oh man, that sounds great. thanks so much for the distraction. jesus christ, man.

Yeah! It’s like food counterfeiters in China who tried to cut meat with sawdust. I mean. Come on.

They sell hot dogs there too, so, I dunno...would sniff.

I also got Calvin and Hobbes books, so that wasn’t so bad.

Or peanut oil...

I bet if you mixed peanut butter with a bunch of palm oil and sugar it would be aprox. the same. But uh, right there with you. I would hurt someone for a friendly’s sundae. I used to get them for my good report card treat when I was a kid.

Gonna order pizza and do my patriotic duty

Not far from Greece, Poland, and Russia, New York. Not to mention Utica and Ithaca. I mean, why be content about being in rural NY if you can pretend you are elsewhere, with special bonus points if you can turn it into a utopian religious commune that eventually goes totally bat-shit crazy. Love my home region. Don’t…

Anyone else liking the top part of that uniform, though? The skirt is uh, not practical for my purposes, but I’d love an asymmetrical-buttoning canvas smock-type thing to wear every day as a uniform. Somewhat feminine and yet full-coverage...

To be fair, I am also 36, and there has been a marked change in a lot of things over our lifetimes-I mean, did you have one of those computers with the giant disk to play alphabet games when you were a kid...and did you know anyone who had to take on more than one full-time job to survive..I didn’t. Also upstate NY...

Welp, probably not no more, I hope. Awful.

Oh sweet Jeebus, the physics people. I trained in bio so I’m used to crunchy people crunching it in the workplace, but I’ve been working in part for a theoretical physicist in an admin role the last couple years, and some of the investigators in the group who come in to ask for help...they need to take a bath, yo. I…

Same, except I wear Skechers. You know, the black ones, to be more spiffy. I work in SW Europe where there are only 2 men among like a bazillion women administrators, and the dudes wear hoodies and sneakers and the women gender roll it really hard. Like, heels, lipstick, sometimes leather pants/skirts. I’m all like,…

Oh shit yes, I’d like this to become unacceptable. Pay her.

Only he is the horsehead...

Ha ha yeah. I couldn’t get past the first sentence of his Rolling Stone article and ever want to touch the person who wrote it again...woof. Not that I am Benjamin Button, but how is it that famous men who appear in public all the time are not expected to engage in basic skin maintenance (let alone the physics-defying…

I worked at a food bank for a while, and the people who ran soup kitchens and took care of the homeless that I met there were the real deal. Otherwise...you’re right.

Thought Catalog, after graduation...

I am aware...

Wut. I would think that being that blatant about it would be discriminatory/sueable. Given the adjunct situations published here and all the other garbage in academia, I’d really like to see some big public lawsuits, tbh. Just to scare the administrations. Come to Europe for the PhD-there is guaranteed paid parental…