Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-22-26

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-03-22-26/

“I scamper to my room and lock the door behind me, praying to any god that will listen: Please don’t let this be my future too.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/08/26/i-scamper-to-my-room-and-lock-the-door-behind-me-praying-to-any-god-that-will-listen-please-dont-let-this-be-my-future-too/

#AdolescentesLesbiennesRomansNouvellesEtc #AdolescentsBisexuelsRomansNouvellesEtc #anyGod #BeautyContestants #BeautyContestantsFiction #behindMe #BisexualTeenagers #BisexualTeenagersFiction #BisexualityFiction #BisexualityJuvenileFiction #book #CandidatesConcoursDeBeautéRomansNouvellesEtc #DatingSocialCustomsFiction #DatingSocialCustomsJuvenileFiction #donTLetThisBe #ÉlèvesDuSecondaireRomansNouvellesEtc #fiction #FICTIONLGBTQ_ #FictionRomanceLGBTQ_ #FictionSocialThemesDatingSex #HighSchoolStudents #HighSchoolStudentsFiction #HighSchoolsFiction #HighSchoolsJuvenileFiction #JenniferDugan #JuvenileFictionGeneral #LesbianFiction #LesbianTeenagers #LesbianTeenagersFiction #Lesbians #LesbiansFiction #LesbiansJuvenileFiction #LesbiennesRomansNouvellesEtc #LGBTQ #LGBTQIAFiction #listen #lockTheDoor #LoveStories #myFuture #myRoom #please #praying #quote #romance #RomanceFiction #scamper #SchoolStories #SchoolsFiction #TeenYoungAdultContemporaryRomance #TeenYoungAdultFiction #TeenYoungAdultFictionOnDatingSex #TeenYoungAdultLGBTQRomance #TeenYoungAdultRomance #TeenYoungAdultSocialIssues #TeensYALGBTQ_ #TeensYAPopularFiction #TeensYARomance #YAFiction #YoungAdultFiction #YoungAdultWorks

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/my-six-flags-memory-08-19-25/

On August 18, 2025, Morning Brew published an article by Brendan Cosgrove titled It’s been a rough ride for Six Flags this summer. I went to Six Flags only once. In June 2007 a different class in my school was going to Six Flags to celebrate having raised the most money for the school, i.e., guilt tripping students into pestering their parents into making donations. I submit for the record that this was a private school, so most of us were already making donations in the form of tuition payments, but I digress. While I was not in this class and had contributed $0.00 in donations that year, I was invited for the trip (note that several other people from my class were also invited). I decided to go since it seemed like a nice enough way to wrap up the school year. I did not go on any rides. This was most likely a wise decision for the person who would be soundly defeated by the Roosevelt Island Tram almost exactly 12 years later. I just walked around the park, sometimes with classmates who were not at that moment on rides.

I have no thoughts regarding the Morning Brew report about Six Flags’ struggles. Thoughts from someone who only went to Six Flags once and did not partake in any of its attractions would add little to the conversation. But if you need additional reading, I wrote a New Leaf Journal article about using Microsoft Publisher to create a new template for the school newspaper during my summer break, which I suppose unofficially started after I returned home from Six Flags.

#amusementParks #anecdotes #schoolStories

All teachers should garner the admiration and devotion of his or her students as this lady did.

#teaching #schoolstories #storytelling #GambleRogers

https://youtu.be/4mAjLxL02BU?si=9cL97DzFsiaW2Q5m

When I was in grade seven, the teacher caught me passing a note to a friend. The teacher got pissy about it. "Speak up and share what you've written with the rest of the class."

I shrugged, stood up to face the class and read, "Don't look now, but Mr. Trepanier's fly is down."

I hope he learned a lesson from that.
#memories #notes #kids #SchoolStories

The Washington Times published a well-sourced and humorous report headlined Universities help students cope with Trump win with canceled classes, milk and cookies. We wind through stories of canceled classes, quizzes not being counted, and even therapy animals. However, I was most curious about one part of the headline:

Meanwhile, Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy provided a ‘Self-Care Suite’ that included ‘Milk and Cookies,’ ‘a Legos Station’ and ‘Coloring and Mindfulness Exercises,’ according to a memo obtained by The Free Press.

I voted for John McCain in 2008 and went to class (Brooklyn College) the day after his heavily foreshadowed landslide defeat was confirmed by election results. I did not think to run around wailing or tell my professors about my feelings. The former would have been unseemly and the latter deeply weird. But had someone offered me a cookie, I would have taken the cookie. I read this now and think that there should have been cookies. I would have settled for Dunkin Donuts. If people today with outstanding student loan debt can demand that the majority of Americans with no such debt pay their debt, I think I can demand retroactive cookies from Brooklyn College. I am not picky but white chocolate macadamia, ginger, or oatmeal raisin would be very welcome.

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/universities-coddle-students-after-election/

#anecdotes #schoolStories #usPresidentialElections

I read that Microsoft is discontinuing Microsoft Publisher in October 2026 (see report). This made me feel nostalgic in the same way that seeing a Ti-89 Titanium graphing calculator does. I worked on my high school newspaper for two years, one as an assistant to my friend and New Leaf Journal colleague Victor V. Gurbo, and second as the senior editor after he graduated. We used Publisher to make the paper and I created a new template for it when I was senior editor. In light of the fact that I had never done anything like that before (mind that I had only had a modern PC at home for about 1.5 years before becoming senior editor), Publisher was intuitive and easy to work with. I have not worked with Publisher since high school and have not used Microsoft Office at all since switching to Linux in 2020 (I do most of my writing in markdown and use LibreOffice when I need an MS Office equivalent), but it is still nostalgic.

I had a second non-nostalgia thought when I read that Publisher is being retired: “I thought Microsoft killed Publisher a long time ago.”

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/microsoft-publisher-sunset-nostalgia/

#anecdotes #microsoft #schoolStories #ti89GraphingCalculator

Yomu of the Umai Yomu Anime Blog posted a new writing prompt: “What’s an anime that you’ve fallen asleep to?” Let us see Yomu’s response:

Strangely enough, I’ve never fallen asleep to an anime, even when including re-watching series where I’d already have an idea of what was going to happen and there was less need to pay attention. For some reason, anime just doesn’t make me sleepy, or I don’t want to sleep while I watch it.

I tend to watch anime at night before bed. I recall having fallen asleep during an episode once. However, I do not remember exactly when this occurred or what I was watching (maybe it is harder to remember stuff when you are falling asleep). With that being said, I do distinctly remember falling asleep once during Earth science class and once during psychology class in 11th grade, but that is not the prompt. It would be dull to end my answer to the actual prompt with I fell asleep once while watching an anime episode but I forget the anime. I will thus modify the prompt. I will think of an anime that I have watched that has the natural tendency to drain my ability to stay awake. That I can answer easily: Space Brothers. I was watching it with a friend in college (in a study room in the college library) at the same time as we were watching Kids on the Slope (another sleepy candidate) and Puella Magi Madoka Magica (which gave rise to an anecdote I published in The New Leaf Journal). Space Brothers started promising enough, but it began to lose both of us during the box arc, which featured the characters being in a box. They finally got out of the box close to episode 40, but we checked out at episode 39 of what ended up being 99 episodes. I do not think I am going to catch up for the upcoming continuation.

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/sleep-inducing-anime/

#anime #animePrompts #puellaMagiMadokaMagica #schoolStories

Delighted to get my copy of an essay on Robin Stevens’ Murder Most Unladylike series I co-wrote with @drmllz in this fabulous looking edited collection Containing Childhood by Danielle Russell #KidLit #SchoolStories #CrimeFiction #Litodon #Bookstodon @litstudies

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/201/book/101362

I'm really pleased with the #horror content coming in from Thailand lately.

These have all been very entertaining!

#GirlFromNowhere #SchoolStories #TheWholeTruth #Netflix #tv #streaming #movies #asianhorror #thaihorror