Tag: personal

I can’t deal with Zionism from an emotional/moral/psychological standpoint and that’s been keeping me at a distance from my local Jewish community since they’re Zionists. If I lived in a bigger city then I might have alternatives to that but I’ve had no luck with job hunting in bigger cities so far due to the competition.

I know other people reconcile with that by leaving the Jewish community altogether and just becoming atheists/agnostics but I feel too attached to my culture to do that.

So I feel kind of stuck. Also guilty about it because I’ve had it drilled into my head too many times that “the Jewish community is like a family and we should remain a family and stick together even if we don’t always agree on everything” and that I’m not taking that adage to heart.

sadiie:

bisexualr2d2:

SMALL TALK TIP FOR PEOPLE WHO HATE SMALL TALK: Ask people if they have any pets. This is light and impersonal enough to offend no one. People who have pets are usually pretty excited to talk about them and show off pictures, so there’s a good chance that you will be looking at kitties and doggos. People who don’t have pets will usually talk about the pets they wish they had, or have had in the past. People who neither have nor want pets are pretty rare.

It’s a neutral topic to talk about but be prepared for the weirdest shit. I once spent an hour listening to a financial manager who kept tropical velvet earthworms

I ended up talking about dogs with one of my mentors. Eventually we ended up talking about dead dogs and he nearly cried while remembering his dead dog.

sweet-tango-chill:

retentivehysteric:

I know we’re all sick of hearing about pocket inequality wrt men’s and women’s jeans but like i’ve started only wearing men’s jeans and you know what i carried in my pocket the other day? My front pocket? a can of diet coke!! 

Admittedly I wasn’t the best dresser before I transitioned but one time I hid two massive cans of elephant beer in my front pockets. I guess the bright side of now having to lug around a massive aesthetically designed sack is I can smuggle a whole bottle of high quality vodka instead.

I wear mens’ pants for field work and I’ve been able to fit hammers in them (plural).

Hey, how you doing? Lavish, Palilalia, Whimsical, Aesthetic, Effervescent *sends hugs* ~ Izzy

*hugs* my gosh it’s been too long!

Lavish: What would you do with a million dollars? 

Buy a Tesla, fund all my friends’ gofundmes, travel the world, send a big contribution to my local home for at-risk youth because they’re trying to open up a 24 hour shelter and could use the funding

Palilalia: What word do you have trouble saying?

A lot of words! I get tongue-tied easily. I can’t think of any right now though.

Whimsical: Favorite fairytale? 

The Brave Little Tailor

Aesthetic: Favorite word? 

In English it’s paroxysm. In Scots it’s dreich. In Spanish it’s
fenómeno. In Yiddish it’s tchotchke.

Effervescent: What would make you happy right now? 

Getting a job.

It’s kind of irritating that our society both makes cutesy art with stick figures running races and messages like “it doesn’t matter how fast you get there as long as you get there in the end <333″ when we are also a society where your chance of getting hired drops like a rock if you’ve been unemployed for more than 6 months.

I had to tell my roommates that I won’t be living with them after the end of next month. First time I’ve ever had to to do that instead of having it done to me. I hate that it’s such a normal thing and I gave them plenty of notice but I still feel shitty about it because of my anxiety.

why dr. rush is responsible for current career

rush-keating:

nerdfishgirl:

I usually don’t share much online…but since I’ve kinda gotten to know several people here *raises head above couch i’m hiding behind* and since we’re about to rewatch SGU, i thought I might share this…sorry its kinda long.

When people say fictional characters don’t matter…I’m here to tell you…

I think the difference between him and a lot of other scientist characters (even Mr. Spock, who I love immensely) that makes him more relatable for actual scientists is that he’s not always perfect with his science. He’s not a prodigy. I think he’s smart, like a few standard deviations away from the mean smart but that doesn’t make him a born genius. He still is shown working very very hard, and sometimes he still doesn’t know the answer. At the beginning of the series, we see him not knowing how to solve the ‘dialing the 9th gate’ problem and having to embed it in a video game to get help. Later in the series, he genuinely doesn’t know that the ship will fuel itself by flying into the sun. He suspects it will, but he doesn’t want to risk the lives of everyone just based on that suspicion.

This makes him a person, not a human calculator or a source of technobabble.

I look up to Rush a lot myself because of how driven he is. He stops at nothing until he gets the right answer. He was able to get where he is because of his self-discipline and self-confidence. I wish I could be like that all the time.

I wonder what Bobby would think if he knew that 20-something science students look up to Rush…

why dr. rush is responsible for current career

I feel like I have no foundation in my life right now.

I graduated, I’m submitting a few papers for publication, and I’m just sort of throwing myself out there trying to get a job and not even sure if I am able to.

I am seriously thinking about going back to school and becoming Dr. Rush Keating.

In my uncertainty, I keep coming back to Rush. I know I don’t talk about that character as much anymore but I remain completely fascinated by him. He was asocial, dishonest, insufferable, and hated people but he loved humanity, respected women, and worked his ass off. He clearly loved science and that was his motivation for literally everything he did. Yes he’s like the very definition of morally grey but, fuck, I still consider him #careergoals in many ways and maybe that’s just how that one goes.