The tortoises dinner: Pansys, plantain, clover, grass, forget me not,dandelion leaves and flowers topped off with tiny peices of mushroom and cucumber, coated with reptavite powder.
My dinner: One tin out of the following with bread.
Sometimes tortoise breeding is a hilarious business.
But then other times it is also a very serious affair.
Jaffa cakes are serious business…
So i suspended my uni course so that i still had the option to return to my studies next year if i want too. Today i got letters confirming my suspended study and another demanding i have had a Grant overpayment of £1,414 and now i need to return it. I dont have that kinda friggin money and i have no idea where they expect me to get it from. It says i was allowed £1570 in grants but was paid £2984 (this is roughly what i got absolutely fine the two years before). I tried to call them but for some reason their numbers don’t work. I am off to hide under a rock.
This is what i get for trying to look after my mental health?!
On a scale of 1 to 10, how unacceptable would it be for me to send this photo in for my provisional driving licence?
I have 2 different types of Giant African Land Snails and as i wanted to breed fthem i need to swap one of them (either or) so that i have two of the same kind. One is thought to be Achatina fulica and the one Archachatina marginata. I posted up a swap request on a forum.
“Snails are a-sexual so you dont need to swap them, google it for more info”
Thank you… Snail gender was not really the issue here…
I was sat on the park with my tortoises who were having a good run round.
“Woah! Is that a wild tortoise!” - I live in britain. Not exactly famous for its chelonian wildlife.
“Do tortoises have ever take off their shell?”
“Woah, is that a snake?! Hannah, that lady has a snake over there!”
“Did you just catch them?!”
“I didn’t think tortoises were still kept by anyone!”
“If you drop them do their shells shatter like glass?”
Phoebe is not amused.
I don’t understand the USA, all your roads are straight and all your cities look like they were planned using Excel.
Everyone knows the only way to build a city is to wait until a bunch of tiny villages merge together over centuries and create a sprawling clusterfuck of winding roads that make no sense and have no street signs and are impossible to navigate unless you’ve lived there all your life.
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I got a job today :D Its just as a domestic in an old peoples home in a little village - i’m responsible for the laundry room. They did the interview then called me within 3 hours to offer me the job which was ace. They said i can also do extra hours on the cleaner side of things and they may get me extra work cleaning the council offices in the evenings. They also said when they next have an opening on the carer side of things they may help me train up and get the NVQ’s etc so that i can begin an actual career rather than a job. They’re gonna sort out a CRB check which will take a few weeks so she offered to find me temporary cleaning work in the meantime. It seems like a lovely place.
Phoebe tried her first flower today!
She’s come a long way from the tortoise that would only eat cucumber! Now she’s trying everything i offer her - she even had a nibble of the grass in her enclosure :D
I bet you did.
Did you estimate what mpg your car is getting? Did you figure out how many hamburgers you could get for six bucks? Did you think about how long it would take you to get somewhere given the speed and distance? Did you plan a meal so all the components would be done at the same time? Did you encounter anything on sale? Did you figure out how many groceries you could get for how much money you had?
There are about a million other daily, unconscious tasks that use algebra or at least algebraic thinking. Just because you weren’t writing out an equation or employing variables doesn’t mean you weren’t using the skills that algebra and other math courses taught you.
Science and math aren’t important because you’re going to need to know the exact steps of photosynthesis or the quadratic formula. They’re important because they teach you scientific and mathematical literacy and rational thinking, and that is sorely needed in a world where charlatans and cheats or people with a political or religious agenda can get away with all manner of pseudoscience and bullshit because people don’t have enough scientific literacy or critical thinking skills to accurately weigh the arguments or even discern where they fail logically.
So study math and science, and art, and literature, and history, and politics, not because you’re going to need it or it’s going to do something specific for you, but because an uninformed populace is bad for the world.
Normally i would agree with this post but today all i did was sunbathe with the tortoises and eat cheerios…
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Abort! Abort! Back up needed!
