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Some days, the world is an ill-fitting shoe. It’s annoys me, it hurts me, and I just want to take it off, throw it out, and get a new one that fits. I am a good immigrant. I speak the language; I am a highly educated asset to this society; I am a law-abiding, tax-paying
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Who has your cell phone number? And whose number do you have? My family hasn’t had a land line for years. DH, Eldest offspring, and I have cell phones; Middle Boy will get one once he starts middle school and starts walking home alone. My cell phone serves as de facto home phone on all
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Reader Burnt-out Postdoc (BoP) has a question for the blogosphere. Please help BoP by sharing your thoughts in the comments! I’m now in my third year of postdoc. After moving to my current position I started working on a new, challenging and very interesting project, for which I had to develop many new skills. It was a
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Here’s some enjoyable and quirky or otherwise unusual cinematic fare that packs more of an emotional punch than you might expect: Equals — I saw this one on Amazon Prime and it was much better than I’d hoped. Beautifully shot and beautifully paced, with great casting. Don’t get turned off by Kristen Stewart starring, she’s excellent in this movie.
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… by car? I am contemplating driving 10 hrs each way to attend one day of a conference, where I am supposed to give a talk. That would be a 10-hr drive, 1 day there, and a 10-hr drive back. I am very, very tempted to do it, because: a) I love driving b) I dislike flying (specifically,
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I am apparently a very low-class person, and I think I am okay with that. I am more comfortable in a sports bar, having a beer and eating burgers, than I am at a fancy restaurant. If I am with friends and there’s a choice as to where to go, I would almost always pick a brewery,
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How do you feel about summer PhD defenses? This spring, it seems I have been inundated with requests to be on mid-summer PhD defense committees, usually for students for whom I was already involved as part of the defense prospectus committee (our committees don’t have ongoing involvement with students, unless there’s an existing technical collaboration). On
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When you send me a ppt, a doc, or a pdf (!) whose size is in the hundreds of megabytes, know that I curse you loudly, using all the juiciest, most vivid expletives that I know. These files are so gigantic because your images are uncompressed and/or have stupidly, unnecessarily high resolution. Learn how to use
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I don’t think I have ever had a harder semester than this spring. Part of it is that I had a really large class with basically no help, which required a lot of face time (2.5 hrs of lecture, 1.5 hrs of discussion, 6 hours of office hours on regular weeks — always someone in
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I thought I had a friend, but I guess not. FF (former friend) is a peer in another department. We were family friends — DH and I would go to FF and spouse’s house, they’d come to ours. However, DH, who is a vastly better judge of character than I am, never particularly liked FF;
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