paperparachute:

castorochiaro:

pr1nceshawn:

Worst Case vs. Best Case Scenarios by Karina Farek.

This is a great joke, but it’s also a wonderful strategy for reducing anxiety that I learned about in therapy. If you’re ever nervous about something, just ask yourself: what’s the best thing that can happen? What’s the worst thing? What will most likely happen?

It does wonders for your nerves, really does.

My counsellor walks me through this all the time and it works??

amarielah:

machigaeru:

I started Hebrew, which is why I’ve been dead on this blog, but I don’t think I can ever properly convey to you guys the sheer cultural whiplash of spending years learning Japanese from Japanese teachers and then trying to learn Hebrew from an Israeli

  • Japanese: you walk into class already apologizing for being alive
    Hebrew: you walk into class, the teacher insults you and you are expected to insult her back
  • Japanese: conjugates every single verb based on degree of intended politeness, nevermind keigo and honorifics
    Hebrew: Someone asked my teacher how to say “excuse me” and she laughed for several seconds before saying we shouldn’t worry about remembering that since we’ll never need to say it
  • Japanese: if you get one stroke wrong the entire kanji is incomprehensible
    Hebrew: cursive? script? fuck it do whatever you want, you don’t even have to write the vowels out unless you feel like it
  • Japanese: the closest thing there is to ‘bastard’ is an excessively direct ‘you’ pronoun
    Hebrew: ‘bitch’ translates directly

Fun fact: Israel has possibly the lowest power-distance metric of any culture in the world, while Japan has one of the highest. I didn’t realize that the CTO of my company was the CTO until somebody else told me, because everybody called him by his first name and engaged in mutual shit-talking/playful insults with him.

In Japan, even calling your boss by the wrong honorific is liable to get you in trouble.

And apparently there’s some sciencey cooperative venture going on between Israel and Japan in an official diplomatic capacity. I want to be a fly on the wall when Japanese and Israeli scientists work together.

itsnotgonnareaditselfpeople:

gothhabiba:

me, every single month without fail: huh weird I feel kind of bloated and lethargic but also very hungry??? and I’m breaking out??? and my back hurts??? this is so strange I have never experienced this before in my whole entire life… what could this be

me a few days later, every single month without fail: oh

Menstrual Amnesia claims another victim.

landofsomethingsomething:

yall ever get physically mad at yourself for how much you love homestuck like you’ll just be sitting somewhere minding your business and your brain busts in like “have you considered that every time anyone visits roxy they have to probably wade through 4,000 cats and jake teases her constantly about getting a dog and dirk stands there statue still while kittens climb his pant legs pretending their claws don’t hurt and dave just walks in and lays on the floor and is immediately sat upon by 6 individual cat breads while karkat scoffs nearby about how earth meowbeasts don’t actually care about anyone and appealing to soft human emotion is just an evolutionary mechanism they’ve developed to great effect while simultaneously sneaking a kitten into his pocket” 

and you just have to be like I have work to do you piece of shit shut the fuck up let me live can I not think about homestuck for like one second please but it’s too late because you’re already smiling as you imagine rose lalonde sneaking food from her plate to a multitude of cats under the table with a perfectly straight face while dave dials up terezi to ask how to formally prosecute her for blatant cat bribery and wanton feline corruption