Alice's Wizardly Void-Space

I think Woof Woof by ARTHUR is one of the jade songs ever to mee!

It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.

robots require very frequent breaks! welding machines generally have it programmed in that they can’t run so long they melt themselves. ive overseen two different manufacturing robots now and each of them were fragile, finicky idiots that require constant maintenance and repair. they pause in between moves, in between jobs. you’re always keeping an eye on programming errors, on coolant levels, on heat. you’re always pulling bits of scrap out of joints, sweeping up debris, washing off nozzles and untangling hoses. and even then it snaps a chain and takes a whole morning’s vacation.

After a certain point of height, being tall stops being beneficial and in fact becomes actively detrimental to countless aspects of your daily life, and it gets worse the taller you get. The world isn’t designed to accommodate people of my height. My back is constantly sore from having to bend over (I try to squat when possible but oftentimes you really have no choice) for every little thing. I’m too tall to fit on my mattress with my legs extended completely. I hit my head on things constantly. The desks at my work’s “open office” setup are impossible for me to use ergonomically comfortably, and I can’t use them as standing desks without squatting. Finding clothes that fit me is a very difficult and miserable experience. I stand out everywhere I go and am always the tallest person in the room. Appliances and sinks are always too short for me to comfortably use. In my car I have to bend over to see the stoplight above at a lot of intersections. This is just a glimpse into the way being tall is frustrating at best, and makes things significantly harder at worst.

as a girl who regularly sets "tallest person i've ever seen" records for people, i also really really really have to say.