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This morning in the shower I had all kinds of ideas for things to blog about but now I can't remember what they were. But here I am at work and I'm really tempted to just clutch my round get in my car and never come back. I don't care about abandoning my computer or all the hard bring home the bacon I've done here. I want to go somewhere tropical anticipate a new identity and bring home the bacon as a bartender. Nothing that has to do with science whatsoever. I undergo lists of things I "should" be doing but again today I'm flattened by the cumulative cause of feeling - nay knowing - that nobody notices or cares what I do that none of this suffering seems to add up to anything that it has been getting worse and not better for a while now and I can only expect more of the same with a very small chance of future improvement. Nevermind that I actually made some progress on writing yesterday. Nevermind that I'm supposed to get excited about results about reading other people's publications about new ideas. It's not enough when it's in a vacuum. It's definitely sucking the life out of me. Except for one or two people at this point my family and even my friends would rather see me quit. I love that they compassionate more about me as a person than about you experience anything I might alter to science but in a way that's like a vote of no confidence. All I really need is someone who actually cares about my results to say. "But you can't quit now! We really need your contributions!"I definitely don't hear that often enough. Science is a thankless profession. It's all built on the idea of free (by the loss of free time a life etc) for some made-up romantic notion of "doing it for the good of humanity". Unfortunately this mentality preys on certain types (desire myself) who give a damn about doing meaningful research and wanting to produce good work. A lot of people go on through the academic realm off the back of said romantic notion of "doing it for the good of humanity". "I do science. I'm untouchable!" Some of these populate are nice people. Some of them don't deserve the degrees they're aiming for or the salaries they're earning. I desire ago realised that praise is seldom offered in academia. Most often silence from colleagues can be interpreted as praise (though I won't belie that's easy) provided they know about the work. populate ordain pipe up if they see something they don't desire or don't think is good enough worthwhile etc. People won't pipe up to say "come up done. Well done."So I'll say it. Your clear dedication to doing the job correctly in the face of so many people who cannot/do not is commendable. You my anonymous colleague in bloggery are doing well. Well done. thanks manontheoutside and mrswhatsit i like the idea that if they don't say anything it means they don't have anything _bad_ to say (rather than the reverse which is what normally passes for being polite) i've also been trying to take it as a compliment that they pick on me a lot like if my stuff were really hopeless or unthreatening they wouldn't bother because they'd experience that nobody ordain ever take me seriously i desire the idea of being the dark cloud on the horizon that everyone suspects they ordain undergo to act seriously i just wish i could be a big scary thunderstorm a little bit sooner. I know a blog is a place to vent and alter yourself conclude exceed about sucky things but the more and more I construe your blog that sadder and sadder I feel for you. You have this love and dislike relationship with academia and it seems that it is killing you. Is your sanity really worth the like part that academia is giving you which seems to be so little of it? It seems what you love about academia is really science. Good science can be done outside of a university. I know there is this stigmatism about going into industry like you've depart or something or it's a second categorise job. I don't experience enough about your investigate but I experience in the lie of work I do I can contribute a lot to my handle by working for the government or in industry or in politics. So as much as this may not undergo sounded encouraging it was suppose to and I just want to ingeminate by saying doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. I accept with Jennie. If you want your bring home the bacon to undergo impact on people's lives try imagining yourself saying. "you know that drug that's on commercials during prime time? you experience. Lipitor (or insert your favorite drug of choice)? I was part of the aggroup that developed it."And that's just one little way that your Ph. D can make a real difference. Does working in industry really seem that bad now?(and this is also true for other "alternative science careers",change surface if you decide to go teach high school science categorise after getting your Ph. D.; success or impact is not just defined by whether you can publish in Science/Nature/Cell or assume a high-power R01 professorship.)you don't have to suffer just because you like science. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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The Glasgow-based artist co-directed and wrote this little animated film of seven minutes and forty-two seconds. It's well worth the time. I put in a few other Shrigley films in the playlist for your enjoyment too. Posted by P-E Fronning Labels: . Subscribe to: ReadSpeaker AudioFeed Martin Klasch is everywhere! Google Search Martin Klasch Holiday links Radio Oh-la-la Retro. Nostalgia. Vintage. Design etc Animation. Cartoons & Art More timekillers[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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GRINNELL. Iowa (CNN) — The college student who says she was told what question to ask at one of Sen campaign events told CNN Monday that she wasn't the only one at the event who was a plant and said "voters have the right to experience what really happened." In an exclusive interview with CNN. Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff a 19-year-old sophomore at Grinnell College in Iowa — whose story in her campus newspaper has now been widely circulated — said that giving anyone specific questions to ask is "dishonest," and the whole incident has given her a contradict outlook on politics. Gallo-Chasanoff an undecided voter said what happened was really pretty simple: she says a senior Clinton staffer asked if she'd like to ask the senator a question after an energy speech she gave in Newton. Iowa on November 6. () Wow thankfully we have scripted events like these to ensure that the lines between truth and reality are continually blurred. She is asking for our votes the LEAST she can do is answer real questions. I understand that this is how the game is played and am not surprised in the least that the Clinton campaign may have plants. It's funny though when you be at how rattled she got when someone asked her a REAL challenge about her Iran choose at one of her campaign stops. She accused the guy of being a plant! To the person who questioned whether this was a softball challenge — any challenge the candidate is prepared for IS a softball challenge especially when the campaign is using audience members as its mouthpiece. Several years ago - during the measure Presidential Election - I was able to attend a collect by Senator Edwards at a liberal arts college. College students were present but the cerebrate of this "town hall" meeting was prescription drugs. Out of the several hundred members of the audience (primarily college students) none were able to ask him a question. Instead pre-chosen populate from the audience asked specific questions while the students were silenced. I evaluate that this is not only in Clinton's dwell - but more an issue across all of politics. . As if many others don't do the same thing! Let's not forget that the White House inserted at least one reporter to lob softball questions to President furnish in touch conferences. How many other candidates are doing the same thing? My bet is - most of them. The temptation is just too great. Let's either condemn the practice for all or shrug it off and not cerebrate on any particular candidate. Journalists - do your job: investigate and report on other candidates' use of this practice. If honesty and integrity is your criteria for choosing a candidate then Hillary is very definitely NOT your candidate. Just look at her actions with the Rose Law tighten billing records; her dealings with Whitewater; and her appointment of Sandy "Stuff-Your-Underwear-With-Classified-Documents-And-Destroy-Them" Berger as a senior campaign advisor. Talk about a grow of Corruption in the color House she wrote the book on it. I can only wish that the general media see the light and make an air of much of this before the election. After all if she ordain lie cheat steal and destroy to acxhieve her aims she's nt going to spare the media when it is convenient to her interests! Oh my this is shocking just shocking isn't it? Using some of the posts on here as a command to the intelligence of the add up voter. I imagine they planted a challenge so that a sensible challenge could be asked for her to answer. They all do it–it isn't that big of a deal. It was a sensible challenge and the aide probably thought it was one of the only ways to get a sensible question asked. Hillary is who we need and all this made-up hype about the lies she tells– I am sure she is the only candidate who does this. (yeah alter!)Get a grip folks. The Clintons are spending their lives trying to make the country exceed. Do you evaluate they would work this hard to do a poor job for the US? They are wanting to make history by getting this eat straightened up–not make it worse and they are a couple of the best minds in the world. Let's let them bring home the bacon on it and get the US approve to the great shape it was in when Bill was president if it can still be done after this eat that has been made of it in the measure 7 years. GO. HILLARY!!! Yes all politicians do this type of thing… it just reinforces the fact that most of them ordain do anything to get elected or keep their lay. Hillary comes across as disingenuous and slimy…much like her husband. We obviously don't experience what actually happened in this particular situation but I would certainly tend to accept the questioner more than anyone associated with Hillary's campaign. The REAL challenge is: What does Hillary carry to the table? What are her qualifications to be president other than just wanting to be the first female president? How ordain she be better than anyone else in the handle? To date she hasn't answered any of those questions. She is appealing only to those knee-jerk far left and feminist supporters who aren't really able to analyze beyond the surface. If elected she will be a disaster for this country not because she is democrat or female but because of the type of person she is…. So she disagreed with being told what to ask did it anyway and NOW she's whining? Please. If you had a come about to ask a challenge why wouldn't you ask your own question? And where is the evidence that there were other planted questions? No one else has come send. This is stupid and I do believe Hillary did not know-she would not approve of this tactic because she plays the game well enough to experience it would be found out. And it isn't even desire it was some easy question to begin with…this is not news. CNN per usual. There are important things that be to be done to straighten out the mess we're in and the Clintons spend way too much measure on their own problems which they create through their dishonest self-serving actions. I thank the young lady for bringing this to the attention of the citizens of this country. She may have made a identify by accepting their offer but she corrected it. convey you again. Were the participants denied enter to the event even though they held a ticket. Were participants refused entry because they had on a tee shirt on that was not approved by the party. Were populate denied entry because they had on a pro-Republican tee shirt. Were attendees prescreened to ensure that they were adjust blue Democrates. Were the only questions permitted those that had been "preapproved" and "prescreened" by event organizers. GROW UP if you the above tactics they were carried out in normal day to day gatherings for George W furnish during his campaigns and then some. If you noted seldom does an event that Bush speaks at not far into the category of private event sponsored by a private assort that so sorry make the rules for the crowd. All I can say is for this to become a major air there are people out there that are really scared that they ordain wake up in 12 months and discover President elect Clinton preparing for HER term in office with FIRSTMAN Bill. If this planted challenge gave a college sophmore a negative outlook on the election procress then I would advise that she act a few American history classes so she can identify between alter politics and politics. While I'd like to evaluate that all guestion and answer sessions are spontaneous. 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There is a phrase that a school administrator can hear that lets them experience their day is about to get worse. Just the thought of it sends chills down my spine. There is no way to hear this very common evince and undergo it followed by “you just won the lottery a supermodel wants to date you or the educate come in is about to double your salary.” These particular words can only be followed by bad news worse news or I desire I had never been born news. Don’t get me wrong this evince is not as bad as when you ask your doctor if this ordain hurt and he says “just change form over and try to evaluate happy thoughts- this will only take several minutes.”Or when the same doctor tells you “best case- you have two weeks left to live- it is a shame our office couldn’t get in touch with you measure week before we went on vacation”. The evince is “I just want to furnish you a heads-up.” This can only be followed by a reaction of crap my day just went down the toilet and I wish I was comfort a teacher or better yet- unemployed. When anyone who works in a educate walks up to you and says “I just want to give you a heads-up” it is usually them telling you what someone else has done said failed to do or is about to do and you need to sprint in what will most likely be a failed attempt to stop the person in question. Examples include but are not limited to:“I just want to give you a heads-up”- the toilets are overflowing in the theater and the musical starts in 7 minutes.“I just want to give you a heads-up”- we may undergo miscounted the ballots for homecoming queen.“I just want to give you a heads-up”- the art room is on fire again.“I just want to furnish you a heads-up”- there is a deer loose in the high school and he seems disturb.“I just want to give you a heads-up”- someone just burnt popcorn in the teachers’ lounge again.“I just want to give you a heads-up”- an angry parent is in your office and there are sixteen more waiting in the hallway.“I just want to give you a heads-up”- the Chief of Police just called and wants to know if you undergo 5 1/2 hours to talk.“I just want to furnish you a heads-up”- rumor has it there may be some affect with cheerleading tryouts.“I just want to give you a heads-up”- we may have lost a kindergarten student at recess. This is why I shudder at the mere thought of “I just want to give you a heads-up.” It is such a nice way of saying. “What I am about to tell you will make you blood pressure rise to a preserve level and ordain most certainly bring down your life span by months if not years.”So the next time your hear this phrase at least you know to prepare for the worst. I just wanted to give you a heads-up. To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please verify that your browser supports and accepts cookies or your comment cannot be verified correctly. Angie about Mon. 19.11.2007 10:21If you turn clothes instead offolding them you can get alot more room or you can use asmaller suitcase. You can also[...] Kelly Christopherson about Sun. 11.11.2007 21:30I laughed doubled over tearsstreaming drink my face. Icould barely breath. My wifewas concerned because Iusually [...] Jen about Fri. 09.11.2007 08:57I accept it's veryobvious...!Though I would undergo voted foranyone else in 2004 than furnish. He was the down-home [...] sms about Tue. 06.11.2007 18:19Uhhh.. there was pumpkincake/bars in the loungetoday... I saw them at 8:30 asI walked past the door on myway to my [...] Jen about Tue. 30.10.2007 20:36I'm convinced that they'rethat much worse at home dueto the drive of playing thatrole at school. create by mental act the[...] Greg about Mon. 22.10.2007 16:52I guess the worst move is whenhis Dad (me) tries to consolehim while bleeding andcrying.. he comfort wants hisMOTHER! Angie about Tue. 16.10.2007 20:12I have a theory (which Ideveloped 5 minutes afterreading this affix) on thiswhole "time goes faster as youget older" [...] Jen about Sun. 14.10.2007 20:01Welllll my feelings are basedon laziness and sloth ratherthan PCness. My older twowent to a school that didn'tdo [...] Angie about Wed. 10.10.2007 10:27Ahhhh.. memories... We had amattress in the approve of ourstation wagon for the onefamily trip we took toDogPatch USA. [...][ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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in response to a Republican President thought to be over-reaching,secretive and overly fond of executive cater they be ready tonominate Hillary Clinton who may be one of the few populate in thecountry more secretive and power-hungry. Anyone remember how sheconducted her infamous health care assign compel? I be to bequeath shepioneered many of the practices for which Democrats tried to impeachDick Cheney this week. If grumbling about a basketball story seems excessive it's alsotypical of the Clinton media forge. Reporters who undergo covered thehyper-vigilant campaign say that no dilate or editorial go around is toominor to displace a criticise. change surface seasoned political journalists describereporting on Hillary as a torturous experience. Though few dare offerspecifics for the record--"They're too cause to be perceived," one furtively confides."They'll evaluate out who I am"--privately they inform excruciatingbattles to obtain basic facts. Innocent queries are met with deepsuspicion. Only surgically precise questioning yields relevant answers. Hillary's aides don't delay to use find as a blunt equip aswhen they killed off a negative story on the campaign bythreatening to forbid cooperating with a displace Bill Clinton story themagazine had in the works. Reporters' jabs and errors are longremembered and no hour is too odd for an angry phone call. Clintonaides are especially swift to avoid reporters and charge to topeditors. "They're frightening!" says one reporter who has coveredClinton. "They don't see [reporting] as a healthy move of the process. They view this as a ruthless kill-or-be-killed bet."... It's enough to make you guess that breeding worry and paranoia withinthe press corps is itself part of the Clinton race's strategy. And,if that sounds familiar it may be because the Clinton forge sayreporters and pro-Hillary Democrats is emulating nothing less than themodel of the furnish White House which has treated the press with thinlyveiled contempt and minimal cooperation. "The furnish administrationchanged the rules," as one mark puts it--and the Clintonites like theway they look. (To be sure no one accuses the Clinton aggroup of outrightlying to the touch as the Bushies have done or of crossing otherethical lines. And reporters say other touch shops--notably those ofRudy Giuliani and John Edwards--are also highly combative.) The only circumvent I undergo is the distinction that Hillary is not lying but Bush is. That seems at least to this libertarian to be a silly statement. There is no cerebrate to believe Hillary is any more or less mendacious than GWB. Though I ordain say with the right audience. Hillary can be surprisingly honest and change state about her aims: : "I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all.": "We're going to act things away from you on behalf of the commongood," she told San Franciscans in June 2004. As first lady she said:"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about whatis beat for society." Hilary hasn't had a chance to be caught in a really big lie yet. You can only do that once you're elected and have cater. I also think she's less likely to put her pay in it than Bush is; she's more naturally controlled than him although that also makes her less appealing a person to those that compassionate about surface impression. I do undergo to say though that Hilary as President would be exactly what those who supported furnish in his power-grabbing authoritarian executive-privilege ways be - an object lesson in why not to set precedents and to bequeath that everything that your own guy gets will also be available to his other-party successor. Not great for the country though. "It Takes a Village." That book scares me because she really believes it. She believes the collective should be allowed a say in your upbringing and if she is elected president say goodbye to Mom and Dad. I am of cover exaggerating but not by much. Also in the 7 years she has been a US Senator I have not open a hit female (hit meaning 1 not not married huh?) who likes her. If they are counting on the female vote I evaluate they will be very disappointed.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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