Excellent news, Laura.
I've been told by the physician's assistant to go to the ER, which just made me start crying more.
YaY?
You know, it's funny. We went to war never looking to come back, but it's the real world I couldn't survive.
Tracy ,'The Message'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Jun 23, 2014 7:23:15 am PDT #555 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
sj - Jun 23, 2014 7:27:11 am PDT #556 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Oh, ita. I'm so sorry. I hope they can do something for you at the ER.
Jesse - Jun 23, 2014 7:42:52 am PDT #557 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
JFC -- I just went to talk to a colleague because I had seen that she was heading up some effort around diversity here (which is terrible), and she said that she and others had been surprised to see their names attached to it. Which means that somehow ("somehow") three of the ~5 black people here were publicly assigned to "diversity" without being aware of it.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 23, 2014 8:05:26 am PDT #558 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
That has happened here too. But now, I think we are down to one black faculty member (and 3 staff members).
It is also weird, because we are in nursing, so one of our biggest "issues" is around how to recruit more men! I would recruit them by letting them know that they will move up the latter more rapidly than I have ever seen anywhere (we have one second career male student that took only 3 years to become senior leadership at a hospital)! It is bananas. It even happens to the men who start as secretaries.
ita- I am so sorry. This is just awful.
Sue - Jun 23, 2014 8:09:53 am PDT #559 of 30000
hip deep in pie
ita, I hope the ER give you some relief and isn't also a PITA.
Brenda, pix, ND, Godspeed and have great holidays. I'm sure you will love Ireland pix.
Great news on your mom, Laura.
I just took my many frustrations out on my forsythia. It is now half as tall with a v. bad haircut.
Jesse - Jun 23, 2014 8:24:26 am PDT #560 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I would recruit them by letting them know that they will move up the latter more rapidly than I have ever seen anywhere (we have one second career male student that took only 3 years to become senior leadership at a hospital)! It is bananas. It even happens to the men who start as secretaries.
Arrrgggghhhh. Our fucking society.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 23, 2014 8:36:05 am PDT #561 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am a little cranky because my old student worker (male), who was promoted to my level a year after he was hired has now been promoted 2 more times and we are probably equally smart and personable and helpful. And I am 15 years older than he is! And it is weird promoted too-- like they just keep "noticing" all the work he is doing and promoting him to positions they create, he isn't even really advocating for things in a big way!
Amy - Jun 23, 2014 8:52:24 am PDT #562 of 30000
Because books.
Evidence of blatant sexism in the wild makes me so grumpy.
ita, I hope the ER can help today.
Fred Pete - Jun 23, 2014 9:21:29 am PDT #563 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Sciency-types: Is anyone familiar with phys.org?
Regular readers of Beep Me may remember that the university issued a press release about the use of stem cells in Arthur's kidney transplant. Phys.org has posted a story on the subject (which basically repeats the press release). What kind of deal is this -- big, little, whoever-heard-of-them?, or lunatic-fringe?
Burrell - Jun 23, 2014 9:23:02 am PDT #564 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh ita, please let me know if I can do anything. I can get groceries for you or run errands. I assume you are already at the ER by now or I would offer a ride there. But please keep me in mind.
I've had a sebaceous cyst that needed removing. I guess they don't need to go unless they bother you or get infected, which is what happened to mine. Mine was in my cleavage, which seems to be a thing.