The Care and Keeping of Extroverts (A Poorly Drawn Comic)

Hey Amanda,

So I dunno about you, but my internet life has been filled with counterintuitive declarations of introverted pride. There was this fantastic TED Talk going around, and about three million personality tests. And I dunno. I was feeling like Extroversion was getting maligned and vastly misunderstood . Everyone needs some alone time to recharge. Everyone hurts when their needs aren't met. No one likes meaningless conversations about the weather. No one likes huge crowds of people they don't know.  So if that's your definition of extroverts, yeah, definitely, those people are overrated. But more than that, no one is an extrovert or an introvert 100% of the time.

So in response to this webcomic....I drew one of my own for extroverts. (I had a super difficult time getting the comic to both be legible and not be so mammoth-ly big that I I had to scroll right to left to read it...so here's my hack. Do it with me. Find the ALT button. Hold it down. Now find the + on your keyboard and press it a few times until you can read the text. YAY! You can let go of the ALT button now)

(To right your screen, hold down ALT and press the - key (that's the minus key) on your keyboard until it's normal)

Extroverted: adj.  doesn't mean annoying and bombastic. Doesn't even mean you value social interactions, because that's everyone. If you don't occasionally crave human interaction, you aren't called an introvert. You're called a sociopath. 

Extrovert,
Stephanie

Real Halloween Animals that Look like they Shouldn't Exist

Hey Amanda, 

Here's some real animals that remind us that not all monsters are fiction. 

Painted Bat---A creature so fake, I had to check the edits page on its wikipedia article.

 (Source)

Blobfish---to get a more self-explanatory name you'd have to watch Pokemon

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Myrianida pachycera --- Like a video game boss,  pachycera spawns clones of itself on its own body which then split off  to swim away and lay eggs. Better go back and look for a 1-Up

(Source and a really awesome blog)

Pacu Fish --looks like a necromancer stole a man's jaw and frankenstein-ed it into a fishes face

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Glaucus Atlanticus-- ...the alien invasion started in the ocean. 

He's actually pretty cute. (Source)

Goblin Shark-- my brain has never invented a nightmare creature more frightening. 

Shudders. (Source)

I'd include a definition of reality but it's been thrown into question.

Happy All Saints Day/ Día de los Inocentes,

Stephanie