Update for Everyone V: Born Under A Bad Sign

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

I got a terrible grade on an assignment that I did everything in my power to meet the criteria for and jumped through a lot of hoops to get done despite personal discomfort with the material, which I admitted to in the assignment and which the professor's comments were complimentary towards me for being willing to work through. It's so bad--literally the worst grade I've gotten on any assignment in any class in years--that I sat there in shock for several minutes looking at it trying to figure out what the hell I did to deserve it. I'm going to talk to the professor tomorrow and  see if it would be reasonable to ask for specific, concrete guidance on the actual writing process for the next few of these assignments. No sane, normal, good, non-fat-disgusting-moron person would need that for spiritual reflection papers, but apparently I do. This is my very last class in my master's and whatever grade I get in it will be right there at the end of my transcript like a punctuation mark for the rest of my life. And, as much good as it would do the world if I just croaked already, I'm selfish enough that I actually do want to live.

Don't beat yourself up like that!  I have been humbled by college coursework and had some yikes exam results, but things always work out in the end.

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

I'm now the proud father of a baby girl.

Congrats!

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

Well, this is going to be REALLY awkward.  I'm renting a room in a house for my internship this summer, and one of the other renters just moved into another room in the house.  It just so happens that she is interning for Planned Parenthood, and I'm not really sure what to do.  Any advice on how to live with someone who is literally fighting at work for the exact thing I'm fighting to stop at work?

Just be friends and don't bring up the subject.  It's not like she is playing a significant role in the procedures performed there, anyways, likely just administrative duties. 

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

It's hard for me to imagine this situation from ER's perspective. If you actually believe abortion is straight up murdering babies, how do you interact with pro-choice pro-murder people? Let alone live with one? I would be so depressed with life.

Well, the Bible says that if you hate your brother without a cause, you are guilty of murder in the heart.  So every single one of us is a murderer in God's eyes.  This doesn't mean that physical murder shouldn't be punished (and I do consider abortion tantamount to it), but I think that puts things in perspective.  We're all sinners.

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

Today marks four years since my dad died.  I feel like the ensuing depression kicked in all of the last two days.  I can barely think straight, my body temperature's been all over the place, and my muscles are so stiff I feel like I'm 90.

Great, now I'm crying.

I hope you are able to find some help for dealing with this.


Tender,  Your pictures always make me so jealous. I am going to have to go live near the mountains.

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

I was attacked by a bunch of alt-righters last night.  Those people are scary!

What happened?