March of the Yetis

Erlkönig  (Detail)  -  Julius von Klever  1887

I worked at a fast food restaurant, and at the time this happened I had been working here for a year and a half. Bit of context, I was 17 at the time and have anxiety. It can vary in severity on a daily basis, but I sometimes have really bad sensory overload. I bought myself a pair of noise cancelling Bluetooth headphones, so I can block out all noise. These cost me £220, a major investment for me as I was only a part timer and made about £160-£300 a month depending how many shifts I worked.

spock: ……..friend?

kirk: yeah the best

spock: *staggering down the hall barely holding his shit in & frantically mashes buttons to call his mom* Mother today I made a frie

amanda: yes dear? a what?

spock: a fr

amanda: just let it out sweetie

The international coalition against ISIS should make information-sharing with families a priority and help create a formal mechanism to address the issue of the missing and to allow families to register their cases, Human Rights Watch said. This mechanism should maintain a database of information on the missing, help under-resourced local authorities in northeast Syria exhume mass graves, and process appropriately obtained information on the status of those ISIS held.

“Now that the territorial battle against ISIS is over, the anti-ISIS coalition should address the terrible ISIS legacy,” said Nadim Houry, terrorism/counterterrorism director at Human Rights Watch. “A critical issue for thousands of families is uncovering what happened to those ISIS abducted.”

I know it feels easier to just bend over than it does to squat down, I know that you feel tired, but you can injure yourself Very Seriously doing that. In ways that can leave you more vulnerable to this kind of injury for the Rest of your Life.

There is nothing, nothing in my life that I have experienced that is more frightening than lying on my face on the floor of my job, unable to make my legs move or support my weight on my arms because of the literal blinding pain I was in, yelling for help and hoping that someone would come and find me. 

I hurt myself lifting what might have been a five pound box of frozen food. It’s not about the weight of the object, it’s the angle of the strain. It won’t happen Every time you lift wrong, which makes it hard to take seriously unless you’ve personally experienced it, but it drastically increases the likelihood of it happening to you.