Still stuck in Splathell

1. told every nurse and doctor that i loved them

2. dmed a bunch of my friends and told them i loved them

3. tried to @ everyone in my private discord server to tell them i loved them, failed, couldnt figure out how to ping everyone, and then sent a bunch of messages saying that i loved everyone

4. called picks twice to tell her that i loved her

5. while walking inside the house, barely able to stand and with bf holding me up, saw two people working on the house next door, said hi to them, told them i had surgery, and tried to tell them i loved them before bf dragged me inside. 

6. told my doctor, who i have to see next week, to his face, that i loved him

7. tried to call bf’s mom to tell her that i loved her, bf stopped me and told me she was at work. i then begged him to text her. 

also here’s some of the dms i sent my friends

the procedure i had done was a colonoscopy/endoscopy. basically, my doctor knocked me out so he could shove a camera up my butt and another down my throat to try to figure out what’s going on with my stomach. if you don’t know, the preparation for this procedure is both rough and pretty disgusting.

for 24 hours, you’re on what’s called a ‘clear liquid’ diet, meaning you cannot have any solid food at all. the best you can have is broth. or jello. except i dont really like jello so instead i drank broth and tea all day. then in the evening you have to drink this utterly disgusting liquid for a few hours and i wont get into that bc it’s even more disgusting. but once midnight hits after 24 hours of clear liquid diet, you cannot have anything at all. not even a sip of water. nothing. and my procedure was around 10-11. which meant that i had not had solid food in about 36 hours, much less anything filling or with nutrients. 

the other thing is, i’ve had this procedure done before. and the EXACT SAME THING happened. i don’t know what it is, but every time i wake up from anesthesia and am told i can have real food again, my still half knocked out brain goes “CHEESEBURGER” and refuses to even comprehend that other food exists. 

i had spinal surgery in august and had to fast for about a day. the exact same thing happened. AS SOON as i woke up from my major, hard surgery, i begged my doctor for a cheeseburger, in between telling him that i loved him, while i was still in the post-op recovery room, before i was even transported to my hospital room. 

Body

monotone:

cream

white

pink

green

two-tone:

cream/pink

yellow/white

light brown/white

blue/white

Eyes/Decoration

red - strawberry

pink - heart

orange - flower

green - four leaf clover

blue - blueberries

these are all of the different kinds ive found so far (each individual picture can be found under the cut):

so with that, theres 8 different body colors and 5 different decoration/eye colors, and i assume that there will be an alcremie form of each possible combination of these, making there being 40 different alcremie forms, possibly more if there ends up being more body or decoration possibilities.

basically what im saying is im gonna catch at least 40 of these adorable fuckers

Apparently this isn’t quite accurate. Buneary is not the only pokemon with that distinction. However, it is the only non-legendary on the list. 

There are 3 main types, but from my research, this looks to be American Gregg Shorthand.

As you can see, there are set symbols for every letter.

Let’s break one of the words down:

Using the Gregg Alphabet as reference, we can see most of the letters in “atrophied” are present. But why no “o” vowel, and why is “ph” written as “f”?

Simple. In shorthand, you cut out all vowels in a word when writing it down, with the exception of words that BEGIN or END with a vowel (hence the “a” at the start being present), or like in the “i” in “atrophied”, to make it more readable when the sound could be harder to distinguish if it isn’t written. In “atrophied” if the the “i” isn’t written, it could be hard to tell if the writer meant a “fud”, “fad”, “fod” or “fid” sound, for example.

Also, since Shorthand is a phonetic writing system, you are encouraged to write down the phonetic sounds of words rather than the actual letter blends - in this case, write an “f” instead of a “ph”.

So in actuality, these aren’t just meaningless scribbles - it’s Gregg Shorthand, a writing system developed to take down notes more quickly than when written out in full, which is very useful in a medical or journalistic environment.

Some people can even write over 100 words in a minute! And, it’s been in use since John Robert Gregg invented it in 1888! Wow! So old!

Whether you love them or you’re sick of them, zombies as a pop cultural milestone are incredibly useful when it comes to disaster preparation. Organizations like the CDC and FEMA will run drills to train their staff using “zombie outbreak” scenarios. Parents of young children are encouraged to frame home disaster plans in terms of zombie attacks, because zombies are a fun Halloween thing, rather than something as real and scary as a tornado or a house fire.

But I notice it in other parts of my life.

I was looking into a setup for making my own rope, because reasons. When I was asked why I would even care about how to do something like that, I didn’t have to explain that it’s a neat skill to have and I like the idea of being a little more reliant on myself and a little less reliant on Target. I said “in case of zombies,” and the other person nodded like I’d said something perfectly reasonable.

Same goes when I’m making arguments for why I’d rather know how to repair my own clothes than buy new ones. I could talk about ecological waste and sweatshop labor and all that stuff, or I could say “yeah, but when the zombies come, I won’t be the one with holes in my socks.”

I’m a broke student living on the 8th floor of a student housing place and I don’t know how often I wasn’t able to buy groceries because the elevator was broken. Or how often we didn’t have flowing water for a few hours, or I couldn’t wash my clothes because I didn’t have the change for the laundromat.

And a lot of times when there is one of those situations, I realise that I’m not completely prepared for that, because you never remember to prepare for everything. I’m not gonna go: i need to stack up on candles in case of a blackout. I need basic non-perishable food items so I can make easy meals if I’ve run out of money or don’t have the time/energy to go shopping. I need hand washing detergent in case I can’t use the laundromat for whatever reason. I need cash for when I can’t go to the atm. But the ‘zombie scenario’ includes all of that. A stack of water bottles? - Zombies. No-heat food stuff? - Zombies. Flashlight? - Zombies. Med kid? - Zombies. Extra batteries? - Zombies. Enough medicine for 3 days? - Zombies.

“Could I survive, alone, for 3-5 days in case of zombies?” is a pretty good question to prepare for emergencies but also to make sure there is something to fall back on in case you hit a rough patch (whether it’s a depressive episode, running out of money or just having a very stressful week).

I know that’s not what you were talking about, but I find it really helpful.

google docs: open

Mugshot of a 2-year-old Francois Bertillon, arrested for eating a basket of pears