So, now that I’m done with grad school (Master’s), most of the job postings I see require a PhD. Probably wouldn’t get hired for those, either.

Seriously. I got rejected and I’m thinking I have 10 years of experience and a master’s degree in this shit and that’s not good enough?? It’d be nice if they told us what else we were supposed to put on the application.

As a TA, I loved it when students actually showed up. They had better questions than during class, and they always did better in class in the end. Office hours are one of the great college cheat codes. 90% of office hours are spent wishing someone would just show up…

So many times I can tell when my boss has been yelled at by his boss, so he has to come yell at us about whatever. If he would simply say “this is what the people upstairs want to see, how would we implement it?” he’d get a much more receptive audience.

Hemorrhoids

I used to be a wedding photographer. Once you’ve been to a dozen or more weddings in a couple of years, you start to wonder what the whole point is. Asked my partner if she was ever going to get married and she laughed “fuck no”. It’s a good thing I got married before then or we would have just done the courthouse thing. Side note: Greek weddings really are something to see!

Still one of the best animated shows I’ve seen

That’s actually kind of amazing! It makes sense that it would break off at a certain point. Most of our hairs have a set length that they will grow to, and that seems to be yours. (That’s why your arm hair and eyebrows only get so long.) And it looks fantastic!

I’m going to answer this as a physiologist: First, eliminate processed foods as they do make you over eat Next, start exercising. Any amount is fine as long as you do something at least 6 days a week. Don’t get obsessive; just do something To maintain the proper deficit, you need to measure and plan your meals. Keeping to a mostly consistent calorie total is important. It doesn’t have to be exact every day, but you need to stick to a weekly total. This should be about 200-400 calories less than your total caloric needs by day. Too much and your body will fight back and your metabolism will drop to match this new level and you’ll stop losing weight. To find the right amount, you’re going to need to see a nutritionist and a weight loss expert with a real degree. They’ll be able to fill in the details. Any specialty diet only works short term. An active lifestyle with healthy foods will make the biggest impact. And you need to be think long term: losing more than 1 pound per week will cause your body to fight back. You need to very slowly nudge it to where you want it to be, but also realize where your genetics put you. There are so many things to consider, so you need to connect with a specialist.

I cut my own hair. Doesn’t sound like an inconvenience, but in the summer our house has no AC, and you’d be surprised just how stuffy one person can make a bathroom in 30 mins. And my hair has mostly looked like shit for 25 years. (The local hair styling school charges $2 less than local salons, so it’s not super cheap here.)

The douche kid we didn’t really like on swim team in HS called his dad Jeff. A teammate was like “you call your dad by his name?” “Yeah. It’s his name.” “But, he’s your dad.”

To me, it makes it feel less like a happy family and more like a boss/employee relationship. His logic was sound, but there’s more to it than that.

I was a lifeguard in high school. During a storm I went out in the rain to collect the fanny packs of medical supplies (we didn’t have to wear them back then). As I was rounding the last corner of the pool, lightning struck something across the parking lot (it was a big lot) about 50-100 yds away. I heard the bolt come down in a crackle and I turned to see it hit the ground. Everything happened in super slow motion: I remember turning as it connected and anticipating the boom. Even though I kind of joke about getting struck by lightning as a bucket list item, witnessing the amount of energy that is any lightning bolt is very humbling and a little terrifying. I still love being in electrical storms, though!

Have you seen the way old men dress? Everything is gray or brown with the least amount of shape or texture. It’s like boomers collectively agreed to be as uniform and boring as possible. There used to be as much style and individuality in men’s fashion as women’s, but sometime around the end of the 1800s they all said “let’s just all wear this one plain thing for the next 200 years.”

Can confirm. When we moved back to Colorado from Austin, we drove all day at 55mph (truck was speed limited) which was about 13 hours, and we were still in Texas. It was very disheartening.

I was thinking of working on a PhD, but enough people with a PhD have told me not to that I’ve decided maybe I should listen to the smart people and not do it. Best wishes to you, you tortured soul!