My choices were to harass John online or do the job I'm paid for so I really didn't have much of a choice in the end.

Yeah, it's pretty much cyber-bullying at this point.

Starting to think your posts should be moderated.

Man, I wish I was grant-maxxing. I am very grant-midding these days.

Listen, if I can fund my research program, I'm not above breath-maxxing or fibre-maxxing or tidy-maxxing with the support of our friends over at Active Greens or whatever.

I don't know. Feel like we could launch a podcast on that basis and line up some terrible supplement company as a sponsor.

Hey, it's infertility awareness week! Finally, something I'm good at, because it's sure as hell not getting or staying pregnant.

I applied to a postdoc position in her lab. They rejected me and then changed the job posting.

Grow a mustache.

Don't take it personally that I unfollow you for the foreseeable future (the Senators' traditional loss in game 6 of round 1).

Yeah, that's my perspective too.

Little Thursday throwback:

My 4 year old threw herself to the floor of the grocery store during a tantrum and then pretended it was a fall. Another little girl saw this and told her mother that it definitely wasn't a fall, and all I can say is that I might be raising a drama queen, but at least I'm not raising a narc.

We have a device for popping it in the microwave and flavouring it how you like. It's still terrible and stinks up the house in making it.

Sure, but popcorn fans don't want to admit they only really like the butter and salt part.

Any kind at all.

Popcorn isn't very good.

My work office, sadly.

Leaving "the good candy" at the work office instead of the home office is a good idea up until you want the good candy and there's none available.

An ethics application doesn't get submitted when it's complete, it gets submitted when you're sick of looking at it.

My friend made a Christ Krispie for Easter.

I'm pretty sure my city is doing this next weekend. windsorite.ca/events/passi...

I submit the tweet that caused my estranged family to find out I'd had a baby.

There goes my neighbourhood.

I feel like most of my adulthood since I turned 30 has been contemplating the latest development and asking myself how I got here.

Very sad to report that the reprieve @trantteam.bsky.social and I had because of our 4 year old's language delay is now at an end, and she is fluently repeating curses. Time to borrow a strategy directly from The Good Place, motherforkers.

me: I stole a lot of Kit Kats

my AI companion: Listen, we all need a little break sometimes! You deserve to treat yourself!

me: I… stole a LOT of Kit Kats

my AI: take a breath. You did nothing wrong! Theft is the foundation of capitalism 🙂

It's really fun how when the tri-councils set a grant submission date, those deadlines are chiseled into stone and inviolable but when we're talking about deadlines to get results back to the applicants, it's a much more vibes-based situation.

Too many toppings? No such thing.

Why so many shots at faculty? You know we're trapped in this hellscape too.