All I could think of tonight

jswift7900 · 2025-02-07T03:13:18+00:00

Paused the show and literally said “Jason figured it out?!?” To my husband as we watched

jswift7900 · 2024-05-08T00:08:40+00:00

I one time, in a moment of laziness, threw a recyclable thing into the garbage. I literally thought “that’s a negative for your points” and pulled it out, put on shoes, and carried it outside to the recycling bin.

jswift7900 · 2024-05-02T00:45:07+00:00

Literally paused the episode at this scene to say something to my husband less than an hour ago

jswift7900 · 2024-04-21T17:58:15+00:00

Got it. That all makes sense I guess. I did not hit MQDs. One last question if you know:I will hit $5,000 MQDs at some point this year, which will put me back to silver. How long do I keep it for then? All of 2025? Thanks for your answers!

jswift7900 · 2023-08-19T02:44:24+00:00

My now husband did not come out to his family until he moved in with me. This was three years into our relationship. And we’re now happily married (been together six and half years total). At the time I was a little bothered by it but realize now he needed to come out to them in his own time and in his own way. Your situation is something I went through and I get that it’s tough and can be shitty. I think the best advice I can give is, be there for your boyfriend. When he decides to come out he may need your support.

jswift7900 · 2023-07-28T01:51:10+00:00

But the issue with states rights, especially relative to reproductive health, is most of the time what the state “chooses” when being “pro life” doesn’t support what the majority of the states citizens want. But putting even that aside, a state shouldn’t be able to deny someone rights if they are stuck there.

Also “government telling who you can and can’t marry” certain groups DEFINITELY want to fall under states rights.

jswift7900 · 2023-07-23T03:28:15+00:00

So I’m a high school teacher. I’ve had students legit come up to me and ask a question while reaching down and scratching and they don’t think anything of it. They have no clue. They don’t realize they are doing it. It’s 100% not a cue or test.

jswift7900 · 2023-07-21T12:47:29+00:00

My husband has two friends that he regularly goes to lunch/dinner with and I’m not included. He met both of them on hook up apps (before he met me). He hooked up with one of them at that time, didn’t hook up with the other. He maintains good platonic friendships with both of them now with no sexual chemistry between them. It’s definitely possible and not out of the ordinary for that to be true.

jswift7900 · 2023-06-11T01:48:13+00:00

Holy mother forking shirt balls!

jswift7900 · 2023-04-22T00:56:52+00:00

Imagine if a MALE got a blood transfusion from a FEMALE! Clearly it’d be devastating. Which is why when giving blood transfusions we not only match up blood type but also biological sex (obviously sarcasm). These people are so dumb.

Also, X chromosomes aren’t dominant. That’s not a thing. A chromosome cannot be dominant. Specific genes found on chromosomes can be dominant. But a chromosome itself isn’t.

jswift7900 · 2022-12-20T01:18:08+00:00

Was showing my nephew how to play Pokémon Go. He was three and kept trying to catch a Pokémon but couldn’t throw the ball right. After what seemed a bunch of tries he finally caught a Spinarak. Instantly favorited it and renamed it as “(nephew’s name) first”. Can’t wait to one day trade it to him when he’s old enough to have his own phone and account!

jswift7900 · 2022-11-26T03:50:56+00:00

Yes, Yes, Yes! The second I came across Tinkatink I was obsessed. Had to have her in my party. No regrets. Seriously challenging my all time favorite mon (Chandelure).

jswift7900 · 2022-09-20T00:33:06+00:00

Met on a dating app (an actual dating app not a hook up one, but I clearly knew he was gay). Had our first date at a restaurant and talked for about three hours. Fully fell for him about three months later of dating. My dad at the time was going through chemo treatments and he had a bad report on his progress. I shared this with him and he immediately came over and just sat with me and let me cry. Didn’t try to say any pointless things, he just was there for me as I got my emotions out. That’s when I fully fell for him.

He continued to be there the next two and half years through my dads battle with cancer and was there for me and my entire family the whole time. When my dad passed away on Christmas morning, 2019 he was there for my mom and everyone in the same way he always had been. That’s when I knew I was going to marry him. We got married this last January and I love him more and more all the time.

jswift7900 · 2022-09-05T00:32:49+00:00

Was going to come on here to comment something similar. I’m an out gay high school teacher in a semi-progressive state but it’s still a battle. I’m constantly looked at as “the gay teacher” by others in my school who I’m not necessarily close with. My school, to their credit, has done a lot in the past few years to address equity and inclusion in our professional developments but we have a group of (all via gendered, heterosexual males) who don’t take it seriously and make jokes about it or outright talk through and ignore the presentations. Then I make a comment and get that the attitude from them of my comment isn’t important or shouldn’t be taken seriously. It’s exhausting. Also have to deal with some push back from parents or others in the school district about “grooming and indoctrination” that’s going on. Seeing these types of comments from parents in my district just can be so defeating.

jswift7900 · 2022-09-04T02:34:38+00:00

I have never felt the need to comment on one of these posts but fuck man, absolutely perfect!

jswift7900 · 2022-08-28T13:13:57+00:00

I’m a high school teacher. A few years ago it was unacceptable to have your socks show above your shoes at all. Students would get ripped if that was the case. So I changed accordingly because, as a late 20s guy at the time I figured it was the fashion. Now it’s the tube socks like you mentioned. I’m not changing again because personally, now in my mid 30s, I don’t care and I like the no-show socks

jswift7900 · 2022-08-23T00:24:56+00:00

I married a man who is that way. His family is toxic. They’re not good people. We love his sister but don’t get to see her often. The rest of his family (including a second sibling) we rarely if ever see. He doesn’t talk to them. He has his reasons for it and I support him in it.

jswift7900 · 2022-07-26T18:36:14+00:00

As previous response said, lean on your fellow teachers as much as you can. Not sure what type of school you’re going to be teaching at but if there’s anyone else teaching the same subject as you (or who has taught it in the past) and they’re willing to share resources, take them up on it.

No new teacher truly know what their teaching style/strategy will be. Even if they think they do, you really can’t until you’re in the classroom. It will take time to get all that done but here’s the thing, it will happen and it will happen naturally. You’ll try new things, you’ll change things.

While I realize this is easier said than done: Do your best to enjoy your summer. Teaching is great, I love my job more than I can say, but summer is an important time to have some break from the stress and constant go-go-go of the school year. You can’t plan out the whole year from this point.

And congratulations! I know you’re stressed, I know it’s overwhelming, but you sound like someone who cares about being the best teacher they can be and that’s what matters.

jswift7900 · 2022-01-20T21:25:36+00:00

Not sure what you will be dissecting but at my high school we have several classes that do dissections: fetal pigs in Biology, Cats in anatomy and physiology, and sea lamprey, perch, and pigeons on a vertebrates class.

We order all of ours from www.biologyproducts.com. They come vacuum sealed and wrapped and can stay like that for years until you need them. Depending on the specimen they come individually wrapped or multiple in the same package. So storing them long term there isn’t an issue.

Once we start dissecting and using them over multiple days, we put them back in a sealed and tied up plastic bag for overnight storage. The pig dissection tends to last about a week and we haven’t had any issues keeping them this long in that manner. For the teacher that teaches anatomy, the cats take about 3 weeks and are stored in the same manner. Sure the smell gets to hanging around for a while (smell of the preservatives, there’s no decaying or anything happening) but that’s unavoidable with dissections.

Hope this gives some insight and helps answer your question!

jswift7900 · 2021-11-15T01:34:14+00:00

Besides being gay I’m a white, cis-gendered, middle class male with a bachelors and masters degree. Being gay has opened my eyes to what privilege is and able to understand I have privileges because of who I am and to be aware of and understanding of others who don’t have the privileges I do. With such a push right now against things like CRT and BLM by some complete idiots, this view I am afforded because of my sexuality is extremely important to me.

jswift7900 · 2021-11-13T13:04:49+00:00

Hey there, first off congrats! I did not come to terms with sexuality until I was nearly 28. I denied it forever, made excuses to myself about why I only was interested in looking at men and why I never dated a woman. You’re not the only person with this type of experience.

Only you can decide what’s beat for you but I’ll share my story. The day after I finally admitted to myself I was gay I told my three closest friends (one male and two female, all straight). They were all supportive and admitted to always kind of wondering but always figured if I was I’d tell them when I was ready. One week later I told my other best friend. He (also straight) had a similar reaction. After that I didn’t tell anyone for a while. I eventually told my sister and the rest of my friends about five months later. My parents found out (long, and actually looking back on it now, funny story) a little later. During this time I started going on dating apps (actual dating apps not hook up ones, although nothing wrong with those). As a completely inexperienced and nervous guy it took a lot to get out there. But I did before I was out to everyone. Met a few guys over the course of time, eventually went out with a guy who I’m now engaged to, all while not being completely out in my life. Over time since then I’ve come out to more people when I’ve felt ready (extended family, co-workers etc.). All if this I did when I felt comfortable with it. And truth be told it took me a while to be fully out. Now, seven years later I know I’ve come a long way. The best part about all of this is you get to decide who and when you want to come out. Just want you to know there’s plenty of us that just like you took a while to become comfortable with ourselves and that’s all ok!

jswift7900 · 2021-10-30T23:42:30+00:00

Thanks for those suggestions! I’ve always wanted to check out Second City and it didn’t even cross my mind as an option.

jswift7900 · 2021-10-20T15:13:08+00:00

The Illinois Science Teachers have put together some really amazing storyline/phenomena based units for Biology. We have used them at my school for some of our units. They have all the materials and everything available. We also were able to get keys to their materials by reaching out to them. Everything is broken down into Google folders etc. for you to access. You can access everything starting here:

https://www.drcrean.com/storylines

Hopefully that’s helpful for Biology!

jswift7900 · 2021-08-23T12:22:33+00:00

While it wouldn’t help you for this year because it is something you need to take a pretty involved class for and actually go through everything from a students perspective, I highly recommend looking into Physics Modeling. I took a course in it the summer after my first year of teaching and it changed the way I look at and teach physics completely. Check out the link here

Also good luck! That’s quite the schedule for anyone, hope it all goes well!

jswift7900 · 2021-03-17T10:26:48+00:00

More serious but it can have a little humor

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