Frozen vegetables are your friend here. Canned, too, but them slightly less so imo because texture. You can toss frozen spinach on a pizza before you bake it, or stir green peas into ramen, or eat green beans out of a can, and they don’t cost that much more than ramen if you can find a cheap enough store. Vitamins are also your friend – pick up some cheap everyday multivitamins and try to remember to take them regularly and drink lots of water. As for exercise, just do what you’re able to – take the stairs when possible, walk fast, maybe do some stretches or simple exercises when you get up in the morning. Even small changes can help a lot, in my experience.
If you’re interested in the $0.02 from a student only about a month away from graduating…
The most useful thing I found was to have a consistent time and day when I would run to the store, regardless of what my homework was like. It gave me a break from the stress and then hey, I’d have some food for the week and wouldn’t be scraping the barrel later on.
Ramen, rice, mac ‘n cheese, beans, and pasta are incredibly versatile, but like Kat said, you need to work in fruits and veggies if you want to stay healthy and not feel like crap by Friday. Frozen veggies are your friend, here–and even better is if you can find frozen veggies that steam in the bag in the microwave (the local Kroger has them where I live, and they are often on sale for 10/$10). Keep an eye on meat sales as well, since you can generally double the amount of meat you can buy for the same price.
This also ties back in to scheduling time for a grocery store run, but try to take a little time for meal prep as well. 30 minutes to throw together a frittata means a filling breakfast for the week. Boil up a bag of rice and then portion it out so you can have a couple extra quick eats later on. Cook up some meat when you buy it and then freeze it, so you don’t have to worry about both thawing and cooking in the middle of a project.
It’s rough learning how to juggle this on your own, but I promise you, if you make the attempt, you’ll start to feel a whole lot better. It was ridiculous how much better I felt, even when coping with 3 final projects and a seminar in front the head of the department, once I had gone a couple weeks eating full and rounded meals. It was the difference between walking on the edge of the cliff and standing five feet back–still scary as hell, but without quite the same sense of impending doom.
I never see anyone talking about how kids can abuse adults though.
Growing up I saw a lot of adult teachers get bullied by students and it sucked. They would purposely push them to their breaking point until they exploded, yelled, cursed, threw desks, and the ones who didn’t have that kind of reaction would just quit or end up fired because the kids would start rumors. One was because our new math teacher was effeminate so the guys thought “obviously this guy is gay and he’s after our dicks” and if he was ever nice to a male student (which… he was nice and friendly with EVERYONE and was the best teacher we’d had that year) they would start whispering behind me, “yo, look at that, did you see that? He’s flirting with his male students, that’s nasty” and so they made trouble for him.
My mother worked at a Discovery Zone type place when I was little and she would come home and break down crying because groups of little boys would call her names, call her stupid her whole shift.
I had friends in childhood who absolutely abused their parents. They were relentless and mean and hacked them into submission and it made for a lot of awkward moments when I would hang with them, because I couldn’t do anything since… they were my abuser too.
Just because you’re a minor doesn’t mean knives you throw are not sharp and won’t hit someone. The fact that so many kids on this site use their age as a weapon, as a way to say “but nothing I do has any impact because I have no social power” is SCARY and we need to try to make people aware of this kind of stuff from a young age because most people who are like that don’t really realize it and they need guidance and rehabilitation so the cycle can stop. Because those people grow up and have kids and do it to their kids and they don’t learn that it’s not normal or okay, that they cannot deny reality by controlling the people around them.
But sometimes it isn’t always that way, some of those parents were so nice and kind and I considered like family, and they just had absolute evil villains for kids.
Check in with yourselves, guys. Especially right now. There’s a lot of upsetting stuff being shoved in our faces all the time and it makes it hard not to get tunnel vision when our emotions get out of control, especially with the pressure to perform by a lot of social circles on tumblr. And if you’re young and a lot of this is new, pace yourself, you’re learning, and you need to be open to the idea of learning more and know that us being adults doesn’t mean we’re just out of touch boring old farts who don’t know anything. We’ve lived things and we have experience and when we say to you that it’s not okay to tell people who like things you do not like to kill themselves, we’re not “apologists”… we’re the survivors too.
yo this is really important
my piano/choir teacher in 6th grade was only around 20-23 whenever she came to our school, and she only stayed for 2 years because all the kids were so awful. one time she told me that me and a few other of my friends were the only ones who hadn’t said a bad word about her the whole time.
in 4th grade, we got an awesome music teacher. he was in his late 20’s at the time, really chill and easygoing (we were in elementary school). some of the kids would just slowly drive him off the edge until one day he ended up throwing pens across the room out of frustration and anger. everybody was either scared of him or laughed at him, and it kinda made it worse. he left 2 years later and teaches a civilized and nice group of kids now.
kids really can abuse adults. I’ve seen it happen a lot and it’s sad and heartbreaking and overall awful to see because so many people brush it off as “kids being kids.”
In 7th grade or so I had the most delightful Maths/Science teacher (the two were taught by the same guy) and he was always super nice. Like he adored teaching, he brought us snacks sometimes and like really wanted us to do well.
By 8th grade he was a changed man. We had young neo-nazis starting shit. We had kids screaming and throwing shit at him. We had knife fights and I’m 90% certain I remember him straight up being forced into a position where he had to wrestle one of my more violent classmates to the floor. My class had actually driven this calm, cool, great guy (he couldn’t’ve been more than 27 at the time) to actually break down crying in class. As far as I heard he was gone by the time I entered grade 9.
I remember lots of my classmates mocking my math teacher because of her accent, when I was a freshman. She was from Syria, in a mexican school. Little pieces of shit were always imitating her accent and mocking her from getting certain words wrong.
I saw her about four years later and she looked so tired of everything, less cheerful and with a tougher attitude from the beginning. Fortunately she still talks to me calmly and smiling, but it’s awful to know she’s always anxious around thw kids she teaches.
In seventh grade I had a teacher named Ms. Burns. It was only her third year of teaching, and it was her first year of teaching middle school. And the class I had her for?
My fellow classmates were fucking awful to Ms. Burns. They talked over her when she was trying to teach, they made fun of her appearance (said she looked like man and called her a ‘tranny’, or “It Burns” instead of Ms. Burns), and when a few months into the school year, she broke down and screamed at the top of her lungs at the class before sitting down at her desk and crying, they considered it a triumph and laughed about it for weeks.
Being a kid doesn’t exempt you from being a piece of shit, and just because, on the whole, adults have more power than minors doesn’t mean that minors get a free pass on being purposefully cruel to adults. Some of you on this website really need to learn this.
Discipline your goddamn kids.
Seriously doubling down on the last part because this behavior doesn’t form in a fucking vacuum.
“A member of No More Deaths faces a felony charge after he was arrested by Border Patrol agents, just hours after the Tucson humanitarian group released videos last week showing agents destroying water and food left for those crossing Arizona’s deserts.
Scott Daniel Warren, 35, faces up to five years in prison for harboring two people suspected of being in the country without authorization, after Warren gave them food and water.”
As a pretty crucial update to this, No Más Muertes (the organization in question above) are currently asking for donations to the legal defense fund for activists and organizers who have been arrested during the struggle for migrant justice along the US/Mexico border.
We need your support to fight these charges and resist the dangerous, divisive claim that sharing food and water with undocumented immigrants is a criminal offense.In addition to these felony charges, Scott and 8 other No More Deaths volunteers face federal misdemeanor charges, including “abandonment of property,” for humanitarian aid in Arizona’s West Desert. In 2017, the remains of 58 people who died crossing the border were found in this area – nearly half of all remains found in Arizona that year.”
“Cate Blanchett recently defended the right of straight actors to play LGBTQ characters on-screen, saying it’s something she’ll “fight to the death” for… and despite the growing feeling that queer characters should be played by queer actors, Blanchett doesn’t agree…”
“Straight actors are almost unanimously lauded for playing queer characters — 52 straight actors have been nominated for Oscars for playing LGBTQ characters — while openly queer actors find it hard to even be cast.”
she named her son after roman polanski she’s been trash
Watch white wlw defend this garbage to death
Cate Blanchett is canceled
Actually, nowhere in the actual article has she said that she disagrees with queer people having any particular role in any particular situation. While the second quote is true: it’s a fact that Hollywood is in it’s majority straight. However the article this is linking to has only highlighted a small portion of the actual interview. And it also did not provide any context.
What she’s defending is the right for anyone to play anyone, whether they have similar experiences or not.
Many interviewers during the Carol junket seemed to imply or question whether having a lesbian experience was essential to understanding such a role. For Blanchett, she believes that defies the whole point of acting. “It also speaks to something that I’m quite passionate about in storytelling generally, but in film specifically, is that film can be quite a literal medium,” she said.“And I will fight to the death for the right to suspend disbelief and play roles beyond my experience. I think reality television and all that that entails had an extraordinary impact, a profound impact on the way we view the creation of character,” she continued. “I think it provides a lot of opportunity, but the downside of it is that we now, particularly in America, I think, we expect and only expect people to make a profound connection to a character when it’s close to their experience.”
“Part of being an actor to me, it’s an anthropological exercise. So you get to examine a time frame, a set of experiences, an historical event that you didn’t know anything about,” said Blanchett. “But also I’m about to play a character whose political persuasions are entirely different to my own, but part of the pleasure is trying to work out what makes her tick.” The actress is hopeful that more gay films are being greenlighted today, saying that Carol was difficult to get off the ground when it was in development, even with herself and Mara attached as leads. “Carol was a real labor of love for me. I’d read the Patricia Highsmith story ages ago, when I was in high school. And the film, I think now would be made in a heartbeat, but eight years ago, it was a very difficult film to get up,” Blanchett said. “Two women, both of whom are of lesbian-ish persuasion in the 1950s, which is like, ‘Who wants to go and see that? Only 12-year-old boys go to movies.’ Thank goodness we’re changing the demographic of the critics who write for Rotten Tomatoes.” She added, “For me, if something is difficult to make, it’s like a red rag to a bull. It makes me want to make it more.”
But the lack of actual queer people in Hollywood is low, that is true. And I agree that it is infuriating that popularity, money and cooperations have a much larger say in who they cast than, for example, the viewers. But this post seems to imply that Cate Blanchett has something against queer representation, which is just not true.
More rain! Now I’m not looking forward to going home. Dx And I have to eventually, because meal.
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