some days I want to bake the internet a cake

http://news.yahoo.com/maryland-teen-threatened-suicide-reddit-school-doesnt-stop-190358476--abc-news.html

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/qvgi5/the_cyber_bullying_has_gotten_to_the_point_where/

I read that this morning and wanted to cry forever. I remember being in the principal's office, angry and afraid, while they told me it was really just my fault and threatened to punish me instead. I remember "peer mediation" with the guy who threatened to rape me, as if that was some kind of solution. I remember being told I could get suspended if I kept being the problem, not the lunatic teacher. No one at my school gave a goddamn until I tried to kill myself and ended up in the hospital.

Internet, you do a lot of fucked up things. But I love you when you magnify the power of our voices to make people pay attention to something, to even just one person and one situation.

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My wonderful friend brienze took me out to eat barbeque for lunch at one of the many little places tucked around town. It's not famous or fancy or considered the height of the culinary genre. But it is as delicious and familiar as barbeque should be, a beautiful cultural chain down through generations. Plus they gave me a free brownie. You can't go wrong! I ate a smoky chopped beef sandwich with the crispiest fried okra ever and a creamy cole slaw, all washed down with iced tea. It was a good way to ring in the springtime!

Then we visited the cake supply shop, to buy sprinkles and random stuff. I found a pear shaped cookie cutter! Then I bought a new spatula. Yay.