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•Hey! My name is Manon. In love. I'm a Pisces, and I'm obsessed with writing. I live in California. I'm a waitress. I'm awesome. I love you. That's really all anyone needs to know. ~blog sometimes nsfw~

[jlbrds]

#this is so aesthetically pleasing

[stimman3000]

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[phyrexia]

Soup

[laszlos-deactivated20250927]

Hot hot soup

[catwithbenefits]

fuck if it’s this easy why do they close the goddamn road for like five months shit

[oppa-homeless-style]

all outta soub :(

[czechs-and-holdings-deactivated]

I work for the road crew in the summer. Crack sealing (the process you see above) is fairly quick and simple. (Though holding a hose that pumps literal tons of 350F tar into the road in the middle of the summer is NOT easy)

I think what a lot of people underestimate is just how much road there is in your city. And just how many directions the crew gets pulled.

For our city of around 50k people there are 8 of us.

Also, crack sealing is a wholly temporary measure, meant to slow the break-up of the roads, it’s not a permanent fix.

Roads tend to get closed for months on end because we have to tear the whole thing up, then, depending on the class of road, we either have to hammer-drill into concrete to lay rebar and the pour concrete, or we can get straight to paving. If it’s a road requiring concrete we’re required to wait at least 24 hours for it to set.

So after 2 days we’re finally able to pave. But the city allocates one (two if we’re lucky) 5 ton truck to transport material.

A relatively short paving job requires at a minimum of 60 tons. So that’s 12 trips to the asphalt factory and back. Each ton is around $80.

TL;DR

There’s a lot of road, not many of us, and soup is expensive.

[magnumpicactus-deactivated20230]

Leave the soup men alone.

[veryfunnymemes]

[chiefmauskateer]

[jotun-philosopher]

Neil Gaiman: “I was grateful for the comma”

[grungedreamermoon]

[toastbutteregg]

this

[teashoesandhair]

Dear everyone who is currently working on a Thing, whatever that Thing may be,

Good luck with the Thing. You can do the Thing. You will do the Thing. You just have to do the Thing.

Best wishes,

Someone who is also doing a Thing

[buttrimming-deactivated20190103]

literally W H E R E is my older taller bf with nice muscles who spoils me

[jonklassen2]

[harmony-happiness]

[stability]

[purplebuddhaquotes]

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you’ll know loss the rest of your life.

Junot Díaz (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[airsignz]

[asian]

I wonder how the meteor that was supposed to hit us back in 2012 is doing and if it’s interested in hitting us now

[steveinaspeedo]

[willygurl68]

The only sign I’ll take directions from

[fantasticbeasts]

Jude Law reacting to tweets about his casting as young Dumbledore | ‘The Graham Norton Show’ (2018).

[gahdamnpunk]

A mood.