Nothing You're Expecting

-giving ur friends the same information over and over because u forgot u ever gave it to them

-opening up a new text post only to forget what u were going 2 say

-never changing a wall calendar/needing to look up what day of the week something will be

-literally not being able to remember what happened yesterday/an hour ago/five minutes ago

-forgetting where ur going/what ur doing in the middle of doing it

-flipping through the beginning of a book because u forgot some characters and plot development

-making a typo, make a mental note to fix it, get up to do something, keep typing without fixing the typo

-”haha ur memory cant be THAT bad”

-it can be

-reminding urself 2 do something but u forget

-writing reminders, forgetting that u wrote a reminder/forgetting what was on the reminder/forgetting where u put the reminder

-”just put something in ur room out of place before u go 2 sleep” and ur room has so much shit on the floor u wouldnt even be able 2 tell whats out of place

-alternately: doing the above and then forgetting what it was supposed to remind u of

-did that happen or was i dreaming

Wait wait wait so you’re telling me

That these things aren’t elaborately shaped slightly mathematical candies?

I’m still gunna check

I subscribe to @kellysue​‘s Bitches Get Stuff Done text thingy (you can find archives here and how to sign up here) and it’s proven time and time again to really motivate me when I’m about to hit a slump.  Or in the middle of one.  Or wallowing in self pity.  You know, like you do.

But this week she’s been calling us “little sharks” and encouraging us to take everything one bite at a time and the more I think about it, the more apt this comparison is.

Sharks are:

vital to their ecosystems

far more diverse than the monolith they are presented as

vilified and sensationalized by the media

suffer because of how they’re viewed

blamed for things they have nothing to do with

proven to often respond to be gentle despite all the lies about them (boop the snoot!)

fucking powerful and awe inspiring

get better with age

endangered

You know what else is all of those things? Women.

I’m a motherfucking shaaaaarrrrrrrrkk.*  Let’s be sharks together.

*credit to @gailsimone​

In court that day, the judge asked the boy, “Are you afraid?” No, the boy said.

Pipes says the judge seemed surprised, and asked, “Why not?”

Chief’s thesis was that a child who has been abused by an adult can benefit psychologically from the presence of even more intimidating adults that they know are on their side. “When we tell a child they don’t have to be afraid, they believe us,” Arizona biker Pipes told azcentral.com. “When we tell them we will be there for them, they believe us.”

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