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" I am not actually tired , but numb and heavy , and can't find the right words "

god those "primal" people who are like "our ancestors SLEPT ON THE GROUND and ate RAW MEAT and sometimes didnt eat for DAYS!! so thats how we should all be living its NATURAL!!" i truly am full of rage towards them.

chantek the orangutan regularly requested ice cream and cheeseburgers via sign language, and happily made his own jewelry. many great apes in zoos, from chimps to gorillas, will thread beads on string and wear them. one gorilla was observed ripping a feed sack along the seams and wearing it as a little shawl when she was feeling sad. a young chimp was observed playing with a dead squirrel as she watched her mother care for her baby brother, rocking the soft little body and signing baby, baby, kiss. another chimp raised by a human demanded her caretaker check under her bed each night for black dogs and crocodiles. in college when i was taking art history we were shown a little round pebble with two dots and a crease, that looked like a face, that was found thousands of miles away from where it should have been, and it’s theorized that it must have been carried by an early hominid who saw the face, and liked it. many ancient cultures that never invented the wagon nonetheless built wheeled pull-toys for their children.

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You know, the place where I last worked wanted to use our reading room as backdrop for a filmed interview (we had a very pretty reading room). On the day the film crew was there, the audio guy came over to my desk which was at the edge of the space and said "Look, you can keep working 'cus you're not doing anything too loud, but in a minute I'm going to go over there and call for silence for 10-20 seconds, and during that time I need you to not make any noise." And I went "lol sure" but he clearly felt a little uncomfortable telling me to not move at my own desk so he explained; the purpose of those 20 seconds is to record the silence in the room.

I regret to inform you that American Girl's latest dolls are from that ye olde historical setting of *1999*

Thinking about it, I’m pretty sure my ancestors would be horrified with me.

For those asking: Listen, within Judaism, angels can look like whatever they want to look like. They are formless, and the og Bible has angels appearing as everything from strange wheels of eyes and winged faces, to ordinary guys.