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porcupine-girl:

pardonmewhileipanic:

trashgender-neurotica:

Executive dysfunction isn’t just for things you don’t want to do. I’ve been meaning to go get ice cream for like an hour now.

this is too fucking real tho

I spent two hours the other night intending to watch TV and never did it.

This is the difference between procrastination and executive dysfunction.

speedwag:

lauraannegilman:

saltmaven:

HEY FLORIDA.

The governor just stated if you can’t get out of any mandatory evacuation, whether for fuel or any reason at all, call 1-800-955-5504, right now! The’ll help if you don’t have money, if you have pets, etc. They want you to call NOW because there is time to help you.

(I guess signal boosting this is an upside to being subjected to the weather channel while living utterly landlocked.)

http://www.flgov.com/2017/09/07/gov-scott-issues-updates-on-hurricane-irma-preparedness-5/

Tolls have been suspended. Real-time traffic information and evacuation routes is available at www.FL511.com

Miami-Dade has buses set up to help evacuate those with special needs, and Broward County has buses on standby.

A list of all open shelters will be available at www.floridadisaster.org/shelters.

The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) has released September SNAP benefits to current recipients who have not yet received them.

my sister in largo had no idea where to go or what to do until i sent her this post. if my followers could reblog this itd mean the world to me and help a lot of people

terpsikeraunos:

anyone else read a paragraph of academic prose and then stare at it blankly with no idea what you just read because it’s so clogged with jargon

Ok but seriously, when I was at the community college, I took a bunch of creative writing courses and really learned a lot about editing and how to string a sophisticated but readable sentence together, and when I went to finish my history degree, I had to read and respond to a lot of academic essays, and it was so distracting how poorly they were written.

I mean, yeah, there are certainly times when the academic jargon is unavoidable. A physicist isn’t writing their academic papers to be read by high school freshman. But there is so much flowery purple prose in these works sometimes. These guys were trying so hard to sound like they were geniuses and knew what they were talking about that they looped back around into absurdity because their work was unreadable. I had a professor call me out specifically in class because I kept trash talking the writing in some of the works we were reading and told me IN FRONT OF THE CLASS to knock it off and focus on the material.

Is it my fault these guys can’t write for crap? You don’t sound smart when you do this. You sound like you’re trying to convince me you’re smart. I was so happy when one of my professors, who agreed this kind of crap had gotten out of control, and assigned us a one page research paper. As in, we could not go over a page. It was really challenging, but also satisfying because I wasn’t having to fluff up my language to make a word count.