The hand-wiggle is actually fairly informative. Construction on the Washington Monument began in 1844, and at that time the work force would have included slave labor. They ran out of funds, however, and the structure remained only about 25% complete at the time of the Civil War when it looked like this:
Once construction resumed in 1879, slavery had been abolished throughout the land, and the remaining 75% of the structure was constructed by paid labor. The delineation between the two construction phases is actually clearly visible on the finished monument due to two different sources of marble being used for each phase:
damn. didn’t know this. i thought the WHOLE thing was built by slaves. good to know.
it was also capped with aluminum at the peak, which at the time was more valuable then gold
New Moon au where after the cullens leave Bella just…..moves into their house. It’s hers now. What are they gonna do about it? Come back? Good. That’s the POINT! Checkmate, fuckers.
They cullens get a bill for their utilities from their house in Washington and are confused bc they’re not there so why???? Is the bill like this???
Bella leaves everything on all the time.
The heat? Cranked.
The lights? ON
Hotel? The Cullen residence in Washington
bella runs a bed and breakfast out of the cullens residence
I went to this Sicilian pizza joint yesterday and it’s literally so underground and such a big hole in the wall that their parking lot is wrecked, their front door is bolted up, and you have to enter through the kitchen and walk to the front end past all the ovens and down a narrow ass hallway and then all the tables and chairs are fold ups and the ceiling is all saggy and it looks awful but fuck me it’s been there for 70+ years and makes the best damn thin crust pizza in the city and no one hardly knows about it because it looks like an abandoned building
3805 S Saginaw St in Flint
If it looks like an abandoned building you’ve got the right place
That’s the place
There’s no way this isn’t a mob front
Mob fronts always have the BEST pizza. Visit your local mob front eatery today
No mob boss wants to eat bad pizza while they meet to discuss crime. Even if it is unprofitable to sell really good pizza there, the mob will put up the funds to get top quality ingredients and a good chef and make up the difference in money laundering.
when yr adhd does the intense Anger thing n u gotta remind yr brain that u dont wanna throw yr phone full force at a wall
gentle reminder to myself and those it may concern that “obsess over it silently, completely frozen while you just fume for six hours” is also not a healthy solution
what do I do then?
in the words of one JJ Bittenbinder, throw yourself off your rhythm!
anxiety and anger are extremely persistent in ADHD because we fixate on that input and devote all our runtime to trying to “fix” it when in reality the only way to fix it is to leave it alone. considering we are diagnosed with Chronic Cannot Leave It Alone Disease, that is Difficult.
when you’re outside one of these loops, take inventory of all the things you do that suck you into devoting all your attention to them. when i was a kid, the way i avoided asthma attacks was i played video games while taking my meds, so i wouldn’t be fixating on the anxiety and making the asthma worse. nowadays, i avoid anger spirals by also playing video games (in my experience turn-based strategy is a hyperfocus superhighway so i use those) so i’m forced to divert resources to do this other thing.
joke’s on you, impotent fury, you can’t kidnap my brain if my brain is somewhere else entirely
STREET SMARTS
Me, at my brain trying to suck me into a spiral of self destructive rage:
