Just a reminder, but you do not need to “earn” being tired.
You’re allowed to be tired, even if you haven’t “done” anything and you’re allowed to be tired even if you did less than someone else.
Being tired is a normal thing your body does for a whole plethora of reasons, and is a basic bodily function. You don’t need to “earn” basic bodily functions, no matter what anyone else tells you.
There’s NEVER a no-reason tiredness. You might not have done much today, but you’re still tired because you’ve been running yourself ragged on a shitty sleep schedule for the past three weeks, and you think you’re used to it, but the second you have a day off, your body is like FINALLY MOTHERFUCKER, IT’S BEDTIME. Or maybe there’s a cold that’s been ever so slowly brewing, and your body is tired from fighting that off. Your brain uses about 20% of your oxygen and calories throughout the day. Maybe you’ve had a lot on your mind, not to mention the fatiguing effects of stress. And all this is just shit able-bodied folks go through, there are dozens of chronic conditions and disabilities that shrink that energy pool even before these factors strike. No matter the reason, if your body is tired, that’s your cue to rest.
A classmate of mine was texting me about needing to read Immanuel Kant for class. She texted saying “I just don’t want to deal with this, metaphysical philosophy shit, right now. I’m gonna have an identity crisis.”
and I texted back with “so, are you saying that you…… Kant deal with it?”
She didn’t respond for more than two hours before she just texted back “I fucking hate you.”
when I was 14 I worked in a grocery store and one day I got to bag Stephen King’s groceries and of course, being the little horror fiction nerd I am I was completely starstruck
I think he thought I was gonna ask for an autograph because I was not even lowkey staring I was full on moon-faced and bouncing and he kept looking over at me hesitantly like aw jeez kid fuck off
anyways I finally managed to squeak out that I was a huge fan and asked for advice on writing, “how do I write as well as you do?” in my horrible thick German accent and broken ass English and he gave me the best writing advice I have ever received
“shit kid, stop worrying about how other people do it and just write your story”
14 years later my wife and I nearly hit him with our car because he was jaywalking
I know there’s already a similar post floating around, but I had already planned on making my own, and I had very specific breed headcanons! Also, this one includes the most recent cats :3
So I was doing some research on common medications for a pharmacology class at school, and realized that Wikipedia is calling out the outrageous practices of pharmacological sales in the US. Right up there in the main intro to the medication they’re showing how much the drug costs to produce, versus how much a typical course of treatment costs in the USA.
Also, just so you’re aware, as of late Mat 2018, 1.80 GBP is 2.40 USD. For a three month supply of the pill. The same amount could cost you 150 USD in the United States.
One more direct BCP patient cost comparison I did a while back, for the same formulation between the UK and US.
Paying totally out of pocket for a private prescription with online consultation included? (Not under the NHS, which has no patient charges for family planning.)
That still worked out to £4.83/$6.23 per month. As compared to the roughly $20/month most US pharmacies were quoting through GoodRx.
After spending most of my life in the US, I have kept being impressed at the differences in cost paying out of pocket for medical/dental care in general. And, as I commented in that comparison post:
It’s not like we’re getting bargain basement pharmaceuticals here. It’s the same manufacturers. There’s just at least that big a difference in what they can get away with charging. Sometimes it’s a lot more than with this particular example.
Tip: obviously you don’t wanna touch the pavement with your bare feet to check if it’s too hot for you, especially because you’d have to stand on it a bit to determine whether it’s actually too hot or not, so
Put the back (important that it’s the back) of your hand on the asphalt and leave it there for a bit to check. Like how you learnt to check doorknobs for heat in case of a house fire, yanno?
If you’ve got a dog and live in an area where it gets over 75º (about 23ºC), invest in some dog shoes. If you can’t get any, get some baby socks, but shoes/booties/socks made specifically for dogs are better cause they’re made with dogs in mind so they’ll be the right thickness and fit
I mean, also, if you live someplace where it snows or ices over in the winter, it’s a good idea to get you some dog boots anyway if you have a dog that’s not built for colder climes as it’ll protect their paws from burning because it’s too cold
Better watch out for pavement baking in the sun, in other words. It can be much hotter than you’d think.
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