By dixie
PhD never, ever fails to entertain. The only reason I don’t show every single comic to everyone and say “This is the truest thing I have ever read,” is because I figured it would get dull for y’all pretty quickly.
Today I break the streak, not because Jorge has perfectly and succinctly expressed a universal [...]
By dixie
It’s been a good few months for science, especially mine. As there is a nonzero chance of being home to stay for Christmas, I’m thinking more and more about how to write my thesis and what my proposals (”props”) should be on. (We’re required to write three: two in-field, one out-of-field, and only one can [...]
By dixie
At 9:43 pm PST on New Year’s Eve my boss e-mailed me with a demand for slides “today.” Since it arrived in my inbox at 5:44 am GMT and hit my eyes as the sun was going down, I’d say that places it squarely in 2008, leaving my 2007 conveniently unsullied by physically impossible demands. [...]
By dixie
I was told some time ago by someone much older than me that, “It doesn’t get easier.” Only a week or so ago, after much rattling around in my head, did I come to that fact’s logical conclusion. Everyone at every time is dealing with things that are more complicated and stressful than they’ve ever [...]
By uber
Dear Me,
Please remember that kicking the power cord out from your supervisor’s laptop is not conducive
to a happy or healthy academic environment. This is particularly so if the laptop does not have
battery power and goes dead.
Love,
My Own Self.