big day for my thoughts of things other than mike crew.
only listened to his statement 3 times today. as a treat i'm going to ramble on about his cadence; it's one of the reasons i've been able to listen to it *checks notes* at least 30 times in the last week.
it always catches me off-guard, because he makes pauses at places i don't expect him to. normally, when people speak, they pause at joining or connecting words, but mike constantly, throughout his statement, stops at odd places, like:
"exists in my mind... completely detached"
"dreamed that night of... shifting, branching"
they're not indicated in the transcript, because they're too short to really count, but it happens multiple times throughout his statement, like he's struggling for words, having difficulty either recalling or articulating what had happened. i adore either possibility, or both at the same time, because for the former you have his self-admitted "sometimes it's hard to keep track" & for the latter you have the obviously traumatic childhood and his "i'm not usually the sort for speeches".
i think when i first listened to his statement back in 2020, it kind of annoyed? me? because i was so used to mr. j. sims, oxford graduate, and his smooth posh voice, but now that my eyes have been opened it's just part of his charm.
it's got to be something about the dopamine expectation vs. actuality thing; if you know something too well it gets tiring, which is how i get sick of songs when i loop them. but even though i know basically every word of those 14 mins where mike crew speaks, i don't know the way he says it with 100% certainty, so each time i listen i'm treated to several surprises along the way and my brain loves it!!
(also tangentially related -- i always expect him to say 'decade' when he talks about the first 'real' storm in 10 years, because of course 10 years is a decade,, but maybe that's my literature-brain speaking? which is interesting because i'd thought with the amount of book-hunting mike's done he'd be more used to fancier terminology. or maybe he's just more utilitarian in his speech. or i'm just reading too much into a single word choice in a 1.5k+ word statement, which is far more likely)
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Every Esther Day video makes me cry, but this one was especially emotional. Thank you, John for the vulnerability. Happy Esther Day, everyone. To my mutuals, fellow Nerdfighters, and everyone else that sees this, I love you. Spread the love today. Make sure the people you love know you love them. ❤️
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Good morning, Kelsey!! How was yesterday? I hope today is wonderful!!
hi, ashley!! happy thursday!!
yesterday was fine, i just made my job spreadsheet and had some time to myself because everybody else was at work!! anyway, tmi warning for sickness?? day was going really nice….until….like midnight-ish, in which case i got theeeee worst stomach ache of my LIFE. i eventually fell asleep around 1-something & woke up at like 3 because my stomach still hurt. i ended up laying on the bathroom floor because i was so dizzy i almost passed out (this has never happened from a stomach ache like …ever. i don’t get dizzy often). anyway, so i then crawled back into bed, and somehow the worst part hasn’t even started yet, because then i got nauseous. and you know me, and u know my biggest fear (besides spiders) is throwing up 😭 literally haven’t thrown up since i was 7.
(well, actually, back to 0 days since i last threw up) but anyway, i called my aunt who was somehow already awake at 3:30 and then i just proceeded to want to KILL MYSELF for the next like 2.5 hours. literally as terrible as i remember it being. and the worst part?? i’m not sick 😭 it’s the food issues!!! i think it was the coffee i had coming back to haunt because it was just like acid & mostly dry-heaving. idk why i’m telling u all this but ummm, it was so so terrible. i will now NOT be playfully trying any of the foods i’m not supposed to eat because legitimately top 3 worst experiences of my life.
anyway…now i’m laying in bed. i was up from like 3-6 and had to fall asleep sitting up, which was…weird and kinda impossible, so i’m just chilling. idk what i’m gonna get up to today.
how are you? how was yesterday? hopefully, better than my night!!
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i love how inclusive my building is! making sure i sympathise with ppl who have tinnitus by providing a constant low ringing noise free of charge! coming from seemingly nowhere and everywhere at the same time, they truly went all out for realism ^_^
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Youtube keeps recommending these "relationships expert" shorts to me about narcissists and it reminds me of a conversation I had years ago.
Me: My therapist says that you're manipulative, you're manipulating me.
Man from my past: People manipulate when they want to get some benefit from you, I'm not benefiting off of you in any way, therefore I have no reason to be manipulative. So this is nonsence.
What would a normal, non-manipulative person respond? "What? No I'm not. Why?" or something similar, right?
If something looks like crap, smells like crap and acts like crap, that's probably a bunch of crap.
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I will catch up on all my messages lol but my order came in to the women's bookstore for my birthday and I got LESBIAN BOOKS including one about a SELKIE. I gotta reread Daughters of Izdihar for the bookclub before Weavers but also definitely reading this selkie book first.
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