TMW you remember that your ancestor, a man who served in the First Continental Congress, only served on the first one and he clearly didn't sign the Declaration of Independence. TMW you conclude that he either was pro-British, or was too iffy on the idea of taking such a huge risk. TMW you realize that's where you get your hesitancy. Hey, thanks bud. Thanks a lot. xD
Tmw you survive flu season and the COVID outbreak..... Only to be taken out by a head cold. My nose is stuffy, by head feels like its going to explode, so much pressure i can feel it in my ears... Which hurts when i cough.
That moment when you realise you know absolutely nothing about your ancestors. How do people even know about these stories? Literally nothing has been passed down in our family, even small anecdotes or tales.
Dead people are often the easiest family members to get along with. Makes cemeteries the perfect place for family reunions for introverts.
it can be hard. Spoiler: irrelevant to thread topic i'm still trying to figure out the "German" part of my family... or as my grandfather said "those white folk up north" (my grandfather passed away. he has a German first and last name. the only family of his that i know of is his brother, sister, and mother. when my mom asked him about his family when he was alive, all he said was "we dont talk about those white folk up north"). Though, through digging into records, i could only turn up his father's mother and brother, but nothing else. my grandmother's memory is slipping, but in my research, i found a whole area that has my great, great grandparent's last name. even a cemetery named after them and everyone burried there had 1 of 3 last names. I also told her that there was an old plantation in that area with their name too. I asked her if she knew anything about it. she said her grandfather was from that plantation, and when the plantation owners moved away, they free'd their slaves and gave them bits of their land. she said her grandfather kept the last name because thats what they named him and he and the other freed slaves built their houses in their own little community and made their own cemetery and tilled their own land.
The moment you instantly recognise the call of a particular bird but don’t know how you know. We were parked up in the van the other day, surrounded by farmland and hills. The windows were down and a bird was chirping merrily. “Wow!” I said. “You don’t often here a curlew, do you?” My work mate looked at me. “How d’you know it’s a curlew?” he asked. “I have absolutely no idea,” I replied, before getting out my phone out and confirmImg it.
TMW Hulu has ESPN Live! I watched UFC one night, and now im watching Track and Field. This is great!!
TMW Rhode Island is actually a pretty big competitor I honestly had no idea that university was any good.... -rethinking life choices-
NCAA D1 Track and Field Championships Im pretty sure URI won. When i turned off the tv, URI was a few points ahead of GMU. They were killing it in almost every event!
My alma mata... men's basketball team is a perennial contender, too. Providence College peaks every now and then, but the arena is now a massive vaccination site with like 2000 FEMA dudes.
I figured, small state=tiny school= small teams=less funding=poor athletics. Which was why i never looked at any colleges in New England. In fact, New York was the farthest north i looked
URI is like 20K undergrad? Not sure if that's small or not. They have one of the top Biotech programs in the US and their oceanography grad program used to be the best in the world. Might be exaggerating a bit, but that's what that's what they claim. Then you have Brown, which is Ivy League top-top, for whatever that's worth. And JWU has a world reknown culinary school, which pretty much means you have hundreds of kids who want to be chefs but don't know how to cut an onion properly.
Caltech is a hyper rich school, with only around a thousand students. They have some pretty nice toys for their super small size. Einstein taught there for a little while and now they have his museum there.
that moment when you're writing the scene in the story you have been waiting to write since you started and you get to that moment and it's like you're not even the one typing--your fingers are moving and the words are coming out but you're not agonizing over them and there's nothing to adjust or correct and the words are fire
When you’re bored absolutely shitless but have no desire or energy to do anything to relieve that boredom. Restlessness means I can’t watch anything on TV for more than 10 minutes, or read, or write, or play on my PS4...
that moment when you accidentally leave a pair of sock next to the space heater, and when you put them on your feet they are nice and toasty
... you try to toss a screwed up biscuit wrapper into the bin (5 feet away) and miss, and are so horrified you retrieve said screwed up wrapper, take it back to your seat and try again (and again and again if necessary).
TMW you realize just how old you are when a building built in your (adult) lifetime is proposed as a historic site. https://patch.com/illinois/glenview/former-textbook-headquarters-glenview-makes-endangered-list