I'm trying to check in weekly...
Apr. 8th, 2010 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
minxySo you know I'm still here. I figure, I may not be posting fannish content, but it's a step up from lurking.
Random list is random:
1. Everytime someone mentions the awesomeness that is The #1 Ladies Detective Agency, I go *ahem* the season and then fail to find time to watch it. This is much like my reading of the books themselves where I purchase one or two, read, am charmed, am reminded of Kenya more than South Africa, and then fail to locate more books or otherwise read on. But I have them! They are right there.
A request to the general flist:
Please to keep up the squee about the Ladies.
One day, I will be sufficiently motivated to watch this quality program
rather than mindless Project Runway.
2. I was informed today that some really good students in the department have spoken very highly of me. This is in the context of a search going on to bring in someone else at my level (we would overlap for a year), and the actual words I heard were "They think you've set the bar pretty high." WIN. (Just so you know this time apart is paying off, flist. I wouldn't shaft you for anything less worthy.)
3. I'm about to start traveling for meetings and networking type things. Time to brush off the networking pamphlets my aunt gave me last year.
4. As much as I love this job and seasons, I could happily live in a place that didn't have a Spring like this. Can we just skip Spring? It is murdering my head one. migraine. at. a. time. Thank goodness I have better ways of coping here, but honestly, constantly second guessing whether I really am okay, or whether I'm making Really Poor Decisions (tm) due to imminent brain shutdown is exhausting, even before the pain hits.
5. Set the bar high. That's right, bitches! Also, I have the greatest cheerleading section ever (I am not even slightly underappreciating how awesome it is that my awesome advisor is one of the awesome cheerleaders. But it's nice to have a fantastically supportive and wonderful partner too; I kinda see what all the fuss was about now.)
6. People are being smart on the internets. I hat tip both the smart peoples and my flist who pointed me to these links. In no particular order, besides roughly reverse the order I read them:
Five+ Ways Being Transgender in Fandom Really Sucks, and Why I Stick With It Anyway byiambickilometer, is a rare post by a smart person with a great handle.
The Abominable Charles Christopher's bird comic up now may have gotten passed around the faculty in my department today.
A fantastic recasting of the various Doctors with muppets byhradzka at cereta's.
California surfer receives whale of an escort during marathon paddle. Strictly speaking, she's Stand Up Paddling, or paddleboarding, which is a cross between surfing (in that you stand on something like a surfboard) and outrigger canoe, because you have a paddle. This is the race distance I did when I said I went marathon distances in a boat: this is the actual race course, actually.
Possibly one of the most impressive renditions of Dolly Parton's I Will Always Love You in the history of ever.
Guaranteed to make you forget that you've had a long week (at least for a moment): No One Expects The Spanish Lickquisition via CuteOverload.
Random list is random:
1. Everytime someone mentions the awesomeness that is The #1 Ladies Detective Agency, I go *ahem* the season and then fail to find time to watch it. This is much like my reading of the books themselves where I purchase one or two, read, am charmed, am reminded of Kenya more than South Africa, and then fail to locate more books or otherwise read on. But I have them! They are right there.
A request to the general flist:
One day, I will be sufficiently motivated to watch this quality program
rather than mindless Project Runway.
2. I was informed today that some really good students in the department have spoken very highly of me. This is in the context of a search going on to bring in someone else at my level (we would overlap for a year), and the actual words I heard were "They think you've set the bar pretty high." WIN. (Just so you know this time apart is paying off, flist. I wouldn't shaft you for anything less worthy.)
3. I'm about to start traveling for meetings and networking type things. Time to brush off the networking pamphlets my aunt gave me last year.
4. As much as I love this job and seasons, I could happily live in a place that didn't have a Spring like this. Can we just skip Spring? It is murdering my head one. migraine. at. a. time. Thank goodness I have better ways of coping here, but honestly, constantly second guessing whether I really am okay, or whether I'm making Really Poor Decisions (tm) due to imminent brain shutdown is exhausting, even before the pain hits.
5. Set the bar high. That's right, bitches! Also, I have the greatest cheerleading section ever (I am not even slightly underappreciating how awesome it is that my awesome advisor is one of the awesome cheerleaders. But it's nice to have a fantastically supportive and wonderful partner too; I kinda see what all the fuss was about now.)
6. People are being smart on the internets. I hat tip both the smart peoples and my flist who pointed me to these links. In no particular order, besides roughly reverse the order I read them:
Five+ Ways Being Transgender in Fandom Really Sucks, and Why I Stick With It Anyway by
iambickilometer, is a rare post by a smart person with a great handle. The Abominable Charles Christopher's bird comic up now may have gotten passed around the faculty in my department today.
A fantastic recasting of the various Doctors with muppets by
hradzka at cereta's.California surfer receives whale of an escort during marathon paddle. Strictly speaking, she's Stand Up Paddling, or paddleboarding, which is a cross between surfing (in that you stand on something like a surfboard) and outrigger canoe, because you have a paddle. This is the race distance I did when I said I went marathon distances in a boat: this is the actual race course, actually.
Possibly one of the most impressive renditions of Dolly Parton's I Will Always Love You in the history of ever.
Guaranteed to make you forget that you've had a long week (at least for a moment): No One Expects The Spanish Lickquisition via CuteOverload.