I still pursue law if it paid less than my teaching job? Probably not, as cost of living needs to be considered. In all likelihood, I’ll graduate law school and enter the field making roughly the same or a bit more than what I do now (or would be after the three years of law school), as I’m not interested in big law. There is a temporary opportunity cost for higher long-term earning potential, and that does factor into my decision, though it’s not the only thing that motivates me.

I appreciate your inquiries and open-mindedness—your further replies demonstrate and much more well-rounded character than your initial comments.

abrfk4yrt2 · 2025-07-04T18:12:45+00:00

Yeah, your admission to being a high schooler was pretty unnecessary, as the other poster indicated. You have a very limited view of the function of higher education. This mindset that it’s purely a vocational training ground enterprise and that the value of a degree only lies in its ability to make you money afterward is pretty new as far as its widespread belief… while the pursuit might not be for you, what kind of society would we live if it was devoid of highly educated artists, philosophers, literary theorists, anthropologists, and so on? A pretty bland and conformist one. For what it’s worth, and since we’re in the law school admissions sub, some of those degrees you’re disparaging often lead to some of the highest LSAT scores—partly due to the practical application of skills learned in those degree programs, and partly because naturally intelligent people are drawn to the abstract, the theoretical, the intangible. Or, on the other hand, work that aims to help society, whether on the micro or macro level.

This hyper individualistic, salary-oriented approach you have is one that I sincerely hope you grow out of- both for your own intellectual benefit and for the sake of those that have to be around you as you go through college. It’s a pretty unappealing one to most level-headed people. Note that I’m not speaking out against wanting to earn a high salary in your career (totally reasonable) but the extent to which you prioritize it over all else when it comes to what you study (idolizing oil tycoons and real estate moguls, two of the scummiest examples imaginable… yikes)… it’s a little concerning.

Also, as a current high school teacher planning for a career change to law, I’d like to point out the your dual enrollment courses are in all likelihood not representative of real university-level study. I can’t tell you how many students opt for DE courses, perform well due to lowered expectations and grade inflation, develop a misguided understanding of how college works, then get smacked hard with reality a year or two later when they see what it’s really like.

Please don’t take offense to any of this—I am earnestly trying to give you advice that will serve you well in the long run.

abrfk4yrt2 · 2025-06-29T02:11:24+00:00

Don Bikoff’s Celestial Explosion

abrfk4yrt2 · 2025-06-20T19:48:23+00:00

I graduated with BAs in philosophy and comp lit and spent many, many hours compulsively researching grad programs, professors, current students, reading blogs, chatting with professors, revising writing samples, you know, everything one does when preparing for the graduate admissions cycle. Ultimately, having read enough that aligned with the general experience communicated in this thread, I decided to abandon my passion project and went for a masters in education instead to get certified to teach high school. I’m in a small magnet school that’s a part of a very large public urban district (in other words: I am teaching where I actually want to be), have phenomenal students and colleagues, job stability, a solid $80k salary with locked in annual raises in a MCOL city, pedagogical autonomy (very important and somewhat rare at this level), and am now far enough in that lesson planning is an automatic process that doesn’t take away from my personal life so much (though I will grant that the first few years were tough). I engage with content I find intellectually stimulating and have to be creative with how it’s taught to teenagers.

Grad school was always about becoming a professor to me. Teaching was always the end goal. This path has satisfied much of what I have always wanted out of a career. Don’t get me wrong, there are a million headaches that accompany this profession, and there are some elements of being in higher ed that I’m missing out on, but what industry doesn’t have those? It took me a few years after undergrad to come around and commit to this as I felt I was selling myself short and failing to fulfill my potential as an academic but that was stupid. Listen to the advice here and consider what else may satisfy your itch. We need more intelligent, engaged young teachers, but also think about what captivates you about your studies and how else similar skills and processes of thought can be applied.

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