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news binge

uggh. over a 24 hour period, i have STUPIDLY read... this:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/02/17/in-the-battle-of-internet-mobs-vs-the-law-the-internet-mobs-have-won/ and this:  https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/14-women-were-brutally-attacked-140600254.html and i spent way too much time reading this:  https://www.instagram.com/byefelipe/ oh! and i also read this:  http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/feb/14/love-conquers-all-child-brides-sweetheart-spouse-ashley-judd?platform=hootsuite ... and now i feel overwhelmed and overloaded. and angry. and the kind of sad that stems from not being able to be helpful in any way. and asexual. there's probably a word in german that encompasses all of that.
i'm taking an online social psychology class which involves a weekly "discussion post." i have copied and pasted old blog posts for two of the five posts so far. which i think serves as proof that my blog is therapy. also serves as proof that i'm too lazy to come up with original thoughts, but, whatever. ***update: 02-17-16*** three out of six.

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I've been taking a pottery class the last month or so. And it’s been so much fun . I’m not good, but I’m decent enough. And I have enough of a sense of humor to really enjoy the weird stuff I unintentionally create (so. many. ashtrays!). Plus my teacher is really great and chill. I was sick last Saturday so I went in on Monday night for a make-up class, which isn’t supposed to be a big deal. You slip in and find a wheel in the back corner and go about your business. People do it all the time. So I slipped in and found a wheel in the corner and I started to prep my stuff. But then the teacher stopped teaching class and started giving me a hard time for being there. He announced that he had a full class and I needed to leave. I don’t know what it was about me that rubbed him the wrong way, but there was another non-class member who came in the same time as me and set up a wheel and started throwing with no problems. I’d counted the number of people in the room and the number