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I know people on tumblr looove stories of underwater cave diving, but I haven't seen anyone talk about nitrogen narcosis aka "raptures of the deep"

basically when you want to get your advanced scuba certification (allowing you to go more than 60 feet deep) you have to undergo a very specific test: your instructor takes you down past the 60+ foot threshold, and she brings a little underwater white board with her.

she writes a very basic math problem on that board. 6 + 15. she shows it to you, and you have to solve it.

if you can solve it, you're good. that is the hardest part of the test.

because here's what happens: there is a subset of people, and we have no real idea why this happens only to them, who lose their minds at depth. they're not dying, they're not running out of oxygen, they just completely lose their sense of identity when deep in the sea.

a woman on a dive my instructor led once vanished during the course of the excursion. they were diving near this dropoff point, beyond which the depth exceeded 60 feet and he'd told them not to go down that way. the instructor made his way over to look for her and found a guy sitting at the edge of the dropoff (an underwater cliff situation) just staring down into the dark. the guy is okay, but he's at the threshold, spacing out, and mentally difficult to reach. they try to communicate, and finally the guy just points down into the dark, knowing he can't go down there, but he saw the woman go.

instructor is deep water certified and he goes down. he shines his light into the dark, down onto the seafloor which is at 90 feet below the surface. he sees the woman, her arms locked to her sides, moving like a fish, swimming furiously in circles in the pitch black.

she is hard to catch but he stops her and checks her remaining oxygen: she is almost out, on account of swimming a marathon for absolutely no reason. he is able to drag her back up, get her to a stable depth to decompress, and bring her to the surface safely.

when their masks are off and he finally asks her what happened, and why was she swimming like that, she says she fully, 100% believed she was a mermaid, had always been a mermaid, and something was hunting her in the dark 👍

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I'm literally going to go broke financing this classroom.😞

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So the school year was very interesting and at the end of the school year I was offered the opportunity to move into a new grade. I will now be teaching 7th grade which means in many ways I will be starting completely over. One of those ways will be in a new classroom. That means I'll be starting from scratch in most ways with supplies and decorations a lot of the things that I had before I'll need to leave behind for the incoming teacher. So I'm starting my Amazon wishlist early this year. Anything you can help me with would be most appreciated although please don't feel like you need to I would just appreciate you having a look at. I'm starting all over in new curriculum in a new area of my building and I'm completely overwhelmed.......

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So the school year was very interesting and at the end of the school year I was offered the opportunity to move into a new grade. I will now be teaching 7th grade which means in many ways I will be starting completely over. One of those ways will be in a new classroom. That means I'll be starting from scratch in most ways with supplies and decorations a lot of the things that I had before I'll need to leave behind for the incoming teacher. So I'm starting my Amazon wishlist early this year. Anything you can help me with would be most appreciated although please don't feel like you need to I would just appreciate you having a look at. I'm starting all over in new curriculum in a new area of my building and I'm completely overwhelmed.......

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THE TUMBLR HORSE DERBY

WELCOME TO THE FIRST TUMBLR HORSE DERBY (that i know of, anyway)

HOW TO HORSE: 🐎🐎🐎 - Vote for your FAVOURITE horse to make them go faster! (yknow, like those carnival horse derby games!) MAY THE BEST HORSE WIN

(also sample size reblog yadda yadda yadda HORSE)

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I'm reading "An Unofficial Guide to the Opening and Closing Quotes from Criminal Minds: Voiceover Quotes" and one has struck a deep, deep chord with me.

Season 6 Episode 'Sense Memory'

Read by Emily Prentiss "Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it'" novelist Vladimir Nabokov

There are just some smells that I deeply connect with people in my life, past and present. They evoke some of the best and some of the very worst memories I have.

Something to think about folks.

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A lot of adulthood is shouting “AUGH MY LAUNDRY” hours after you put it in the washer/dryer and running to go fetch it

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Also turns out that I need brand new bookshelves for my thousand some books that I PERSONALLY HAVE purchased for my classroom. The current shelves are beyond repair.

If I can't get bookshelves I'll be teaching my reading and language arts classes out of boxes all year. 😑

So the school year was very interesting and at the end of the school year I was offered the opportunity to move into a new grade. I will now be teaching 7th grade which means in many ways I will be starting completely over. One of those ways will be in a new classroom. That means I'll be starting from scratch in most ways with supplies and decorations a lot of the things that I had before I'll need to leave behind for the incoming teacher. So I'm starting my Amazon wishlist early this year. Anything you can help me with would be most appreciated although please don't feel like you need to I would just appreciate you having a look at. I'm starting all over in new curriculum in a new area of my building and I'm completely overwhelmed.......

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It makes no sense why people nowadays give out social media before phone number.

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the line between not going out as an act of self-care and not going out as a symptom of depression is but a gossamer thread

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She's an artist.

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So the school year was very interesting and at the end of the school year I was offered the opportunity to move into a new grade. I will now be teaching 7th grade which means in many ways I will be starting completely over. One of those ways will be in a new classroom. That means I'll be starting from scratch in most ways with supplies and decorations a lot of the things that I had before I'll need to leave behind for the incoming teacher. So I'm starting my Amazon wishlist early this year. Anything you can help me with would be most appreciated although please don't feel like you need to I would just appreciate you having a look at. I'm starting all over in new curriculum in a new area of my building and I'm completely overwhelmed.......

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This thread omg

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Thank you so love.

Hey! It’s @vaderkitten’s birthday today!!

Happy Birthday, K! 🎂 🎈

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If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.