and then I fly to LA Friday night!
Sweet! Where should we go for ....
Fuck.
Travers: Perhaps you'll favor us with a demonstration while we're here. Buffy: You mean, like, right now? 'Cause, already had my recommended daily dose of fights tonight.
'Potential'
Spike's Bitches 36: Did I Sully Our Good Name?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Aims - Jun 19, 2007 5:18:12 pm PDT #3326 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Rick - Jun 19, 2007 5:40:00 pm PDT #3327 of 10001
Why am I in grad school? Just need some reminders. Work lately has not been going well. I'm browsing through craigslist, and there are plenty of jobs that I was qualified for after graduating college that pay way more than a starting professor salary, which I won't even be getting for another two years.
I've heard that at those job things you have a boss who tells you what to do, and you have to think about things that other people are interested in rather than the things that you are interested in, and you hardly ever get a year off for a sabbatical, and they expect you to show up at the same time every day even if you are working on something really exciting and don't want to go in. It's true about the much higher salaries but, hey, did I mention the thing about having a boss?
§ ita § - Jun 19, 2007 5:44:20 pm PDT #3328 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hmm. My mother still has a boss. Is she doing tenure wrong?
Laura - Jun 19, 2007 5:48:24 pm PDT #3329 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Why do I keep thinking it's Wednesday? I'm getting all confused with trying to plan my week.
Huh, we must be in the same alternate reality. I even went to put my trash out, because Wednesday. But not so much. (Also Hil, as far as vague plans go, I should be in Otter Lake in a couple weeks to stay for a month or so if you want to work in an Adirondack retreat)
libkitty, breathing is da bomb. Go drugs!
Also Hil, school as long as possible. Learning good, and you are good at it. Both DH and I plan to go back as soon as possible. Every single phase of this life has the joys, sorrows, and lessons. But being in school is uniquely satisfying because it is (mostly) one of the few times where my effort alone determines the outcome. Not so much in other pursuits.
Aww Aims, sorry that you are feeling what all of us NOT IN LA feel on a regular basis.
As a final note. I worked my ass off today, not unusual. But in between working on my actual work I had such fun playing with images for Plei. So much not what I was supposed to be doing in Paint Shop. So much more fun! If I spent more than a few minutes at this I could be like Gud. Anyway, thanks for the delightful distraction and I hope you had a lovely 33. (Damn! You are more than 20 years younger than me chickee!)
Hil R. - Jun 19, 2007 5:49:50 pm PDT #3330 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I've heard that at those job things you have a boss who tells you what to do, and you have to think about things that other people are interested in rather than the things that you are interested in, and you hardly ever get a year off for a sabbatical, and they expect you to show up at the same time every day even if you are working on something really exciting and don't want to go in. It's true about the much higher salaries but, hey, did I mention the thing about having a boss?
Ah. Right.
OK. In the spirit of that, and because I've been working way too long hours lately for no good reason, and because I don't actually have any reason to be in the office tomorrow, I'm going to take tomorrow off. Instead of working, I will ... um. Do something else. Ah! I will go grocery shopping, take a bike ride, and make cupcakes. Or maybe spend all afternoon playing DDR. And talk to my super about whey, when I've got the air conditioner on full blast, it's still 76 degrees in my apartment.
Aims - Jun 19, 2007 5:56:52 pm PDT #3331 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Aww Aims, sorry that you are feeling what all of us NOT IN LA feel on a regular basis.
I smell sarcasm mixed in with the love.
Must be Bitches.
Rick - Jun 19, 2007 5:57:33 pm PDT #3332 of 10001
Hmm. My mother still has a boss. Is she doing tenure wrong?
Is she in a Med School setting? The heirarchical culture of medicine trumps the idealism of academia every time.
In theory the president of the university is my boss, but the only time he ever told me to do anything was my first week here, when he said "Do good work." That was fifteen years ago.
Hil R. - Jun 19, 2007 5:58:29 pm PDT #3333 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Also Hil, as far as vague plans go, I should be in Otter Lake in a couple weeks to stay for a month or so if you want to work in an Adirondack retreat
Ooooooh.
Laura - Jun 19, 2007 6:02:49 pm PDT #3334 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
First, a most excellent post number there, Hil. Second, insent with more Otter Lake info.
WindSparrow - Jun 19, 2007 6:06:17 pm PDT #3335 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
The good mood is partially because I think I have found the One True ADHD Medication, which is a tremendous relief.
My glad-for-Kristin is mixed with envy.
But being in school is uniquely satisfying because it is (mostly) one of the few times where my effort alone determines the outcome. Not so much in other pursuits.
Whole lotta envy for the people who live in that universe. For me, school was mixed up together with a bunch of unmixy things like a class and work schedule that left me 27 1/2 hrs of things to do every day (not including studying for exams), untreated ADD, and post-viral syndrome.