So, a month or so ago I got a Twitter account. I plan on using it only professionally (actually, now that I write that, I have a vague memory of getting a GT twitter account long ago and never using it, so maybe I’ll resurrect that too). Anyway, I know many GTers use Twitter both professionally and personally, so I am…

So, this story has been getting a lot of play on my social media in the last day or so. (Full disclosure: I was an NHS member who wore my stole at graduation)

So I just read this main page article:

Today, I was completing a sexual assault/harassment training module online for work. In general, it was actually pretty good...it talked about alcohol use/consent and avoided being victim blame-y.

OK, this post will probably poof in a couple of days, because I’m going to expose the petty, jealous side of me that I wish didn’t exist.

(I almost titled this “All Alone!” but that seemed sad)

I was just procrastinating putting together a presentation for Friday by browsing the mainpage, and I clicked on this article.

So, it’s open enrollment for insurance at work/school.* My husband is on my insurance since he is unemployed. So, there are like MAJOR changes from last year, and I feel like I’m really getting screwed over, although there’s nothing really I can do about it.

...but that day hasn’t come yet.

...from awkward teenage flirting.

tl:dr-Stepdad (who is a “responsible gun owner”) shot himself in the hand, still owns 9 guns, and wants to get another because now he “won’t get overconfident again”

(These feelings have been kicking around my head for awhile, and then kicking around in my drafts, and I think I finally have them organized into a semi-coherent rant, but I’m a rambler, not a writer)

...was the subject line of an email I recieved in my WORK e-mail account over the weekend. Apparently a postdoc decided to send this email (with a link to a petition to support “traditional” marriage) to the email lists that include all post-docs, PhD students, med students, and masters students at our institution. In…

So, I’m sure this has been discussed here before, but I haven’t seen it recently. This rant was precipitated by this situation:

I’m going on vacation. SehjMan is unemployed and has been for more than 2 years. I’m in grad school, and my stipend is livable, but not for the expenses we have (mortgage that we got when I was making twice as much, and he was making even more than I was).

I work/go to school at a large medical/graduate school. Because of this, every spring/summer, our email is flooded by grad students, med students, post-docs, and residents who are moving and trying to sell everything they own.

I’m starting a clinical rotation on Monday, and I’ll have to dress professionally for the entire month of May. I’m super nervous/excited for it, but it occurred to me yesterday that I have NOTHING to wear.

I hope I'm sharing this right...it's my first time trying to reshare an update.