The Fifth Avenue Story Society by Rachel Hauck

Recently released, this book is very good. I just finished this book last night before I went to bed.

Summary

-Five complete strangers- Coral Winthrop, John Wilder, Lexa Wilder, Ed Marshall and Charles "Chuck" Mays- all receive an invitation to the mysterious Fifth Avenue Story Society, which meets every Monday night in the Bower conference room. No one knows who sent out the invitations, but curiosity brings them together. They keep returning every Monday night and as time goes on, the five people start to develop feelings and trust in each other. They all are as different as can be imagined. They all come from different backgrounds, walks of life, each with their own problems. But, together in this society, they feel they can unwind and release their emotions and speak their minds freely.

-There's Coral Winthrop, the CEO of CCW Cosmetics, who's wondering why her company is failing and realizes there is someone embezzling money. Charles "Chuck" Mays is a divorcee with two kids trying to get custody of them. John Wilder is an assistant professor of English at NYU still reeling from the death of his brother and the revelation that one of his literary idols, Gordon Phipps Roth, is a fraud, that he claimed credit for stories written by a woman named Birdie Ainsworth. Lexa Wilder is an assistant at an up-and-coming fast food joint whose CEO, Zane Breas, is determined to keep her underemployed and his assistant forever. Finally, there's Ed Marshall, a 78 year old widower who works as the superintendent for the co-op he lives in. He's trying to write the greatest love story ever told- the story of his wife Esmerelda, aka Esmie and him, while trying to accept the fact that, in the end, Esmie had changed and thus, fallen out of love with him

TJ Powar Has Something to Prove by Jesmeen Kaur Deo

This book, along with Sari, Not Sari, came out at the local library during Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. It took a little longer to get this book because there were so many holds on it to read it.

Summary

-Tejinder Powar, aka "TJ" is on her Vancouver, British Columbia's high school debate team. So is her cousin Simran Sahiba. One day, a horribly mean meme showing a hair Simran, with heavy body hair and unibrow, makes it way around, causing nothing but pain for Simran. TJ is also part of the meme, but listed as the pretty counterpart to her cousin. One night, after a romantic encounter with her boyfriend goes horribly wrong, TJ decides to try something. She is going to forego her waxing and shaving and see if people still care about her, even though she has the same heavy body hair issue as her cousin. And despite the fact that her classmates are unused to seeing her like that, a fellow debate team member can't seem to stay away from her. He's almost attracted to her naturally beautiful, but hairy body.

Teachers Reveal Things They Hate About Teaching

It's not all sunshine, rainbows and gum drops in the world of education. It's hard work and dealing with various types of personalities. Teachers reveal things they secretly hate about teaching.

1. Two types of students

-I dislike two types of students.

1.) Those who are mean to other students

2.) Those who refuse to take accountability for their actions

-Those qualities often overlap, but not always

2. Loves teaching, but there is a "but" to this

-Fifth year teaching. I love teaching but I'm tired of the workload, being treated so poorly and having to buy everything. I would [slay] for an alternative career

3. On the subject of bad students...

-I want to help students improve. I know every student has different issues. What frustrates me is when there is no effort. Worse is interrupting the learning of other students. Worse still, is open hostility and disrespect

4. Anything extra

-Yup! It's the "extra" stuff that [eliminates] you. Our district, and actually every school district in my area, is revamping the professional learning community. But it's killing everyone. The interesting part is a goal for our district was to help with teacher burnout, apparently not!

5. Beyond teaching

-What I hate? Monitoring for vapes and illicit [substances], paying attention to warning signs of depression or self-harm, poor nutrition, bullying, homelessness, [taking advantage of others], inappropriate sexual activity and playing bathroom monitor all while making entertaining lessons, exceeding last year's standardized test scores and not exceeding your scheduled hours.

6. After hours OT

-I love working in a school and building relationships with kids, but a lot of parts of teaching were causing me undue amounts of stress. In particular, the insane out-of-school time commitment (grading, planning, fielding parent calls) and the public speaking aspect/classroom management dynamic was causing a HUGE flare-up in my anxiety levels

7. Meetings, gradings, repeat

-I like being a teacher, but I can't stand everything else that comes with it. Grading, meetings, keeping contact with a myriad of families, hours of sifting through sources for the one that works...it's almost too much. Even just navigating social interactions with other teachers feels like a minefield

8. Giving it up

-This is why I left the classroom; Most of my issues were with authority and the feeling that I was "spinning" and not making any progress (professionally and with the kids). I was angry, anxious and felt like what I was doing for most of my day was relatively pointless. The worst part was that I did love teaching, but couldn't deal with the system

9. A rising problem in education today?

-I actually quit my teaching job because I hated [other] teachers and administrators, not the students. I believe in teaching the students and being a role model, not a dictator, which was apparently unpopular, so I had enough and I bounced. That is absolutely the problem with education.

10. Even teachers gossip

-I hated gossip. I must say it's weird how everyone involved is with everyone else. I'm a student teacher and when I went it was for pre-planning I was baffled at how little we all got done because everyone would rather gossip instead

11. Veterans of teaching

-Interacting with other teachers can be a minefield. A lot of the veteran teachers seem to be standoffish with getting to know newbies. EW!

12. Wrong choice of career?

-I love the relationships with everyone, contacting families, even meetings. But actually, teaching makes me want to throw up from anxiety (also, I quit last week)

13. Honesty is the best policy

-I hate all of my students, equally

14 Weird Stories from Librarians

Librarians have probably seen it all. They deal in books, CDs and media of all sorts and while checking these items back into the system to be used by others, they've probably seen it all. And who's to say librarians can't be shocked by things that happen in that hush hush world?

1. Cat in a box

-I work at a public library in an urban area. One day a man brought in a tomato box that contained a dying cat. He put it on our circulation counter and asked us if we could watch his cat for a few minutes while he went outside. So that was a thing.

2. Color Me Confused

-My current job, in an academic library:

Patron: "I chose color on the copier. Why didn't it print it in color?"

Me: "Your original is black and white."

Patron: "So?"

Me: "It can't print what's not there."

Patron: "But I chose color."

Me: "So how does the printer know which colors to use if you just put a black and white picture in there. It can't fill it in like a kid with a crayon."

Patron: "Oh."

Still looking slightly bewildered, she walked away - I don't know if she ever truly got it.

3. Weird with a capital W

-Another time, two kids came into the library one with a harmonica and the other with one of those aboriginal instruments and they played it for a solid 40 seconds in the center of the library and then left. this was at about 9 pm at night, midterm week, so it was very busy, soooo weird.

4. Can I get yo number?

-I worked for a library in a rural community when I was 16-17. On one occasion when I was closing for the evening, a man (~25) hid between the shelves while we were locking all of the main doors. He revealed himself right before I left. He must have wanted my full attention when he asked me "Can I have your number?" I was very taken back and complied (which I do not think I would have done if I hadn't been surprised). Nothing bad came out of my experience, but be careful to sweep for people before locking yourselves in, guys!

5. Regular Joe or Tommy

-In my library, I have Tommy. Who comes in every day with a stack of copies of a newspaper article about a boxer (supposedly him) who won a fight against Muhammad Ali, will corner anyone he can to tell them about it.

6. Gang of weirdoes

-People are very interesting in libraries. Oh, these chaps...

Bag Man - a guy with an external borrower membership who regularly turns up with his blazer pockets filled with plastic carrier bags leaving a trail of stink in his wake.

The Alcoholic - the weekend team has to deal with this guy more often - he turns up stinking of vodka and just rumbles around talking/shouting at himself.

"Vicky Pollard" - this young lady is a curious one; never wants to leave, gets argumentative, drags her heels, and has often been seen wearing very weird attire (pajamas, slippers, leggings/tights with holes in [in the butt area]) and generally has a pretty far-away look plastered across her face at all times.

7. Heavyweight Champ

-Oh man, the urban libraries!

Yesterday I had to tell a former middleweight boxing champion that he couldn't come into the library drunk asking for cash.

A few hours later a patron informed us that our steel grating had been removed. It's like 200 plus lbs. Definitely swiped for scrap metal cash.

Just a TYPICAL DAY!

8. Anger management anyone?

-I work the evening/night shifts at a university library and we have many regulars and two stick out in my mind at the moment. Firstly, Baking Tray Fort Man. When clearing the building one evening (at about 23:50 or so - we shut at midnight) I wandered up some steps to a mezzanine level to tell a chap I'd spotted that we were closing up. It was only halfway through my sentence that I noticed he'd built a little fort of baking trays around the study carrel he was in, then as he turned to acknowledge me I saw he was also hugging one across his midriff. My colleagues didn't quite believe me until someone else spotted him doing the exact same thing a week later.

The second guy is much more irritating. He's obstreperous and combative all the time; started an argument with me because I refused to let him plug a two-pin international plug into our UK 3-pin sockets. Early in January, we were tasked with closing at 9 pm because of the "extreme weather" (some snow) and this was publicized all over the uni website, Twitter, Facebook as well as physical posters and announcement boards in the library lobby informing everyone of this. Simple, right? But, nay, an angry man came and tried to chew me out when the closing bell rang at 20:45. He wanted us to just lock him in and leave him until midnight as it was his "human right" to stay until midnight. Security had to remove him and he later threatened a manager that he'd call his embassy because we'd closed three hours early. Needless to say, he's not banned and still regularly skulks around as I secretly glare at him when he's not looking

9. You Got Any Hard Drives?

-There was this one time a woman who was down on her luck (was struggling with job searches, a divorce, hospitalizations, etc.) came in and asked me if we had a spare hard drive she could have, since her computer had passed the night before. You know, just one lying around that we weren't using.

10. The Mysterious Rapper

-There are A LOT OF crazies where I work as well, one of our homeless people in town writes raps. When I was a shelver, I would watch this guy and observe his behaviors. He would place his unfinished raps in our teen area in a graphic novel. I observed also that all the guy reads are M.C. Beaton mystery novels... lol he’s just one special character. 

11. How does that song go?

-I shelve books in the children’s section at a public library, so nothing too wild happens. But there is this one older guy who comes in a few times a week asking the librarians if they can help him figure out the title of a song. Sometimes he isn't even sure what the lyrics are but has a general idea. The librarians are super nice and try to help him every time.

12. A movie just waiting to be made...

-I've worked at a few branches of a well-known library, and every branch has the strange.

Blanket Lady - sadder than anything else. She covers herself with large fluffy blankets I think because she sleeps on the street.

Hoarder Lady - buys lots of discard magazines/books. A coworker carried some of her purchases to her car for her one time and said the car was filled with books/magazines. Every spare inch.

Ninja Dude - a guy in his mid-twenties? who dresses like a ninja in a white outfit. I remember he seemed to love Naruto and never washed the suit.

Buns of Steel - the older dude who used to bike from his house to the library every week to either renew or check-in/out our copy of the Jane Fonda workout VHS. Eventually, it got so warped I don't think he could watch it anymore.

Super Dog - didn't come much but it was always awesome to see this guy roll up with a dog riding in a cage on the back of his bike. He had him set up on this pole so the cage was much higher than the seat.

13. Kids and pickles

-Well… yesterday I had a pickle thrown at me by a kid after signing him up for a card, just because I wouldn't let him check out video games due to his card type.

14. Student aid

-This library is in this slim 8+ floor building near LA. Every time there was a decent-sized earthquake, they'd have to hire a lot of students to help pick up all the books that were thrown to the floor because the building vibrated like a tuning fork.

The Joys of Working at Michael's

For those not familiar with this store name, Michael's is an arts and crafts store where you can ALMOST anything artsy craftsy. For the people who work there, they always have major issues with some of those who shop there. Here are 15 examples of the crap they deal with on a daily basis

BTW, the comments on these photos were most likely written by Michaels employees all over the place, wherever there are Michaels stores

When kids find the glitter and glue

"Unicorn spit and acrylic paint poured out." It gets worse. "Just found a bunch of slime and glitter dumped a few aisles down."

Thieves are getting smarter and more creative...

Store manager: "Slap one of those bad boys on there and that'll do it."

Thief: "Well...at least it's a creative way of getting the lock off, I guess. People like this are why the friggin' Cricut stuff is locked in a cabinet at my store!"

Not the right coupon...

Guys...just Google "Michaels coupon" and current date and follow the links to the Michaels site. There's a whole page dedicated to coupons! Pro tip from a Michaels shopper

When toys go wild...

"The battle hath commenced...and I just want to add we had been checking this aisle [maybe] 10 minutes before. It had been a group effort. I'm torn between thinking this is so cute and feeling sorry for whoever has to put it away"

Why customers test spray paint on the floor is anyone's guess

Despite the image having a censor on it, you can imagine what this Michaels employee is saying. I agree; To be honest, the employee is right; That would so SO annoying to clean up

When the holidays invade your local Michaels....

Sure, it's a nice treat for both employees and customers to hear when browsing through the aisles. But imagine working there for eight hours a day and hearing the same set of holiday songs all day, for two months. Hard pass

When customers mistake ANYTHING for a garbage can

"Today is the day I commit arson", said a Michaels employee. This employee can not be blamed; If you drop your ice cream everywhere, don't do a ditch and run. Who raised these morons? Someone has to clean this up at the end of the day

When customers decide this is okay

"I remember literally 30 minutes after I finished setting it, ONE customer managed to [expletive] it all up. I was raging." one Michaels employee noted. Is it really that impossible to return things to where you found them? Willing to bet that person doesn't do this at home...

When the closing crew gets creative...

"What I found in my store at 5 o'clock this morning, closing crew is wild or lazy asf." Lazy seems to fit. There's so many unexpected things to spell with the bubble letters. I'd go for TAXES just to terrify people

When the customers themselves get creative...

"I love the people who shop here." I'm trying to keep this mildly safe for work, so let's talk about our favorite nut. Mine is the classic peanut, which I'm SURE this display is referencing.

-If my sister saw this, she'd bust out laughing. And of course, like most people, her mind would go dirty

When the store stocks slime...

...be prepared for a massive cleanup!

"Truly some of the most cursed clearance items. I thought one of the bags had ripped, but no, when I inspected the empty one, it was perfect. Cap was left off, meaning someone made the choice to pour it all out"

When labelling goes wrong

Ah yes, the famed shades of "red". I love typos like this. They make no sense whatsoever, but they're entertaining. If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go search what Ultramarine Pink looks like

When graduation season hits...

"Can't wait til the graduation cap decoration season ends. Recovery and go backs are madness." I certainly wouldn't classify graduation season as a nightmare season for employees, but after seeing this photo, I now understand

Spray paint finally snaps!!

"Throwback to when a can of green spray was dropped and exploded on a female customer". The thing that is hilarious are the feet-shaped spaces where her feet were.

FYI, you need a Michaels store employee to unlock this cabinet for you; I know. I had to ask one about two weeks ago at the Western Hills location to unlock it to get a can of dark purple spray paint for a milk crate in my room I use to store photo albums

Monkey in the store no one knows about?

"Found this on a sweep. No sign of the missing part.

Day 22-What Will You Do Differently If You Become a Parent

I'm going to be honest about this!
https://never3nding.tumblr.com/post/2660644142/tumblr-30-day-challenge

What I would do differently if I was a parent would be to encourage my childto follow their dreams. I would teach them that dreams have no limits. That dreams are not for suckers. That if you do work hard enough and put enough dedication into it, it can happen.

I would be supportive of whatever decision my child made. I would make my child feel comfortable enough to come to me or the other parent about anything. Such as if the child identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. I would want that child to come to me or the father and feel comfortable opening up about it and know that regardless of what happens, they will be loved and adored.

I would not tell my child that they would need to work hard to achieve their dreams, that the road to success will be a hard one, but if they are willing to push past the moments where they question themselves about doing this, they can go all the way! I would support my child no matter what they said they wanted to do. If they said they wanted to pursue music as a career, I would tell them it's going to be a hard road, getting all that practice in. But if they are willing to push past that, do the practice and keep at it, they will get to where they need

Case in point, I would positively encourage my child to have limitless dreams. Anything they want to do can be achieved with hard work and dedication. And no giving up!

Day 14-Something You Wish Didn't Exist

This will be simple
https://never3nding.tumblr.com/post/2660644142/tumblr-30-day-challenge

Racism
-I HATE RACISM!! I grew up learning to be tolerant of everyone who was different. I was taught, along with my sister, to treat others as we would want to be treated. We just can't find it in ourselves to treat someone bad simply because they are of another skin color/race/ethnicity/culture. We both have friends and coworkers who come from different cultures and we both love it. Why do people have to hate someone simply because of skin color/race/religion/language/ethnicity or more? I would love to see the day when we all stop hating one another simply for being different

Greed
-Last time I checked, I'm not overly, beat the Bible-level religious, but isn't greed one of the Seven Deadly Sins? I hate being greedy. That's why I'm not. Me and my sister learned to be good with our money. Don't live beyond your means. If you can't afford it, you don't need it. Sure you can want it all you want, but that's not going to make the money appear in your pocket. Budget. Spend money on the important stuff first-bills. Then you can spoil yourself if you want to. Our mom and stepdad are very thankful we are good with our money. We always and I mean ALWAYS help our parents with money whenever they need. They need a little help paying for a new AC system or furnace? We're there to help. They have good paying jobs, but sometimes things come up that require finances beyond their means. They are thankful we are not greedy and live like we're millionaires [snickering, you're kidding right?] We'll never see a million bucks in a thousand lifetimes unless we play the lottery. And even in those situations, the people who win always live like it's their last day and they go broke in no time. I do not like people being greedy. Besides, me and my sister have plans for our money. Occasionally, me and my sister will take mini vacations. For example, every year, me and her go down to Lexington, Kentucky for Scarefest, a Halloween/horror-themed convention. And when we are not going there, we are going to Columbus, OH for a concert or going to other cities nearby to see the sights.

-It gets worse at Christmas time, when commercials showing people buying expensive cars like Lexus, Jaguars, etc, expensive technology like Apple iPhones, iPads, drones, $80+ animatronic Hatchimal toys, etc for adults and kids. That kind of stuff annoys me about Christmas. When it comes to Christmas, me and my sister usually ask for small stuff. Like for example, this year all I really want is a toy net for my overload of Beanie Babies. I love Beanie Babies and stuffed animals (yeah, it might sound like I'm a kid, but I love plush animals. Don't judge, rofl). All my sister wants for Christmas is electronic drumsticks that when you move them, it sounds like you're playing the drums. In her case, it would be like she is Tre Cool, the drummer from her all-time favorite band Green Day

How the media damages women

I agree with this all the way!! Because of how the media portrays women having to be thin and have perfect bodies, this is why I don't read those gossip rags like People, Star, OK, etc. Seeing pictures of those famous actresses makes me feel insignificant, like no matter how much makeup I wear or weight I lose, I'll never be beautiful.

As a sort of experiment, 24 year old blogger Sarah Coffman wanted to motivate women and redefine how the media portrays women. Along with a few friends of hers and help from photographer Terence Smalls, each woman was given a Sharpie pen and told to draw on themselves, like a plastic surgeon would, highlighting what they would like to change about themselves.

1. "As women we try to fit inside of 'young enough,' 'thin enough,' 'pretty enough,' 'nice enough,' 'tough enough,' 'able enough,' without ever becoming 'too much,'" claims Coffman.

2. "If you want to be socially acceptable you need to keep yourself inside the lines"

3. "If you look at the cover of any woman’s magazine there’s three main themes: what can you do for men, learn to love yourself, and how to lose 30 pounds in some ridiculously unhealthy amount of time"

4. "How can anyone be okay with these articles? Why do we have to care SO much about what HE thinks?"

5. "Every woman out there has those lines of insecurity, and they continue to grow because we allow them to"

6. "In a few of the photos you can see that the women are actually pointing out each other's 'shortcomings.' That may be a bigger problem than the media"

7. "Part of the reason that media has such a huge impact is because we let it"

8. "Often times you’ll hear women call each other fat or sticks or slutty"

9. "..which not only gives men the permission to treat us the same way we treat each other but it gives permission to the media to treat us that way too"

10. "We are so much more than the bodies we live in..."

11. "That's what true beauty is. Not afraid to be and show yourself for who you really are"

12. "Internalized misogyny is such a huge problem"

13. "There's a trend, it's been a trend for decades, to cram women into a certain ideal that for most people is simply unattainable. That's not fair to young girls"

14. "We live in a society where women are constantly being stripped down and evaluated, without physically being stripped down," Smalls said on his website"

15. Smalls adds: "What does it look like when we actually strip women down and evaluate their physical "shortcomings?"  How insane does it look? How uncomfortable does it make us feel?"

16. Be your true beautiful self

17. Beauty is everywhere

This is one of those WTF stories!

Have you ever read news stories that made you think "WTF?" Here's one.

A woman named Ashley had lost her leg over the summer and had become an amputee. She was adjusting to her new life as any new amputee usually does. She had a specially designated spot at her apartment complex which was handicap friendly. After having her spot for only 2 days, a woman, who does not have a visible handicap sticker and is not handicapped, parked in her spot. She left a note saying that she found it disrespectful and that if she did it again, her car would be towed. She found another note in return, this one from the woman who parks there. It goes as follows:

"Hey Handicap,

1st never place your hands on my car again! 2nd, honey you ain't the only one with struggles. you want pity? Go to a one leg support group! You messed with the wrong one! I don't care about what your note said, shove it! But you touch my car again I will file a report, I am not playing! I let the office know the cry baby one leg touches my property. I will cause trouble . So go cry your struggles to someone who cares cause I'm walking away with both mine!!!!! -B****-"

To think that someone actually did this. The person who parked there is probably some fat chick too fat to park far away. She's probably so fat her immense weight can't carry her to the door. To think that people have to be ignorant like that. Well, hopefully karma will reward the mean a** lady who parked in the handicap spot and reward the handicapped woman with her parking spot. Sorry, things like this just royally annoy me!!!!!!

This Movie Describes Why I Hated High School

She's All That

Summary
-Freddie Prinze Jr. stars as Zack Siler, a popular high school jock who makes a bet with his friends that he can transform the school's nerdiest girl into the next prom queen to beat his self-centered girlfriend Taylor. But problems come up when he begins falling for the newly transformed girl

Cast
-Freddie Prinze Jr: Zack Siler
-Rachel Leigh Cook: Laney Boggs
-Matthew Lillard: Brock Hudson
-Paul Walker: Dean Sampson
-Jodi Lyn O'Keefe: Taylor Vaughan
-Kevan Pollak: Wayne Boggs
-Anna Paquin: Mackenzie Siler
-Kieran Culkin: Simon Boggs
-Elden Henson: Jesse Jackson
-Usher Raymond: Campus D.J.
-Kimberly 'Lil' Kim' Jones: Alex
-Gabrielle Union: Katie
-Dule Hill: Preston
-Tamara Mello: Chandler
-Clea DuVall: Misty

Did You Know?
-Filmed at the same high school as Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
-Rachel Leigh Cook's name in the movie, Laney Boggs, is a combination of the names of two movie characters played by Winona Ryder. Kim Boggs in Edward Scissorhands and Lelaina "Laney" Pierce in Reality Bites

Suits

Suits

Story
-Mike Ross is a young kid on the run from a drug deal gone bad. He is a brilliant, but young college drop-out who manages to slip into a job interview for one of New York's most prestigious and respected law closers, Harvey Specter.

-Harvey practically plays Russian Roulette on hiring Mike for his raw talent and photgraphic memory. Mike also begins to form allies in the law office. Rachel is the firm's paralegal, and Donna is Harvey's assistant, who has a no-nonsense attitude. The fact that Mike never went to law school must be kept secret from everyone, including managing partner Jessica Pearson and Harvey's enemy Louis Litt, who intends to make Mike's life a living hell.

Cast
-Gabriel Macht: Harvey Specter

-Patrick J. Adams: Mike Ross

-Rick Hoffman: Louis Litt

-Meghan Markle: Rachel Zane

-Sarah Rafferty: Donna Paulsen

-Gina Torres: Jessica Pearson

-David Constabile: Daniel Hardman
-Ben Lewis: Seth Keller
-Jacinda Barrett: Zoe Lawford

Ever Have Moments When You Just Want to Scream?

I'm having one right now!!

My school is pissing me off to no end! They told me that I ow $1730 or else my fall classes will be dropped like the A-bomb!! I'm getting pissed off at this school!!!!

And not to mention, my mom is getting on my back about this. I love her dearly, but sometimes she can just really piss me off to no end! She's f---ing telling me stuff I already f---ing know! Sorry I seem so cross, I'm just tired of everything! And plus, since my checking account was opened BY HER, she can keep track of every time I spend money, and this morning she checked it to see that I had to pay $1730 for school. Now she's off! The only GOOD thing going for me right now is I might have a job.

Cliques

Social Stigma

Remember high school? The many "cliques" Like jocks, popular kids, rich kids, bullies, etc? Well, this post was inspired by a recent post I did on the movie Revenge of the Nerds, one of my favorite movies might I add.
This word is basically also to do with the term social stigma, meaning that is it the severe disapproval of, or discontent with a person on the grounds of features that make them different from someone else.
There are 3 forms of it, recognized by Erving Goffman. The fact of mental illness, a physical form of deformity or association with a certain race, belief, religion, etc.

Social stigma can come up from attribute or perception of, right or wrong, mental illness, physical incapabilities, diseases such as leprosy, illegitimacy, sexual orientation, gender, skin tone, nationality, ethnicity, religion, or criminality.

Comes in 3 forms:

1. External deformations, such as scars, physical symptoms of anorexia nervosa, or physical disability such as obesity. (I.e. muscular dystrophy, clubfoot, cleft lip or palate.)
2. Personal traits, such as mental illness, drug addiction, alcoholism, criminal background. (I.e. homosexuality, imprisonment, suicidal attempts, mental disorders)
3. Tribal stigmas, such as ethnic group, nationality, religion. (I.e being African American or of Arab descent living in the US after 9/11)

-This can also be noted as labeling. There are 3 factors to this: The first being the need to create groups, such as heterosexual and homosexual, black and white, sane and mentally ill, young and old.

-The 2nd factor is this can be linked to stereotypes. 3rd, linking negative attributes to groups makes us go into thinking about "us" and "them."
-4th factor is discrimination. Many disadvantages here, and people in groups can basically be labeled, by factors such as income, education, housing status, medical treatment, health, mental health

High School
In high school, cliques are everywhere! Every high school probably has the same ones:
-The Jocks, who think they rule the school, even though most of them are dumber than a post and couldn't pass a class to save their lives.

-The Cheerleaders. Girlfriends of the football players, some of whom might be the sluttiest girls you ever meet, that's not to say all cheerleaders are like that, in my school, only a small handful of the cheerleaders were like this, the rest were nice. Unlike some people, I do not consider cheerleading a sport. All it is id jumping on top of each other, no dancing or anything like that involved.

-The "Band Geeks". This refers to the nice group of people who play instruments and know all about music. Most of them tend to stick with other music band people. I actually made friends with these people easier than anyone.

-The nerds, or smart people. I was in this one, lmao. I was a smarty pants and had to help people in classes, especially Spanish. I translated for everyone so they could ace the class. Nerds in my high school did not dress like that, but they dressed in just regular clothes. They were called nerds because they were smart and did not talk.

-Tomboys. We had a few running around. Girls who dressed and acted like the boys, played rough and tumbled with the boys. Or just girls who went casual with their clothes, aka ME!

-'Gangsta' wannabes. Almost every guy here! They all wanted to be "black" like the hip hop stars they idolized when in real life they were whiter than Texas and didn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of being black. Hell, half of the black people I know don't say things  like "Yo, what up, dog? How's my homie?"

-Preps. Millions of them, they were everywhere! Like a really bad infestation of them! These are the people who wear name brands all over themselves, showing off they can afford brand names like Abercrombie and Fitch, Aeropostale, American Eagle, etc.

Some of the preppy girls dressed like this

-What I call the "Rock Band" people. Ones who wore skin tight jeans, hair all messy and long or Mohawks, rock band shirts and Vans or Converses. They are the ones who want to be rock stars and they are not shy about showing it through their clothes. They also may have a tattoo or two and have brightly colored hair!

They would look like this, even the girls, sans the ripped clothing or leather clothing
BTW, this is Motley Crue in case anyone is curious

-And also, a sub one my school had. The "Retro" people who wore bell bottoms, retro rock band shirts or retro shirts in general, gym shoes, stuff with peace signs on it, stuff with retro rock bands on it and who would know about all things before the 1990s, such as music, movies, TV, etc. I'm part of this one too, lmao!!!

Senior Wills

When I was still in high school, in my senior year, we had to write 'senior wills', it was all for fun, we got to leave whatever we wanted to anybody, even things we didn't own, or memories and stuff.  And my senior class was pretty big, sorry. Well here's what my senior will looked like:

To:

• Amanda Ackerson, who later went on to get married and is now known as Amanda Ackerson-Wyllie: I leave my Aerosmith Big Ones and Devil's Got a New Disguise albums, my Prince Greatest Hits CD, my 2 Aerosmith tour shirts, and the gift of love from a friend, since u were one of the few who actually treated mne like I existed, that treated me like I wasn't invisible
• Bruno Bagialtsalief: I leave a ticket for you and 6 of ur buddies to see your fave musician in concert, a slightly used soccer ball, my CD's of Shakira and Enrique Iglesias, and Ritchie Valens, a gift of friendship
• Bobby Berns: a basketball I found in my yard my stupid neighbors forgot to come back and claim, tickets for you and 4 of your friends to go see the Bengals, tickets for u and 4 of ur friends 2 go see your fave musician in concert, an XBox 360 so you can game on all day and night, whatever suits you, a $100 Visa gift card u can use anywhere
• Beth Boshears: a CD of Justin Bieber, and Lil Wayne, since I know they're your favorite, a poster of both Lil Wayne and Justin Bieber, a Blu-Ray copy of the Hangover and the Hangover pt. II, a $100 Visa gift card to use anywhere so u can pretty yourself up, a ticket to see both Justin Bieber in concert and a backstage pass to meet him in person and a backstage pass to meet Lil Wayne in person and a concert ticket for him
• Josh Brett: complete set of Harry Potter books 1-7, complete set of Harry Potter movies on Blu-Ray or DVD, which ever one u own, an XBox 360, PS3, or Wii system, whichever one u don't own or want, the chance to get a photo with the people from Harry Potter, tickets to see a basketball game for your fave team, all the arguments in class and on Facebook concerning the reality of Harry Potter, the laughs I gave u 4 saying Daniel Radcliffe was a sexy English hottie, a CD of your fave musician, a $100 iTunes gift card cuz I don't know if you own an iPod or not
• Roger Babb: a gift card to Dick's Sporting Goods for that sports lover in you, season pass for all the Bengals games
• Kristen Bock: My Rolling Stones 1981 North American tour shirt with the British flag on it, my blood red Rolling Stones Tattoo You shirt, my black Rolling Stones log shirt, my Rolling Stones Hot Rocks, Jump Back, Forty Licks, Bridges to Babylon albums, a copy of the movie Factory Girl, a book on Andy Warhol, my slightly used art supplies, my CD of Eric Burdon and the Animals, my CD of the Mamas and the Papas cuz I know you love to think of yourself as a hippie, a $200 Visa gift card to use on art stuff, a love of all things 1960s, the laughs we shared in class about our love of the Rolling Stones, and the laughs I gave you saying I thought Mick Jagger was one sexy hot hunk of man
• Adam Bowling: a season pass to all the Bengals games
• Derek Bryan: my Reba McEntire CDs cuz I know you love country music, my Tim McGraw CDs, my 80's comp CD, a football from my backyard my annoyingly stupid next door neighbors forgot to come back and claim, my Gameboy Advance(although I don't know about the what I call Breast Cancer Ribbon pink color of it), all my Gameboy Advance games, a slightly used basketball hoop, a copy of the movie Unleashed, plenty of action in it for you!
• Aubrey Buckler: a poster of the movies the Hangover and the Hangover pt. II( I don't own these, but I can buy it for you, just 4 kindness)
• Clayton Daley: my Beatles 1 CD you claim I "stole", the conversations in class discussing the true owndership of the CD,  our love of The Beatles, a love of all things 1960s and retro, all my Peace sign stuff, my Pandora bracelet with the LOVE charm on it and the British flag charm on it.
• Josh Dowling: a season pass to either the Bengals games or the Cincy Reds games
• Daniel Fessler:  a love of all things Christian and Faithful
• Samantha Butler: baby stuff for you and your son Mason, my phone # in case you need it, the knowledge that I'm here for you when you need someone to babysit your lil bundle of joy Mason.
• Samantha Corman: baby stuff for you and your newborn son, an iPod Nano unless u already own one, a love of music, a $500 Visa gift card 2 b used on anything you need
• Teanna Davis: my CD of Seal's Greatest Hits, Aaliyah's I Care 4 U album, the laughs you have had to make me laugh, your kindness and sincerity
• Christina Duffy: a love of all things Christian, my Precious Moments Edition of the Bible for the little ones you may have one day,  and my respect for family
• Cheyenne Fornash: don't know you that well, sooooo sorry
• Kallista Foster: my Foreigner No End in Sight CD, my Lamborghini Reventon wind up model, my Lamborghini Reventon poster I haven't bothered to hang up
• Christopher Gentry-Lovins: my X-Men 3 poster because of your favorite actor Sir Ian McKellen, the conversations between me, you and Clayton in Mr. Ryker's Earth Science class, all the X-Men movies I have
• Melissa Guidugli: my kindness towards you
• Caitlyn Haynes: baby stuff for your little one coming. I do not yet know the sex of the baby, so here's a $100 Babies R Us gift card to spoil your lil one rotten! my phone number in case you need a babysitter right off hand anad you don't feel like searching in the phone book for one
• Ashley Francis: my copy of the movie Bulletproof Monk, War, Kiss of the Dragon, Mulan
• Mike Griggs: don't know ya, so sorry
• Corey Hardy: you don't get a @#$% thing! You never showed me any kindness, you called me ugly all the time even though you needed to look in the mirror and see the true ugliness of your personality!
• Adam Hegge: a new swimsuit to flaunt your new figure, the phone number for my neighbor up the street from me who can fix cars and stuff if you need it, the laughs and conversations on Facebook
• Matt Heuser: don't know ya!
• Bobby Hollon: not a @#$% thing! You suck Bobby!
• Matt Kosko: my Scarface poster, my handdrawn picture of Rocky Balboa and Tony Montana I got from InLight Studio in Eastgate, my love of all things Italian
• Robyn Meyer: our shared love of Australian actor Hugh Jackman, the conversations we had on how hot we thought he was and still is
• Jessica Hurtt: don't know you that well
• Austin Kessen: a season pass to a basketball game for your favorite team along with 4 of your buddies
• Kevin McHale: don't know you that well
• Taylor Menning: I don't know you that well
• Thomas Rees: a new swimsuit to flaunt your very and I mean VERY handsome new figure, a big congrats on your recent weight loss, my friendship
• Austin Richter: don't know you that well
• Anna Simmons: don't know you that well
• Tony Stadtmiller: my crush on you since 7th grade(which Jeff Thomas didn't keep to his self and he blurted to you and Chris Weber and all the little jokes about it, like from Chris Weber"Here's your lover, Tony")
• Samantha Terry: the laughs we shared in high school
• Asha Saunders: a  bunch of CD's of contemporary jazz, R&B, jazz, Gospel cuz I know you love tha stuff
• Alyse Slater: the conversations on Facebook, a love of The Beatles
• Ashley Taylor: don't know you that well
• Jeff Thomas: a big, fat, congratulatory, priceless, Go to Hell! Especially for that u thought it was funny comment about my stepdad's Italian heritage!
• Mary Jo Vaught: baby stuff for you and your baby, don't know if it's a girl or boy
• Maria Vique: Spanish lessons so you can speak Spanish to Mrs. Garcia de Burke
• Chris Weber: a season pass to all Duke University sports games
• Jessica Wimmers: please teach me how to do ballet and tap, I fogot how, love of music
• Cindy Votel: my kindness, our conversations on Facebook, my copy of the movie Freejack( so you can remember the laughs I gave you on Facebook reading my comments involving my saying Mick Jagger was one hot, sexy, hunk of sexy English gentleman
• Kasey Willis: safety for you because I know you're in the Armed Forces, baby stuff for the arrival of your upcoming little one