Joining the chorus of - this should be for sure included in anti-drug campaigns for teens. Instead of showing videos of fun looking parties full of attractive cool people, boom, severed penises. Scared straight.

I had the exact same reaction.

Ah twinkies. May our fat drooling maws evermore be crammed with their indestructible deliciousness.

Overboob??

Why "throob"? I can't for the life of me figure out the portmanteau there.

Sanctity of marriage upheld. At least it was between a bunch of men and a lady. Anything goes as long as it's not the gays.

haha no worries. I need all the help I can get. PLUS you threw in a TWSS, so...

I think so ;)

Thanks! It looked to me like "this is avigone!" and I needed to know what that meant.

Thank you, thank you thank you

I keep telling myself that SOMETHING will come up (aaaand as I was typing this I just got ANOTHER rejection literally and actually telling me I am under-qualified for the job of teaching general biology at a community college).

Next to the "airbrushed clothing" bullet point - what does it say next to the arrow? WHAT DOES IT SAYYYYYYY?

In my case - seven. Seven years of my life. Yeah it didn't fully hit me that this wasn't a great life choice until I finished. Now I don't even know - I didn't want to do a post-doc because I wasn't heading toward research-track jobs. I don't want more years under an advisor, more years of transience, more years of…

Yeah, I think it's all moving toward 2-post-doc-minimum. Ugh.

Is there any hope that they'll keep you? A four year term is a lot to invest.

Always.

Aww David Rakoff.

Was he talking about North West?

Well you know, the middle child always gets the shaft.

Thanks so much for the reply, and for letting me complain at you. I actually am looking for the kind of job that you have - teaching-focused liberal arts undergrad school, like where I did my undergrad (I'm not secretly plotting my undergrad advisor's demise...or am I?). I've applied to a bunch of places like that…