This applies to so many things! Your first two inches of knitting/crocheting look like fuck-all. Your pile of fabric pieces look like fuck-all. Your first two paragraphs look like fuck-all. Your first nursing class looks like-fuck all. Keep doing the thing until you finish the thing!
I stopped thinking I had any real chance around 11 last night. You know, I had an idea that when the first guy fell off, the soldiers were pointing their guns, and when they pulled the triggers, little pieces of paper with the word “bang” will pop out. The Major would go “April Fools,” and we’ll all go home. Do you know what I’m saying?Yeah, Pete, I do. Yeah, it took me a while to realize the real gut truth of this. This is walk or die… Simple as that. Not survival of the physically fittest. If it was, I’d have a good chance, but… There are mothers who’d lift a fucking car if their kid was pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty. Not man or God, it’s something in the fucking brain. I don’t have that. I don’t want to beat people that badly.
Remember that one disney channel movie where the kid found out his mom’s family were all leprechauns and he was half-leprechaun and he had to beat an evil leprechaun in a set of three challenges with the condition that the evil one would be banished to “The land of my father, on the shores of Erie” if he lost. And then the kid won and the evil leprechaun was like “joke’s on you, once I return to Ireland I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine; by the way, it’s pronounced ‘Eire’!”
And the kid goes “No, no. I said what I meant. My dad’s from Cleveland. You are going to Ohio.”
I love Chicago’s coyotes so much. The only time I’ve ever seen pups was in Graceland so I think some coyote mama must be coming back every year.
A few things I learned from my hyperfixation on Chicago’s coyotes!
Chicago did not release coyotes into downtown as pest control decades ago, that’s an urban myth, but the city does officially approve of and protect our colony of about 2,000 urban coyotes because they keep the rats and rabbits in check.
In Chicago as in most urban areas, coyotes are non-aggressive to humans and dogs generally; the two exceptions are in February during mating season and when there are pups nearby. If you see pups and no adult? Walk swiftly away. If you are walking your dog in a suburban or rural area during February, do not let it off leash.
“Coyote” attacks on humans in Chicago, particularly attacks on children, are invariably later found to have been off-leash dogs. If you are walking your dog in urban Chicago, unless you are in an enclosed dog park, do not let it off leash.
Studies of coyote spoor in Chicago and outlying suburbs indicate that coyotes mainly eat rodents and garbage, but are known to eat cats. If you aren’t aware by now that your cats should be kept indoors or in controlled outdoor environments only, you must be very new to Tumblr.
In any dispute between human and coyote in Chicago I have come to the conclusion I should side with the coyote. Don’t @ me, I have a more aggressive prey drive than they do.
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