Schools are cutting teachers and paras, increasing class sizes, closing schools, and running 4 day weeks, struggling with deficits, while he accumulated a $27 billion dollar ‘rainy day fund’ and spent a billion dollars on a voucher program that basically reduces the price of private schools - not enough that they’re affordable for regular people, just enough to save his buddies some $ so their kids don’t have to go to school with the riff-raff rest of us.
I believe this is why she won. I work in public education and even my republican friends were over Abbott killing our schools.
I love how he calls JD habibi like a Texan saying, 'blues your heart".
Yeah, it’s down a dollar in the last few weeks. I’m sure it’s something artificial to make people think, “hey, everything is ok.”
I filled up yesterday in Dallas. Almost no line at Costco and below $4.
There are two times when i use it -
1 - when the touchpad stops working
2 - i have some work screens that involve checking boxes and signing.
In Texas we’re at almost 3 million votes! My family is going this afternoon.
It sounds so dumb, but it really works for me. I can almost always put myself back to sleep now within a few minutes- except for the nights when I’m really mad at work and, instead of doing the process, i wallow in the misery of insomnia as if that’s somehow hurting the people I hate.
I get in a good position and get my pillow and covers just right. I take 3 breaths and focus really really hard on my breathing. I take 10 breaths to focus on relaxing, being calm, and feeling the comfort of my pillow, the weight of my covers, and how good my bed feels. I start at my feet (both feet on a regular night or one at a time if I’m really struggling) and for 3 breaths i relax them and feel their weight sink into the bed. Then i work my way up, moving to my ankles, lower legs, knees, … taking 3 breaths at each one…and I’m usually asleep before upper legs. The hardest part was learning to focus hard on each breath, in and out, and each feeling, so it fills up your brain and other thoughts won’t fit. If something else creeps in, i reset with 3 focusing breaths, then continue.
I spent about a year practicing going back to sleep. I’ve become pretty good at it, but my job is very sucky right now, so sometimes i forget to turn that off and do the steps.
First step is voting!
Start investigating/prosecuting the little guys and work your way up!
Lounge in bed together for an extra hour or two, have a coffee, and watch a show or college game day. Make some breakfast. Work on little projects or hobbies (today we need to go empty a storage unit before the next billing cycle), maybe go swimming, run some errands, maybe haircut or nails, maybe have friends over in the evening or have a date night.
ETA- forgot to mention my favorite weekend activity-the rerack! Wake up early, browse my phone or read for a bit until you start to feel the sleepies, and then go completely back to sleep for an hour. I don’t know why, but it feels like the best sleep ever, and you wake up feeling so good and rested.
I hate the glass screen protectors. Naked screen. Single layer medium plasticy case with the mag circle on the back because my last car had the magnetic attachment thing.
Agree with that. It’s like all of the movies where a plain girl gets a haircut and makeup and is suddenly popular.
As for the movie as a whole, it’s just a reminder that it’s good to talk to people outside your circle - many have similar feelings and struggles.
Omg! Can you imagine if Trump were asked to write an essay?!?! The bestest essay ever they say. What a fucking dingdong.
How long before the j6ers get paid?
Do you take an antidepressant? When i did, i had a feeling of insignificance - being an ant, one of a bajillion beings who have lived or will live on earth and whose death will mean nothing once my immediate circle is also dead. I wasn’t sad about that, just very matter of fact. Here today, gone tomorrow, no biggie. In 120 years the earth will be all new people.
School employees are actually a pretty big group. Almost everyone i know voted early. Even the Republicans i work with were complaining about Abbott. It’s become so unpleasant to work in the schools that people are finding it harder to work until retirement age. For some people it has to impact their money before they’ll stand up for kids.