I started walking at lunch about three weeks ago. It has saved my sanity, and I’m sure my coworkers appreciate it as I am much more pleasant and less angry when I get back.

The other reason we don't take lunch, the assholes and martyers schedule meetings at lunchtime

Uhh, #momgoals anyone? If I ever have a little one I’m going to see if I can twirl the kid off my nipple like pasties in a saucy Vegas show.

1) Stay super calm at all times. Be very Zen. If you need to take a moment between responses to make sure your tone is measured, that’s fine. Actually pausing is a good idea because it allows you to gather your thoughts and stops you from sounding flustered. If they tell or interrupt you, wait until they’ve finished…

Solicited feedback time! I would LOVE some feedback from my peeps on how I could have responded in the following scenarios:

It’s Sunday afternoon for me, but I’ve had a lovely day so thought I’d share a photo. Took the dogs to the dog beach and they just loved it. Now we’re all salty and sandy and exhausted : )

It depends, and I’d ask someone you did research with or took a class from who has a PhD in the field. As for my personal record:

I lost my four-legged soul mate today. I can’t get his picture to post here, but he was spectacular. He adopted us when we were stationed overseas and was a complete mama’s boy from day one. I held him while he took his last breath and am thankful for how peaceful it was (our vet is wonderful). Kidney failure sucks…

Hubs is sick in bed, so I’m eating a takeout hamburger and truffle fries from a nearby hotel restaurant, because I can. I’ve been thinking a lot about 2016, and my goal this year is to let go of the bad. I have a tendency to hold on to negativity, giving myself terrible anxiety and generally filling my headspace with…

I hope everybody had a nice new year’s. It’s nice seeing 2015 in the rearview. :) In a few weeks I’ll be starting the last semester of my master’s program...it’s exciting but also I feel like I’ve hit a total brick wall of non-motivation. Ugh now is NOT THE TIME to lose motivation with four months left. Has this…

Can you talk to your advisor about your chances? I was always paranoid about my chances and applied to too many. But grad school admissions (at least in the sciences) are a lot more predicable than undergrad admissions.

Hey Jezzies! Hope everyone’s having a great Saturday. I’m stuck home alone while husband is at work, trying (and failing) to motivate myself to tidy the apartment. I’m weird mentally in that I can’t move on to anything that requires brainpower (like the writing I have to get done today) when the apartment is…

My PhD viva (=oral defense/exam) for my major corrections is 29 January. It’s my second viva, as after my first one in June 2014 I was given the feedback that what I did was good but I just needed to write about it better. (Which I did, but there’s still so much that I could have changed and my discussion chapter is…

Congrats! I’ve done that twice — an out and a back. Wouldn’t change either decision for the world and still have lifelong friends earned in both stops. Have a blast and take it all in. If you landed the job and survived the travel, the terrifying parts are behind you!

Aaaaand now I want tacos.

Look, Jezzies! Baby kitten update!

Oh dear lord, this was painful to listen to. (Doesn’t she have onstage monitors? Major pitch issues.)

Do you think that maybe going back to work would be the right thing for you? Staying home full time isn’t for everyone, and neither is the working mom thing. I worked two days a week, and that was perfect for me.

I will be forced to get off my ass in 2016 as I adopted this adorable jerk last week. She’s terrified of/aggressive toward my partner and has a million issues but she’s already the love of my life.

We are saving forty thousand dollars this year, through various methods( eBay, Craigslist, overtime, switching to a dumb phone, cutting grocery budget, etc) to buy our way out of our goddamn underwater, too small, crappy neighborhood, shitty school system house. All last year we worked on paying off all our consumer…