I live in a boring-ass suburb right outside of a city that has all the actual fun things to do in it but it's still a good twenty- thirty minute drive to do anything there which is not something I want to do every single time I feel like going out so I've been exploring my boring ass suburb and it turns out THERE ARE A TON OF THINGS TO DO HERE TOO THAT AREN'T JUST GOING TO THE MOVIES, we have a boba shop, several small boutiques, an Italian catering restaurant (that still does normal delivery for smaller orders), so many parks, a bookstore, like three antique shops and a lot of other places that I would have never discovered had I stayed in the mentality that that my boring-ass suburb was well... boring
And it was pretty great for a while
Now
the locally owned theatre was bought out by a chain and they got rid of the arcade in the front, replaced it with a bar
two of the small boutiques have closed their doors (while you can still shop online for one of them, it's not the same)
the Italian catering place only does pizza deliveries now cause not enough people were ordering their other menu items
one of those antique places is getting emptier every year cause not enough people are renting space there anymore
and now this morning I discovered that my favorite place in town- a small cafe with barely any parking out front, prices that were too high for me to justify getting one item from there more than once a month (like 7 bucks for a single cupcake), and the best frosting I have ever tried on any dessert in my life (and I've had pastries in Spain, New York City, Guatemala) just permanently closed their doors cause the owner died
and we have a new target being built that will include a strip mall that already has chain stores planned to the square foot
I'm really scared for what we have left
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Okay so in my Computer Applications class we learned about conditional formatting in Excel, where you can change the color of a cell by inputting certain values.
We're supposed to use it to model heat gradients in metals, but I found a better application:
FROG ART
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maybe i'm just a grumpy english major but i feel like a lot of the "lol people think shakespeare is pretentious but actually his plays are just dick jokes and swordfighting" posting can verge into "lol what if the curtains are just blue" territory. yes shakespeare plays are full of those things AND they are also profound and complex and thematically rich. people spend their careers analyzing them for a reason, actually. it's not just dick jokes all the way down. and sometimes people spend their careers analyzing the dick jokes. stop trying to pick one side of the dichotomy between high and low culture. it's both. it can be both.
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i feel like everyone forgets annabeth also has adhd bc i need more rep in the fandom of her pls. annabeth chase who falls asleep in a class she has a 102 in. annabeth chase who accidentally has turned in english homework written entirely in ancient greek. annabeth chase who asks “what are we doing?” during every group project. pls that girl is not paying attention shes just better at hiding it.
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demanding a series in the same vein (heh, vein) as Dexter/Hannibal wherein a prolific serial killer plays cat & mouse with the police--except the serial killer in question is a preteen schoolgirl. this would make for compelling television due to the fact that middle school frequently causes girls to become deranged, and more media should reflect this
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