#I love what I do

[yuukirita]

Tomorrow...

It's actually a very happy chapter if you don't know about SecondBee Au... Compared to the last chapter at least. This one will make you laugh at least once (I hope)

Hug hug (or a single nod of the head)

[toki-toro]

Reading deranged tags on rb’s is such a treat

[kamari2038]

Things they don't tell you about getting a PhD:

(1) If you got a fellowship, that means you're special, so doing your job isn't enough, you actually have to excel, or else you're a freeloader who's thieving from the institution

(2) If you're struggling in any way, you will be encouraged to quit so that they can stop financially supporting a slacker (our assistant program coordinator let me know that my severe anxiety is totally relatable, she gets overwhelmed filling out contracts and scheduling meetings sometime too, but it's no excuse for failing to meet their standards). Your efforts are unimportant if they are not producing results. You are there to be an asset to the university, and what they provide for you (a meager salary, and at least in theory I'm supposed to be able to maintain my sanity) is just a nice bonus.

(3) Evidently I cannot actually be fired? They can stop paying me after five years, or fail me on one of my exams, and I can be subjected to endless ridicule and shame, but I guess that since I can't find a better position, my current advisor will have to deal with me for a while longer. Genuinely don't know if they'll ever let me graduate, but I guess remaining employed for now is *something*.

[catspawcreates]

This is what 500+ SaMS pins look like 🙀They arrived ahead of schedule!

Sorting, assembling & getting them ready to go for pre-orders. Restock sets will be listed on my Etsy soon!

Looks like my manu sent a few extras so I’ll have a few random solo singles.

It’s quite the production here, but I’m excited!

[trippinsorrows]

one of them days, man. one of them days.

[the-words-we-sung]

You'd think phonetics about your own native language would be easier than this... I need a break from studying so gonna get back to some YR song analysis 🤭

[enigma020]

How do you not run out of motivation as an artist?

I could’ve just typed it. More or less, I could’ve not drawn anything for the answer at all. But the answer just wouldn’t have any weight on the scale, would it? :’)

[edwardslostalchemy]

Me living my best life: I love my job, I'm so happy, I feel good, I'm going to the gym, I'm eating my veggies, minding my business as a dietitian

The pastor's daughter: it must be awful being a dietitian

Me: 🙉 I do not hear it

[whatwooshkai]

YOU'RE TRAINING TO BE A FIREFIGHTER??? THAT IS SO AWESOME!!

it is pretty awesome!! yesterday we practiced bailing out of windows

[iwillbringyouruin]

life scientists are so cute. Like they'll say "here are the little guys :)" before they explain the mode of action of microscopic seriously pathogenic agents

[katherinaapietrovaa]

Mai

[sun-pluto]

taking yourself out on a solo dinner date to the best restaurant you normally go to with friends is actually sO HEALING AND THERAPEUTIC 🥺❤️‍��🌹💐🌸🌅🪴

[soulinkpoetry]

Turn your passions into work and it will never feel like work. When you immerse yourself in something you love getting up in the morning will be easy.

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[themadauthorshatter]

I should go to bed, but I'm thinking about stories and fanfics and treating my favorite characters in AUs and whatnots the same way you would treat a stress ball and making OCs and starting small woth a story so I don't end up doing to my brain what Big Anthony did when he used a magic pot to cook pasta for the town without knowing how to properly stop it

I really should go to bed though

Yet I'm watching Bionicle and also realizing how much I shot myself in the ass with being a writer because now I can pojnt things out in shows and movies like "the inciting incident," Chekov's gun, a twist villain, who the love interest is, who dies, the moment everything goes to hell, the lead up to that moment, what kind of ending will be in store and how likely it is to happen, stuff like that

People think writing is so fun until you're cringing at where the story's going rather than how bad the acting is, and I mean that in the least insufferable way possible

[rainypebble07]

You know, I want to one day be one of those fan fic authors that everyone in the Byler community knows about and I can't believe that's my most significant life aspiration.

[boavida1983]

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