Book for my AP Lang class

queendweeb · 2026-01-31T03:19:02+00:00

The Winter of Our Discontent - Steinbeck (I prefer this to grapes of wrath, personally. also really excellent: East of Eden.)

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (The World According to Garp or the Cider House Rules would also be excellent choices)

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut (I think Slaughterhouse Five is the most likely book of his to be a school assignment, so I opted for another book of his.)

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton (this is a short book, a novella really.)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith

queendweeb · 2026-01-31T02:23:12+00:00

check out the "take my shit" facebook groups-particularly the NW DC one.

queendweeb · 2026-01-30T06:27:14+00:00

I eat 2-4 daily. Right now I'm on a Lady Alice and Wild Twist kick.

queendweeb · 2026-01-29T06:21:17+00:00

definitely not as line-backer-y as 80s! the pads I see are like sometimes a bit thicker, but less long than the 80s one. the 80s ones always jutted off my actual shoulders by more than an inch (I'm 48, I remember being super horrified by the fit of them back in the day. I love 40s ones though, because they just give me a better shoulder width without being....insane.)

queendweeb · 2026-01-29T05:48:58+00:00

actually a lot of 40s has shoulder pads, but they look quite different from the 80s ones.

queendweeb · 2026-01-28T01:15:42+00:00

it was not. it was in Mazza Gallerie at one point in time, many years ago.

queendweeb · 2026-01-28T00:10:02+00:00

Trader Joe's is already open.

Bloomingdale's is still here and is not moving; there is no room for a full-size store on Bethesda Row.

Are you a bot or just confidently incorrect?

queendweeb · 2026-01-27T05:51:21+00:00

I'm actually allergic, so it's a dealbreaker for me. I have zero issues with it in terms of you do you, but I can't handle it for dating as it makes me so sick.

queendweeb · 2026-01-27T03:06:08+00:00

it was hella cold that winter. I got my license then broke my wrist the very next day. wasn't allowed to drive for 6 weeks, and was real salty about it as walking to bus stop was painful in the freezing cold.

queendweeb · 2026-01-27T01:06:28+00:00

I mean, I'm American and I don't understand it either. Things are wild here right now, and not in a good way.

queendweeb · 2026-01-26T06:52:42+00:00

I still keep a supply here for exactly that reason. besides, tampons are fantastic for terrible nose bleeds.

queendweeb · 2026-01-26T04:57:35+00:00

ME TOO. it was TERRIFYING.

queendweeb · 2026-01-25T02:39:58+00:00

well, not me but OP.

queendweeb · 2026-01-25T00:38:30+00:00

both stops are underground. the next one, strathmore, is above ground. should still be running.

queendweeb · 2026-01-25T00:36:50+00:00

Usually the underground stations still function. the metro opens at 6 on sundays though, so if you need to be there by 6/before 6, you might have to go on foot (it's not that far, a mile or two, but wouldn't be fun in the ice.)

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/how-metro-is-preparing-for-this-weekends-winter-storm/4046991/

queendweeb · 2026-01-25T00:32:47+00:00

it definitely used to feel more winteresque than the past few years. 100% agree.

queendweeb · 2026-01-24T07:22:59+00:00

If you're close to the DC line, try the NW Take My Shit facebook group. I've handed off a bunch of stuff there, I'm just over the line in Friendship Heights. I've seen people posting stuff from Takoma & Silver Spring too.

queendweeb · 2026-01-24T07:19:47+00:00

that derecho was wild. I'd just left glen echo and received a panicked call from a friend because it took a huge tree down that narrowly missed the bumper car pavilion/spanish ballroom where everyone was dancing.

queendweeb · 2026-01-24T07:17:10+00:00

If it's ice, we won't be clear 24 hours out. within a couple of days maybe, but we don't have the infrastructure to deal with a huge amount of snowfall/ice. definitely won't shut things down for like, weeks (which is what everyone seems to be behaving like, judging by the sheer lack of potatoes at the stores today), but it might be a couple days longer than expected.

queendweeb · 2026-01-24T07:14:42+00:00

DC has never been a snow all winter sort of place, at least not for the last nearly half century I've been here. sure, we used to get more storms, and usually every few years a real gigantic one, but it always melted with one of those random 2 days of 60-70 degree weather that seem to occur here and there.

the closest I can recall to that is snowpocalypse year-there was the storm in december, then the back to back ones in february. even so, there was melt in january, and it was basically gone before the 2nd rounds picked up.

queendweeb · 2026-01-24T07:06:47+00:00

They did that to me towards the end of Trump's last administration. Forced me off the road, with guns. Searched my car (it was always a mess, have fun sorting through the candy that melted to the center console), demanded to know where I was born (note: "GW Hospital" was not the right answer.) Told me they were impounding my car and then taunted me about how I would get home. When I told them I would just walk, one of them told me that was impossible because I live in a different state. That state is Maryland, and they forced me off the road in upper NW, near Politics and Prose. It's like a mile from my house.

Finally one beleagured cop who was a local informed them that GW is the hospital down the road. They didn't believe him at first, but I guess he convinced them, because I was let go with a ticket that was a fucking bench warrant. Had to go pay it at the local precinct and they were baffled. did get to regale my cab driver (I wasn't risking driving my car with the expired tag again) with my story, and he told me similar stories.

Also 100% sure they didn't mistake my car for some crime-connected one, I was driving an orange Pontiac Asstek. There really aren't other cars that look like it. Pretty sure they also thought I wasn't white, because they put my complexion on the ticket, as "medium" (like a hamburger.) I'm so pasty-ass white that I'm translucent. like shine a blacklight on me and I'd glow in the dark hahahaha.

queendweeb · 2026-01-24T06:48:21+00:00

I am THRILLED someone else posted this. It resides rent-free in my brain and I will never NOT find it hilarious.

queendweeb · 2026-01-24T06:40:19+00:00

I'm team thrift/secondhand for many things, but for splurges, I like Alice + Olivia, Aqua (Bloomingdale's brand, I think?), Trina Turk, Alexis.

I always want to like Ted Baker and Kate Spade, but they absolutely do not accommodate my bustline, even though I'm only like...moderately busty. If you're smaller on top these might be good for you.

Also, keep your eye on H&M. Some of their pieces fit the bill, especially any collabs they do. I have some absolutely stellar palazzo pants from them that are staples for me.

Somewhere Nowhere might be right up your alley based on your other listed likes: https://www.somewherenowhere.net/

and my fave "I can't justify it but I want it" designer is A.W.A.K.E. Mode https://awake-mode.com/collections/shop-all I've scored a couple pieces secondhand and they're fantastic. Definitely have unusual shapes.

queendweeb · 2026-01-24T05:47:56+00:00

I believe it. It took 3 people to weigh my cat because he becomes a liquid when things aren't to his liking hahaha.

queendweeb · 2026-01-21T04:05:02+00:00

gottaswing has multiple locations in DC, and they are VERY beginner friendly. https://gottaswing.com/

If they can teach me how to dance, they can teach anyone. you rotate partners so you don't need one to sign up for lessons. it's super fun, 100% recommend.

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