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elizabolt replied to your post “cancerbiophd: my landlord literally never uses periods. she always...”
My former boss would reply to any request for vacation with “ok...” and I never felt like I was allowed to request PTO!
well that’s terrifying.
I won our building-wide costume contest as Best Person Eleanor Shellstropp. The prize was a bottle of wine, because duh.
And yes, I had plastic shrimp.
Bringing it back around...
So I started using "alt grad school" when I got into performing arts Photography in undergrad and continued it on the side when I started working for my Alma mater's registrar's office.
But then I got really into higher education as a career and recently completed my actual masters in higher ed administration. So keeping "alt grad school" didn't feel like who I was anymore but it was still part of my internal brand/discovery process.
Now: thrilled that I kept AGS as a Tumblr url because I've found my next career goal/dream job but am still academically hung over so I won't even entertain the idea of a doctoral program for a few more years. But I want to work towards this dream job anyways and have always (since I was a child asking my mom to create homework and tests for me during vacations - crazy, I know) enjoyed creating my own curriculum and that's what I'm going to do!
Welcome back, alt grad school, my off-beat and practitioner-based studyblr!
elizabolt replied to your post “Boyfriendo is going to be the only author on a single author paper. 1....”
What discipline?
Pure mathematics. It might not actually be super unusual but it is just such a foreign idea to me. I can’t imagine how I would achieve, much less justify, an authorship list like that in chemistry.
elizabolt replied to your post “blacklicoriceaddict replied to your post “full confession: i just...”
We're the same age!!?
eyyyyyy dirtay thirtayyyy!
Makeup-free Sunday selfie to celebrate how subtle my new (home-processed) pink/rose gold highlights are. I can totally pull this off for work!
elizabolt replied to your post “i’m starting to think that planning a wedding is going to be far more...”
Dude I am right there with you. 100%. I'm touring venues in two weeks and that concept hasn't sunk in yet
ahhh congrats! oh man venues... i’m probably gonna tour some this winter. how far off are you from the actual date? (i have absolutely no idea how far out i should book things. i’m guessing the earlier the better huh, esp for something as important and expensive as a venue..)
wedding prep diary
Week 1, I guess
Wedding planning is officially happening! This week, I found my dress and shoes! I have my entire “look” figured out and can finally, slowly, start planning. The first piece has fallen into place. I’ve also started a (mild) workout regimen so my off-the-rack dress will fit me perfectly... in 14 months.
funny story: when trying on dresses, it might’ve been the first or second dress I put on (which was all wrong for me, but I wanted to rule out styles), the shopgirl plopped a veil on my head (again, all wrong for me) and I nearly blacked out. It was completely overwhelming. It felt so wrong, but in a ‘living someone else’s life’ sort of way, not a ‘why am I getting married’ way. I almost started crying right there on the platform. Disorienting is probably the best way to describe it. Like, yeah, I was just playing dress-up and had no commitment to buy the dress or veil, but the way weddings are packaged tend to be “best version of you” messaging and I honestly didn’t recognize myself in the mirror in that moment. For what it’s worth, my dress is honestly the polar opposite of, well, actually, 99% of the other dresses I tried on that day. And it really does feel like “me” as a dress, which I honestly never expected I’d experience. It’s difficult to understand the power of (seriously) trying on wedding dresses without having done so, but it was a bizarrely emotional experience.
next up: the guest list, which has been giving me anxiety basically since the beginning and has been the no.1 reason I hadn’t started planning prior to happening upon my dress (sheer luck). Eventually. I still have 3 group projects and a research project to finish up in the next 4 weeks, which (very) sadly take priority right now.
