the correct number of eyes

when i was in fourth grade (oldest grade at the elementary school i went to), i saw a copy of Little Women on display in the school library. i asked the librarian to help me get it down from the shelf I couldn't reach, because i'd recently read an abridged version and was interested in reading the full text. the librarian said no, it was too advanced for me. i was left sitting there, like. "i am one of the best readers in this entire school. if it's too advanced for me, what is it even here for???" and i think the answer is "because having classics on display makes libraries Look Like Libraries" or something, but no one bothered to explain that to me at the time

the playground at that school also had a lot of equipment that was frankly sized for middle schoolers rather than elementary schoolers, and one time, also in fourth grade, i asked whatever teacher was overseeing recess if they could help me reach one of the things i wasn't tall enough for, and they said "no, if you can't reach it on your own you can't use it, that's the school's policy" which is fair but once again. who was it even there for??? i wasn't even particularly short for an elementary schooler

later on the town split the elementary schools up in a different way, making that school k-2 and another school with k-2-sized playground equipment 3-4. i'm sure there were actual reasons for this, but they did it right after i graduated elementary school and all i could think about from my child perspective was "they should have done it the other way! the playground equipment is worse both ways now!"

anyway i never actually got around to reading the unabridged text of little women after that. i'm sure it's good but i just never could muster the motivation again after being shut down in such a baffling-to-me way

when i was in fourth grade (oldest grade at the elementary school i went to), i saw a copy of Little Women on display in the school library. i asked the librarian to help me get it down from the shelf I couldn't reach, because i'd recently read an abridged version and was interested in reading the full text. the librarian said no, it was too advanced for me. i was left sitting there, like. "i am one of the best readers in this entire school. if it's too advanced for me, what is it even here for???" and i think the answer is "because having classics on display makes libraries Look Like Libraries" or something, but no one bothered to explain that to me at the time

the playground at that school also had a lot of equipment that was frankly sized for middle schoolers rather than elementary schoolers, and one time, also in fourth grade, i asked whatever teacher was overseeing recess if they could help me reach one of the things i wasn't tall enough for, and they said "no, if you can't reach it on your own you can't use it, that's the school's policy" which is fair but once again. who was it even there for??? i wasn't even particularly short for an elementary schooler

later on the town split the elementary schools up in a different way, making that school k-2 and another school with k-2-sized playground equipment 3-4. i'm sure there were actual reasons for this, but they did it right after i graduated elementary school and all i could think about from my child perspective was "they should have done it the other way! the playground equipment is worse both ways now!"

when i was in fourth grade (oldest grade at the elementary school i went to), i saw a copy of Little Women on display in the school library. i asked the librarian to help me get it down from the shelf I couldn't reach, because i'd recently read an abridged version and was interested in reading the full text. the librarian said no, it was too advanced for me. i was left sitting there, like. "i am one of the best readers in this entire school. if it's too advanced for me, what is it even here for???" and i think the answer is "because having classics on display makes libraries Look Like Libraries" or something, but no one bothered to explain that to me at the time

the playground at that school also had a lot of equipment that was frankly sized for middle schoolers rather than elementary schoolers, and one time, also in fourth grade, i asked whatever teacher was overseeing recess if they could help me reach one of the things i wasn't tall enough for, and they said "no, if you can't reach it on your own you can't use it, that's the school's policy" which is fair but once again. who was it even there for??? i wasn't even particularly short for an elementary schooler

i think tumblr should add the ability for an op to mark a particular version of a post--like, the post with a particular set of additions--as the canonical version of the post, if they want to

i try to be fast about adding things when i'm making posts that have multiple parts to them, but it seems to not really matter how fast i am, people reblog the versions without the additions even if they're reblogging directly from me after i've posted the additions.

okay, like, listen. imagine if animals formed a support group for people who aren't human. and all the resources were like "for creatures with four legs" and the birds went "hey, we don't have four legs? can we be included please?" and the other animals went "oh my GOD stop making things about you. humans have two legs so you can't possibly be oppressed for having two legs." and also no one is even talking about insects or arachnids.

would this post be more or less comprehensible if i put a big "OP IS INTERSEX" sticker at the bottom

maybe i would get better or more interesting results if i started plastering infoboxes on my posts

[thinks about it for like one more minutes] actually probably i would get worse replies and they likely wouldn't be different enough to matter

why is "i need one of my meds refilled early because otherwise i'm going to be out of state when i run out" such a difficult thing to resolve. the pharmacist asked me what i wanted to do if my insurance wouldn't pay for it early; i asked if i could pay out of pocket and the pharmacist said they'd have to ask if my insurance would allow that. huh??

apparently i get one (1) override a year and i will in fact be getting my meds, but also oh my god i'm glad the timing worked out such that my other meds should last until i get back? and also this has got to suck so bad for people who travel more than i do

oh my god???

i hate when gluten free flours are shelved with wheat flour. i get nervous when i have to walk down a baking aisle. we need to start mandatory training about cross contamination for everyone who has any part in the food supply chain. frankly i think we should be treating gluten that could become airborne as a biohazard when it's in a shared space (such as a grocery store).

i think gluten-containing flours should be quarantined from the rest of the store and in extremely sealed packages instead of barely sealed paper and i'm not kidding.

As someone who's worked in a grocery store, i genuinely don't think grocery stores are in any way safe if you have celiacs. Those bags are not even a little bit airtight. Just picking one up is enough to release a little puff of wheat flour into the air, and during stocking it fills the whole aisle with a haze of flour. I used to wear a mask just because it was hard to breathe.

can flour manufacturers PLEASE use packaging that is not that. oh my god