I see people I dislike and realise I do the exact same thing. Grating, annoying, rough Viv.
Also I love the city. I’ve gotten so used to it these days its odd.
On a side note, i love depersonalising people by renaming them ‘Boss’ and ‘Person’ (boss and clingy boy I’m kind of seeing respectively.)
I’m terrible.
and I’m so not fucking used to it.
Laura Michelle Kelly, from her twitter. January 18, 2012.
(This is why I love this woman.)
(Source: broadwaykelly)
the thing is, everyone preaches this “it’s better to like yourself without someone” attitude, but it’s not that easy. it’s hard to find good things about yourself sometimes. we as a species are full of self-loathing and irritation at what we perceive as our own flaws. we constantly seek approval or recognition by others, which is where things like inadequacy springs from.
it’s very hard to simply like yourself. it takes years of re-assessing and trying. it’s hard.
so I think when someone is able to see something they like in another person and point it out, said person realises, hey, maybe there is some worth to me. values or attributes you didn’t really think were great are suddenly brought to light. sometimes it’s easier to like yourself, knowing that there’s something to like and someone liking them. it gives you that extra little spring in your step.
you feel a little better, knowing you have your own place to be appreciated in this world.
(on a side note, professional communications at RMIT! yay!)
that some guy cares enough/i’m, as he puts it, really pretty/funny/cool enough to ask out to date. oh and that said guy is all of the above too. yeah. makes me happy. (makes me a little sad to know i’m unsure about other guy, but makes me happy to know i’m fine being around him these days and happier. yeah.)
and now all I need to do is get out of that atmosphere. for a long time. for a year. or more.
just because they make me sad. And I don’t want to be sad. I so desperately don’t want to be sad.
Parasitic flies that turn honeybees into night-flying zombies could provide another clue to cracking the mystery of colony collapse disorder.
Since 2007, thousands of hives in the US have been decimated as bees inexplicably go missing overnight. The best explanation so far is that multiple stresses, perhaps parasitic mites, viruses or pesticides, combine to tip the bees over the edge.
John Hafernik of San Francisco State University in California and colleagues discovered that hosting Apocephalus borealis, a parasitic fly found throughout North America, makes bees fly around in a disoriented way at night, when they normally roost in the hive, before killing them.
This is interesting. It could be very useful in saving bees!
come on parasitic flies, give bees a chance!
(i feel 2012 coming. and not just because of my bad jokes)
(Source: plosone.org)
