Computer Scientist as absurdist artist, I did not expect that overlap.

Now that Stallman has been kicked out, I guess there was a shortage of crazy tenured CS profs in Cambridge.

My god, that's marvelous.

If anyone wants a pick-me-up in this trashfire that is America, this video clip may do you: [link]

Link courtesy of BH-P! Whom I miss seeing here.

I have great plans for this weekend but I wasted all morning and now it's 1pm. Gotta go get a flu shot and buy butter. I may make croissants or chocolate chip cookies...

Yes him working is good and he had therapy again today and he is being respectful and even nice to me, so good stuff all around.

You guys. Read this. [link]

That was fantastic. I want tenure somewhere so I can do whatever the hell I want.

msbelle, glad mac's starting to get his ish together. Congrats to him on completing his first week of work!

ND and Pix, and everyone near this fire, may you all stay safe! I just turned on the news and saw it. Wildfires are the scariest thing, to me.

Y'all, I don't think I want to go back to work at a big soulless corporation. Of course that's where the money is, and I do like money, but I have been so much more relaxed this week than I normally am, despite my incipient poverty, I haven't even had a single hot flash or panic attack. Not one. Was I really that super-stressed out and didn't realize it?

a boxing lesson taught to Parkinson's patients

Neat!

Woo to people finishing a period of time at a new job successfully!

Yikes to fire. Stay safe, Noise and Pix!

Read this.

That is amazing and hilarious! Excellent use of tenure.

Was I really that super-stressed out and didn't realize it?

Yes, you were. Sorry. I hope you can avoid going back to that!

I'm going to try dropping in to Kaiser after work for a flu shot. It's right by Trader Joe's and I need to get some groceries, if I can do al that in one trip I will be pleased.

Yes, you were. Sorry. I hope you can avoid going back to that!

It was actually really kinda bad. I don't want to go back to that!

I've threatened to write my memoirs and go on Oprah. Who wants to buy my scandal-and-angst-filled autobiography, "Lost on the Road Less Traveled By"?

I hear you, Zen. I'm really trying not to go back to software, but my grand plans to be lofty and noble took a hit when husband got laid off. Fortunately, the contract job is documenting something that's already developed, so I don't have to participate in the whole cycle.

But yes, you were stressed and miserable.

Oh, damn it, I forgot that Tim's co-worker (who I've never met) is coming over after work because he's buying Tim's old, extremely decrepit motorcycle because he rebuilds them for fun. Tim just texted me to remind me about 5 minutes ago. Anyway, since I forgot Dude is coming over, I just got done exercising and I am a sweaty, unholy, probably stinky mess. There isn't enough time to shower, so I'm trying to figure out how best to mitigate my nastiness* so I can meet Dude and then slink away in sweaty shame.

(I feel like this happened in Little Women, after Meg got married. But she was trying to make jelly instead of exercising, and her husband just randomly brought a dude home after work. There was no motorcycle.) (A motorcycle really would have livened up Little Women.)

*(Tentative plan: [1] STOP SWEATING; [2] wash face; [3] put makeup on; [4] put on unstinky clothes, including a bra; [5] put baseball hat on nasty sweaty unwashed hair; [6] try not to die of shame.)

And step 1 is really the key to the whole plan, y'all. So my autonomic nervous system can cut it out ANY TIME NOW.