Y’all will weary of my shoving PhD cartoons in your digital faces, but I do try to package each fangirl link with a Real Life Story that is both timely and true. I’m not sure how Jorge manages to write comics that directly relate to problems I’m facing, but he does, and I continue to be dazzled.

I had this conversation with my boss a few weeks ago.*

Dixie: So, there’s this GPCR conference in Ireland this May. If you’re interested in having a group presence there, I could do it, and it would give me a chance to network with people across the pond. Which would be really great, since I intend to work there once I’m done here.
WAG: You’re welcome to go if you’d like, but I’m not paying for it.
Dixie: (After learning the cost of the flight, accommodation and registration) That’s more than a month’s pay. Did you know there’s a recession, and that the dollar continues to lose value against the euro?
WAG: Sorry.

Time passes. We submit an abstract to the conference anyway.

WAG: Our abstract was accepted to that conference in Ireland. I’ll be at a meeting in Portugal, but the timing works out so I’ll be able to fly up to Ireland for a day to present our poster. I’ll be driving to the venue from Dublin. I’ve never been. Is there anything I should see?
Dixie: I guess you could stop in and chat with my husband.**

The cartoon version is here.

*Only mildly embellished for the purpose of story; the actual words are lost to time. My responses were considerably more tactful.
**Okay, I did manage to make the will save to reply with something other than the bitter, snarky reply that sprang to mind. I think I actually mumbled something about the Ring of Kerry and remembering to drive on the left.

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