It was touch and go for a while, but I’d say at this point we are pretty good friends - like I’m her emergency contact and she lets me crash at her place when I come back to “home base” (I’m on the dreaded contingent faculty/visitor circuit so for the last year I’ve been far away from home and unable to get home as…

Hi, I took a different career track and went from earning a BSEE into employment in Industry. I worked for a large multinational corporation HQ’ed in USA for almost 39 years, and earned my MSEE early on while working full time. I am now retired and just turned 63 years old. I have great respect for your Ph.D. and…

Aaaaw indeed, congratulations!

Slightly older than this week’s achievement - went through my PhD hooding a week ago Friday. Culmination of 6 years work (really more like 20 if you include the time it took me to finally go back to school). While the event was fun it was also slightly anticlimactic - my parents couldn’t attend, my brother didn’t even…

This is not the greatest thing, but I have managed to keep from losing it after my roommate actually took my fiancee ( he is blind, had brain damage and is in a wheelchair so, she really did wheel him away while I took a nap). I have not gone to where they are and risked looking like a crazy woman and a possible…

I have all my side hustles organized into a legal business, and I think this month has been the BEST month I’ve ever had! I’m working my ass off (went to bed at 4am last night) and I’m tired as hell, but dolla dolla bills y’all!

Thank you!!! And yes :) I did a salt and pepper eggplant one night, and tonight is a potato and asparagus salad - all my kinda comfort food, makes being sick a touch more bareable...

Twice last week, one of our offices overseas had to cease operations due to technical problems, and I was able to get them back up and running both times without missing a beat and not missing anytime. Stressed the hell out of me for a few days trouble shooting. A bunch of nested problems that happened right around a…

by some miracle - the ipad was drool-free, thank u very much. :)

I completed an IVF cycle with successfully fertilized eggs. Still not sure if I can get pregnant, but I am one step closer!  I’m excited and very scared, this has been a hard road.

I cooked some dinners from scratch :P I know that sounds a bit pathetic, but I’ve had the flu, my partner has a mancold, and I have been sick and exhausted - so actually cooking feels like a huge achievement.

i survived the crazy workweek from hell - where nobody did what they were supposed to

it was so superstressful i fell asleep mid ipad yesterday

I applied for and got a really good score on a National Academy of Sciences postdoctoral fellowship (heard last Friday). Now just waiting for the approval from the sponsoring institution (government lab). This would be my second postdoc (currently working at a med school), but I want to move into government research…

I finally went and got trained at this local nonprofit that I’ve been meaning to start working for. Now I can go in at any time and volunteer. I did an hour’s worth of work there after the training, and now I feel like I’ve done something worthwhile to help others. I’m proud of that. Academia has such a way of making…

Quit my job at the company I worked at for 9 years after being offered an amazing opportunity/massive pay raise at another company. I start this week and I’m not as excited as I feel like I should be - maybe because it’s ‘just another job’ or maybe because I’m actually nervous? Maybe I will feel more excited after I…

Congratulations!

I survived the week. My boss was out so I was super busy and stressed out. But I made it to the weekend, I only cried once, and I kept things afloat all week. I’m exhausted from working basically 8 to 7 all week but I did it and at least the OT in next weeks check will be $$$.

As some of you may know, here in the province of Ontario, Canada, we had an election for our Premier (the US equivalent is a state governor). In the end, we elected a Trump-lite buffoon named Doug Ford. Our last Premier, Kathleen Wynne wasn’t great (I thought she was okay), but the hate directed at her was mind…

Does anyone else feel like they just general suck at everything? Not terrible at life, but if it was a class your life would be graded at a C- at the best?