I agree that this was probably the intent.

Or: the amount of people who got it and didn't think it was funny.

This is First World Problems baiting if I've ever seen it.

Tell tell tell.

This does not sound good.

For you, fellow Texans.

Sweet! (If big chunks of time feel too onerous, lots of people swear by variations of that Pomodoro technique.)

That's seriously disappointing. Even more of a reason to bring it to admin attention. That's a professional space, and they need to be upholding professional norms; if these clowns don't understand what that means in an academic setting, someone needs to step in and make the guidelines clear.

If I recall correctly (this is 15+ years back now), I bled for 40+ days (biblical flood, I called it) and then did not have any periods as long as I was on it. I didn't think you were meant to have a period while on Depo because there's no variation in the amount of hormones in your system comparable to the sugar…

Not specific, I realize, but probably something playing on the banana-phallus connection, right?

So sorry. Hope they can get them back.

Sing his praises to other organizations and see if you can get him an offer that scratches his ego in the right place? (Half kidding. I'm sorry you're dealing with such a volatile person. I wonder if "The Gift of Fear" would have anything helpful.)

If not too much time has passed since that last exchange, "have a great trip!" is fine. Don't add the "let me know" part, and let him make the next contact. But you've made it clear that you are interested in seeing him again, and you really don't want to set the precedent of you being the one to initiate and…

Please do write to the administrators. Screen shot the chats if you can. Hopefully the institution has policies addressing this sort of thing, if not the program itself.

Takes some fiddling to see what will really work with your own particular psychology, but- one way or another, you'll be motivated by making progress. To get there, either try the time route (lots of free Pomodoro timers out there- do your time, then reward yourself, and if nothing else you have the pride of having…

Devil's advocate: sometimes explanations sound like excuses, and are worth avoiding for that reason. If he reaches out and has an explanation at that point, I'd hear him out, see if it sits well with me, and go from there. Any more funny business and he gets the axe, but if he seemed like someone worth meeting to…

Interesting. A decade later, I'm seeing the Emily-Lorelai dynamic quite differently. A lot more parallels are there than I'd noticed. Emily can be pretty bad, but Lorelai is also self-absorbed and flaky, and the lack of insight and empathy definitely goes both ways. I also feel like a lot of the preferences the…

In addition to those already mentioned, Top of the Lake.

Mmmmmnope. Clearly incredibly talented but I had to stop that before the 30 second mark. Not age appropriate at all.

Why would you not say that? I will never understand holding back on speaking plainly when flagrant fouls are being committed left and right.