The May 6th Round-Up, Why Does The First Week-ish of May Have So Many Holidays?
May Day, May the Fourth, Cinco de Mayo, and Mother’s Day. It’s unrelated to this round-up but someone please tell me why.
Hello hello,
You might start to think that TWR is the 2021 version of early-2000’s AOL. We send you the email equivalent of CD’s with “thousands of hours of free trial internet” several times a week, telling you it’s a quality product, asking you to subscribe and to refer your friends.
Our response? Damn right. It’s a good deal. Get it while it’s hot.
Some of our favorites from around the internet this week come from a few lesser known publications. Here’s one from a little-known indie outlet called the “New Yorker,” talking to the writer for a small diamond-in-the-rough show called “The Simpsons.” The official TWR staff hot take is that both the magazine and the show have some real potential to make the big time.
Another plucky upstart local news website managed to land an interview with British author and comedian Stephen Fry. Not sure about the future of that publication but here’s hoping for the best.
As for TWR, that dial-up-connection-quality content you’re really here for, this week’s posts come courtesy of two expats of the American South. Stephanie has a bit of an identity crisis in an Australian IKEA (but, really, who hasn’t succumbed to an IKEA) and Sarah Kate finds monastic contemplation in the solitude that is AP exam proctoring.
And look out for our upcoming MTV reality show, The Wheel World: Pandemica. It’ll air right after Daria and before Beavis and Butthead.
Life Hacks for the Displaced, Volume 2: My Country, 'tis of Me
Photo by Paul Carmona on Unsplash
Four-and-a-half years ago, our family was sent (via a credit bureau my husband worked for) from Atlanta to Sydney. I believe I was prepped for this assignment by my move from Alabama to New York City a dozen years prior--arguably, even more of a foray into foreign territory. We boarded a flight one winter evening in America and landed on a steaming summer morning two days later in Australia, intending to stay three years. We haven’t left.
Test Proctoring: Seeds of Contemplation
Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash
Perhaps you recall your standardized test proctors, droning a lengthy script of instructions about the verboten mechanical pencil and emphasizing how you must fill in the Scantron bubbles neatly and completely. You can hear them clicking loudly past your desk in sensible pumps. Kicking their feet up on the table in front and grading papers, slurping coffee. Roving their hawk eyes over the rows of students while you sweated over multiple choice. Gazing serenely out the window while you raced through the essay section.