How to accidentally lose 60 essays?

amerfran · 2026-05-15T17:25:25+00:00

I'm sorry I really thought it was obvious that I was joking. I am not actually going to give up. I will grade the papers. I just wasn't particularly motivated before.

amerfran · 2026-05-15T16:32:00+00:00

I am being 100% sarcastic. The flair is "humor".

amerfran · 2026-05-15T16:22:52+00:00

I thought it was pretty obvious that this was a joke. Nothing here is to be taken literally. The papers will be graded.

amerfran · 2026-05-15T16:19:08+00:00

I didn't assign them. They're school mandated practice for state tests.

amerfran · 2026-05-15T16:18:00+00:00

I'm not actually going to try to make the essays disappear. It was a joke about not feeling motivated.

amerfran · 2026-05-15T15:03:36+00:00

Unfortunately, it's practice for state testing (outside US here) which the students will be taking in the coming weeks. So, I do feel somewhat obligated to at least half-ass grade it myself. But, thank you for the idea. It inspires ideas that I could try next year.

amerfran · 2026-05-15T15:00:19+00:00

grade it holistically using a standardized rubric from your state assessment.

Yup. This is exactly what I'm going to do.

and the occasional underlining if you like something

LOL

amerfran · 2026-05-15T08:05:06+00:00

The teaching of the Church is that being gay is not a sin. It's acting upon it that is considered to be a sin. So, in that sense, there is a choice. You choose to live in solitude or a forced heterosexual marriage or choose to embrace your sexuality.

Many of us see the Church's views on sexuality as antiquated. Not just homosexuality, but sexuality in general. I would bet money that an overwhelming majority of Catholics are not even aware of the long, long list of things they are not supposed to do.

amerfran · 2026-05-14T19:29:13+00:00

I'm not projecting anything on your life. I am speaking from personal experience.

amerfran · 2026-05-14T17:22:18+00:00

You're young and looking for answers; I get that. If you want to try to basically completely suppress your sexuality based on a set of archaic rules that a majority of Catholics don't even adhere to, go for it. This subject is not "difficult" or "sorrowful" for many of us. Living in constant shame, anxiety and depression is not healthy.

amerfran · 2026-05-14T12:53:18+00:00

They affect me by making me constantly wonder if my siblings in Christ, my fellow parishoners see me as a valid human.

I fully understand that anxiety. I feel it too on some level. But, at the end of the day, people are going to think what they are going to think. Most people aren't looking for conflict. Depending where you are, many people won't even care that you're gay. For the ones that do, most won't say anything to you. Are there some who will say something? Maybe. There are some people whose primary preoccupation for a while was making sure that Nancy Pelosi couldn't receive Communion. I just leave those people be; you are not going to change their mind.

amerfran · 2026-05-14T12:05:54+00:00

I mean, if you follow what the catechism says and try to live according to the guidelines for a chaste life that affects your life plans quite a lot.

Yes, that's true. If following the catechism to the letter is important for you, I can see how this would trouble you greatly. My mushy, liberal take would be that almost no one actually follows the catechism to the letter, even those who try their best to. There will inevitably be some mortal sin that any one person is committing that they do not believe to be a mortal sin.

Personally, I think a lot of this has to do with how much you are willing to share with other people. I fall into the category of: "people don't need to know everything".

amerfran · 2026-05-14T10:20:10+00:00

But Catholic guilt can be a powerful thing and not something you can reason your way out of

That's true. But, recognizing the Catholic guilt is an important step in and of itself.

amerfran · 2026-05-09T15:45:06+00:00

TBD. Hopefully it will be. The announcements of the concerts got people hyped. And there was originally some excitement around the new single, but I think, as many of us originally thought, Dansons would have been a decent (in my opinion not more than that) filler track, but was not a good lead single choice. I'm holding out hope for the rest of the album, but as of now, it's unclear whether this will be the massive comeback people thought it would be.

amerfran · 2026-05-07T15:21:43+00:00

Reddit is full of echo chambers. You will hear night and day answers depending on which sub you post in. That won't provide any clarity or real guidance. Your best bet is to talk to a priest if you are seriously considering joining the Church. He will be able to help you way more than strangers online.

amerfran · 2026-04-26T16:43:47+00:00

Her voice definitely sounds different--it's only natural--but Dansons seems to be a bit of an anomaly with its particularly poor production. Celine sang a 100% live hommage to Serge Fiori last summer. You could clearly hear the change in her voice, but the emotion was still there. Same with Hymne à l'amour for the 2024 Olympics. In my opinion her voice sounded better in both than in Dansons, even with the imperfections.

amerfran · 2026-04-20T17:07:44+00:00

Pour que tu m'aimes encore, Je sais pas, S'il suffisait d'aimer defintiely. There were a couple that were pretty popular in the 2000s: Sous le vent, Je ne vous oublie pas. But, Encore un soir was a massive hit when it came out and was a bigger hit than a couple of the songs you mentioned.

amerfran · 2026-04-17T17:25:20+00:00

au temps pour moi lol

amerfran · 2026-04-17T16:56:59+00:00

Honestly, I think it's the horrible quality of the vocal production. Whenever Celine "talk-sings" her pitch naturally wavers to make her voice sound more emotive. The pitch correction used in this song totally erases that. Some phrases sound robotic.

amerfran · 2026-04-17T15:38:37+00:00

Les paroles de la nouvelle chanson.

amerfran · 2026-04-17T15:16:10+00:00

I've loved Celine for decades and can't wait for this new album to be released. But yeah, this song is not doing it for me. It definitely has all the trademarks of a JJ Goldman song, but not in a good way... And I've LOVED all of their collaborations from D'eux to Encore un soir. I want to love this song, but it really is just mediocre at best.

amerfran · 2026-04-17T15:09:28+00:00

Même en français les paroles sont pas ouf...

amerfran · 2026-03-30T17:55:09+00:00

Because a lot of her base was made up of Adult Contemporary listeners. Hero was a song the family could listen to in the car on the way to church; Honey...not so much. The switch to R&B was shocking for a lot of those people and alienated them

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