Saving This For Later

Ok I am once again liveblogging the Word of the Year vote

• For informal word of the year, multiple people have gone up to the mic announcing themself as “team rawdog”

• One respected professor threw his support behind “W”, saying (I’m paraphrasing) “double the u, double the pleasure”

• In lieu of an institution, one person announced themself as a “tumblr shitposter”. That person? Was me.

Ever wanted to trade a knit hat for a necklace? Maybe the other way round? This page is a (small) attempt at trying to set those up! I'm trying to help crafty people find each other so everyone gets cool art - art trades make the world a more fun place, and it's always a great excuse to spend more time on a new piece. Would appreciate reblogs for reach!

what i've been up to the past 20 minutes

Grumpy little rant:

I'm so fucking tired of trying to juggle a full-time class schedule as a student while also working full time. I work all day then come and I have to do MORE work for school and MORE work trying to clean up after myself which for some reason is obscenely hard because I'm the messiest person to ever exist and I'm SO FUCKING TIRED of not being able to cook a real fucking meal and I just keep eating chicken nuggets and pasta and I spend like 2 hours EVERY DAY thinking about how much I should be vegan or at the very LEAST vegetarian and I'm not and so here I am eating shitty food in a messy house and I'm Still overwhelmed ALL THE TIME I feel like I'm making compromises on everything instead of some things and getting nothing out of it and I'm just fucking tired. Oh, and did you hear the world is ending and I belong to the country that's fucking torturing people and fucking over literally everyone?? Sorry guys! Wish I had the time or energy to do something about it but I can't even put my fucking dishes away and I have 6 weeks worth of laundry on my bed. Fml

Op this is the first thing that has made me actually laugh out loud in at least a month

idk if i told the full story on here but i signed up for a research study where they were testing a new opioid, and it was supposed to be up to 5 injections increasing the dose to see what people could tolerate

i got the first dose and almost immediately fainted. they had to call in a whole medical team and it was a huge fucking deal

i was kicked out of the study and got a phone call later where they were supposed to tell me what the drug was, so i could avoid it in the future. they told me it was saline water. a placebo. i fainted from the placebo effect.

anyway, it's been a few months and i just got an email from the same department asking me to be a research participant in a new study: testing the effects of open-label placebo.

open label placebo is when the subjects and the researchers all know it's a placebo. they're testing the power of my mind. my power to imagine anything.

i like to think that they chose me for this specifically based on their past experience with me. "get the guy who fainted like a little bitch boy from saline water." anyway i just submitted all my info and i'm looking forward to getting started.