I completely understand where you’re coming from. Despite feeling positive in some respects, I have come to dislike quite a few people in my life. And I just keep disliking more and more people over time. It happens. Perhaps the opposite will happen soon for you.
hrovitnir
10 years ago
@Fade: fingers crossed for next semester! I did 4 papers in each semester of first year and it wasn’t too bad (y’know, first year – though chemistry is HEAVY on out of class work) but I am a fan of 3 I must say, even though these classes have an incredible amount of content.
hrovitnir
10 years ago
@Ally: you have been pretty unlucky in a lot of people in your life! I have my depression mostly under control but I know that when I am active and getting stuff done (studying more, going to muay thai) I like people about 200% more so there’s that.
You are such a kind person, I’m sure once you get into a more supportive space it will be easier to like people as well; not to say you’re obligated to like anyone.
more context for the only three classes is i physically can’t do more. fibromyaglia plus depression leaves a horrible drain on my spoons and i have no time to focus on health.
and yeah chemistry was heavy in my school too XD It was my hardest class
When my mom was living in Las Vegas she couldn’t find a job in her field and ended up cashiering at Target. She’s not so young anymore and standing all day is hard for her, but they wouldn’t let her sit. They only let employees who have a note from a doctor saying they have a disability.
hrovitnir
10 years ago
ARH, WWTH. That makes me sad.
What are you studying, Fade? If you don’t mind sharing. 🙂 I’m doing genetics. I’m doing another chem class next trimester and I’m a bit nervous – not required for my major but I want to have the ability to change/add pharmacology if I want (= more chem).
Structure and spectroscopy, so learning a bunch of ways to identify molecules based on hitting crystals with different wavelengths of light. It actually clashes with one of my genetics lectures but I was talking to someone else doing the same papers and we’re going to go to one each and swap notes, so I’m happy about that.
I loved studying genetics. I wanted to do a PHD in molecular genetics but had to start working after I finished my bachelor’s. Fun stuff.
hrovitnir
10 years ago
Hold on, did I miss Fibinachi as a minotaur? *goes searching*
Oo, bunnybunny. Do you work in a lab? I’m only in 2nd year, would quite like to get into immunology maybe or OMG developing little boxes of DNA that deliver cancer drugs in a targeted way, how cool would that be?
We’re quite lucky, we have a research institute right next door that we interact with quite a lot (they’re independent), but I probably have to go somewhere else (quite possibly out of the country) to do a PhD so I’m kind of avoiding thinking that through right now. 😛
hrovitnir
10 years ago
Eeee. I found the Fibinachi-Minotaur! So impressed. Looks hot though. O_O
I wish I worked in a lab! I interned at a pharmaceutical company while in college doing IT and they hired me as a contractor after I graduated in December so I took that. Not at all what I studied in college, but it pays the rent so I can’t complain!
Oh! I almost missed that. Congratulations, fromafar2013! May your engagement to and with each other both be as strong as the tungsten rings you showed us earlier!
I’m really interested in genetics too. Unfortunately, I went to a small liberal arts college and a genetics class was only offered once my whole four years there and it conflicted with a class I needed for my major.
If anyone is interested in genetics books for layman I recommend Blood of the Isles and DNA USA by Brian Sykes.
hrovitnir
10 years ago
Ahh, true. I guess at least you get to use your brain. I’m really not keen on the joys of trying to find a job again, I want to hide at university forever. 😛
hrovitnir
10 years ago
Aw, that’s no fun WWTH. There’s another uni in NZ that is actually better for biomed but I really like this one… plus I have a *lot* of animals, so I really am not sure what I’ll do if/when I have to move for school. :/
i’m doing general studies for a transfer core (i’m at a two year community college atm), and hope to get a translators certificate at the four year college i plan on transferring to. I have no clue what degree I’m going to get, and it’s starting to scare me tat i’m just wasting a bunch of money. Right now i’m trying to make up for missing the last three years of high school by taking basic knowledge classes like math and sciences, and spanish for my translaty thingie. our college doesn’t have a real program for that, tho
@Fade: I’ll pass on what my psychologist told me when I was having my first mid-life crisis and fretting about going back to school and wasting money and whatnot: It’s not just about getting a particular job. At school, you learn social skills, you learn about yourself, and you learn what you like. You might find your dream career in a field that you didn’t even know existed, except that you took a class and it introduced you.
Also, with the current job market, it often doesn’t matter what kind of degree you have, as long as you have one. Having a degree mostly shows that you have the discipline to do (sometimes boring, tedious, uninteresting) work just because it’s required.
@FromAfar: Congrats!
hrovitnir
10 years ago
Oo, translating. I am jealous of your language skills.
I definitely feel you on fear of job getting, but definitely *a* degree opens doors. And is translating potentially a good field? You could learn a third language maybe?
I really want to learn another language but I am not good at it and don’t have the energy really on top of everything else. One day…
THere is a clear double standard between the oppressed and oppressor. The oppressed much always appear happy and positive, must never get angry or emotional or frustrated, or those will be taken as signs of weakness or emotional or mental instability.
A comment like that always gives me an instant visual flashback to the Xmas lunch scene in The Long Walk Home. The black maids are quietly serving lunch to racist bigots who are relaxed and eating while “chatting” about the general horribleness of uppity black folks. And the facial expressions never change in front of the white people – even in the kitchen it’s all glances and unspoken thoughts.
More venting on the political climate here… So, at May 1 (which is LABOUR day), nazis got permission to hold a demonstration in the town of Jönköping. That’s already completely fucked up. The church objected to this by letting the bells toll for “danger” when the nazis began marching, and there was also a group of church goers who sat down across the street where the nazis were supposed to march, held hands and sang Christian hymns. Now the Christian protesters are facing trial for “disturbance of the peace”. I wish I was making this up, but sadly not.
Cross-posting because it’ll get lost in the thread we had all the videos in today: I finally managed to create a clip of the Hungarian dance music I mentioned. One’s a song, the second a lute piece, and both used to leave me in tears, partly because they brought to mind Louis’s final illness, which lasted weeks, and during which he would sing and play the lute while he had the strength.
I love the resonance of this singer’s voice, though it’s not as deep as Louis’s – this singer’s a tenor (?) and Louis sings bass.
Seeing a picture (yes, even my own photoshopping) with this music brings the memories back. It’s intensely moving for me, even knowing I can go Home tonight and he will play and sing if I ask him.
More venting on the political climate here… So, at May 1 (which is LABOUR day), nazis got permission to hold a demonstration in the town of Jönköping. That’s already completely fucked up. The church objected to this by letting the bells toll for “danger” when the nazis began marching, and there was also a group of church goers who sat down across the street where the nazis were supposed to march, held hands and sang Christian hymns. Now the Christian protesters are facing trial for “disturbance of the peace”. I wish I was making this up, but sadly not.
uh wow. Not sure what else to say than that that really sucks.
It’s like a really large proportion of the population has gone nuts about da holy Freeze Peach. How incredibly important Freeze Peach is, including the Freeze Peach of nazis and racists.
The Swedish Democrats, a political party that I’ve mentioned before, which has evolved out of a nazi organization although they nowadays have a “respectable” image (but they still, obviously, promote racist policies as much as they can), were recently touring Sweden in preparation for the upcoming European election. They visited various workplaces, including hospitals. At some hospitals the doctors and nurses would wear an “against racism”-badge in protest, but were told by the hospital boards that this was highly inappropriate, since medical staff should respect all patients, including patients who are racists (I wish, once again, that I was making this up, but sadly not).
There have been lots of students protesting at various schools that the Swedish Democrats visited, and they were always shut down by the headmasters. Just recently, the national school board announced that if the Swedish Party, an honest-to-God nazi party who writes in their party program that if they gain power, they’re gonna kick everyone who’s “not genetically European” (a.k.a POC:s) out of the country, want to lay out their arguments at a school, the school has to allow them to come and visit and propagate in the name of da Holy Freeze Peach. (I SO wish that I was making this up.)
Overall, there’s this constant tendency for lots of people to go “but what about FREEZE PEACH! Everyone has FREEZE PEACH! Nazis also have FREEZE PEACH!” whenever people go out and protest against nazism and racism… It’s fucking scary.
We Hunted The Mammoth
@hrovitnir
I completely understand where you’re coming from. Despite feeling positive in some respects, I have come to dislike quite a few people in my life. And I just keep disliking more and more people over time. It happens. Perhaps the opposite will happen soon for you.
@Fade: fingers crossed for next semester! I did 4 papers in each semester of first year and it wasn’t too bad (y’know, first year – though chemistry is HEAVY on out of class work) but I am a fan of 3 I must say, even though these classes have an incredible amount of content.
@Ally: you have been pretty unlucky in a lot of people in your life! I have my depression mostly under control but I know that when I am active and getting stuff done (studying more, going to muay thai) I like people about 200% more so there’s that.
You are such a kind person, I’m sure once you get into a more supportive space it will be easier to like people as well; not to say you’re obligated to like anyone.
more context for the only three classes is i physically can’t do more. fibromyaglia plus depression leaves a horrible drain on my spoons and i have no time to focus on health.
and yeah chemistry was heavy in my school too XD It was my hardest class
When my mom was living in Las Vegas she couldn’t find a job in her field and ended up cashiering at Target. She’s not so young anymore and standing all day is hard for her, but they wouldn’t let her sit. They only let employees who have a note from a doctor saying they have a disability.
ARH, WWTH. That makes me sad.
What are you studying, Fade? If you don’t mind sharing. 🙂 I’m doing genetics. I’m doing another chem class next trimester and I’m a bit nervous – not required for my major but I want to have the ability to change/add pharmacology if I want (= more chem).
Structure and spectroscopy, so learning a bunch of ways to identify molecules based on hitting crystals with different wavelengths of light. It actually clashes with one of my genetics lectures but I was talking to someone else doing the same papers and we’re going to go to one each and swap notes, so I’m happy about that.
Ahaha. I posted an actual picture of me in a literal minotaur costume, but the thing that got the most comments was the chairs!
Tom Martin was right – we are the most misandering misandrics ever! Hardbacked chairs and scented candles for everyone 😀
I loved studying genetics. I wanted to do a PHD in molecular genetics but had to start working after I finished my bachelor’s. Fun stuff.
Hold on, did I miss Fibinachi as a minotaur? *goes searching*
Oo, bunnybunny. Do you work in a lab? I’m only in 2nd year, would quite like to get into immunology maybe or OMG developing little boxes of DNA that deliver cancer drugs in a targeted way, how cool would that be?
We’re quite lucky, we have a research institute right next door that we interact with quite a lot (they’re independent), but I probably have to go somewhere else (quite possibly out of the country) to do a PhD so I’m kind of avoiding thinking that through right now. 😛
Eeee. I found the Fibinachi-Minotaur! So impressed. Looks hot though. O_O
I wish I worked in a lab! I interned at a pharmaceutical company while in college doing IT and they hired me as a contractor after I graduated in December so I took that. Not at all what I studied in college, but it pays the rent so I can’t complain!
Oh! I almost missed that. Congratulations, fromafar2013! May your engagement to and with each other both be as strong as the tungsten rings you showed us earlier!
I’m really interested in genetics too. Unfortunately, I went to a small liberal arts college and a genetics class was only offered once my whole four years there and it conflicted with a class I needed for my major.
If anyone is interested in genetics books for layman I recommend Blood of the Isles and DNA USA by Brian Sykes.
Ahh, true. I guess at least you get to use your brain. I’m really not keen on the joys of trying to find a job again, I want to hide at university forever. 😛
Aw, that’s no fun WWTH. There’s another uni in NZ that is actually better for biomed but I really like this one… plus I have a *lot* of animals, so I really am not sure what I’ll do if/when I have to move for school. :/
@hrovitnir
i’m doing general studies for a transfer core (i’m at a two year community college atm), and hope to get a translators certificate at the four year college i plan on transferring to. I have no clue what degree I’m going to get, and it’s starting to scare me tat i’m just wasting a bunch of money. Right now i’m trying to make up for missing the last three years of high school by taking basic knowledge classes like math and sciences, and spanish for my translaty thingie. our college doesn’t have a real program for that, tho
fromafar, congrats on being engaged! 🙂
@Fade: I’ll pass on what my psychologist told me when I was having my first mid-life crisis and fretting about going back to school and wasting money and whatnot: It’s not just about getting a particular job. At school, you learn social skills, you learn about yourself, and you learn what you like. You might find your dream career in a field that you didn’t even know existed, except that you took a class and it introduced you.
Also, with the current job market, it often doesn’t matter what kind of degree you have, as long as you have one. Having a degree mostly shows that you have the discipline to do (sometimes boring, tedious, uninteresting) work just because it’s required.
@FromAfar: Congrats!
Oo, translating. I am jealous of your language skills.
I definitely feel you on fear of job getting, but definitely *a* degree opens doors. And is translating potentially a good field? You could learn a third language maybe?
I really want to learn another language but I am not good at it and don’t have the energy really on top of everything else. One day…
Congratulations fromafar and beloved!
A comment like that always gives me an instant visual flashback to the Xmas lunch scene in The Long Walk Home. The black maids are quietly serving lunch to racist bigots who are relaxed and eating while “chatting” about the general horribleness of uppity black folks. And the facial expressions never change in front of the white people – even in the kitchen it’s all glances and unspoken thoughts.
Starts about 32 mins in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3yinN4qlqk
(And you might notice a very young man at the table who’s become a lot more famous in his more mature years, but not in films.)
More venting on the political climate here… So, at May 1 (which is LABOUR day), nazis got permission to hold a demonstration in the town of Jönköping. That’s already completely fucked up. The church objected to this by letting the bells toll for “danger” when the nazis began marching, and there was also a group of church goers who sat down across the street where the nazis were supposed to march, held hands and sang Christian hymns. Now the Christian protesters are facing trial for “disturbance of the peace”. I wish I was making this up, but sadly not.
@Dvärghundspossen
That is messed up on so many levels.
Cross-posting because it’ll get lost in the thread we had all the videos in today: I finally managed to create a clip of the Hungarian dance music I mentioned. One’s a song, the second a lute piece, and both used to leave me in tears, partly because they brought to mind Louis’s final illness, which lasted weeks, and during which he would sing and play the lute while he had the strength.
I love the resonance of this singer’s voice, though it’s not as deep as Louis’s – this singer’s a tenor (?) and Louis sings bass.
Seeing a picture (yes, even my own photoshopping) with this music brings the memories back. It’s intensely moving for me, even knowing I can go Home tonight and he will play and sing if I ask him.
http://youtu.be/KDfyGF23QyA
@dvarghundspossen
uh wow. Not sure what else to say than that that really sucks.
It’s like a really large proportion of the population has gone nuts about da holy Freeze Peach. How incredibly important Freeze Peach is, including the Freeze Peach of nazis and racists.
The Swedish Democrats, a political party that I’ve mentioned before, which has evolved out of a nazi organization although they nowadays have a “respectable” image (but they still, obviously, promote racist policies as much as they can), were recently touring Sweden in preparation for the upcoming European election. They visited various workplaces, including hospitals. At some hospitals the doctors and nurses would wear an “against racism”-badge in protest, but were told by the hospital boards that this was highly inappropriate, since medical staff should respect all patients, including patients who are racists (I wish, once again, that I was making this up, but sadly not).
There have been lots of students protesting at various schools that the Swedish Democrats visited, and they were always shut down by the headmasters. Just recently, the national school board announced that if the Swedish Party, an honest-to-God nazi party who writes in their party program that if they gain power, they’re gonna kick everyone who’s “not genetically European” (a.k.a POC:s) out of the country, want to lay out their arguments at a school, the school has to allow them to come and visit and propagate in the name of da Holy Freeze Peach. (I SO wish that I was making this up.)
Overall, there’s this constant tendency for lots of people to go “but what about FREEZE PEACH! Everyone has FREEZE PEACH! Nazis also have FREEZE PEACH!” whenever people go out and protest against nazism and racism… It’s fucking scary.