nip over to troy, bit of rough and tumble, big horse, bish bash bosh, back home to ithaca. simple as

i like the thought of working with kids making grace gentler/more regulated/better with people in his life outside of work (yknow, relatively), and i think his not-swearing thing can be used to support that. however i also like the thought of him being patient with his kids at school and then still being a hotheaded asshole with adults and i think this is also supported by. well, much of the earth arc. and in my beautiful mindscape these are both true

does anyone know if it’s possible

ok good I was getting worried

a great tragedy of this world is that many things that are bad for you also look very sexy. smoking. riding a motorcycle. that crazy shit they did to saint sebastian

you don’t realize how important lunch is until you’re wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then it’s 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.

lot of people commenting on this post like "who eats lunch at 4pm that's a terrible time to eat lunch" yes. that is the point. 4pm lunch is inadvisable. 4pm lunch is not the ideal. 4pm lunch makes the mind demons real.

Studying the hundred years war so I can study the war of the roses so I can read Shakespeare so I can read Macchiavelli so I can study the 30 Years War so I can appreciate Rembrandt so I can understand the rise of colonialism as a means of European hegemony so I can read Victor Hugo so I can read Marx so I can read Edward Said so I can read Dune so I can read Fevre Dream so I can read ASOIAF so I can write au fanfiction on the internet

it’s weird that professional letters are supposed to start with “dear.” i don’t even call my mom that

my darling hiring manager. my springtime rose. if hired i will bring a strong work ethic to this position