What is your relationship to your mom? The way you describe it, it sounds like she is putting you down which is sad and not ok. Shouldn't she help you learn if she feels you don't know? What is the point of giving you one day to prove yourself? But maybe there is context I am missing.

As others have said, you develop your ability to cook through repeated use, trial and error, and ideally knowledge passed down from your family. If you want to become someone who can cook, it won't happen after one try or ten. Just keep trying out recipes that sound good to you, and treat each one as a learning experience. Overtime you will build up recipes that you have memorized and can riff on confidently.

You must like to cook, since you want to prove you can. Whatever you make, take your time, trust your gut, and do it to feed yourself something you like. Cooking is a personal thing, just because not everyone likes what you make doesn't mean you can't do it.

Just watched the series (again... I think like the fourth time) and the movie. The movie has some of the best songs. Future is less rewatchable, it's not bad but I can watch the series over and over except for a couple episodes from the first season

Getting salmonella while breastfeeding sounds awful, that is just not fair

Ok let's hear the story. I had a similar teacher experience, even had the dual teacher thing, but it was not as bad. Although she ended up having a major seizure in the middle of class which was pretty upsetting for us, but obviously that had nothing to do with how she was treating me.

I want to hear that lecture!

Can you elaborate? Fully ready to be on your side but I don't have the time to dig in to know what you are taking about.

I like e-reader for a camping setup since it is lightweight. You can also do a little cyber deck build and load up all of wikipedia.

In a situation where you don't have constant access to abundant electricity, you would naturally reduce your use of electronics quite a bit. An e-reader battery lasts a long time, so load it up with a bunch of good and useful books and that panel will be able to power it indefinitely. Winter is tricky, still it would probably be enough to keep it going with sparse use. Or you could rig up a bike-alternator-car battery set up. But you need to think about how much power you can reasonably generate and base your planned consumption off of that. This makes me sound like a big prepper, I'm not, but I have been thinking about this a lot lately. Wonder why...

Same, I didn't know why but it's actually working as a journal better than any other app I've tried for me. Maybe just feeling like it's not going to try to sell me something or steal my data.

Never heard of her what a bad ass

Sorry that happened that must have been a real bummer.

I'm going to have to agree, end the article saying that it will drag on and hurt his midterms. What a joke, no shit but so will innumerable other equally damning things. He's clearly banking on the midterms not happening.