me: i'm not that impulsive how do i have combined type adhd
also me: has the most aggressive click first think later approach to playing minesweeper

I'm such a weather nerd I just went out onto my balcony to enjoy some thunderstorm outflow before the actual storms get here

It appears we have traded "being late for class/exam" stress dreams for "being late to doctor's appointment" ones

the reasons I dislike my apartment's dishwasher's rack design are numerous, but chief among them is that it has lost the lids for my smallest rubbermaids multiple times, destroying them in the process

I want to say that there's rules in the Catholic Church that prevent clergy from running for public offices like the presidency but don't quote me on that

so I started working on my dissertation defense slides this afternoon and the second non-title slide currently has the presenter note "you have activated my trap card" which yeah I guess a dissertation topic is basically an academic trap card

You joke (I assume) but that's basically what I did the summer after I finished my masters and started my PhD

I love this. Except I don't study hail and tornadoes 😂 but I guess that's what I can get out here

Okay now that my dissertation is sent to my committee and I can actually look at the weather again, why is there a severe weather chance near me every day for the next five days I was joking when I said that this weekend is the acceptable time for severe weather this month

Oh so it's not just my uni doing grad student appreciation week this week and being like "here's some free popcorn"

I've mostly liked it (via overleaf) up until this point, which I knew was coming because all of my figures are like 8"x6" pngs at 300 dpi and there's over 40 of them in my dissertation. But the real kicker of compiler hell is that my citations aren't compiling properly on my local machine

I am in LaTeX compiler hell

If I could stop having "just one more thing" thoughts with my dissertation and just send it to my committee that would be great

It is once again roof goose season at my office and I hear roof goose but I do not see roof goose

Agreed. The Texas location at the least, or at the barest of bare minimums a very big cost reduction for online attendance (if *gestures broadly* the funding situation means the cancellation fees would bankrupt the society) (I volunteer on a different committee in my soc and money is...yeah)

Coming back from an academic conference in a different time zone to go straight into Easter and the crazy hours the choir pulls is sure one heck of a way to mess up my body's idea of when I'm supposed to eat and sleep

My professional society has their big annual meeting out to 2032 booked already, and I think I heard that those locations were announced 2020-2021-ish. Which sucks given newer state laws for some of the cities (Houston), but does give perspective on the time horizon some of these get booked on

the wildest thing at this conference all week has been meeting people who use or are interested in my database and especially the ones that are surprised that I am, like, a chill grad student and not a scary late-career scientist

The session was indeed awesome, and also led to some good networking so a successful first day at the conference (though the postdoc search continues)

I recently learned that my university lets soon-to-be graduates direct their "class gift" donation towards specific programs, like the counseling center, which makes me a lot more likely to donate than it going to a new decorative rock

I'm getting close to the end of my dissertation and words like "rainy" and "driest" no longer look like words to me

I once heard of a meteorology professor getting reported for using a rainbow colormap for temperature. Just your standard "blue is cold, red is hot, and yellow/green are in the middle" that is used literally everywhere

The university did find that the student was overreacting in that case but yeah

A panda express fortune cookie slip that reads "your hard work is about to pay off in an impactful way"

My hard work better be about to pay off since I defend my dissertation in a little over a month

Agreed. I'm very intentional and selective with what notifications I allow to come through on my Garmin watch, since I like having an actual watch with health data. I joke that my watch is the dumbest possible smart watch with how I've blocked 90% of apps from sending their notifications to my wrist

If I had to distill it to one thing though, it's that band size matching underbust measurement *matters*, for all types of bras (standard ones, bralettes, sports). If that means going down in band size from what you've worn before, it usually means cup size going up (I agree it can feel scary!)

While I've got shape differences that make the r/abtf calculator not 100% accurate for me, reading through the sub's respurces was really useful for getting me out of the mindset that A-D is the full spectrum of boob sizes and for figuring out how to troubleshoot bra fit

A dozen golden brown chocolate chip cookies on parchment paper on a cooling rack

Got bored. Made cookies. I'm finally embracing my desire to be the sort of person who bakes because they feel like it and then brings the goodies into the office to share

I started off by reducing the amount of shopping I did there, since options for where to buy some things were limited, but have basically stopped going this year thanks to finally finding alternatives for the few remaining things and also trying to not buy too much stuff as graduation creeps nearer

A screenshot of a Tumblr post. The first post, from user "everythingfoxes", is a photo of a fox in a blurry snowy landscape. The fox's face is squished against the wind. The second post, from user "foxpost-generator", reads "it fucken WIMDY"

Currently in Oklahoma

I have two more weeks until my dissertation needs to be finished and then I go to an academic conference the week after, so needless to say instead of observing spring break this week with the rest of my university, I will be taking a delayed (and much-needed) break after Easter