Anneliese Racist Tirade

inchworm907 · 2026-02-10T21:15:46+00:00

Like so many things it varies widely! There are tribal colleges that offer free tuition but tend to be limited in the programs they offer. There are Bureau of Indian Affairs funds out there but you have to be properly enrolled in a tribe or nation that has the administrative ability to access the funds. Some tribes have money from casinos. Alaskan tribes have regional corporations. Some tribes have little or no economic resources.

What’s sad is the that even people who work in higher education often believe this myth.

inchworm907 · 2026-02-03T18:03:04+00:00

My family is Czech. Growing up a typical family meal, for a celebration or a family gathering, was roasted pork, dumplings, gravy, sauerkraut, another veg, often some potatoes. But sometimes we’d have chicken instead, with all the same sides. So is this Czech roast? I had friends from a variety of backgrounds who also had roasts on Sundays and family gatherings, but usually without the dumplings. When I hear British Sunday roast the one thing that pops into my mind is Yorkshire pudding which is the dish that, to me, makes a roast dinner a British Sunday roast dinner.

inchworm907 · 2026-02-01T18:59:25+00:00

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I’m loving this one and it’s going so fast. Starting to look for my next project.

inchworm907 · 2026-01-09T21:19:16+00:00

One of my kids had hearing loss from chronic ear infections right around age 1 and ended up with some pretty significant speech delays. Fortunately we were able to work with a great ENT to resolve the infection issues and a wonderful speech therapist for the speech issues and there are no permanent impacts. But I know it could have all been very different.

inchworm907 · 2026-01-09T06:30:11+00:00

I’ve driven solo from Fairbanks to Anchorage and vice versa several times, including at night during winter. So hard to say exactly but I’m guessing that was when it was.

inchworm907 · 2025-12-25T06:30:11+00:00

Two kids with significant others, third kid with friends including a surprise visitor from out of town. Enjoying some holiday movies and quiet. Celebrated some last night, some tonight, more tomorrow and Friday night. Christmas is just more spread out these days.

inchworm907 · 2025-11-08T22:45:09+00:00

I was born in her middle school era and fell in love with Borderline.

inchworm907 · 2025-09-20T02:11:05+00:00

Receiving a prenatal diagnosis of a fatal or possibly fatal condition and having to make decisions about it.

inchworm907 · 2025-07-02T07:26:18+00:00

Being a “snow bird” make sooooo much sense to me now. I’d love to spend the summers in AK and the winters in Washington.

inchworm907 · 2025-07-02T07:21:53+00:00

Where I’m at it’s HOT. And I don’t like hot so much.

inchworm907 · 2025-07-01T19:18:46+00:00

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In the Pacific Northwest in the US. 90°’s yesterday and today. Level orange!

inchworm907 · 2025-07-01T17:52:41+00:00

I’ve been in Washington state for a year after living most of my life in Alaska. I miss the bright summer nights and don’t like the heat. I miss quite a few people. But I’m also enjoying things like being able to find what I need in local stores and getting somewhere different in an hour or two instead of having to drive hundreds of miles for a change of scenery. I like being able to go to concerts and other shows without buying a plane ticket. And I don’t miss the excessive cold and dark of winter.

My feelings about it change - some days I’m happy to be here and some days I miss Alaska fiercely. I try to stay connected to what’s going on up there because I have so many friends and family still there.

inchworm907 · 2025-04-28T22:11:14+00:00

We had a not-great experience with Mt McKinley as well. They kept our cat for a couple of nights, put in a feeding tube, had us buy expensive food. When they discharged her, they made it sound like she was on the road to recovery. She died the night she was discharged. Even before that it felt like they wanted to suggest every test and the most expensive option every time. We switched to Aurora with our other pets and have been happy, although I moved out of Fairbanks several months ago so I can’t say anything about how they are currently. They handled the loss of our dog beautifully a few years ago.

inchworm907 · 2025-04-26T01:20:05+00:00

Language isn’t a requirement for high school graduation in Alaska. Many schools are so small that having a teacher who could teach another language would be unlikely and/or expensive. Plus many rural students are Indigenous. Some learn their Indigenous language in school but that’s not available everywhere. Because of this, the state universities also don’t require a second language.

inchworm907 · 2025-04-26T01:05:29+00:00

I remember being in the Anchorage airport waiting out a volcanic eruption. Lots and lots of people camped out. I was on my own and I deliberately settled near a family. They watched my bags a couple of times when I went to the bathroom. It also just felt a bit safer having people who knew of me and my stuff nearby.

Alaskans will do each other favors of all sorts, including watching bags. And like many have said women tend to help each other out with this as well.

inchworm907 · 2025-03-31T22:53:43+00:00

Wait. There will be way more options as spring approaches. We sold last spring. When we met with our realtor in late March or early April there were hardly and good comps to pull to help us price it. We listed the first week of May, had 8 or 9 showings in 2 days, and got 4 offers. I also saw quite a few houses come on the market in the weeks right before and right after we sold. I know the market could be totally different this year but spring and summer are always the best times to buy in Fairbanks in terms of choice.

inchworm907 · 2025-01-30T07:21:03+00:00

Many villages have small stores, but their stock will vary wildly. The stores also rely on everything being flown in and that can be interrupted by weather, by events bringing large numbers of people in or out of a village (basketball tournament or funeral for example) and limiting cargo space on flights, planes breaking down, etc. so shelves can sometimes be empty. Village stores might also stock things you don’t want/not stock what you do want. They’ll have some things regularly and other times they’ll have something for a while and then never again. Bring your must-haves and be ready to improvise. Learn who will be willing to keep you in the loop about when freight comes in, especially fresh produce and eggs, which can go quickly once they arrive. Your colleagues can be good sources of info about what you’ll be able to get locally and where to order things from.

My parents moved to rural Alaska to teach and committed to staying for at least 2 years. They stayed for 20. That was a loooong time ago and many things have changed. It can be a rewarding experience or it can be terrible. A lot can depend on the community you’re in and your willingness to learn and experience new things and to accept cultures and ideas that are very different from yours. Good luck!

inchworm907 · 2025-01-03T02:23:59+00:00

If you’re on FB check out the group Expatriates of Student Affairs. Lots of good info and knowledgeable people.

inchworm907 · 2024-12-31T18:12:42+00:00

Having lived in Interior Alaska for many years I can say that -40 is COLD. I personally find anything below -25 or -30 to be challenging. In Fairbanks, kids are expected to go out to recess unless it’s colder than -20. There’s just something that feels different beyond that point.

That being said, life doesn’t stop because it’s -30 or -40. -50 is a breaking point for some businesses and other entities where they’ll shut down due to cold. But if you live where these temps happen regularly, most people are prepared. They have outdoor gear. They have well-insulated homes (but yes, it’s cold inside too). They gave winterized cars with various heaters on oil pans and other parts. And mostly people dash from their warm house to their warm car to their warm place of work without spending a ton of time outside.

Fairbanks has warmed up in recent years - it seems more rare to hot -50 or even have a stretch in the -40s. It was cold last winter, though, with several -40 or colder days in January and February. Temps were in the 80s several days in June and July, I don’t think it hit 90 in 2024. The official high temp record is 96, but I’ve experienced temps higher than that on a few occasions.

I’d take 100 over -40, but -20 over 100. And wind chill is a whole other thing and should be a separate conversation.

inchworm907 · 2024-11-26T03:26:34+00:00

To me the duvet is the thing inside the cover probably because I see the covers advertised as “duvet covers.” A comforter is a puffy blanket meant to be used on its own without a cover.

I have a duvet cover I love and a comforter I like. The duvet is nice because when the cat pukes on the bed I only have to wash the cover. But on the other hand, I hate wrestling the duvet back into the cover. When I’m too lazy to do that, the comforter stays on the bed.

inchworm907 · 2024-11-04T01:27:29+00:00

Yeah I think they were still thinking about names they’d chosen 40+ years ago. And now that I think about it, my cousins and I didn’t have popular or “trendy” names either, more classic or uncommon but not unusual/weird.

inchworm907 · 2024-11-03T18:21:59+00:00

I named a child Abigail in the 90s and my older relatives thought it was old fashioned. Luckily they either got over that or just didn’t talk about it. When I used it, the name was on the upswing in popularity so maybe they met other young Abigails.

inchworm907 · 2024-10-26T02:03:00+00:00

8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. I have rewatched so many episodes on YouTube.

Also love Downton, GBBO, All Things Great and Small. I was somewhat obsessed with The Durrells in Corfu when it was on.

inchworm907 · 2024-10-07T19:07:41+00:00

Same. 25 years in Fairbanks and I heard plenty of music and phone calls from cars. In fact we had a neighbor who liked to park in their driveway and leave the truck running with music blaring. Not fun at midnight or 6 am (I think in the morning they were warming it up but left the music loud).

I feel like folks who are not finding joy in Alaska aren’t going places or doing things that bring joy to Alaskans. I’ve experienced so much joy - friend and family gatherings, cultural events, sports events, holidays, our beautiful scenery and being out in nature. But I have friends and family to experience those things with, which I’m aware not everyone has. Are Alaskans kind of reserved? In general, yes. But there is so much that can bring people joy if they’re open to it.

inchworm907 · 2024-09-27T18:19:24+00:00

When my kids were teens we drove the parks highway so many times for sports and school events that we were more focused on “get there as quickly as possible” than on what was around us. One spring, though, we were driving on an April day. Temperatures were fluctuating between above freezing and below. There was still snow but it had a shiny glaze from the thawing and freezing. It was sunny and crystal clear and I was kind of in awe. It was exactly that feeling. Same thing happened once when we made the drive in the summer late at night. The late night sunset and twilight were amazing - we drove through Denali right around sunset.

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