kerplunk

Principal was fired by the board, and then immediately sued the school for wrongful dismissal. It was a landmark case and ended up on national news. The principal won and the school went broke. It was the best school in town until then: all the good teachers quit and went elsewhere taking many students with them because parents didn't want their kids in a broke school with only the crappy teachers left.

My (now passed) kitty would smell when I opened a can of tuna from several rooms away and sprint in screaming "YESSSSSS FUCKIN TUNAAAAAAA" despite knowing he was on a diet. I miss his screaming.

The greater good (the greater good)

The Good Place helped me understand that being a good person isn't necessarily about being good all the time. It's about being a better person than you were yesterday, for the right reasons.

I listened to Mike Schur's audiobook about what he learned about moral philosophy in the process of making the show, and that really influenced my thinking and behaviour as well. Really worthwhile.

I used to live in a house with a big back yard and lots of garden. One day in summer I was digging weeds with my back to the house at the far end of the yard. My toddler son was inside with his dad, my baby daughter was napping. It was a quiet afternoon. After a while I heard little feet thudding on the grass - my son running across the lawn towards me. I turned around expecting him to come up and jump on me. There was no one there.

That's still a catch phrase between my husband and me when we go somewhere crowded.