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You have people who really need mental health services, former hoarders mixed in with teens like my student, and so there is a "no stuff" policy.
But, everyone needs some space that they can *control* not having any place to put anything will make your lose your mind.
I had a chance later to talk to someone who works at a big city shelter and I told them about my student and how traumatized he was by having his stuff just vanish without warning. She swore up and down it didn't work like that, but reading between what she said I detected that there are just too many people, not enough staff and not enough space.
So, the people running the shelters have "trash out days" where they just throw things out. Otherwise the place would fill up with garbage.
But for most of that year he'd stay at the building from 5am to 7pm every day.
"The school opens at 5, miss." He said.
Basically, he'd made himself a little corner of a typical teenager's bedroom in the storage cabinet. Because at the shelter your stuff might go missing.
Not because people steal either, no the people who run the shelters just throw things away without warning.
Think about what that does to you mentally, to never feel like you can even put an item down and ever find it again.
In the next year he and his dad were doing much better.
I tend to come into school early. When I was at a different school from the one I work at now I came in at 6:30 one day and found one of my students in the back of the room. He'd discovered that the big cabinets at the back of the room weren't really being used for anything and taken one over to store his stuff. He'd hung up posters inside and neatly stacked his clothes and sneakers. He was listening to music and didn't notice me walking in.
"David* when did you get here?"
*not his name
More to the point the shelters in NYC are not a place anyone wants to be and with very good reason.
There is a lot of low hanging fruit. Anyone who is homeless with a job and kids should just be admitted to this kind of program with few questions. These are people who will get on their feet again if we'd just stop making it so hard.
There are more complex and difficult cases and maybe the shelters could do a better job if some of the pressure was taken off.
The things that make homelessness an annoyance or "inconvenience" for people who aren't homeless are mostly down to people not having a place to live. When you address that those issues* go away, and they just become your neighbors.
*It' s really absurd that when one person in suffering, sick on the train because there is no where else to go everyone is concerned about the people on the train who have a place to live but that is where the politics is.
Love this model. This is just down the street from us and I often walk by. Over the past decade the South Bronx has been built up in many ways. There aren't many empty lots or abandoned buildings anymore. Everywhere there's housing and I see no reason why addressing homelessness can't be a big part of that too.
One of the greatest joys in life is touching a cat's bottom when they aren't expecting it and not looking at you ... then they make the little "brrupanh?" surprised noise.
If you have the chance to hear that noise you should go for it.
Listen, Jer. When it comes to the sea you do not mess around. You want "gear" and the best you can find because that water is trying to kill you.
It comes in XS but I will still need to get the pants shortened a bit for a perfect fit.
I have most of what I need, except for a full "north sea" jumper and pants. But I think I know where I can get one if we go in cold water.
If you have been looking at those "foldology" #origami puzzles and thinking "are those fun? should I get those?"
YES.
These are amazing. I got them for Christmas and I'm doing one per day and can't stand waiting to do the next one. I want to blow through the whole pack right now.
I thought that doing the puzzles might help me to better articulate how origami works with my students. It probably won't. It's the kind of puzzle where you can't explain how you solved it.
But they are fun.
I guess before I get on the boat and leave I could help with the community garden and teach mathematics to those with the patience to learn it.
I will get on a boat and sail away forever.
Normally this would just be a thing that a person says, but I'm a good sailor, know my boats, have been on long journeys before and plan on doing this anyway at some point.
The only downside is how I wanted to use all of the nice weather data to avoid the storms but there are other ways. I would need to be more cautious in my crossings and read the almanacs, learn the signs of a bad sea.
And if I drown I drown. Goodbye.
@spacelizard
Polyrhachis ammon would be my guess then.
However this is a tricky one!
?Que es un hexagerardo?
Are ghost ants invasive where you live? Small ants like that are very dependent on a consistent source of fresh clean water. Is it possible to dry things out so they won't come back when the baits are gone or dried up?
FYI Hagiomyrma are a "species group" which I have come to understand means that even myrmecologists will get them mixed up. (It really means there is variation over a large region, and some questions about hybrids maybe existing. So they put everyone in a subgenus. )