Paige's Ponderings

ice water

the common use of dryers for your clothes

carbon beach in malibu california

fall foliage in boston massachusetts

central AC

that thing where if you pump your arm at a passing 18 wheeler they'll honk their big loud horn just for fun

your ability to attend college/course of study/subsequent career isn't locked in by the results of one exam you take at 16 years old like in most of eurasia

that it's appropriate to wear blue jeans almost anywhere

rock music, and all its parent genres

these really beautiful string art earrings i bought on the agua caliente rez

mexican, italian, and chinese food all on the same street

no official national language or religion

how we smile too big and shake people's hands too hard and immediately give ourselves away in foreign countries by our gregariousness

broadway musicals

Made this post about 15 minutes after the repair guy who fixed the pump on my dishwasher packed up his tools and left, as the dishwasher was whirring along doing my dishes from that morning.

She deserves better than a butcher

"Oh! There's a central social space like a living room, but because you don't care if what you lay on is soft or hard, it's simply carved into the floor." and Adrian would go "Yes, Grace. Good job, Grace."

He'd go around poking stuff with an improved xenonite suit, "I get it now, the home for an Eridian is less for physical comfort and more for mental comfort. You display trinkets because they make you happy, and spend a lot of time with hobbies and such to pass time." "Yes Grace, that is true."

He mentions human dining rooms and Rocky begs they just move on with the tour. This leads them into Rocky's personal workshop and suddenly Rocky thinks they should go back and talk about the dining rooms instead.

but it also just. wasnt the only place that any of those texts existed. there were lots of other libraries in antiquity. they didnt survive forever either, because most buildings and cities and institutions die. the texts that survived were the ones that people continuously decided to keep copying, even across shifts of institutions and book formats.

endless reasons to love dean winchester

the way he talks to Baby