Georgetown University Debate - debate club pres alex
glad they kept HRH Prince Dickhead 💩
alex and nora watching ‘some like it hot,’ a film matthew lópez adapted into a musical
jaffa cakes!
henry drinking a martini like the james bond offspring he is
guitar in alex’s room - in the book his dad plays the guitar
the records on alex’s wall (which casey has said they picked out) and the record player in his room. one of them is hall & oates’ 'bigger than both of us’ (the record alex plays in the book to listen to 'rich girl’)
henry wearing alex’s cap!
the portrait of jane austen in henry’s room (+ david and matthew lópez’s dog’s portraits)
henry reading howard’s end, the book that inspired matthew lópez’s play 'the inheritance’
this was impossible to take a screenshot of, but a quick glance at henry wearing alex’s necklace
the newspaper headlines about the email leak
actual certificates with zahra bankston’s name on it (go props dept)
casey cameo!
part 2
alex taking the steps 2 at a time
henry listening to david bowie’s ‘up the hill backwards’ in the car
alex reading ‘one last stop’ by casey
no thoughts, just the 2 of them playing piano together (just learned that tzp plays the piano)
just adding this bit with the ring cause i cant stop thinking about it
Getting high at the aquarium? Cliche. Catch me zooted out of my gourd at the natural history museum. I turn a corner and see a stuffed grizzly bear and fall to my knees sobbing uncontrollably
Broke: Whoa look at the colors… the movement of the fish
Bespoke: [pacing in the Ancient China exhibit] the eunuchs are lying to us
Not specifically what was raised in the tags, but to clarify, after over 10k confused people, this tweet reply is why I made this post!
Bc people are all YO HE LOVED HER WELL BEFORE THIS. And this reminded me to clear that up!
I think we can safely say that he had a bit of a thing for her long before that (cf. “the arrows were flirting”), but yeah, that was absolutely the “oh shit I’m in _deep_” moment, and I love it dearly.
I sat with a crying second grader today. (The age range is outside my wheelhouse but I was the most convenient adult.) He was crying, the other adults said, because his brother took a phone he was playing on. “Phone addicted,” everybody said. “If he would get up and play games with the other kids he wouldn’t be crying.”
He told me everyone lets his brother take things from him because his brother is younger, and doesn’t know better. He told me he doesn’t want to play because he’s tired, he has too many extracurriculars this summer and can’t get good sleep because “everyone in my camper is so loud when I’m trying to sleep.” He’s exhausted and only eight. His mom’s an acquaintance and told me she and the kid’s father are going through a separation — mom and four kids left the house to stay in a camper.
But people will seriously not listen to kids crying over seemingly minor things because on the surface it looks like a tantrum. If kids are given the space to articulate themselves they often will.
I’ve found that if a child is capable of having a conversation (that is, old enough to speak and express themselves, not injured or upset so badly that they literally cannot stop crying, and not behaving violently), then 90% of the time their reason for being upset is legitimate, or at least understandable.
and with adults, too- I’ve found most often that people who are angry or upset about something that appears minor are very rarely *just* reacting to that one thing
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