Coworker I can appreciate that you just got back from vacation and you’ve got your chill on but last week while you were in the tropics I was working my ass off up here to the point of clocking in 10 hours of over time. I’ve barely slept in days and I’m having nightmares again.
So if you could try not to so much as breathe in my general direction, I’d appreciate that. Thanks.
9th November 1989 – 5th February 2018 (10,316 days) – The Berlin Wall has now been down for as long as it stood.
Holy shit
This started out as a decently okay day, then turned into a bad day, and now it’s a terrible day.
I got all my paperwork sorted before I went to lunch. My coworker is back and he was deliberately irritating me, and I didn’t get any sleep last night, but I had a bunch of coffee and flew through my work. I actually thought I’d get out on time today, but about 6 people turned in their stuff at the last minute and I was 2 and half hours late leaving today. I was so tired, from last week’s nightmare and last night not having any sleep that I was just sitting at my desk crying while trying desperately to get my work done.
And now, I’ve gone to etsy to check in on a shop that I’ve been wanting to buy things from for years, because now that I have a disposable income I can, only to find that now that I can actually buy something, the store is closed. Other store’s have similar items but they’re awful in comparison. To add insult to injury, in replacement of the thing I wanted, the suggestions from etsy were no joke – things I absolutely hate. Just a pageful of everything I can’t stand.
The worst thing is, I don’t even want to go to sleep, even though I’m exhausted. The thought of going to sleep just upsets me because as soon as I go to bed, I’m going to have to get up and go to work again.
Negro Red Cross Canteen, Meridian, Mississippi. April 21, 1920
This canteen unit, with the aid of the men in group, voluntarily undertook the establishment of a center for the wounded of their race in the storm of April 21, 1920, and at Lincoln School, Meridian, not only nursed, but fed and clothed scores of the storm-victims. Their leader, Nettie Majors, is not included in the group as she answered the first call for Red Cross help and with a group of white workers from the Lauderdale County Chapter A.R.C. went to Philadelphia to give needed aid there. In addition to the splendid work at Lincoln Center, the members of this Red Cross Unit of negro women served in many capacities at the Matty Herse (Charity) Hospital in Meridian.
I didn’t know cheetahs meow I’ve always thought they roar my whole life has been a lie
Ok but the other one is purring so hard
If I ever don’t reblog this assume I’m dead
Fun fact: technically, because of its inability to roar and its ability to purr, the cheetah is not a ‘big cat’ (or Great Cat) – they are still classified as Lesser Cats.
Also you haven’t heard anything until you hear them cheep.
someone: haha you just want to know when you’re off the hook
me: hah
me: (actually i just need to allocate the right expectations and backlog of energy and make sure the rest of my day falls in good accordance with it so that i don’t feel time-crunched and propel myself into a hysteria because if i don’t know how long this thing lasts or when it ends i can’t possibly know when literally anything else starts and my entire life becomes an unraveled realm of anarchy with no rhyme or reason and how is that not terrifying to you)
me: hey how long will this take
someone: oh like twenty minutes
me: ok
*an hour later*
me: *clinging to every learned social skill i can think of with the desperate hope my distress and exhaustion doesn’t show*
someone: hey we’re almost done don’t be so crabby
me: *smiling* *internally screaming at this SENSELESS CHAOS*
someone: hey do you want to do [involving time-consuming thing]
me: hey that sounds fun! when were you thinking?
someone: oh we’re doing it right now
me: oh. like. now-now? like right now. like you want me to stop what i’m doing and get up and do this thing with you, suddenly, with thirty seconds of warning. now. like this second. immediately. now?
The Paradox Machine 