Travels with the Xplorer_Rabbit

[hide-and-seekrets]

apologies to anyone who ever thought i was cool and reached out to me only to discover i am just a weird little hermit who can't carry on a conversation to save my life

[catasters]

[xplorer-rabbit]

It’s been a minute.

So I fell off the face of The Earth and I guess I should provide an update.

I proposed my dissertation in April and went immediately on vacation.

I’ve worked my face off since then to get ready for the defense.

My husband decided now would be the optimal time to put our house on the market and put in an offer on another house with 10 acres of land. #BeeLife #WhatDoesNotKillUs #MayKillHim

We sold our house and moved on November 6.

I defended my dissertation on November 11.

We are staying with my youngest brother in law and his family- total of 5 adults, 5 dogs, and 2 kids aged 4 and under. It’s a party, but it’s actually been pretty fun.

We close on our new house on November 20.

We move in on November 22.

I graduate on December 13.

We go on yet another much needed vacation on December 14.

I start my new job as a junior, non-faculty researcher in the Epidemiology Dept. at my Uni. on January 6. I don’t want a faculty position but I did want a step up in title (and so do my bosses- room for growth).

I’m tired but relieved that I’m at the end of a long ride. A lot of decisions that have been hanging over my head for a while are finally resolving and I’m getting closure on some things. Now to start working on the imposter syndrome...

I’m looking forward to having more time with my family and my pups.

[mariposa-corbeau]

The Umbrella Academy Soundtrack

Episode 1

Phantom of the Opera

Fitz and th Tantrums - The Walker

Tiffany - I Think We’re Alone Now

They Might Be Giants - Instanbul (Not Constantinople)

Episode 2

Woodkid - Run Boy Run

Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes

Queen - Don’t Stop Me Now

INXS - Never Tear Us Apart

Episode 3

The Yardies - Lost Woman

The Hollies - We’re Through

Nina Simone - Sinnerman

Episode 4

Mircheeba - Blood Like Lemonade

Tom Swoon - Shingaling

David Gray - This Year’s Love

Episode 5

Noah Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - In the Heat of the Moment

Big Thief - Mary

JS Bach - Gigue from Partita No.2 in d minor

Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries

Gerard Way ft Ray Toro - Happy Together

Episode 6

The Doors - Soul Kitchen

Toploader - Dancing in the Moonlight

Gin Wigmore - Kill of th Night

Episode 7

Three Dog Night - One

DJ Roc - Caffeine

DJ Roc - Party in The Hague

Radiohead - Exit Music (for a Film)

Episode 8

Emmy Raver-Lampman - Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin’ All The Time)

Mary J. Blige - Stay With Me

Damon - They Call Me A Fool

Hooverphonic - Mad About You

Episode 9

Lundi matin - L’empereur, sa femme et le petit prince

Lesley Gore - Sunshine Lollipops and Rainbows

Smith Westerns - All Die Young

Episode 10

Heart - Barracuda

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night

Gerard Way and Ray Toro - Hazy Shade of Winter

[xplorer-rabbit]

Dissertation Proposal Date Set

Hello, to all my lovely friends! I have returned from the rock I crawled under. 

A date has been set for the Dissertation Proposal.

The committee has reviewed a few drafts. I’m feeling good about where we are and I believe they wouldn’t let me set a date just to watch me crash and burn, but chronic anxiety is a bitch. I would love to hear any words of wisdom or de-stressing advice anyone can share.

[adventuresinchemistry]

New Years Resolution for 2015:

Science really fucking hard

[dumb-science-jokes]

New Years Resolution for 2016:

Science even fucking harder

[nutwit]

New Years Resolution for 2017: Science the fucking hardest

[unofficially-nasa]

New Years Resolution for 2018:

Science the best, like no one has before!

[bisexual-bifurcations]

New Year Resolution for 2019:

Science like a master! Or better yet, a doctor!

[xplorer-rabbit]

Hoping that by the end of the year I’m scientist like a doctor.

[lavender-lily]

[xplorer-rabbit]

It has been a semester! I haven’t been on much since the end of August because of work and school explosion. Last week was vacation at Universal Orlando so of course I needed to snag a picture of Hogwarts before the holiday light show.

Happy Holidays, everyone!

[niknak79]

[the-absolute-best-posts]

College.

[xplorer-rabbit]

Grad school says: 

[wildlifewednesdays]

A porcupine’s Halloween present (+ original sound effects)

[docwithtardisfez]

I had no idea giant porcupines made fucking precious sounds

[11213372-deactivated20160412]

[nightonblogmountain]

THAT’S THE SOUND IT MAKES!?!?!?

UN-BE-FUCKING-LIEVABLE 

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

We got asked if this is cute and okay. I can very happily say yes, this is stupid cute and those are happy porcupine noises. 

One of my favorite things about doing zoo work was all the noises you never realize the animals make when they’re excited or interested in a new thing. Coatimundis squeak and snuffle, and giant porcupines make that sound. 

[typhoidmeri]

Omgggg the sounds.

[gigi-tastic]

Teddy is back on my dash and all is right with the world

[screenshotsofdespair]

[mymedlife]

I’m totally calling it this from now on. 

[xplorer-rabbit]

It will never be anything else now.

[connormurphweed-deactivated2018]

people who don't wear glasses who are writing characters who wear glasses;

they get fogged up when we drink hot beverages. they get smudged for no reason. we will push them up using anything in our area (i.e shoulder, whatever is in my hand, scrunching my nose up so they get pushed up, etc.). they get knocked off our faces all. the. fucking. time. when we change clothes we either take them off or they fall off when we pull our shirts off. we have to clean them after being in the rain. we own multiple pairs of them, not just one lone pair for our whole lives. most people don’t wear them in the pool, but some have extra old pairs for the pool (like me). some people take them off during sex, that’s fine! but some people keep them on. they don’t get squished into your face when you kiss (most of the time. at least from what i’ve experienced and i’ve got some mf big glasses). if we look down and look back up while you talk/to peek up at something, we will just peek blindly over the top of them. we clean them on whatever item of clothing is closest. some of us have prescription sunglasses and some of us wear contacts when we need to wear sunglasses. please keep some of these in mind when you write characters with glasses cause y'all who have 20/20 vision keep telling me all characters sleep in their glasses and own the same singular pair from age 6-25 and they never clean them.

[rainysuggestion]

( there’s this but you missed a few iconic glasses traits - “where’d I put my glasses” (is wearing them) - new glasses getting scratched on basically nothing. where’d the nick come from? we just don’t know. - forgetting you’re wearing synthetic material and just smudge the junk on your glasses around - after doing so, proceeding to hunt down any friend who is wearing a more cottony material - getting eyelashes on your glasses - stabbing yourself in the face with the arm of your glasses - “woah are you blind?” - “how many fingers am I holding up??” - walking into a warm room from the cold and suddenly being unable to see because your glasses fogged up - going outside and everything is Super Crisp 1080p - having three pairs of glasses and putting all of them at once - “aw dude you have transition lenses? lucky.” - the non-glasses scrutinising squint - taking off your glasses and suddenly you’re a different entity entirely - if you’re too good for taking off your glasses when dressing/undressing, realising you didn’t pull the collar of a shirt out enough and subjecting to your fate )

[pigeonacademic]

-For female characters wearing eye makeup is pretty much useless

[writerinhighheels]

- the reason why is because no matter what we do, the mascara will smear on our glasses

- thinking “Oh, there’s a little smudge. I’ll just clean it quickly”, then taking the glasses off and wondering how the hell you could see with what looks like three layers of dirt on them

- giving your loved one a little kiss but in the wrong angle so their nose touches your glasses

- the look™ when you’re in your bed lying on the side with your glasses on (aka the glasses are skewed)

[dailypattondoodles]

-sleeping in glasses fucking hurts… well, not anymore, but it used too

-if you have long eyelashes, having to push your glasses down your nose so they dont constantly rub each other, then having to push them up cuz you cant see

-WHY WONT YOU STAY ON MY FACE?!?!?!

-*they tilt crooked slightly* oh wow, And… now Im falling over

[everwizard]

-having transitions and right after walking into a building you can’t see because they’re still dark

-forgetting where you put them then having to either ask for help or judge your entire surroundings

-dont like contacts? like cosplaying? guess what! you’re blind now!

-trading glasses with other glasses wearers to see how blind your friends are

-when there’s a smudge that just. Won’t. Go. Away.

-“hey do you have lens cleaner?”

-your old glasses become your back up pair in case your current ones break

-metal and plastic frames are very different and most people have a preference

[fanartfunart]

-*goes to bed* ”Wait. I’m wearing my glasses.”

-the ‘why won’t you stay on my face’ has the inverse of *leans over cliff* ‘oh my god, they’re actually staying on my face. w h a t’

-that moment is usually is paired with instinctively holding onto them.

-those moments are also paired with the thought ‘I should really get one of those neck-holders’

-’why is that so blurry…wait, I’m not wearing my glasses’

-wakes up, puts glasses on, looks at ceiling, sees bug, ‘hahaha nope.’ takes glasses off, no bug. good.

-sometimes? long hair? goes? weird directions? It curls around the frames and is kinda weird? (I’m talking straight hair, idk about curly/wavy) and don’t get me started on hair tangling in the elbow of the frames.

-for people who don’t have prescription sunglasses/wear contacts- sunglasses over glasses is your new best friend or those annoying two-toned glasses that are kinda sunglasses if you look through them right. Otherwise, it’s sun blind or natural blind.

-’this sport requires a helmet/mask’ *raises hand* Can I wear my glasses under it?

-glasses are actually pretty strong and I’ve survived pencils, fingers, pillows, kickballs, and various other things that were (accidentally or not) aimed at my face.

-glasses also break stupid easy and my dad’s glasses fell apart on a whim.

-having a ball thrown at your face while wearing glasses may protect your eyes, but it doesn’t protect your nose and the area around your eyes from getting bruises from the frames being forced into your face.

-*looking at impressionist/abstract painting* *takes off glasses* *soft gasp of wonder*

-when you first get them it’s like ‘wait what the heck, I was SO BLIND BEFORE’ even tho you might not have even noticed at first.

-looking halfway through them and halfway not in order to see things as blurry and not blurry at the same time. IDK it’s amusing.

[verytiredalix]

I can confirm that’s as someone who wears glasses it’s ALL true. I have another point tho.

-*in science class* “so you’ll need to grab some goggle for eye safety” and you’ll hear one of three options. “You have glasses on so you don’t need goggles”, “take your glasses off” in which case then you’re suddenly blind for science class, or the best option “they’ll fit.over your glasses”

[viostormcaller]

I HAD SHOP CLASSES WHEN I WAS IN MY FIRST HIGH SCHOOL AND OH BOY I HAVE HEARD ALL THREE

[xplorer-rabbit]

Why does this post not also include the sheer hell of a 3D movie?!?!?

[screenshotsofdespair]

[30-minute-memes]

Know this.

[xplorer-rabbit]

Really experiencing this tonight. I feel like I’ve acted like such a bitch to the students and like a busy body know it all for professor I’m TA-I guess for this semester.

Currently in the cycle of “No, it’s fine. They all still like you.” And “You shouldn’t have said that. Should NOT have said that” in Hagrid’s voice. Not really able to focus on much else.

I’m gonna sleep great tonight! 🙄

[xplorer-rabbit]

Post-Vacation Updated To Do List

I made signs for all 3 of my desks (Neurology, SOPH, and home) that will hopefully keep me working toward my dissertation goals. I’m going to spend tonight working on a To Do list for this process because I have so many moving pieces and people that I need to make sure everything gets done when it needs to get done. I’ve made some excellent progress on things since I got home 2.5 hours ago. 

What’s Done: 

Academic advisor is on board for also being my committee chair

Obtained fifth/final committee member (AND SHE’S BEEN SO NICE)

Everyone likes my elevator pitch so I guess that’s something... 

Some of them even like the details 

Learned I do not have to submit a full human subjects protocol to the IRB for their review- Should have a ruling from the IRB on non-human subjects v. exempt submission tomorrow

Got a better idea of variables I can use for my analysis without making extra work for myself

Had a wonderfully productive meeting with my advisor about this and another project we are working on- I think everyone will be holding their breath over the next year to see if I can handle the necessary workload to keep my December 2019 deadline. 

Spoke with PET guru and his minion about my project

What I need to do in the short term: 

Re-start the process of getting my PI instated as GS faculty

Make/Start my master To Do list

Grade assignments for Methods class

Work on biosketch

Review budget- anything to add?

Start budget justification?

Finalize meeting with PET guru and minion 

Keep reading (finish?) fun book

[acecasinova]

Also I know halflings can’t in canon have babies w/ like any race that won’t just produce a halfling (Dragons/dryads/celestials/fiends can, but that’s just making aasimar/tieflings/sorcerers)

But consider: Halflings are like the CORGIS of fantasy races, so if another race has a kid with a halfling, they just look like a half sized version of the other parent

[scrap-patch]

GIVE ME VISUALS YOU COWARDS.

[acecasinova]

G*d you’re so right

[jynxtaposition]

I’m so running with this. Imagine… Tabaxi Halflings trying to pass themselves off as a large cat.

[acecasinova]

“What do you mean ‘too big’? I’m a Maine Coon, clearly”

[daikiraichu]

lmao my current character is half halfing and half orc. She’s two and a half feet of rage and is always ready to throw down. Her last name is Kneecrusher, bc that’s all she can reach.

[xplorer-rabbit]