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Oh god this morning I feel so much better it's honestly a relief—like, I didn't feel like I was walking on air or anything. In fact I hit my snooze button twice and then dragged myself out of bed in order to be ten minutes late to my morning Chinese class, where I passed out on my desk during break. But! That's actually very normal. I was totally normally tired and irritable for most of the day and I made it to all of my classes, my biweekly language exchange and I even squeezed in watching Thor: Tales of Asgard again with

asgardianing. It's still just as terrible, and man if I was still into fandom I'd totally app that Loki somewhere. He is so adorable. He'd find an MCU!Thor and make this face at him and LOLs would be had by all.

On the more serious side of the news, I'm unwitting carrying out what I have decided to call the Headphone Massacre. Three pairs in the last two weeks have been destroyed by me somehow, and two of those were brand fucking new. Well I know how, I sat on one and bit through the wires of another and I stepped on the cord of the last ones while I was standing up, ripping the headphone jack out completely. Now I have no headphones and I want to replace them so I can actually listen to my iPod, but would I be buying a replacement, really? Or would I be buying another victim.

Someday I am going to do a longass anal THE MORE YOU KNOW: LINGUISTICS post on why "I could care less" and "I couldn't care less" mean exactly the same thing and linguistic prescriptivism in general, but I have an exam tomorrow so today is not that day.

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I am glad you are feeling somewhat improved! (You murderer.)

It is true! I am quite the terrible person, these electronics stand no chance at all.

They really, really don't! I cannot in good conscience encourage you to draw more innocent electronics into your merciless grasp, no matter how much you might want to listen to your iPod.

But in that case the next thing to face my wrath might be the iPod itself, and that would be much worse.

I suppose your iPod would prefer you to sacrifice some peon headphones before its greater glory.

.....What if it is your iPod orchestrating this all along. Perhaps your device has become home to a headphone-hungering demon.

... This would explain why the ringing in my ears seems to get worse if I don't slavishly listen to the thing daily.

It wants you, Brittany. It wants you bad.

Good luck on your exam!

THEY'RE NOT THE SAME THING THOUGH LIKE I UNDERSTAND THAT THEY'VE COME TO MEAN THE SAME THING AND I DO NOT YELL AT PEOPLE OR ANYTHING BUT THAT DOES NOT MAKE THEM ENTIRELY EQUAL

WE CAN NEVER AGREE ON THIS ONE THING

Well exactly the same thing might be slightly hyperbolic in the way that FUCK YOU and SCREW YOU have slightly different meanings. Very slightly different meanings. So slight. YOU ARE USING DIFFERENT WORDS TO EXPRESS THE SAME SEMANTIC CONTENT WHICH CHANGES THE MOOD SOME.