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Cake day: December 18th, 2023

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  • I’ve always been good at basic math (up to and including highschool ball-park algebra) on an intuitive level, to a degree that was so wildly unhelpful and didn’t align at all with my schooling experience. Did extremely well in elementary and most middle school math, but in 8th grade algebra is where it really started to cause issues. We’d have a new concept shown in the form of equations and I’d always arrive at an answer by just plugging in numbers and solving it in my head until I honed in on the right answer (essentially just brute-forcing a correct answer).

    Of course this didn’t work in that class, because the teacher wanted me to “show my work”, and wouldn’t accept an answer of “I just did it in my head” or “I looked for an answer in my head and found it”. I eventually learned what “show your work” really meant (show the step by step algebraic process that the teacher wants you to do), but I pick up on that until long after I’d given up on highschool (I was forced to retake algebra in 9th grade, and then put into a lower math class in 10th, and by that point, I just stopped going to math class entirely).

    Fun fact, I got suspended from school a couple times for skipping class. The process was basically this:

    1. Skip class

    2. Be assigned detention for skipping class

    3. Skip class again when they were going to tell me I had detention

    4. Skip detention that I was never informed of

    5. Assigned, but never informed of, double detention

    6. Skip detention that I was still never informed of

    7. Suspended from school (still never informed of)

    8. Have a teacher see me on campus and tell me I’m suspended and need to leave school grounds (which is the first I heard of any of it)

    School system at its finest, y’all. Skip class enough and they punish you by saying you’re not allowed to go to class.




  • lol I worked at a professional theatre for 5 years (and theatres in general for way longer) and you seem like you’re more well versed than I am.

    Interesting point about Les Mis and Phantom. I enjoyed Les Mis the last time I saw it, but that was ages ago, during a time that I also liked Phantom (I still like a few songs in phantom, but hoo boy there’s a lot of grossly problematic themes in it). Phantom with a high budget can be a blast to watch though, from a technical standpoint. I saw it once in Las Vegas. The chandelier was in 3 pieces hanging above the audience seating, and it slowly lit up and came together above the stage during the overture. It was fucking crazy to see. (awful audio warning: I found a terrible quality video on youtube!)

    Haven’t seen Wicked, Cats or Hamilton (or basically any broadway show. I’m a heretic, I know lol), so I can’t comment on those. I haven’t seen Evil dead: the Musical, but I’ve wanted to for ages. I’m big on Horror movies, and the Evil Dead movies are all wild.

    I’m glad you mentioned Moulin Rouge. That movie is so fucking incredible. El Tango De Roxanne has lived rent free in my head since I first saw it and I’m honestly so glad about it.

    As for recommendations to check out:

    • Sweeney Todd. The 2007 movie with Johnny Depp is great (and very bloody) but I’ve seen a few renditions of it live and it’s honestly always a great show. Checks a lot of boxes for me (good tunes, dystopian, and a surprisingly heavy story given that the theme is often horror-comedy-esqe).

    • Urinetown. Been a while since I’ve seen it, but it’s a great satirical musical (it makes jabs at a ton of stuff, but it’s mostly aimed at capitalism in general).

    • Little Shop of Horrors. This one has a special place in my heart because it’s the first musical I worked on in highschool that I actually enjoyed. Not much to say, it’s just a fun show.







  • Fishbone@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlLet's see them Lemmy.
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    7 months ago

    Hey, you’re welcome! I just thought it would be a logistical nightmare to get past the cats without disturbing them in your picture, and my brain ran with the idea.

    On a related note: Check out the book “I Could Pee on This, and Other Poems by Cats”. It’s a little book of poems from the perspective of cats.


  • If ye wish to climb the stairs,

    Then first endure our three glares.

    For moving, we aren’t in the mood,

    Though we may change our tune for food.

    And a warning should our bowls lay empty,

    Misfortune falls swift and plenty.

    So please, appease us kitties three,

    Lest ye wake in a bed of pee.