Note: There is language that is excluded in the transcript but not excluded in the audio Oh, that time where [name] and I drove down -- well I drove, and he just came along for the ride -- down to Toledo to go to the art museum as part of our side trip because I-it was [name's] 40th birthday. And he liked a particular kind of liqueur. You cannot get it shipped to Michigan, so I had it shipped to a UPS Store in Toledo. We went, got lunch, you know, picked up his present. I kept one for myself and got him one, which he was very amazed, like, "Where did you get this?" Like, "I drove my a** to Toledo to get this for you." But we go to this art museum, and they have a whole exhibit on glass blowing. And there's one where it's "The Scents of Glassblowing," and he takes a sniff of something and goes, "Oh my God! It smells like farts." And I went, "Why would it smell like farts?" Because, you know, sulfur. And I get close and I take a small whiff and go, "Oh my God, it smells like farts." I didn't think it was gonna be that bad. I think I said, "It can't be that bad." Oh, it was that bad. That was, um -- and yet everyone after us kept doing it, too! Like dude, did you not just hear us say it smells like farts, like, really bad farts at that? Yeah, lesson learned. Someone says it smells like farts, don't go and see if they're right.

We used to play tether ball all the time, and I was always the goody two shoes, and I would tell on kids for swearing. And this one time, my fingers got knotted up in the chain that was connected to the ball. Why we had chains instead of ropes, I don't know. But we had a chain on our ball and my fingers got twisted up in the chain and mangled, and it hurt. And I remember the fella's name even, telling me, "Go ahead and say it. Go ahead and say it." And I said the F-word for the first time ever. It was worse than flipping the bird. I was in the sixth grade, and I said the F-word out loud. And I knew that the Earth was gonna open up and swallow me whole. But that didn't happen. I got untangled, and he was like, "How did that feel? It felt good, didn't it?" And he was right. It felt good to say it.

My teacher told me that she was proud of me for not following the rules. I had to take my history IB exam on Monday, and I was kind of freaking out in my history teacher's room. I had been studying and preparing for this exam for literally two years, but I still felt like I knew nothing. And, I mean, I spent a lot of time on my weekend studying. But I didn't spend all of my time on my weekend studying. I went and hung out with some people. And I'm basically having a mental breakdown in my history teacher's room, because whenever I do something that's not studying before I have an exam, even if I like way over prepared for this exam and spent a lot of my time studying, my brain just starts blaming itself and saying, "You didn't prepare enough for that exam. What are you doing? You're gonna fail." So I'm in her room having a panic attack, and she stops me and is like, "Hey, you okay? What's going on?" And I basically told her, "I went and I did something fun this weekend, and I probably should’ve studied more and now, like my psyche is all messed up." And she's just says "Stop right there. I know that you are all in your head and your parents make you all in your head about the fact that school has to be before everything and that you need to study and study and study. But I am proud of you for breaking those rules. I am proud of you for not studying for the assessment that is for my class and for going out and doing something fun." And I feel like that is the first time that I've ever had a teacher tell me, "I am proud of you for not studying for my test." And honestly, I just really needed to hear that because after she said that to me, I looked at myself, I stopped trying to study the morning of the exam, and I went to [restaurant name]. And I just hung out with some of my friends from choir who had finished their AP Bio exam. We hung out at [restaurant name]. I went back, I took the exam. And guess what? I was completely fine, I did not need to study any more for that. I…