Remember that meeting with the Head I had a couple of weeks ago that made me feel furious, unvalued, and sent me into a panic attack when I got home?

I’ve got another one today.

Hoping for a positive change in this one, but if you could all keep everything crossed for me and send some good vibes my way it would be appreciated. ❤

claricechiarasorcha:

meggannn:

how can ppl say cats are heartless tbh

I once stayed at a game reserve in South Africa, and they had three cheetahs – two males and one female. The boys stuck together (they were brothers), but female cheetahs are solitary, save for when they are raising cubs. Which is hard work for cheetahs, because they don’t/can’t den, she’s working constantly to protect/move her cubs, as well as feeding both them and herself.

Now, these cheetahs ARE in a private reserve, but they’re still essentially wild. But they are more or less accustomed to the presence of people. And this cheetah, Ketswiri, got very badly injured in her leg one time, which usually would be fatal to a cheetah. The staff at the reserve helped her. Another time, she was starving, and they provided her a fresh antelope carcass. And she remembered this, because the science officer was telling us how one time he was watching Ketswiri and her cubs, and she wandered over and dumped all her cubs at his feet, and walked off. Like “watch my kids, I need some me time.” And he was panicking like COME BACK I CAN’T BABYSIT YOUR KIDS WTF

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celesteandtheirfandoms:

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mrkevinmchale:

buzzfeed:

21 People Who Forgot A Word And Just Made Some Shit Up

im crying

a friend of mine forgot the word “lamp” once and said “light faucet”

I’m shaking from laughter. Yes, this is the right way to start a Friday morning.

Listen guys, I have a BA in English and an MA in Professional Writing and I have:

Forgotten the word “gums” and called them “teeth cuticles”
Forgotten the term “liquor store” and called it a “rum-o-rama”
Forgotten the word “mohawk” and called it a “head mustache”

The list goes on and on. Wording is HARD. 

You know that putty you put in holes before you paint a wall? I forgot the word “putty,” called it “hole-be-gone” instead, and now my whole family refers to it as hole-be-gone.

it’s hard to make the brain do the english, ok!?

I wish I had this skill.
When I lose a word, my brain derails. I use the term ‘derail’ because it is the mental equivalent of a train derailment (just easier to clean up)

At the staff meeting, my boss referred to the clipboard as “that snappy board”

My 4-year-old nephew didn’t know the word “knuckle” so he told us his finger knee hurt.

I forgot the word “speech” once so I said “you wrote me an essay with your mouth”

Dad once temporarily had the term “auto body filler” leave his brain; the Canadian Tire worker had her whole day made when he cheerfully said, “I’m here to procure some…car-spackle!”

I once forgot the work barrel so I described it as a round wooden box and then something “pirates put rum in it” before my mate figured out what I meant.

Oh god. Here we go.

Once upon a time, I had a lot of trouble communicating with friends. It could be argued that I still do.

In my first year of high school, I was talking to this one girl who I’ll call Lullaby. We had literally every class together, so we started hanging out all the time.

During lunch, we had a conversation about our experiences dating girls vs. dating guys in a sexual manner. We get back and we go to the rest of our classes, and she starts out the door.

What I WANT to say is “Come back”

Of course my brain decides that there are synonyms to words that sound like that, since it won’t actually word.

I blurt out, in front of half of my class.

“Ejaculate back!”

I do this a lot.

Here are some good ones:

I stepped on something gross and it got between my toes, and in my distress I referred to my toes as “feet teeth.”

I was very proud to have finished the “plate laundry.”

I told my ex to go look in the garage, only I said “car pantry.”

But my VERY FAVORITE is when I couldn’t remember the word for brown, so I called it “boring purple.”

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I once forgot the work barrel so I described it as a round wooden box and then something “pirates put rum in it” before my mate figured out what I meant.

“Something pirates put rum in” is usually “pirates” in my experience.

Look, I still maintain “food closet” is a perfectly acceptable term if you can’t remember “pantry”.

Conversely I once forgot the term “linen closet” and told my mum to get a sheet from the Blanket Pantry.

English not being my first language, i couldn’t remember the word for “hail”. 

So I told my friend that there was “Angry Snow” outside and to this day I maintain that it is a much better term.

When I went to Germany I forgot the word for “searching” and I spent a good ten minutes trying to explain it

In the end a guy who’s really cool and spoke French and German helped me

Couldn’t remember the word for detergent so I called it laundry syrup. 

Couldn’t remember the word for surge protector so I called it the electricity stick. 

I forget words and have to do this constantly, but my memory is so bad that I’m blanking on any examples…