Rick sounds like he has an awesome job!!
Well, Hil was looking for some academic cheerleading. If she had said "Someone tell me why I took this job in industry instead of finishing my degree and taking an academic job?" the answer would have been different (whitefonted for Hil):
Because you want a salary consistent with your skills, because a real job requires (slightly) fewer committee meetings filled with pompous fools, because you want to work less than 60 hours a week, because you want to leave at 5:00 on Friday and have a real weekend, because you know that you will reach an age when one more ignorant yet self-entitled 18-year-old will push you over the edge, because you want to choose the city where you live, or because struggling to publish your ideas just so they can be criticized by people around the world sounds like it could be more stressful than it is fun.
And I totally need to get up north.
Yes. Yes, you do.
I left my subtlety at the door...
I left my subtlety at the door...
Now we just have to work on the pants.
skips away whistling innocently
Aimee, Aimee, innocent just doesn't work. Pick one: sexily, snarkily, evilly, other.
From LOLCats, this one makes me laugh. One pissed-off cat.
I honestly used to have flirt-fu.
You can borrow mine. I've got plenty, and apparently I'm not using it effectively lately...Or I can just be like Jilli and plan to tell the boy straight up...;)
'm one of those people who never uses an alarm clock because my eyes automatically open at the same time (nearly) every day
Whoah. THat's just weird, man.
Rick, thanks for the reality check. Reminds me that my job is fine, thanks, no PhD needed. :)
Oh look! Mood (from Project Runway) has a nifty website! [link]
I'm one of those people who never uses an alarm clock because my eyes automatically open at the same time (nearly) every day
I've always kind of wanted to be one of these people. My dad used to be, although not so much since he retired. I, on the other hand, have turned into one of those people who have to set the alarm early, so I can push snooze several times, and away from my bed, so that I actually have to get out of bed to turn it off, so that I don't just turn it off without actually waking. I've had various levels of snooze in my life, but I pretty much only had to move the clock in the last few years. I blame Juneau.
I, on the other hand, have turned into one of those people who have to set the alarm early, so I can push snooze several times, and away from my bed, so that I actually have to get out of bed to turn it off, so that I don't just turn it off without actually waking.
This is me. It drives Mr. Jane insane because he's likely just fallen asleep.
I tend to cycle between periods of getting up at the same time every morning and periods of sleeping until 12 if I don't set an alarm. And periods like this where I'm sleeping from about 6-9 in the morning because it's 80 degrees and humid in my apartment and that's the only time when it gets cool enough to sleep. (I think the lack of cooling is a building-wide problem. No cold water, either. I've been taking showers by turning the cold water tap all the way on and showering in warm water.)
