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specsforwoo · 3 years

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Son of Morpheus | Demigod!Lee Jeno

Parent Deity: Morpheus (God of Dreams and Human Dreamers)

Allegiance: Hypnos

This boy loves to sleep

Like LOVES to sleep

He could be found sleeping anywhere

High key his mom found him sleeping on the kitchen floor one day

And ever since he was little

He was able to remember his dreams with intense detail

His family just thought it was a 4 year old’s imagination running wild

Until the night terrors started

He was tormented with them

They started around the time he was 7

They still happen today, just much less in frequency

But when he was younger

They were really bad

Like he would wake up screaming and crying

And it took ages for him to calm down

It got to the point that his mom was considering taking him to a child psychiatrist

He found a way to calm himself though

He began drawing out scenes from his dreams

No matter what they are

Light and airy or nightmarish

It helped him cope in a way

Life continued on

And he started opening up to his mom about his dreams

He talked about a young man with tan skin and dark curly hair

And wings of a white warblers

He told stories of epic battles

Of courtrooms filled with music and sleeping bodies

Of sleepless nights talking with a man sitting on the moon

Jeno couldn’t tell if he was scared of the man or not

As he entered middle school

He started being able to interpret his dreams

Other’s dreams too

He kept it a secret though

It terrified him

He learned to accept this too

As he did everything else

But then he learned he could predict others dreams

And it scared the shit out of him

He told his best friend, Jaemin first

Jaemin just gave him this knowing look and took him to his mom

His mom sat him down

And for the first time in his 14 years of life

His mother pulled out a photo of his father

And he was shocked

It was the curly haired man that he saw every night in his dreams

Sitting there next to his mother in a cafe in Greece

He was fucking confused

Like really fucking confused

Until it clicked

That was his dad

His dad had wings of a garbler

HIS DAD HAS WINGS OF A GARBLER

Am I going to grow wings too!?!?!?!?!?!?

No, you idiot. Jaemin

I’m not?

No, you have to earn them. Also Jaemin

So that night he was lying in bed

Questioning whether or not he wanted to fall asleep

Knowing he would have to confront his father there

But a cloud with a dreamcatcher with dew drops hanging from the strings shrouded with a calming silver light appeared above his head

And he fell asleep instantaneously

His father was sitting there

Talking with the man who embodied the moon

The man that he didn’t recognize made a comment and vanished after he caught sight of him

His father turned around. It was like he hadn’t aged a day since the photo see saw

Do you know who I am?

Uhhhhh. A dude with white warbler wings??? That haunts my dreams every night. Who also happens to be my father?

He didn’t mean to sound as sarcastic as it came out

Yes, that is all true, though I don’t ‘haunt’ you. But, do you know who I am?

He sat him down in the dark pavilion, explaining about the gods and goddess, the war and everything in between, even how he was born.

Do I like…. Have half-siblings??

No, but Jaemin is your cousin. His father smiled

After that, the dream faded off and he was peaceful for the rest of the night

Waking up, Jaemin was passed out on the couch in the living room

Picking up the nearest thing (a remote) he threw it at the boy on the couch, causing him to wake up

WHY IN OLYMPUS DID YOU NEVER TELL ME WE ARE TECHNICALLY COUSINS????

Not my place?

Anyways start packing, Mom said I can take you to camp with me this year :)

Yes, Jaemin calls Jeno’s mom his mom

And so he went to camp with Jaemin that year

It was nothing like what Jaemin described

It was WAY cooler

On the first day people were milling around everywhere

Jaemin led him over to a couple older kids with badges around their necks

Hey Jaemin!

Jaemin introduced them as Johnny and Ten, both sons of wind gods, both camp leaders who were helping all of the new kids get around and find their cabins

They’ll take care of you, I have to go find her.

Jaemin basically dumped Jeno on their shoulders so he could go find his girlfriend smh

Jaemin told us you were Morpheus’ kid, we were thinking about putting you in the Crios cabin? Does that sound okay? We would put you with Jaemin but he said you should get to know other campers your first year here. The shorter one spoke up

The taller one, Jaemin introduced him as Johnny, pulled out a gold coin, flicking it into the air while muttering something, and a wavering rainbow appeared in front of them

Put me through to Taeil and soon the rainbow was showing an older boy as well with a red undercut over some astrology papers

The rainbow??? Was facetime???

Ten obviously saw the shock on poor Jeno’s face, carefully explaining what an Iris message was and how to do it

After that he settled into demigod life pretty quickly

Jaemin introduced him to all of his friends, the Dream team, even some older campers who he was close with

He even liked the Crios cabin so much that he decided to stay there past the first year. The Morpheus cabin was lonely and Jaemin always had his girlfriend over trying to get her to sleep

The night terrors slowly subsided and soon his dreams were more peaceful than anything else

But one time he dreamt about a girl, right around his age, running into camp, a dark aura surrounding her but obvious scared

It wasn’t the dark aura that worried him, Kun and Jaehyun both had a dark aura, both sons of gods related to death

But her aura was different, it was mixed with madness, it was close to driving her insane

Even though it was only a dream, he couldn’t shake it off

He asked everyone that he knew, especially Jaemin, he found out a while ago that he was the one who founded the camp, what the aura could be and no one knew

He also started watching the border of camp everyday

Not stalking it or anything, just glancing over whenever he had a chance

A couple weeks past and Jeno was convinced that it was just a really weird dream

But then you actually showed up

Same way that it happened in the dream

You ran into the borders of camp like you were out of your mind, you were paranoid, no one could even touch you, not even Sicheng

When Jeno had heard what happened, he ran down to the pavilion

There you were, on the ground, covering your ears, eyes wide open, terrified to shut them, and shaking in fear

Once he had pushed his way through the crowd, he placed his hand over your eyes and shortly, you had fallen asleep

After that, Sicheng had moved you to the infirmary with Jeno’s and Johnny’s help

He found that you were severely dehydrated, and even he couldn’t describe the aura around you. It wasn’t that of Kun or Jaehyun’s but it was definitely similar

You were were in and out of consciousness for about 3 days and when everything finally settled down, a raven with a snake in its mouth appeared over your head

It was symbols that no one had seen or heard of, not even Jaemin or Taeyong

The boys spent the next couple of days researching who the symbols could belong to, and eventually they found it: Melinoe

Goddess of ghosts and spiritual passage who brought mortals nightmares that drove them insane

That would explain the way you were when you first came into camp

After that, Jeno stayed by your side every step of your recovery

He also helped you to manage the nightmares and control your powers

He had been there before, dreams were a tricky subject and nightmares made it even more complicated

But slowly you got the hang of it

And slowly Jeno started to have a crush on you, and slowly it turned into more

When he finally asked you out, you were ecstatic, it would be a lie to say that you hadn’t developed feelings for Jeno since coming to camp

And when camp closed for the summer- except for the few that stayed, he found out that you were attending the same university

He had been studying astrology while you were in the art department, soon, everyone in campus and camp knew who the two of you were

Y’all were inseparable

The Dreamies even accepted you into their group

(Jisung is your favorite don’t tell Jeno)

You eventually ended up moving in with Jaehyun

He had become like your older brother at camp

When Jeno wasn’t able to help you learn about your powers, Jaehyun was there to help

He even got his mom to visit personally and talk to you about your own mom and what he role was, and most importantly, that she wasn’t a bad person

Jaehyun knew the pain that you dealt with having a parent being a literal embodiment of death

And soon enough, it was even like Jeno had moved in with Jaehyun with how much he was at the apartment

Jaehyun was okay with it as long as he didn’t wake up in the middle of the night :)

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be-the-spark-flyboy · 4 years

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One Step Forward Two Steps Back

Call It What You Want (7/?)

Series Masterlist

Pairing: Med student!Poe x reader

A/N: Poe needs to calm down in this one smh that gif is so fitting

Chapter Summary: Poe tries to talk to you, but you make his life infinitely more difficult since you’re still under the impression that he was still with his girlfriend

Warnings: swearing, dash of angst, everyone being dumb asses

Word count: 2.4k

You don’t remember the walk back to your place, your mind too occupied with the thoughts of what had just happened with Poe fucking Dameron. You kissed him. More like, he kissed you first but you still went with it, way too eagerly, head empty of any rational thoughts. He has a girlfriend. How could you forget that, if even for a moment? How could he forget that?

You used to be sure Poe wasn’t the type of person who would cheat on someone, but now, not so much. And the worst part? You enjoyed kissing him, so goddamn much. You should’ve pushed him away, should’ve stopped him before he kissed you. How could you be so reckless?

Before you know it, you’re walking up to your front door, too busy mentally kicking yourself, to notice the cardboard boxes lying around the floor. Your foot catches on one and you almost go tumbling down, but an arm shoots out to steady you before you could fall.

“Oh god, I’m so sorry!” A woman around your own age exclaims, her hand still firmly clamped on your arm as you wobble in surprise. She chuckles awkwardly, an easy smile settling on her face as she sticks a hand out to you. “I’m Rose Tico. I just moved in next door,” She tells you. Oh, your new neighbor. She seems nice, you think. You shake her hand, introducing yourself.

“You need any help moving in?” You offer, though you don’t really feel like putting yourself in a social situation. Thankfully, Rose declines. After a quick exchange of numbers, you rush into your home, hoping Jessika was already at home. You find her sitting cross-legged on the counter, happily munching on a muffin from your stress baking batch.

“Poe kissed me,” The words are out of your mouth before you could even think about how you were going to reveal the news, and the bite of muffin Jessika takes almost goes flying out of her mouth.

“WHAT?” She screeches, scampering down from the counter, crossing the room in record time before shaking you by the shoulders. “Woman! What? Is my ship finally sailing?”

“What? No!” You break away from her grip, grimacing. “He has a girlfriend, Jessika!” She makes a gagging sound at your protestations.

“But she is a bitch and everyone hates her,” Jessika states like its the most obvious thing in the world. You still have absolutely no idea what made everyone hate her so much. If anyone knew about it, you’re pretty sure that it would be Jessika. But would asking her about it mean that you care? That you’re admitting your feelings?

“Yeah well, that not the point. Kissing someone else is basically cheating, isn’t it?” You swing back to the problem at hand. What happens in their relationship isn’t any of your business, you decide.

“Well, yeah.” She shrugs. “Maybe you should talk to him about this. He might have an explanation for things, ya know? Poe just doesn’t seem like the type to be so careless about someone’s feelings,”

“Huh, since when are you an expert on Poe?” You ask her. It surprised you how Jessika could be so intuitive and heartfelt at times, so at odds with her usual carefree nature.

“I am an expert on everyone, honey,” she says, dramatically flipping her hair over her shoulders.

“Yeah, whatever,” You push past her, still not very convinced. “Oh, did you meet our new neighbor?”

“Rose?” She asks, going back to her muffin. “Yeah, I don’t think she likes me very much.”

“Not an expert on Rose?” You laughed.

“Not yet,” she tells you.

---

“Just ask her, man!” Finn exclaims, sitting opposite Poe in a crowded coffee shop as his best friend nervously shuffles his phone from one hand to the other.

“Urgh, how do I even phrase it? Isn’t it weird if I just ask her out of the blue?” Poe asks.

“You’re thinking too much,” Finn crosses his arm, glaring at him. “Since when are you so afraid to talk to a girl?”

Finn hates seeing Poe like this, a complete mess and totally out of his element. He had been that way since you left in the hurry the previous day. And in the past almost 24 hours Finn has been the one to put up with all his whining. As much as Finn pities Poe, he also wants to strangle him just to get some peace and quiet.

“Since I fucked up and kissed her and now she probably thinks I’m an asshole who cheats on his girlfriend!” Poe whines.

“Dameron you’re such a fucking drama queen. Just text her!” Poe reluctantly punches in a few words before flipping his phone around for Finn to see.

“Is this okay? Too short? Too formal?”

“No its fine,” Finn reassures him. Finally, they were getting somewhere.

“What if I just- Hey! What the hell, Finn?” Poe shoots Finn a look of betrayal as the other man pressed send on the text before he could snatch back his phone.

“See! It’s done. Nothing to worry about,”

“Easy for you to say,” Poe mutters indignantly.

---

Your phone buzzes in your pocket in the quiet corner of the library. You were looking for reference books for your latest project from hell which was sucking your soul. You pull your phone out of your pocket, welcoming the distraction.

Poe: Hey, it’s Poe. Are you free around 1 later? Do you want to join me for lunch? :)

Or not. Oh shit. You know Jessika told you to just talk to Poe. Communication is the best way to sort things out, but it’s always easier said than done isn’t it?

Does he want to talk about the events of the previous day? Is he going to tell you that he likes you and that was why he kissed you? But what if he apologizes for it and tells you that it was a mistake instead? You can’t decide which one would be worse.

You don’t want to have lunch with him. Just the thought of seeing him again makes your chest constrict in panic. But you can’t just leave him hanging, you have to reply. And you find yourself thinking for the millionth time, if only I hadn’t gotten so close to him.

Your fingers were dancing above the keypad, contemplating what excuse to give as another notification pops up on the top of your screen. And then another.

Ben: Bro, I need your help.

Ben: Pleeeeaaaassseee I’ll buy you lunch

You spend years getting lunch all alone most of the time and suddenly two boys are fighting for your attention on the same goddamn day. Fun.

It really isn’t a difficult decision to make. Your friend needs your help, so you gotta put that above some casual lunch right? Yeah, totally, you decide. It isn’t because you want to avoid Poe, not at all. You just have somewhere else to be.

And so you take the cowards way out.

You: Okay, where do I meet you?

Ben: Wow that was fast did I speak too soon about lunch?

You: NOPE you’re still buying

—-

“She hasn’t replied. Why hasn't she replied Finn?!” Poe’s fidgeting puts Finn on edge as he watches him pick up the phone and check the notifications, place it down, then pick it up to check the notification, again and again.

“Because you just texted her, Poe. Maybe she’s busy,” Finn takes a sip of his coffee, Poe’s cup already drained. Finn considers buying him another cup of coffee just to give him something else to do. But knowing his friend, he probably already had at least two this morning. He does not need more caffeine.

His phone buzzes again and Poe sweeps it up. “It’s not her...” he groans, looking at the screen with barely veiled disappointment.

“Okay, gimme that,” Finn snatches the device from his hand as Poe throws himself back into his seat, pouting like a five-year-old with his toys taken away. “You need patience dude, a lot of it,” Finn shakes his head at him.

Usually, Poe had plenty of patience. But not when it came to you apparently. He doesn’t regret kissing you at all, but maybe he moved too fast? He definitely should have talked to you first, or maybe asked you out first instead of just kissing you. Or told you that he broke up with Sarah. Yep that one, that’s the first thing he should’ve done.

The phone pings again and Poe almost flings himself over the table trying to snatch it from his friend’s hand. “Christ Poe, calm down! God!” Poe pays no mind, but his face falls the second he unlocks his phone.

“She said she can’t make it,” Poe deflates. “She’s meeting up with someone else for lunch. Finn, she’s avoiding me, right? She doesn’t want to talk to me anymore. How am I supposed to explain anything to her like this?” Poe goes on rambling for- Finn has lost count of the number of times he has heard it.

“You got anything lessons later?” Poe shakes his head, already starting to sulk in his seat again.

“Let’s go to that diner off-campus you like so much,” Finn suggests. That’ll cheer him up.

---

“Jesus fucking Christ,” You curse, catching your cup before it tipped all the way spilling some of its contents on yourself in the process. A few heads turn your way in the diner but you pay no mind to it.

“That’s the second time I’m watching you spill something on yourself,” Ben clucks handing you tissues yet again.

“Shut up, Solo,” You snap at him, but take the tissues from him anyways, trying to blot the dampness from your sweatshirt.

“No no, I was right. You do need a nanny following you around cleaning up after you,” he sounds so monotonous but you just know he’s laughing at you.

“Oh, look at me I’m Ben Solo, I’m a med student and I need help to write a fucking essay!” You mock him in retaliation.

“Okay smartass, what about you help me instead of destroying more tables,” you flip him off as he pulls his laptop out of his bag and moves both your cups out of your reach.

“You’re mean, you know that?” You admonish him and not a second after the last word leaves your mouth, a heavy fabric hits you in the face.

You almost roll it back up and fling it back at him before he says, “Put it on, you’re going to be cold,” He had a point. Your half drenched sweatshirt wasn’t going to dry anytime soon. And the huge blot of brown didn’t exactly look great on your light grey sweatshirt.

“Thanks. You’re that mean,” you pronounce before draping it over your shoulders.

---

“Rey could help,” Finn suggests, rubbing his hands together in efforts to gain some warmth in the cold weather.

“She definitely will not help, I ate the last cookie,” Poe answers dejectedly scuffing the heel of his boot on the sidewalk, hands buried deep inside his pocket as he drags his feet beside Finn.

“I’ll ask her for you,” Finn offers. There was only so much whining a man can take, at least this way he will be helping Poe, and himself. Two birds, one stone.

Poe pushes open the door to the diner, the sounds and the smell immediately lifting his rotten mood. The diner is relatively small, but the checkered tiles and the smell of greasy burgers never fail to make him smile.

The diner is crowded as usual, filled with the sound of loud conversations and cutlery clinking together. Poe hadn’t taken two steps in when his heart plunges straight into his stomach.

He sees you there, looking gorgeous as ever, laughing with your friend. A jacket, clearly not yours, around your shoulders as the two of you sat squeezed into the same side of the booth. You pay no mind to anything else, he’s too far for you to notice him there.

So that’s why you ran away after kissing him. Poe has this sinking feeling that he has been reading the situation all wrong. You never did like him. It was Ben all along. And last night the kiss must have been a heat of the moment thing, not because you actually liked him. That was why you have been avoiding him since. Because you feel guilty.

It all makes sense now. He never should’ve kissed you.

Finn walks right into Poe, frozen in place. “The hell, man?” He slaps him on the shoulder. The actions seem to startle Poe out of his trance. He turns on his heel and storms off, not bothering to wait for Finn to catch up with him.

---

“She ditched me for Ben Solo,” Poe was positively fuming. “For Ben fucking Solo. Of all people Finn! Ben Solo,” he exclaims. Rey sits cross-legged on the sofa beside Finn, watching her friend slowly lose his mind. Clearly, the problem is Ben Solo related. Again. She has no idea what happened this time, but something tells her, now is not the best time to ask Poe about it. She could just ask Finn later.

“Calm down you’re gonna summon him or something,” Finn says looking for lunch to order, watching Poe pace. Clearly, lunch was the last thing on his mind, but Finn was hungry.

“Calm down? Ben Solo, Finn!” Poe exclaims.

“Jesus H. Christ,” Finn mutters under his breath.

“I need to take a walk. Come on Beebs,” The corgi happily jumps up from its perch on the sofa at the sound of the keys jiggling, following Poe hot on his heels.

“Oh my god, he’s gone crazy,” Finn mutters again, watching Poe walk out, almost slamming the door behind him.

“What was it this time?” Rey asks and Finn sighs heavily before explaining in great detail the events of the day.

“It could be a misunderstanding and maybe they are just friends. But given what happened last time, I don’t really blame Poe for assuming otherwise. Rey, you gotta talk to her. It already a big mess, we need to help,” He concludes, sprawled across the couch, his head resting on Rey’s lap as she thoughtfully munched on an apple.

“Okay, I’ll help him this time,” she nods slowly. “But I still don’t forgive him for eating the last cookie. It was supposed to be mine,” She huffs.

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hajimine · 3 years

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helloo !! i'm finally back, but lowkey in a bad mood so lemme rant real quick 😐 we need some 'special' programs??? for school to work with and i "only" have an ipad BUT IT DOESNT WORK ON IPADS. we do that every friday so ur telling me i (and another classmate, she has the same problem,, well) have to go to school on fridays now?? dude i have to leave at 7 then, i can barely get up five minutes before my classes start atm HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO LEAVE THE HOUSE AT 7 AGAIN????? i hate my teacher but what's new 💅🏼 no but fr i hate this teacher sm I KNOW HE CANT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT BUT PLSHSKSBS 🏃🏻‍♀️ anyways enough of my passive aggressive rant, imma see my bestie later so hopefully that'll brighten up my mood 😌🤲🏻 now tell me about your day so far pls miss lex, i'm listening 😤✋🏼 i think its around 6pm there?? idrk, but i hope the rest of your day is gonna be good !! <3

and pls all ive been doing is reading haikyuu / iwa angst stuff can someone stop me 🏃🏻‍♀️ but the pain ugh i love it 🙄✋🏼 this was so long again smh oh ALSO drink lots of water and eat smth!! kith kith for the hottest and coolest girl lex <3 - 🐉

pls i am EMBARRASSED by how long this is

oh damn that’s so annoying :(( and why do they even have to have those special programs if it excludes some student bye. JDHISAJ hopefully you’ll get used to it soon </3 mannn i cant even imagine going back to campus and waking up more than 5mins before class starts smh,, im not ready but at the same time i wanna go back to class soon 😭 my day has been pretty good!!! i did some school work and i feel a lil happier than i’ve been these past few days so that’s really nice 😁😁 it’s now almost 10:30pm so ive eaten dinner and all that hehe,, i might gtb soon(??) but i also wanna write sth eurgh my attention span is HORRIBLE i cant sit still long enough to write a whole hc thing in one sitting (which is why i cant post as much as i wanna eurgh) but omg iwa angst... stares... are u okay bae?? /lh ,, JDDJSJ a whole diary entry i love it dont be embarassed omg im also writing an essay for u rn jwhdsjjs <33 u too sexy go drink some water rn and get some food if you’re hungry!! i hope u had/have fun w your bestie and u get to relax a lil bit,, u deserve it bc youre a hottie ok? ok 😗‼️ hope u had a wonderful day MWAH! <3

#mailbox;#⚔️ ; anonnies #🐉 anon baby!

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seoultraveller · 3 years

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You’re the sweetest!!😭💕 But same here I love reading what you’re writing and it’s just fun having these conversations 🥰 Ahh, I see :( See it as a learning process maybe? But life is tricky :// (Smh, recess time must be even more annoying🥱)

Omg yes absolutely!! Don’t worry didn’t sound creepy😆 I can understand that though 😂 My hair started getting curly a couple of years ago so it’s been a long learning process ! I’m still learning though because my hair does not want to listen to me lolll it’s the hair who’s in charge 😅 and thank you !! Exactly, I wasn’t too scared once I was in school so that was a relief :)) YESS ITS THE BEST SLEEPING IN !!!!

Yesss go ahead marry him he’s good looking and he seems like a good dude😌✨ Though looking at others charts is so fun omggg it can really tell a lot about a person 👀

And omg thank you for always reading what I publish, it really means a lot🥺 AGH YOURE THE BESSTTT ;((💕💕

OMG BTWWW DID YOU SEE THE PERFORMANCE PREVIEW ??? IM STUNNED LIKEEE WOOOOW

💖 💗 💝

No~ you are!! 🥺 Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I’m falling. ... (either in love 🥰 or in obsession 🙃 with the soccer player & SAN! 😬) Yes, yes; I’ll do my best to see it as a learning process. Anything could pretty much be a learning process. How was your week overall though?

Play by Play of My Week: I arrive at the wrong side of the school and have to walk all the way across campus to the office. Once there, I tell them that I have been re-assigned to work there. One of the two ladies in the office says, “Oh, that’s funny. You’re not on our list.” In my head I am screaming 😡 NOT ON YOUR LIST! SO WHERE THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO BE EXACTLY!!! 🤬 They give me a map, because I was such a lost little one on the first day 🥺, and told me where to go. I arrive at the classroom and the teacher asks if I am set to be a one-on-one. I PROMPTLY say NO. NEVER WILL I EVER AGREE TO BE A ONE-ON-ONE. Too stressful. I’ve seen what it’s like first-hand, and some of these students beat up and hit their one-on-one aides. Listen I ain’t the mothafuckin’ one, two, or three FUCK THAT! The first day was easy. I just sat on my laptop, because although we are in-person, COVID restrictions still have to be in place. This whole entire thing is stupid. The second day I noticed that there are 7 aides (adults) in the class. Only three out of 12 students (in the class overall) signed up for in-person instruction but only two showed up all week. The ratio is soooo~ fucking off! Wednesday comes and I’m just chilling at that point because we are in a hybrid system. Wednesdays we are at home, online all day. Thursday, one of the aides struggles with the use of electronics and had an emotional meltdown on top of personal problems at home. I felt really bad for her. But only bad enough to WANT to go to the administration office and tell them all to FUCK OFF! (Would never do that because I have car payments to make 😉) On Thursday, the teacher actually bought us all lunch and it was pretty delicious!! Friday, we got to go home early and didn’t have to attend afternoon collaboration so 🙌 🙌 🙌. Over the course of the week I am less upset with the team that I immediately work with and more upset with administration in the district office. Anyway... ☺️

Okay good. I know that it can come across that way sometimes, not necessarily creepy, but weird... That’s interesting 🤔 So was your hair always straight up until recently? 🧐 It makes me wonder if that’s genetic. 😂😂 Yeah~ the hair is always in charge!! 😂😂

LOL 😂 I believe anything’s possible because we’re both human (🤞🏾if you ever see a black girl losing her shit over Son Heung Min... it’s me), but he’s dated Miss Korea and a few other k-pop idols. Little Ole’ Me ... can’t compete. 🥺 like... 🥺🥺 Yeah it can!! Looking at someone’s chart and thinking hmmm... 🤔 you could see how that works in someone’s life. It’s really interesting. His Cancer Venus ✨real fucking cute✨ but I think I like him more for his dedication and character. 😉 ☀️ ☺️

Of course!!! 🥺 ❤️ 🥰 💕

SAN NEEDS TO.............. [redacted] !!! TONIGHT!!! His part was so~ smooth. FIX ON! 🥺 bro~ stop! 😭 Yunho went on full-attack! I had to close my eyes. Black-haired Yeosang needs to stay. FOREVER!

#seoultraveller responds #thorsdreams asks #thorsdreams #dee asks 💝#i know you were waiting for a while for me to respond 🥺#and I’m sorry it came so late 🥺#just kind of trying to go with the flow of th exchange that’s happening #and i am sorry for using the f-word like 7* times in my response

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sorrynotharry · 4 years

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You don’t be on here no more and that don’t sit right with me. This was my go to page in 2014-2015. Then you left!!!

Aww hello anon! Thanks!

I am definitely almost always lurking on this page, like a ghost in the night haha, however I know that I’m not nearly as active as I used to be, and I haven’t posted any fic in like.........3 years? Maybe 4? Jeez time really flies!!

I do often get messages like this, usually very sweet anons like you who ask where I went, how I’m doing, saying that they miss the times when my page was more active and I was posting Harry fics pretty much weekly and honestly, I miss it too! It was overall a very positive experience during what ended up being some overall not-very-positive years of my life.

I’ve wanted to post a little ‘update’ for a while and I think this is as good a time as ever to do that. I’m gonna put it under a cut for 1, length 2, potential triggering content regarding death/grief. So anyway here goes:

This is mainly me kind of going on a reflection rant so it may not make a lot of sense but I’m going to do my best!

So I started this blog in February of 2014, and I think I pretty immediately started posting my writing and to my astonishment I ended up getting lots of new followers and readers really quickly. I was not at all expecting this blog to EVER reach as many people as it has, but I’m so grateful for it. To be honest, of course the 1D fandom can be a complete clusterfuck, but in comparison with other fandoms that I’ve been involved in, this is definitely the one that I felt most “at home” in, and had the most fun being a part of. So so so many of you who are still around to this day (which is incredible to me!) were SO kind to me, so lovely and accepting and supportive of my writing and my little blog corner of the internet and it meant so much to me. There are friends I’ve made through this blog who I still talk to, people who have been there for me when life was really kicking me down the road.

For some context, since the start of this blog, both of my biological parents and my stepfather have passed away. My dad (who I wasn’t super close to but you know, still my dad) passed from cancer in April 2014. My stepfather who I lived with died in June of 2015, also from cancer (if you’ve been on my blog for a while you might remember this, I posted about it because it was very sudden and I was really struggling with it).

Then, in August of 2017, my mother died. This has been part of the reason I really kind of stopped being active in this blog; I wanted to talk about it, if even just to say that I was going on hiatus or something but my grief has been so powerful that it’s in the last few months that have I felt like I can actually type these words out on here.

My mom was chronically ill for most of her life, and her health really deteriorated in the last 7-8 years of her life. She was also my best friend and my biggest supporter in everything from the time I was a child. The last 6 years of her life I was her main caregiver with some help from my stepdad - when he died all of her care fell to me to handle on top of grieving him. It was May of 2017 that my mom made the decision to go into hospice (if you don’t know what this means, it basically means she didn’t want to have life-saving treatments anymore and wanted to be allowed to pass away in peace). My sister and I begged her to hold on for a few more months so that we could prepare, get her affairs in order, and be on summer break from school while we accepted the fact that we were losing our last living parent.

That summer passed in a very weird and painful blur, and honestly I don’t remember much of it, but I remember most the moments in her last weeks when we would just hold each other’s hands and talk, laugh, cry, whatever came up. If you’ve ever begun grieving someone before they even pass, you probably know what I’m talking about. It was in those moments that she very insistently made me promise her that I would keep taking care of my sister (who was only 16 at the time) and graduate college, that I wouldn’t just lay down and give up because she was gone. So I have done my best to honor that promise to her. I quickly got legal guardianship of my sister (she’s an adult now but we still live together and are very close), and less than a month after my mom passed, I was training for a volunteer position at a center on my new college campus which later turned into a paid position. And this past June I graduated!!

If you’re reading this and also class of 2020, you know it’s a sucky year to graduate lol, but I hope you’re able to be proud of your accomplishments because regardless of the circumstances, you still did it! It’s taken me years and years to get my Bachelor’s because of changing my major, having to take breaks due to mental health issues and relocations, and having to take only 2 classes at a time while working 2 jobs. I finally did it and now I have to figure out what my next steps are from here (in the middle of a whole ass pandemic no less, smh!).

I realize that I just basically wrote a whole essay that I didn’t necessarily mean to, but I promise I’m not saying all of this to make you feel sad for me; I just want you all to understand why my presence has been so sporadic the past few years and I feel like I just have to be honest.

Coming back around to this blog, every once in a while I check my activity and follower count, very much expecting to see naught but 12 bots left and a single tumbleweed blowing across a dry activity page...but that’s never the case. So many of you are still here, I get new followers all the time, my fics and posts still get notes almost every day, and I still get messages like this from people who care about me, who remember the heyday of this blog and miss it.

I’ve said ‘thank you’ to you guys so many times I don’t even dare to count, but really, honestly, truly, thank you. It’s because so many of you are still here, even though it’s been 4 full ass years after I’ve even posted any fic at all, that I haven’t deleted this blog or gone on indefinite hiatus and just archived this blog.

I can’t promise that I will ever post any new writing again. I still love Harry but it’s almost in a different way...the heart-racing, goosebumps raising, heart-eye inducing giant crush I had on him in the earlier years of this blog has significantly subdued, even though it’s been known to make its presence known from time to time. And I honestly am just a different person in general. You can’t go through stuff like what I described above without changing at least a little bit.

That being said, I don’t think I’ve written anything that wasn’t a college essay or long-winded work email since I posted my last one-shot on here, which I think was early 2016. I very much miss writing for pleasure, and particularly if anyone remembers the fic ‘On Fire’...that story sits untouched and neglected in my Masterlist, haunting my steps and my dreams, because I had all kinds of grand ideas for it and it was pretty well-received I think! I’ve toyed with the idea of just trying to finish that fic up, if only so I can say that I finished at least ONE multi-chapter fic in my whole life. Again, not making promises, but it’s a possibility.

Anyhoo, if you have made it this far down on this very long and dramatic post, again I say thank you and bless you! I hope for those of you who have been around for a while (and for that matter those who are newer followers as well, hello!), this provides some clarity and maybe some closure if you were just wondering where the hell I went and what I’ve been up to. I didn’t mean to kind of drop off the face of the earth like I did, it was just how I was dealing with everything at the time. I’m heading into a new chapter of my life now that school is finished, and who knows what that will bring, but for now, I’m still around, and I hope you’re all as safe, healthy, and happy as you can be right now :)

Thank you again and take care <3

#mine

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garden-of-succulents · 7 years

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I was trying to put some of Bitty’s tweets in order for a small screencap but then it just turned out to be easier??? to format the entire month of March 2016??? IDEK a little bit of computer code is a dangerous thing to know

ANYWAY. As available here, except in chronological order, here are Bitty’s most recently-released tweets:

1 @omgcheckplease: I refuse to talk about politics, but I literally let out a sigh of relief when coach told me who he voted for. <3 THANKS, POP!

2 @omgcheckplease: Personally? I'd teach the finer workings of Samwell hockey anywhere but on that upholstered cesspool we call a couch, but I trust Lardo.

3 @omgcheckplease: Lardo: And if someone's late you just write it down. If someone doesn't show let RH know. Ford: RH. RansomHolster. Got it. Lardo: 'swawes.

4 @omgcheckplease: Ford: Right. I get that it's positive? But why do you guys say 'swawesome? Me: You'll find something weirder to worry about soon enough.

5 @omgcheckplease: Nursey: Hey, Las Vegas is playing Providence tonight. Dex: Uh oh. Jack versus Parse. Dex: I'm obvs rooting for Jack but that should be good.

6 @omgcheckplease: I shouldn't be thinking about jam this much, but here I am. Thank my wonderful aunt.

7 @omgcheckplease: NHL players like pie--but also mason jars filled w/ jam prepared according to an old family & aunt-perfected recipe. (A lil' bird told me.)

8 @omgcheckplease: But when your friend asks you to make a batch, does he mean enough for his team? Does that include the coaching staff?

9 @omgcheckplease: Whew! Now I can hit the hay. #PVDFalconers!

10 @omgcheckplease: What Ransom &I Talk About: - Hockey / The underclassmen - Life plans - Music - Dating and significant others. - Alexei Mashkov's instagram

11 @omgcheckplease: Tango: I had a date to homecoming my senior year, but before that I was homecoming alone. Nursey: PFFFFFT. Dex: Jesus, Tango. Chowder:...OH

12 @omgcheckplease: Picked up my phone to capture that poor child Tango's words in tweet form.

13 @omgcheckplease: The #GoPVDFalconers appreciate their fans; I appreciate the #GoPVDFalconers; I therefore appreciate all Falconers fans!! <3

14 @omgcheckplease: I'm nervous because I'm always nervous before hockey...but I've never seen Ransom and Holster so jittery.

15 @omgcheckplease: But for good reason. #ECACHockey QTR Finals, here we come.

16 @omgcheckplease: I'm excited for my day or three of visiting a special someone (<3), but I need to give this team 100% of my focus. #SamwellMensHockey

17 @omgcheckplease: #GotYourBack

18 @omgcheckplease: Tough loss. Thank you to everyone who made it out. #samwellhockey #ECACHockey

19 @omgcheckplease: It's good to have someone who understands and can talk you through a loss, get you grounded for the next game. <3

20 @omgcheckplease: Getting pump up texts from former teammates is one thing; getting texts from pros with no Samwell affiliation is another! #GoPVDFalconers

21 @omgcheckplease: Y'all've seen Tater's instagram--I'm still not sure what all those parenthesis are supposed to mean???

22 @omgcheckplease: Hey, y'all. Thanks so much to everyone who supported us this season! All the love in the stands and around campus means everything. <3

23 @omgcheckplease: I'm so thankful for our seniors--our captains & our team manager--for giving us 110% of themselves. They exemplify the team motto. <3

24 @omgcheckplease: Lots of love for Samwell hockey these last few days. Going to spend the break focusing on this team and our seniors especially.

25 @omgcheckplease: Oh, my heart "hi b! hearing news..........(((" "thank u for jam! so good)))"

26 @omgcheckplease: Doing some spring cleaning before I go and watch some games hosted by the national professional ice hockey league.

27 @omgcheckplease: That Lardo and Ransom are finally organizing themselves for their birthdays their *senior* year is somehow appropriate. It's gonna be big.

28 @omgcheckplease: I'm not even going to pretend that I retained MAX 5% of the French I learned. Y'all everyone has their talents; language is not mine.

29 @omgcheckplease: Like, I remember some phrases & can read and understand more than I can speak? But If I had to call an ambulance in Marseille, I'd perish.

30 @omgcheckplease: A beautiful language! I wish I were better! Oh and the pronunciation I learned is all jumbled up with Quebecois in my fool mind.

31 @omgcheckplease: Why is it that I'm not at the Haus when the legendary Shitty Knight is back in town wreaking havoc in Samwell, MA?

32 @omgcheckplease: oh smh group text is

33 @omgcheckplease: Shitty: everyone knock on all the wood around you but can we give it up for JLZ & the Falcs Shitty: summer vacay we're smashed in Welltown

34 @omgcheckplease: Lardo: I need to beat Alexei Mashkov at beer pong.

35 @omgcheckplease: Jack: haha he's serious about that. Lardo: then why has it taken so long Lardo: time and place Shitty: yessss that's my girl

36 @omgcheckplease: Tater is literally twice the mass of Larissa Duan.

37 @omgcheckplease: Anyway! Back to (#) (◡‿◡) (!)

38 @omgcheckplease: Ransom has his computer and Lardo is writing lists. They're up to something.

39 @omgcheckplease: Nursey just texted me that he really needs "baked goods" this afternoon. I wonder why he's having a bad day?

40 @omgcheckplease: Well! I'll be cooking for most of the day anyway! Because y'all? Jam is in **demand**

41 @omgcheckplease: WHEW. There's something comforting about a warm kitchen full of mason jars.

42 @omgcheckplease: The situation: A friend of a friend got hold of my aunt's jam, & now a good portion of a pro. hockey team is on a jam (or pie) waitlist.

43 @omgcheckplease: He's got more important things to focus on at the moment, but a member of that team should be by this week to pick up the goods!

44 @omgcheckplease: I'm being *so* vague. Y'all'll *never* guess which former Samwell hockey captain and #GoPVDFalconers star will be dropping by for jam.

45 @omgcheckplease: And I really don't mind! I should be doing my reading for Alice, but she's getting jars too. Y'all, what's spring break FOR?

46 @omgcheckplease: Dex just showed up, saw the chaos, and dropped his backpack in the corner. Dex: Need help? Me: Bless your heart.

47 @omgcheckplease: Only on very rare occasions do I use that phrase with good will and a positive intent. <3 These frogs.

48 @omgcheckplease: Nursey: He only wants your dibs. Dex: (1) Bitty's not graduating. (2) You know that people are capable of doing things for others, right?

49 @omgcheckplease: Nursey: He only wants your jam. Dex: Dex: Bitty I wasn't going to say anything but it's my mom's birthday next week and

50 @omgcheckplease: She's up to something.

51 @omgcheckplease: This t-shirt might smell like cherries for the rest of its existence.

52 @omgcheckplease: All these girls out here with majors like "engineering", "art", "cs", & "poli sci". I'm literally trying to graduate by writing a pie essay.

53 @omgcheckplease: *A very lengthy pie essay. Unfurling the shifting roles of baked goods in specific historic eras is copious research.

54 @omgcheckplease: Coach: How's school? Me: My GPA's at [OMITTED], meeting w/ my American Studies adviser on my thesis Coach: History? Me: Me: Pie history.

55 @omgcheckplease: Holster: what ever happened to the better bitty's butt thing or whatever? Ransom: oh the bureau? i'm not saying we achieved goals but.

56 @omgcheckplease: *Ahem* Though not much has changed I feel more confident in my assets. It was about bettering the bitty and not the booty all along.

57 @omgcheckplease: Aw, well Ford sent out a lovely email to the boys. She's getting good practice in.

58 @omgcheckplease: By lovely I mean a detailed schedule of dates for spring semester conditioning, but you get me.

59 @omgcheckplease: I've been so focused on the making of pies & jam that I haven't noticed the STORM on the horizon. Hurricane Lardo&Rans are up to something.

60 @omgcheckplease: They're not trying to hide anything from me, but this might have to do with the kegster they're planning. Or Lardo's birthday?

61 @omgcheckplease: Or Rans'--their bdays are so close together. I gotta tie ribbons on a few dozen mason jars, I'll report when Holster spills the beans.

62 @omgcheckplease: I ALMOST JUST DROPPED A JAR OF JAM.

63 @omgcheckplease: Y'all the #EasterKegHunt, the Sunday kegster, and the birthdays are *all ONE THING*

64 @omgcheckplease: =Group Text= Me: When were y'all going to tell me about this GIANT KEGSTER? Rans: I think we did. Lardo: p sure we did Dex: yuuuup

65 @omgcheckplease: Chowder: u guys order the kegs in the kitchen! Holster: Bitty, kinda late, but you've been in a weird jam headspace for the last few days.

66 @omgcheckplease: Okay, Nursey and Dex are downstairs and are going to help me out. I'm so confused.

67 @omgcheckplease: I guess...I did make a lot of jam. It all happened so fast. These can all fit in Jack's car, right? He'd make two trips.

68 @omgcheckplease: I'm going to bake a pie to recalibrate.

69 @omgcheckplease: Jack: How much is there? Me: A few jars! Holster: Jack, we have the highest jam per capita in the state of Massachusetts.

70 @omgcheckplease: Jack: It can't fit in one car? Please send a picture. Lardo: lol bring a friend Lardo:....bring tater

71 @omgcheckplease: I've stepped out the Haus and can see the volume of jam I produced. I should have stuck to the rivers and lakes that I was used to.

72 @omgcheckplease: New Falconers faceoffs for your AM viewing.

73 @omgcheckplease: =On Shorts= Whiskey: Yeah. They don't look good on the average man. Tango: My legs get so hot. Whiskey: Well. Golf & basketball shorts.

74 @omgcheckplease: Whiskey: swim trunks. I guess athletics shorts are fine. Tango: Mosquito bites when you're wearing jeans. Can never really get 'em.

75 @omgcheckplease: Tango: when it comes to clothes, I just wear whatever and go. Whiskey: I'm taking the last pie slice.

76 @omgcheckplease: I have no idea why I love these tadpoles so much, but I do.

77 @omgcheckplease: Waking up to the sound of wheelbarrows and dollies thumping around downstairs. It's #KeagsterSunday.

78 @omgcheckplease: Ah! Guess who's here and brought a friend!

79 @omgcheckplease: Jack just sighed and looked at me. "Hey, Happy Easter. What's the jam situation?" Good morning to you too.

80 @omgcheckplease: He actually said hi though. I'm paraphrasing. He's absolutely not ready though.

81 @omgcheckplease: Tater: Hey, Zimmboni this not bad for uni party hauses, you know? Clean floor... Tater: [points] Wow curtain!

82 @omgcheckplease: The Swallow moves fast, but these hockey players and these mason jars should be out of here soon.

83 @omgcheckplease: But of course Alexei Mashkov wants a TOUR. "College! Yeah, show me everything!"

84 @omgcheckplease: Whiskey and Tango looking very nice in suits. Jack: Hey [picks up box of jam] Whiskey: do you need help with that we can if you do but yeah

85 @omgcheckplease: Tango:...Is Jack Zimmermann stealing Bitty's jam?

86 @omgcheckplease: = Group Text = Nursey: whens the easter keg hunt Lardo: later Jack: hey y'all! You should drop by before Jack and Tater head out!

87 @omgcheckplease: = Group Text = Jack: i'm on Jack's phone. Dex: The y'all sorta tipped it off.

88 @omgcheckplease: Me: So that was *my* room, and this used to be Jack's, and down the hall are the stairs to the attic. Me: Oh hi Rans. Rans: .............T-

89 @omgcheckplease: I think he just woke up.

90 @omgcheckplease: Okay, we're all done here! I was about to put on a brunch for our lovely guests but *somebody* said quote: "Bits, you really don't have to."

91 @omgcheckplease: Well, I was just *trying* to say goodbye to these young men when the door to the backyard opened. It was Lardo.

92 @omgcheckplease: Lardo: Alexei Mashkov. Tater: [turns around slowly] Tater: ... Tater: Lardo.

93 @omgcheckplease: Well, I'm starting brunch while Tater and Lardo sort all this out. Please don't get beer all over my clean floors.

94 @omgcheckplease: *lunch with brunch food. Drat, it's too late for a ham. Well, we can only do our best, can't we?

95 @omgcheckplease: Jack: where's Rans? Holster: Hiding. Holster: Didn't you guys say you were heading out like two hours ago? Jack: Yes.

96 @omgcheckplease: I have no idea how many rounds they've played but Tater is shouting "best 7! best 7!" This food is gonna get cold.

97 @omgcheckplease: Jack keeps asking Lardo and Tater if they want food. Instead, a shout--"Tango, bring me a plate. With food ON IT."

98 @omgcheckplease: From the hallway. "WHAT! NO! No no no! No way!!! Best NINE!!!!!!"

99 @omgcheckplease: Rans & Lardo made an event for a #KeagsterSunday Pre-game Kegster Hunt and and wellies are...beginning to show up. Um?

100 @omgcheckplease: For the record, Tater's playing with water. Lardo's playing with who knows what.

101 @omgcheckplease: Jack: Ok. Let's head out. Tater: Hey, it's fine! I mean, i'm doing better with crowd.

102 @omgcheckplease: All right, Jack's cutting things short. ("COME ON, ZIMMERMANN!" "ZIMMBONI IT'S TIE!!!!" "No. You guys can have a rematch later.")

103 @omgcheckplease: He's serious...

104 @omgcheckplease: Jack went up to the attic to wish his our captain a happy birthday...And they're off. Lardo and Tater are...friends? Colleagues?

105 @omgcheckplease: Oh my goodness. Whenever we decide to name a kegster, something strange is bound to happen. #KeagsterSunday

106 @omgcheckplease: You're not doing college right if you're not finding easter eggs filled with miniature liquor in your backyard.

107 @omgcheckplease: And yes, they do make mini kegs. The frolicking!

108 @omgcheckplease: Ransom: Do you think Tater and Jack will come back? Holster: Um. Holster: Sure, bud.

109 @omgcheckplease: The Group Text Shitty: what the fucking heck is going on in Samwell, Massachusetts.

110 @omgcheckplease: Lardo: i was so close shits

111 @omgcheckplease: Whiskey: It's cool how Jack just drops by whenever. That's alumni relations! Tango: ....Huh...Isn't it because he's--OW.

112 @omgcheckplease: Dex just smacked Tango in the back of the head. It could have been a dance move. It's a kegster, who knows.

113 @omgcheckplease: Tango: ow.........OHh! He wasn't stealing the jam! Haha, wow, I'm glad.

114 @omgcheckplease: Ohhh, *his friend and our captain!

115 @omgcheckplease: New conditioning sched: afternoon practice and afternoon classes mean late night baking and bad habits.

116 @omgcheckplease: There are times when I thrive rising early? (Esp. when it means trying out new things for breakfast.) But other times...well!

117 @omgcheckplease: Despite my team being creatures of habit, we're also college students / love sleeping in. Not natural early birds (well, most of us)!

118 @omgcheckplease: Not sure if y'all remember, but I used to Tweet about Shitty busting in on Jack quite a bit. Those were mornings! Classic #SamwellMensHockey

119 @omgcheckplease: Big game for the Falconers tonight...#GoPVDFalconers!

120 @omgcheckplease: Nervous for hockey. The Falc have been looking so strong this season. Let's go, boys! #GoPVDFalconers

121 @omgcheckplease: Chowder: !!! Is that Shitty and Lardo on the jumbotron??? Chowder: Oh, it's not. Well, I still like those people!

122 @omgcheckplease: Pie's in the kitchen, we're in the den, laptops and textbooks and pies and hockey. Good vibes from here to Providence. #SamwellMensHockey

123 @omgcheckplease: (I have a reading response due in two hours that I should have done over spring break, but c'est la vie. (I remember French!))

124 @omgcheckplease: During commercial breaks, I'm wondering how this TV has managed to survive so many kegsters, even if it's been carefully stowed away.

125 @omgcheckplease: If you remember, Shitty had his door kicked in one year--nothing's safe. But THE GAME.

126 @omgcheckplease: Ugh.

127 @omgcheckplease: They had a good screen on Snowy; he didn't even see the puck.

128 @omgcheckplease: By the way, watching anything with Holster means you're watching something with Holster. "These announcers are Schooner announcers, geez."

129 @omgcheckplease: "I'm telling you, the do more close-ups on Jack than anyone else."

130 @omgcheckplease: "Hey, Rans, it's Tater, the love of your life. For the record, I think Alexei Mashkov thinks my name is Randy and Ransom's name is Adam."

131 @omgcheckplease: "Their power play is killer. OH, Shitty just texted everyone that they're DEFINITELY doing more close ups on Jack. How's that not creepy?!"

132 @omgcheckplease: 1-1 !!!!!!!!!

133 @omgcheckplease: Me: POOTS!!!!! Dex: They don't actually call him that, right? Dex: At least Jack wouldn't-- Dex: I called a guy Shitty for an entire year.

134 @omgcheckplease: Nursey: Kent Parson's been in like 3 commercials since we turned this on.

135 @omgcheckplease: We're all confused by this. Uncanny on a number of levels.

136 @omgcheckplease: Down. Come on, y'all.

137 @omgcheckplease: When it comes to my peach pies, Ransom in part

138 @omgcheckplease: YES

139 @omgcheckplease: Never check on a pie during play because you'll miss your FRIEND SCORING!!!!!!!

140 @omgcheckplease: I need to see that replay 20 more times, so someone better post that online in the next 60 seconds, thanks. #GoPVDFalconers

141 @omgcheckplease: Half of Samwell men's hockey is in the den about to watch this last period of the #GoPVDFalconers game.

142 @omgcheckplease: No shade to Seattle, but they HAVE to lose. (Even though I think #16 for the Schooners is getting a jar of vanilla bean plum from me?)

143 @omgcheckplease: (I have no idea. A Falc owed one gentleman who was roommates w/ another player--I just gave it all to Jack and try not to think about it)

144 @omgcheckplease: Schooners power play. Lord.

145 @omgcheckplease: Come on. I swear this team does better when their backs are to the wall.

146 @omgcheckplease: PLEASE

147 @omgcheckplease: Lardo' s stress snapchats are calming in a time like this.

148 @omgcheckplease: Lord. Another penalty to kill. #GoPVDFalconers

149 @omgcheckplease: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!

150 @omgcheckplease: TATER SHORT-HANDED AAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

151 @omgcheckplease: Oh my god, I'm crying. They could make it. Oh Lord.

152 @omgcheckplease: Watching is one hundred times more stressful than being on the ice.

153 @omgcheckplease: Lord! It's easier to tweet and listen to these boys reactions, haha!

154 @omgcheckplease: mY HEART.

155 @omgcheckplease: Half a dozen teams are already guaranteed a spot in the NHL playoffs. The Falconers just joined them #GoPVDFalconers #PVDFalconers #GoFalcs!

156 @omgcheckplease: = SMH Group Text = Rans: YEAAAAAAAAAAAH Chowder: Jack!!! Dex: CONGRATS, man! Holster: JACK!!! Shitty: WE'RE GETTING DRUNK IN PROVIDENCE

157 @omgcheckplease: = SMH Group Text = Lardo: you did it you did it you did it you did it you did it you did it you did it you did it you did it you did it you

158 @omgcheckplease: He'll smile when he can finally check his phone. :)

159 @omgcheckplease: The little blurb in The Daily on the Falcs!

160 @omgcheckplease: Dear S.O., Wow! It seems as though one of my favorite vocalists/performers has released a clothing line--and my birthday is upcoming!

#omgcp #omgcp tweets

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victakestaipei · 7 years

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WEEK 2 RECAP: “Gua Bao?” More like “Gua BOMB.”

So I have come to realize that during the weeks, my blog posts about my classes are going to be pretty repetitive. So to save you the few minutes of your life you’ll spend reading, I’ll just shorten it a bit...and skip to the food. We always do the same things in class. We take quizzes, read the text book, practice writing characters, and talk alot about a wide array of topics... (we actually get off topic alot... In one of the classes this week I ended up playing the song “Mr. Roboto” on my iphone because I made a reference about it... we have a new classmate and he’s from Japan and everyone wanted to hear the “Domo Arigato” part... ugh.. it’s a long story.)

Anyway, let’s start from Tuesday I suppose:

So in class we had another one of those written dialogue quizzes, I got an A ((of course HEH)) and on the test from last week, I got a 94%! Feelin’ good. In the gym it was leg day, and I’m starting to incorporate more cardio daily, so I’ve been running on the treadmill at the end of my workouts. I want to drop weight and tone up while I’m out here so I figured this will help give me the extra kick that I need. I ran a mile in 7 minutes and 30 seconds... Or so I thought. I was super happy about the amount of time it took and how it didn’t even feel hard and how my knee actually wasn’t hurting for once in my life. BUT, I soon realized that I am a headass. I didn’t realize until later in the week that everything here is in kilometers, not miles. Meaning, that I didn’t actually run a mile in 7 minutes and 30 seconds, I ran 1 kilometer. Which is less than a mile... it’s actually 0.62 miles to be exact. What A BUZZ KILL!!!! I was on this “high” the whole rest of the day because I thought I was really wrecking shit, but really I’m just an idiot. A slow running idiot. lol.

For dinner Bunny and I went to this popular joint that she had heard about from a friend. I actually have heard of this place too, but didn’t realize it until after we had arrived and ordered our food. We went to this small hole-in-the-wall restaurant in the Gongguan night market where they serve the “Traditional Taiwanese Snack.” It’s called “Gua Bao.” It’s basically a pulled pork hamburger with veggies, pickles, grated peanuts in a peanut sauce, and cilantro... all in a steamed bun... you hold it and eat it like a hamburger, and it’s delicious!! It was only 55 NT (about $1.80 US). You could choose between lean meat, fatty meat, or a mix of the two. I went with the lean meat, and I’m glad that I did. The restaurant also offered an array of soups, but a lot of them featured pork intestines, and that's not really my type of party.

Wednesday:

I did back day at the gym today and ran another “mile”... SMH. That still gets me man. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

For lunch, Jeannie, Bunny and I went to this potsticker place right across the street from campus. We’ve been there before and it was really good the first time, with each potsticker being 5 NT! (or about 17 cents). We each ordered 10 potstickers and a bowl of warm noodles, totalling to only 90 NT ($3 US). I chose 5 curry potstickers and 5 garden vegetable. The Curry flavored potstickers were by far the best potstickers I’ve had since I’ve been here (and that’s saying something). And for dinner, Bunny and I went BACK to the Gua Bao place (it was that good) but this time brought Nick along! We had a good time.

Thursday:

I had another dictation quiz and got another low A. Today was leg day yet again. Starting to see a pattern here? I’m proud to say that I’ve kept the routine/schedule that I talked about in my recap blog post from last week..

For our post-gym lunch, Bunny, Jeannie and I went to this Soy Sauce-Braised place. I can’t remember the name. *eyeroll*. But basically it’s a food stand on the street market by our university, and they lay out all the meats, and veggies and noodles on display, and you choose which ones you want, and they mix them all together and cook them in this super hot soy sauce soup... It’s pretty good. I was super excited about this food stand because they actually had VEGETABLES!!! You know how often I see vegetables here in Taiwan??? Never. I don’t think I’ve had a vegetarian semi-healthy meal since I’ve been here. And I’ve looked!!!!! Anyway, for my dish, I chose tofu, broccoli, cabbage, mushrooms, and udon noodles. I paid about $7.50 US which is a bit steeper than my usual meal, but I think that’s because I doubled up on the tofu. (hehe). Either way though that’s still what I spend on average at Cane’s back in the US, and it’s wayyyyy more food. I do have to say that I went a bit over the top. My food was a MOUNTAIN!!!! We also bought this watermelon slush drink to share that came in an actual watermelon! Presentation get’s an A+, and it was pretty refreshing.

After we ate we went to this store called “Jin Xin Fa” and bought tons of stationary (everything here is so cute and I desperately wanted to buy some cute planners for the upcoming school year). I also bought an extra long ethernet cord so that I could use my laptop in bed and have better internet, as well as a new phone charger...

For dinner I ended up cooking (reheating) left over lunch... but I made rice and added scrambled egg to it... As it turns out, my $7.50 lunch fed me and Bunny for dinner. As I mentioned in my blog post about my dorm a few weeks ago, we have a small kitchen area at the end of the hall. Bunny and I wanted to use the rice cooker, and we struggled at first. We had to put water between the bowl where the rice goes and the outer bowl?? Strange. Either way thought the rice came out perfectly. Bomb.com.

Friday:

For lunch, the three of us tried this Malaysian Curry place on the street market. It was on the second floor, and the interior looked like someone's home at first... My dish was 100 NT ( around 3-4$), and I ordered the Malaysian chicken curry and rice. It’s basically a filleted chicken cutlet fried in batter and served with a mound of rice, both covered in curry. And topped with potato wedges... THIS PLACE WAS SUPER GOOD I WILL BE BACK EVERY WEEK OH MY GOD. There is only one lady who works here, and she cooks all the dishes. I also think she lives here...? Not so sure. We spoke to her a bit after finishing our food, and she told us how 22 years ago she came to Taiwan, and she asked us where we're from and told us she's been to both Florida and New York before. She also showed us pictures of her 8 month old grandson who lives in Florida. Her daughter was born in Malaysia and currently lives in America as she's married to an American guy. She was the sweetest lady ever, gushing about her grandson and showing us all these videos. Such a lovely lady.

After lunch we did some shopping in the street market (clothing), I bought a shirt... and not much else because everything looked so small. When shopping one lady didn't let Jeannie use the dressing room to try on this outfit.... it seemed odd, and the lady didn’t seem to have a reason to not let her use the dressing room which was clearly there with the open curtain and no one inside. I think the lady who worked there was just a bitch. She was rude, and possibly racist?? I can’t tell you how many times I would walk into a shop (during the hour or so that we were walking around) and the ladies who work there would hover over me constantly. *eyeroll*. Figures.

We went home and I took a shower and relaxed before heading to Shilin Night market. I’ve been here before and posted a video, but in case you all forgot, it’s the biggest night market in Taipei and is pretty poppin on the weekends. Jeannie and I love to shop, so we had a ball!! Four of us went, it was Ada, Jeannie, Bunny and I. We spent a few hours shopping and walking around and eating the street food. I ate this pork bun sandwich, some French fries with a bunch of sauces on them (like mustard sauce, salt, pepper, etc), and tried the popular chicken fried steak.

squid on a stick^

We stayed at Shilin a few hours before parting ways... Jeannie and I went to meet up with some others at a bar and Bunny and Ada went home. This is around maybe 11:15pm... Jeannie and I met up with Nick at this open patio bar/hookah lounge. It was $20 (US) all you can drink. The bar was called K House and was located smack dab in the middle of the gay district off of Ximen station. Ximen station is also a very popular shopping area for the younger crowd, with a 5 story H&M and other popular stores. It took a while for Jeannie and I to find the bar, we put it in google maps and it took us to a completely different location. By the time we found it a lot of the people we were meeting up with were loose off the goose. Which makes sense since it was all you can drink and they'd been there a few hours already. We left the bar around 1, and headed to 7/11 and walked around town a bit after that. I was pretty lit. I slammed about 5 drinks in 30 minutes and was just chillen after that. I had two jack/cokes, 1 vodka/sprite, and 3 peach flavored drinks but I don't know what alcohol was in those..?? They were super good though!! My favorite, definitely. We were walking to another bar when I got super tired and decided to take an Uber home with Jeannie and another guy we met that night, his name is Collin. Collin goes to school at Carnegie Melon *ooooooooo snap*. I got into my dorm around 2:30-3am, and went to bed around 3:30. When Jeannie and I were walking with the group, Collin was telling us about how he had plans to go snorkeling the next day and he invited us to join the group on Facebook. I knocked out after showering when I got home, since I had to be up by 7:15 to make it to the meeting spot at 8am to go snorkel. I was exhAUSTED. Snorkeling should be worth the lack of sleep though.

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ebthegratefulone · 7 years

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My One True Love

So if you know me, then you know that of all the things and people and places that I love - my big sister is number 1 on that list. She is literally everything. EVERYTHING & my everything, simultaneously. She’s smart. She’s funny. She’s STRONG. She’s loving and kind. She’s an amazing mother and wife. She is thoughtful and introspective and understanding.

Beyond all of that she is MY person, my constant, my rock. Some have parents, others have spouses, and I have her. She has never EVER stopped talking to me, or ignored me. I can’t think of a time where we went without speaking even if we got on each others nerves. She’s loved me through all of my attitudes, even as a ornery teenager who probably deserved to be ignored. She’s never given up on me and she is fiercely protective of me.

I suppose that is partly because she raised me. I went to visit her and my bro-in-law (aka my brad) one weekend and never left. I was 13. And since that weekend, she’s done more than her share to make me the woman that I am today. She’s been at every graduation and important ceremony. She gave me the sex talk and it was so good that I actually waited (albeit not until marriage) but until I was ready and in love and having sex was my choice, a decision that I still don’t regret. She dropped me off at college, 7 hours away from home and she told me later that she cried like a baby when they pulled away from campus. Three weeks later she came down to bring me the rest of my stuff and didn’t kill me when she realized I was RIDICULOUSLY hungover and still slightly drunk from my “first night down” (a Davidson drinking tradition smh). She tells me when I’m wrong, and right, she’s always reminding me how proud she is of me, and tries not to pressure me too much about having some babies because she knows it stresses me out. She ALWAYS has my back and is literally my best friend. Simply put, she’s been the only constant in my life. She has ALWAYS been there and I cannot imagine my life without her.

And for the past 18 of those years, she has fought to be here. In 1999, my sister was diagnosed with Lupus, an autoimmune disease which for Shelly has transformed her life in a way that none of us would have probably imagined. She’s had every.single.symptom. Kidney disease and eventually failure causing the need for 2 kidney transplants and dialysis. Chronic pain, discomfort and fatigue. Temporary blindness. Skin rashes. Raynaud’s syndrome. She’s been so swollen that we would tell people she was pregnant. And about a month ago, she suffered a lupus induced stroke. And yesterday, she had to be rushed to the ER because her stroke symptoms reappeared. Scary. Sad. Frustrating. Heartbreaking. Did I mention she’s only 37?

To watch the strongest person I know, endure what is such a frustrating and debilitating disease - requires faith, a strong one. So here I am to work on it because 72% of the time, I’m pretty angry with God. I absolutely HATE seeing her like this and it all feels so unfair, but something in me knows that God wants this to be used for His glory. So here we go...

#graceandgratitude #Shelly

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betterpathoflyfe · 4 years

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Life Update (Uni Edition) - 9/7/20

Alright...alright...I’m gonna get more consistent in posting. It’s funny though, because every time I decide I’m going to write a blogpost, something else comes up that I have to do, which makes me postpone this. However, I’m really going to figure out a schedule so that I can post, because truthfully, these help me to stay grounded and allows me to take time out of my day to self-reflect.

With that being said, I need to talk about soooo many things (not really, I’m just being dramatic, but still LOL).

Uni Update: Soooo, this will be my first semester online completely. I requested to be released from my housing contract (yup...no more apartment smh) on Thursday (9/3), and before the university officially went online for the first two weeks, all of my courses went online. So it honestly just made sense for me to stay home. Now I do have to say that initially, back in freshman year, I kind of wanted to be an online or commuter student anyway, but certain circumstances just didn’t allow me to. Yet here I am, now a junior, getting the opportunity to be online! I have to say, the introverted part of me is living 🥂. But there’s also a different level of independence that I’ve always liked being at home (I know that contradicts itself, but I know what I’m trying to say lol). Like I’ve said in a previous blogpost, I’ve redesigned my bedroom & bathroom and I just feel like I’ve been accomplishing a lot more on a personal level that I might not have had time to on campus.

To update on the experience of it all, I finished my first week of online school, and it went well! One thing that I actually made sure to do was to change and get dressed as if I’m physically going to class (I may create a post dedicated to my “virtual class looks,” but we’ll see). Implementing habits like that, making sure that I clean my bathroom every Friday, eat 3 meals a day, etc., help me stay in a school mindset instead of a home mindset. Like typically I feel most productive at school, but by doing these things, I’ve been able to focus here, too! But I really feel like creating a new environment at home by re-doing by room and bathroom kind of makes it feel like my own mini apartment!🦋 Nevertheless, we had a long weekend due to Labor Day, so I’ve been trying to get a few things done, LIKE organizing my life.

I needed to get dates written down and assignments out the way because I could already feel them building up. One thing I’m not feeling is how our course schedules are based off of “weeks” instead of literal due dates. For instance, one of my course schedules have the date (Week 2). To me, I feel like it’s just easier to have each assignment and homework due by each date because it’s easier to follow. Going along with that is the assignment itself. A lot of my assignments don’t have specific due dates, but they’re just written in that week, meaning I have to wait till class to hear when each activity/project/homework assignment is due. It just makes me feel behind, to be honest. But nevertheless, I created a sort of Assignment Sheet that has the actual due dates that correspond with the week that it is assigned. Once I created that (like around 4:30-5:00PM today), it definitely made everything look more doable because it now gives me specifics of when everything needs to get done.

The next step that I need to do is to get organized for Psychology Club. I’ll be honest, there was a part of me that was kiiind of iffy about the role as President because I didn’t know if I had the time to take it on.

And yet...here we are...taking it on.

Now I do have to say that I’m already feeling grateful for my E-board because everyone participates, shares their ideas, and we’re able to come to a consensus about decisions fairly quickly. Before each meeting, I make sure that I have an agenda written down, sharing it with my Vice President to get any other suggestions, in order to make sure that everything is covered. We have a collaborative event (with ABPsi) on Friday, September 25th, and then our first club event that following week (still waiting to hear back from one of our guests to see if they are able to do it). We have another one in October, which I think will be very fun and interactive (especially since we’re most online now). But nevertheless, I’m just happy that the team is working well together. I now want to write and lay everything out for Psychology Club just so that I can see what still needs to get done/talked about and decided on.

So yeah, that’s kind of the run down of online school thus far, and it hasn’t been too bad; just need to make the necessary adjustments so that I can stay on top of things.

Was that a lot? I guess so, huh? LOL either way, this is a random side-note (and sort of a nerd moment?) but I started Naruto and let me tell youuuuuuu; that joint is entertaining! I’m on Season 1, Episode 21, and these 3 people strolled in from the Village Hidden in the Sand because they’re participating in the Chunin exams. Real quick though, the Chunin and Sharingan stuff definitely still confuses me, like...then there’s Jonin, too? I’m still trying to figure it out, but regardless, I can understand the hype. I’m trying to get into anime more (my friend and I just watched Howl’s Moving Castle on Saturday), and I figured I’d start with a classic. Now full disclosure, I have seen Dragonball Z Kai and as of now, that’s my favorite anime series. But I’m trying to expand! I have a bunch of series/recommendations that I’ve gotten from different people that’re all on my list, so we’ll see. Buuuut yeah LOL.

Anyways, here’s some quick advice this evening:

“Spend time praying for people instead of talking about them”

~ May the Author

#blogposts

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sixthousandninehundredmiles · 6 years

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December 2, 2017

So I spent my day with Mel, and we explored the Tsuen Wan area of Hong Kong. This is actually an area in hong kong that I’ve never been to before, so that was quite cool to be able to see what it’s like. It’s definitely not very touristy, and reminds me a lot of what Beijing is like. The streets and the set up are all very urban, but it was surprisingly cleaner than what I expected!

We grabbed a quick bite to eat at a place on campus called Garden Café, not bad! It was my second time having it, and I just like to get the panini which comes with ham, cheese, and cucumbers? LOL I mean it’s whatever, but not bad considering the other options on campus!

Then we took the MTR all the way down to Tsuen Wan, which is on the end of the red line, and then this was where it got a bit confusing LOL Because we had to take the minibus to the temple- we went to a place called Western Monastery and Yuen Yuen Institute. And neither of us could read the signs, at least I couldn’t, so it was just a struggle LOL. It was also weird because the bus doesn’t stop unless you yell out to the bus driver to stop, but then there’s like no designated bus stop? Except the pickup and drop off points… so you just yell stop at any point I guess? LOL I still haven’t completely figured it out. Thankfully when we were going, someone stopped the bus driver because I was looking at the window and then realizing that it was where we were supposed to be, and I didn’t know how to stop. But wow the temple/monastery were insanely gorgeous. I am always in awe with temples, especially in Asia because all of the stuff is hand painted, and extremely ornate. I also love going with someone like Mel because she is really patient when taking photos or videos, because she can be picky too, and idk she’s really sweet haha we also have a lot in common so it’s easy for us to joke about certain things.

The two places were right next to each other, so we were able to explore them fairly quickly. Then we took a minibus down the mountain back to the main city area and it was the same struggle of stopping the bus in the right spot. When we were back down in the main area, we wandered a bit and went to a shopping mall called Tsuen Wan Center? It’s like one of those malls that have a bunch of little tiny shop that are all self owned, and bargainable? Really “local” place imo. Didn’t see any foreigners haha. While we were at the mall, we met up with a few of Mel’s friends, and although they were nice imo it’s too late in the game to make super close friends haha. Both of them knew the area quite well though, because one of them was local, and the other couldn’t get campus housing so ended up getting housing in Tsuen Wan LOL

I also got a bit hungry from wandering around, so we went to this Korean place that I forgot the name of, but that’s okay because it was pretty bad LOL. I never had such bad rice from a Korean restaurant before… the chicken was alright pretty juicy but the sauce was weird.. LOL I also ordered kimbap, and that was pretty good and I finished half of it and saved the other half for later. Then I also went to Sushi Express, and they have this thing where you can buy by the piece? With each piece being 3HKD It’s a pretty good deal overall. I just got like 3 pieces of shrimp nigiri, and 3 pieces of imitation crab nigiri. I ate it and it didn’t give me food poisoning so hey that’s a plus!

Then Mel and I headed back to campus, because omg it didn’t occur to me how much I had to do in regards to packing and getting ready for Thailand. I also had to organize a driver to pick Vincent and I from the airport because apparently it’s pretty sketchy to get into a random cab from the airport. When I got back to my dorm, I put my laundry into the wash, and also went to take a shower. Then I met up with Mel in my common room and we were just relaxing together and doing some work quietly. I was making a packing list to make sure that I would have everything I need for 2 different locations. The struggle is so real, because Thailand and Japan literally have polar opposite weather, and I have to fit this into a carryon suitcase… smh aiya.

I also spent an hour trying to figure out how to import pictures from my phone to the computer, for some reason either my phone is glitching or my computer is and it’s preventing me from being able to use the “import pictures” button. But yeah I finally got that done, and I went to bed at around 3am.. LOL nbd it’s not like I had to get up at 7 to get to the airport or anything HAHA

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cougbowler · 6 years

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Purple Folders

“Where’s my Purple Folder?” has been a very common question asked amongst the 3 FTE’s (full time employees) on my team over the past year or so. You see, when someone gets a purple folder it means they have been laid off from NBCNews.com.

Let me give a quick history lesson: I started working for this company in October of 2003. It was then called MSNBC.COM and was a Joint Venture between Microsoft and NBC. While the NBC TV product was in NY the website employees were split between NY and Seattle (well Redmond as we were on the Microsoft campus). In June of 2013 NBC bought out Microsoft’s half of the company and Microsoft basically said “get out” and gave us 1.5 years to find a new place to do business.

Also as part of this change came some re-organization efforts as NBC wanted more of the staff to be in NY where the Editorial leads would now be located. Quite a few people were notified that their positions were being moved to NY and were given the choice to move to NY or be laid off. Some went to NY but more took the layoff that came with a generous severance package of 2 weeks of pay for every of employment they had. One of the guys that was being laid off was a video producer named Rico. Luckily for him though the team I was on had an opening and we hired him to join our team.

As for picking our new location NBC sent out a survey to see if the employees had a preference for where we wanted to re-locate to. We were given 3 choices. Seattle, Redmond and Bellevue. We thought this was a nice gesture but the people that wanted to stay on the East Side didn’t realize until later that our votes were split between Redmond and Bellevue thus allowing Seattle votes to win out. NBC big wigs wanted to make a big splash and decided to re-brand the main website to NBCNews.com and picked the 26th floor of the Columbia Tower in Seattle as our new office. They even said it was going to be known as their new “Technology Center” since most of the employees in our office were the Operations Team, Developers and Engineers with a few Editorial folks left in Seattle. So in January 2015 we all moved into the Columbia Tower and had a fresh start. One month later the Seahawks won the Super Bowl and we had the Parade go right past our building on 4th Ave. Fun Times.

Soon after the move to Seattle came a new direction and NBC decided to get rid of some of our senior leadership members and this began the consistent talks of “what does this mean for the Seattle office and the rest of us?” Nobody was happy with who was let go and a new CTO (Chief Technology Officer) was brought in to replace our beloved Head of Technology, Joanne. Then in November 2015 there were more layoffs. Most of the rest of the Editorial group that was still in Seattle were laid off and this is the first time we realized that those who were being laid off got their paperwork in “purple folders”. So we knew then that if someone was walking around with a purple folder they were one of the people affected by the latest round of layoffs. While we had our own HR person in the office there was always a more senior HR person in town when layoffs happened. From this day on whenever employees from NY were in town, especially anyone of Senior Level importance, we always looked around to see if anyone from HR came too. HR=purple folders.

In November 2016 most of our PMO (Program Manager Organization) was let go along with some other Technology folks and a month later they just shut down our BreakingNews.com group that had a loyal following including 9.5 million Twitter followers. This made nobody happy and added even more “writing on the wall for the rest of us”. Besides that we were down to about 55 people in our office from near 100 when we first moved to Seattle. There was always talk of our office, we had the whole 26th floor, being too much space the small amount of employees left.

So for the past year whenever anything of importance happened, actually pretty much anything around the office at all, it had us questioning whether Purple Folders were coming or not and whether they would just shut down the entire Seattle office. A few months ago our CTO, the one that had replaced Joanne, decided to move on and when the new one showed up he was asked about our space and agreed that it was indeed too big for us and that it was being looked at as far as what to do with it. There was talk of sub-leasing it and moving us to a smaller office but there was also gossip of them just shutting down the whole Seattle office for good.

My team is made up of a manager (Dom) and 6 Analysts. 3 of us are FTE and 3 of us are contractors. The 3 FTE’s are Chris, the previously mentioned Rico and myself. The 3 of us work together Monday-Thursday each week and have a good time. We give each other crap all day and make jokes about Purple Folders and every time someone from NY makes a visit, especially HR, we ask each other “what that means for us?” and basically assume we are being fired… all in jest but knowing it could and probably will happen at some point. Well not fired but at least laid off.

So keeping in line with the past 2 Novembers this year was no different. On Tuesday November 7th there was talk that the CTO was heading into town on Wednesday afternoon but only coming for a quick visit and heading back out Friday. It seemed like a weird visit so people started wondering what was up. On Thursday morning he showed up but there was a female with him this time that I did not recognize but figured it could have been someone from HR. I saw the 2 of them in a meeting with my boss and his boss early that morning. Pretty weird to have this mystery female in a meeting with the CTO and 2 managers from the Operations team. I let Chris and Rico know what I saw and the gossip began in full. Later I heard 1 co-worker ask another “how are you doing?” but it was not the typical “good morning” or “what’s up”… It was as if something bad was going on. More gossip. LOL Then a developer was standing in our little work space when someone walked by and said, “It’s exactly how I said it was going to be” which brought even more wondering about what was happening. Dom, who was one of the guys in the meeting earlier that morning, came by and we were asking him who the lady in the office was and he was like, “Who? I’m not sure” and when she walked by I pointed her out and he still said he was not sure. LIES. I figured he just wasn’t allowed to say anything yet but how could he not know who she was when he was in a meeting with her?? SMH. HAHA.

At this point we figured bad news was on the way. Another Manager of some of the developers came by and we asked him what was going on and all he would say was “you need to ask Dom”. That did not sound promising. A little bit later I was walking around the office to check things out and all of the Web Operations team, their manager and Dom were in a meeting together. I figured this was kind of weird but maybe Dom’s boss, Doug, was letting them all know what the morning meeting was all about. It never crossed my mind that usually when this happens our team would be in the same meeting because our team and the Web Ops team makeup all of Operations. Dom had seen me walk by so as soon as that meeting ended he came by to let us know that indeed something was up. He said that layoffs were happening but the Operations team was not being affected. Most of the Developers were being let go and the Ops team and Devices team along with a few others were not affected by the layoffs. Either way it was another shitty day in November for our office. He also said our team would have a meeting at 1pm for Doug to let us know all the details.

Just before 1pm Dom said our meeting with Doug was in an office that we do not normally have meetings in and it was the same office from the morning where I saw Doug, Dom, the CTO and HR lady in. Plus the one Contractor on our team that was in the office was supposed to stay back and not attend which was kind of weird but some information regarding layoffs is only given to FTE’s first. As the 3 of us walked to the meeting Rico said that the room we were going to is where the HR lady was currently set up. At this point we kind of figured things out and we were walking into the Lions’ Den. Sure enough the meeting was with the CTO, HR, Doug, Dom and the 3 FTE’s from my team. The CTO began the meeting and let us know there were some changes within the Operations team and the 3 of us were being laid off. They were going to replace our spots with 1 contractor in NY, 1 contractor in London and then 1 more in the Seattle office. WE WERE BEING GIVEN OUR PURPLE FOLDER!!!!

While we knew eventually it would happen it always seemed like our team would be last to go…and still may be…but for now they were cutting costs and getting rid of the FTE’s except Dom was staying on to manage the team including the new remote head counts to come.

They asked us to stay around until April 2nd and as with previous layoffs we were offered a nice severance package so while I am losing my job in 4 months I will be getting 28 weeks of pay added on when I leave. Rico and I have been kind of tired of the gig for a while and were just kind of biding our time until we got let go. Over the past couple of years I took a bunch of Project Management classes and got a certificate from Bellevue College as that is the line of work I was trying to move into at NBC and now will be seriously looking for a PM position somewhere else after the Holidays. This door has closed but I am looking at it as all positive and I am sure new doors will open soon.

P.S. The one negative of all this is that the folder with the layoff paperwork was not really purple but more of a deep blue. BOOOOO -spacerun:yes'>M��7

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saintkimora · 7 years

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well here is how my day went i guess idk

so first i had sociology it was boring and my prof was a pervert as usual

then i came home slept and came back for psych and we made our groups for the final presentation and since there arent many friend groups i guess people decided to just work w whoever is sitting near them which sucks bc the people near me are my 2 enemies and this semi cute guy who is really dumb but i still like him he seems fun. i wish i sat next to vikram bc then i couldve worked w him smh. also theres this girl who i am acquainted w from gsa who sits behind me and no one sits in the 2 desks next to her so she cant really use that method to form a group and she isnt v social so i feel bad bc idk if she’ll be able to get a group and we have 4 people but we need 5-6 and im conflicted bc i wanna be nice and invite her into our group but we are graded as a group not as individuals and i can tell presenting isnt her strong suit plus i already have 2 idiots in my group to worry about i cant take care of her too

anyways then i had anatomy lecture it was boring anyways then i had the gsa eboard meeting but danielle and kevin were sick and tatesh had work so it was literally just monroe and i so that was kind of a flop meeting but it was still good! we were able to talk as friends since it was just us two so it was nice that we got to catch up. also he gave me tea on tatesh AND on his gf who was in the club last year but isnt anymore bc she graduated and like mess @ both of them

also he said tatesh def isnt running for president again and he told me that the one year needed to be president isnt a requirement anymore (which makes sense bc like what if all the eboard members graduated in the same year then there wouldnt be anyone able to run for president) so yeah since danielle doesnt wanna be president ill prob run and get it unless kevin decides to run for some reason. however i am already stressing about it bc if im president then im def gonna have to go to the leadership retreat in the fall and it isnt like the spring one where it was just meetings in a building the fall leadership retreat involves actually going into the woods and like sleeping in a cabin and stuff and im over it already even though it isnt for like 7 more months

and lastly before the gsa meeting i went to the bathroom to wash my hands and TRISTAN was there drying his hands this is the second time this week ive run into him and ive had it i hate that this campus is so small i cant handle any more of these awkward interactions. i got in and he was like hi and i was like hi and he was like how are you and i was like fine and then he had finished drying his hands at that point so he was like farewell

so yeah thats it. yesterday i had my triage meeting for counseling which went v well and they said they will have me matched with a counselor within a week which is good! i cant wait to have an actual counseling meeting its gonna be like on bgc when they have the life coach meetings

#today really wasnt eventful enough to make a post about but i am bored so i did it anyways #personal

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Like we're not telling you and if we did your xmas would be ruined Trying to save up...but Sephora I can't even put into words how sad I am about Carrie Fishers passing. Rest In Peace. Someone get me on the slopes Can't stop won't stop crying at the Beauty and the Beast trailer. What did I do to deserve this Every time I lose a snapchat streak, I die a little on the inside I'm such a daddy's girl tbh Setting that 4 am alarm is absolutely killer Hey at least the Cubs won the World Series in 2016 Thought about making a resolution to go to the gym and eat green stuff, but I'm just gonna do me, eat cookies and walk occasionally Tmlt- moral: be happy, and do what makes you happy I really just slept until 5pm Traveling through Hoth in my damn Jetta was fun I should have just skied home from work smh These are the days that I wish my dad's Outback was automatic. Smh I share a bathroom w two teenage boys. There is a pile of underwear in the corner that grows +2 every day.

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