#side note OY THESE MICE

[atwitchyship]

When I think about consent, I think about a professional development thing I did at a job many years ago.

It was about encouraging creativity in kids, so they started with us making art. We started with self portraits. There were pipe cleaners, and so I made a three-dimensional, hollow head. I was pretty proud of it, and one of the facilitators came over with a camera and said, "Can I take a picture?"

I said no, and kept working. She took the picture.

I was upset. She'd asked, and then done what she wanted anyways? Why ask if she didn't want to know the answer? She'd heard me, it was clear.

I asked her to delete the photo, and she did, but she seemed surprised. My coworkers told me, "She doesn't know that you mean what you say."

(A baffling sentiment to this day. Why would I say something I don't mean? But it probably has to do with how I never hear about workplace drama until after the fact, and generally don't get invited out unless it's an all-staff event. I'm just different enough to not get included, but not so different that folks won't talk to me at all.)

Anyways. Today I went to another professional development and nobody asked me to do art on command, or took a photo without permission. I had a good time, and came up with some useful materials from it. People understood that I meant what I said, and they said things they really meant too.

When I finished my pipe cleaner self-portrait, it was time to share. I showed everyone the creation and I was pretty happy with it. But time was up, so I smooshed it. Pipe-cleaner art is inherently ephemeral.

That was maybe 10 years ago, but I'm still thinking about it. How someone took my 'no' to mean 'yes.' If yes means yes, and no means yes, how do you communicate a 'no?'

#how strange #legit workplace quotes #i mean what i say and I'm too nice to share gossip with #I liked my coworkers but I was definitely the odd one out #shoutout to the museum of science for leading kickass professional development days #side note OY THESE MICE #too smart for traps but not too smart to walk right past me #I need to borrow a murderous cat #my rats will live in another room for a week while a bloodthirsty cat lays waste to these infernal mice

[blogkingadam]

one boiling day amongst the farms off scottland the asociation of nano drones coporation begain to track down the location of the lockness monster for the lockness monster contained dna particle cells that caused atomic matter to expand towards a state of shattering stones as each flake of skin that would be here by shed from that of the glorious notrorious lockness monster would leave behind nitrogen cells of micro ice with in the atomic cells that caused led poisoning to fluxcuate through out the swamps of scottland for the iced river grew empty with warnings to ye who be swiming with in the swamps to never dare set foot.

for legends of say that there once lived a curious school boy by the name of noah dawson with in the quarks of reflecting neutrons with in thy glorious atomic mirror reflections roatating through out the dark matter juice blending through out thy glorious smoothie princess of the multiverse there lives amongst an alternate reality where the noah dawson lives amongst scottland. one raining day the physical excersize teacher made his high school students sprint through out the hills of scottland in the mudd with only 5 kilos of rocks in each bag noah would look off towards the bowls in the valleys of lime stone feeling curious about the lockness monster.

as noah fled behind backing down from the crowd of school students going through out the painfull torture of being chased by mr hallinan whom would use his barb wire whips to slash students at the end of the line as he sipped his pumpkin latte on to of his pony strideing amongst the rocky hills of scenery fluttering amongst the northern lights of rainbows glowing through out the egg sphere that reamins as one's solar magnetic sphere. mr hallinan screamed towards the rebelious noah at the top of his coughing lungs

mr hallinan : oy what ye think ye be doin young lad git bick in the line

noah ; never sir for i rebel from this corrupt teaching

mr hallinan ; if ye dont get back in thy line ye be in for a mighty beating young lad.

noahs rage fueled up as he took zero tollerence with in being called a lad as his nuerons of atomic dopamine fueled his testosterone his heart rate rised as blood flowed towards his head.

noah : who de ye think your calling a lad!!!!!

mr hallinan ; ye get yer back with in the line or ye in for a major beating ye lad go on what ye gon do about it.

noah found a wood board in the mudd with a nail sharp and corroding with rust for the wood plank with sharp nails contained amongst parasites and snow spiders a sick grin fueled noah's face as he swung the wood plank in rebelion towards mr hallinan. a nasty counter awaited him as the warrior herritage dna with in the knowledgeable conquest neeurons fueling the lighting lectrons to speed up mr hallianas reflexs resaulted amongst the eye jelly manipulating matter with the nervous pulse strain concentrating open the open swing laterals opening his ears to observe amongst the heaviest region of air flow as mr hallinan used the click of his wrist glove to eject amongst the laser chainsaw sword that performed a swipe swinging push from the athletic pump of a tricep counteracting noahs strike with a wooden board as mr hallinans eyes glowed red with fury as noah watched smoke pump from his vapouring scyborg teeth. a fierce rumbleing tone of a threating voice intimatded the questionable existence of the life that ciculated through out the thin cold oxygen in scottland as mr hallina begain to display the fierce threeating stair that fueled the warning of great threatning.

mr hallinan; if ye try to escape me again then behold thou shall witness me sword shattering hologram skills as i carve ye skeleton in te thy table that'll be me dinner table and ye organs shall make a fine soup with me petroleum.

noah : you think you can threaten people in to getting your own way guess what i quit.

mr hallinan come back here ye we lad.

a chase pursed through out the tropical swamps of scottland as noah strode from leaf to leaf trying to avoid the polar alligators of scottlands venomous swamps as the splashing turbulance of mr hallinan caused a distrubance in the eco system as the thrusting motion atop of a panting pony caused the egg yoke cream of cells to splatter amongst a yogurt enfused swamp land with in the hot pursuit of the most legendery chase with in scottish recorded history.

as noah made his jounry recieving sliced skin from the spike with in the blueberry flowers as his blood boiled through out the mudd swamps of scottland noah found amongst a tunnel with in the palm tree roots in the corner of his eyes for the mermaid asociation of rats and mice gathered around to use their disel damn system to control world sea levels as noah took the sharp right hand turn he held his breath for 30 minutes making his glorious decent in towards the coral tropocal fruit farms of nake trees as mr hallinans pony was beloved and to large to fit through out the tunnel for the inhalation of carbon venom in the toxic oceanic laser swamps of scottland where causeing mr hallinans pet pony to grow dizzy. as mr hallinan took his pony towards the bee hive honey webbing hospital in order for his pony to be drained of the swamp venom toxins as the board of rouge majcians school noted that a student was missing mr hallina bribed all his students 300 euros each to never speak of the fact that he chased noah out of scottland towards the underground swamps realms of magic potions.

as mr hallinan went out one night to celebrate that he managed to bribe his way around the system while tellling th superindent magician king that noah left out of his own rebelion. mr hallinan felt like celebrating as he squeezed the banan sausages from his backyard tree garden whilst bathing in the spa he felt rather loneley. as he left his time of useing his own wrists to pump out vodka creme from his delicois bnana sausage tree in a night out upon the castle village where mr hallinan decided to embark upon pursuing the forbiden spell of love. mr hallinan went towards the bar as he saw a lady whom looks to be whom is truly a golden princess. mr hallinan kept his arms inside his own jacket as he provided a frim grip on his leather magic wand amongst useing his thrumb to dial amongst the pleasure nuerons of endorphins to activate the love hormone invisible love particle holograms. mr hallinan slowly sipped vodka as he was provided with a slight smirk on his face that his potion of love had brought three buetiufull blonde women to suround him amongst the pool table as mr hallinans love potion apeared to come of to strong he married 3 blonde models at the bar that night as the magic rouge wizzard force declarred mr hallinan the primeminster of 17th century scottland.

meanwhile as rouge magic student noah was drenched in mudd while coughing up watter he was crowned the king of the rat mermaid society with in the swamps of scottlands tunnels for noahs genius apearance amongst arrival upon mutant swamp lands of scottland allowed for noah to settle in amongst his political regin of dominance for 5 weeks for in the first day noah revieled that marijuana bedding can be used to pump out an ejection of coolant rainbow steam. for as the four day of convincing went by noah taught the rat mermaid population there is no need for fossilised bones for animal fossils are to high in estrogen creating hormone imblance mutations with in the male population of rat mermaids noah the rebious warrior remained an honoured leader with in his bean bag bed of scientests in dresses researching testortorenone production.

as the year went by however the pressence of the lockness monster reamined a harming threat towards the wild life underground swamps of scottland for noah confirms that the lockness monster is a resault of a curious octopus that laid eggs amongst a petroleum swiming pool in scottland resaulting in the great genetic mutation of a venomous tentacle beast with fins that would use the vacum of tentacles to absorb those brave in enough to set foot out side the swamps tunnels in order to onyl be eaten by the lockness monster the council of rat mermaids help high political power as scientest and engineers provided upon the great warior of noah to where cybog armour in the confrontation of the lockness monster.

the lockness monster melted noahs first layer of amour with ejectrion of diesl that smelled like chicken as the salt corroded away at noahs armour a chase emerged as noahs canon heart blasted a laser tunnel that intercepted the light particles of plasma to corrode the lava in towards a supersonic state of a lighting tunnel traveling at 3 times the speed of light to take noah flying away from the lockness monster melting with in the lava steam tunnels only to arrive as a fossil in tanilba bay on the time of arriving north with in the shore line of the new south whales coast line. the noah dawson had his own holographic force of the battle against interdimensional matter to blast his soul out of the universe as he traveled through out a fluxuation of ighting particles ina worm hole wot witness him self in the glwing red sphere of the multiverse looking down amongst the universe as noah could travel through out the atomic matter of nuerons rotating time cells he spun the universe 3 centurys while expanding his mass in the multiverse to be reincarnated as an australian freeruner to live happily ever after to attend educational tree bark hiking expeditions amongst attending modern day school as noah lived on to be reincanated in his second life.

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