#departmentalism

[strangersatellites]

eddie who tells bad jokes and steve who makes it his life’s mission to Not Laugh lest eddie Gets Started.

he’s sat through the skeleton that couldn’t fight because he didn’t have the guts.

he’s blown air out of his nose and kept his composure at melons getting jealous at weddings because they can’t elope.

and he’s put his head in his hands at enough knock knock jokes to last a lifetime.

the one that gets him comes on a friday night.

it’s been a long week and steve is within minutes of a deep sleep with the promise of a day off work ahead of him. what could be better than this?

he hears eddie shuffle behind him and his arm tightens where its slung over steve’s waist.

“baby? you still awake?”

steve stretches and hums a noncommittal sound. hasn’t decided yet if he’s asleep or not. if he’s not he’s veeeeeery close.

“if james hetfield got legally ordained-“

steve groans, “ugh, eddie-“

his palm flattens over steve’s stomach and the rubbing of his thumb soothes steve’s irritation at whatever shit he’s about to spout at god knows what time of night.

“wait hear me out!” it’s only because steve likes his sleepy voice so much that he entertains this. “if hetfield got legally ordained and then married kermit and miss piggy, he’d be the pastor of muppets.”

it’s quiet for a split second before steve breaks.

he laughs so hard he can’t breathe and very regretfully tells eddie that he thinks all his jokes are funny.

he doesn’t top that joke for a while.

[astrobei]

JUST GRADUATED COLLEGE 🥳

[finelythreadedsky]

had to submit a preliminary reading list for pre-pre-dissertation stuff and i just realized that 25.5 out of the 36 items were written (or in the case of 1.5 of them, edited) by women. nice.

[pendraegon]

whenever my counterparts in phd programs complain about their stipend im always sympathetic because it’s like..it’s genuinely horrific the way that both the stipend and wages that universities pay their phd candidates and adjunct and associate professors are so so so so so low that it is almost impossible to live off of and there should be something done nationwide to address this…but also as a masters student im like, damn i wish i had a stipend lol

[mostremote]

i was so sad when the extremely hot 60-70 y/o professor in my dept announced he was retiring but it turns out he will still be working exactly one half day a week, and it's one of the days I'm on campus, so yaaaay, I still get to see him and flirt helplessly~

[positivelyapunovexponent-good]

*sigh*- one of the things I’m working on is being upfront about my gluten intolerance with event organisers. But it’s such an annoying intolerance to accommodate - I would know, having to live with it- that I always feel really guilty for putting that on hosts? So I have to restrain myself tooth and claw from responding to dietary restriction forms with “yes I’m gluten intolerant but don’t worry about it I can just subsist off of leafs from the bush outside”

Because I shouldn’t have to! I deserve to eat food too! But that’s really hard to internalise

[bluewarf]

30 years old and here I am gnawing on flowers out of a trash can

[lassieposting]

When folks in this fandom talk about like "scenes that fucked me up as a kid" or "things that are unexpectedly dark for a so-called children's series" it's usually like. Reflectionie's death or that MC scene with Remnant!Kenspeckle torturing Tanith but like. the thing that really gets me is that Skug has been torture-porned twice. And at least one of those times, he then had to work with the people involved.

Like, these are people who've gleefully seen him beg, seen him cry, seen him humiliated, broken, screaming. The absolute worst kind of vulnerability that he's not even comfortable sharing with his closest friends. That's. Really intensely violating. And then he has to work with them on the Dead Men/Diablerie joint mission, either knowing they were there and enjoying it, or stressing out wondering why they keep making little targeted comments that seem to be referencing the worst memories of his life, because he doesn't know they were there, and it's all a big joke he's not in on at his expense.

And then it happens again, but this time it turns out that not only is there video footage of the ordeal, his enemy - the Drumpf caricature, this time round - specifically asked for it so he can watch it for fun.

And both times it's just a throwaway line and it's never really mentioned again even though the trauma and humiliation that sticks with you from something like that is insane and just. Yeah of all the messed up scenes in the SP series that's the one that always really stuck with me

[ocdhuacheng]

What is a subtopic of astrophysics you could do a lecture on right now without any prep?

solar system/planet evolution :) ! i love anything that has to do with how solar systems are formed and what theyre made of, not just planets and stars but also including the cute stuff like asteroids and comets and moons. also mechanisms for how life is introduced. i took a lot of classes in undergrad on solar system and exoplanets and they were my favorite by far.

also its not really astroPHYSICS per se but i also love historical astronomy, like old telescope and photography technology, photographic plates and their use in early astronomy. my research in undergrad was doing stuff with astronomical emulsion plates (dated late1800s-mid1900s), and how they could still be used for science today, particularly for work with long term variable objects and quasars. it was very interdisciplinary, we had astrophysicists, historians, and librarians all doing work in the group. i actually did have to give an impromptu lecture on this when i applied for a job once (i didnt get it tho u_u). they had me talk for like an hour about what research i had done and im like what is this the spanish inquisition or something 😭 i had applied for a different department with the same employer (for basically the same job btw just a different project) and the interview was like normal and actually kind of chill so you can imagine my surprise when this interview ended up being literally all day. though now that im thinking about it in the first interview one of the guys asked me to talk about any science topic that interested me (i chose exoplanet detection and using spectroscopy to determine the composition of atmospheres on exoplanets), but that was for like, 10 minutes.

if i go in the research direction as a career id want to be involved in stuff like working with physical samples from the moon/asteroids/whatever, searching for life on Europa/Enceladus, physical stuff that i can actually build or get my evil little paws on instead of just working with simulations on the computer. kudos to people who do that but i am. so bad at coding. i seriously dont have the patience for it. id rather do something mostly hands-on or observational. like i can do some coding just i dont want to have to do it for everything. if i dont go the research route id want to work at a (preferably historical) observatory, where i can actually use the telescopes (and darkrooms, if available, just for fun :3 ), and work with photographic plates.

[loumauve]

I snapped today at work, and by snapped I mean I politely commented on a help desk ticket by summing up an mess of an (type of) issue that's come up for at least the fourth time in the 2+ months I've been managing user accounts, and asked the person responsible to fix it (himself for once) because last time I fixed his mess-up it took me two whole days to work out the details with at least four other colleagues from different departments and I really don't want to do it again. there's other shit that needs doing, I've been working 10+ hour days for most of this week already, so I need to cut down not add on more.

(good thing tho - at least we managed to fix the issue where the dataset of a newer employee got mixed up with another one of the same name and therefore wasn't able to apply for any of the access/accounts she needed. technically not entirely my area but it does impact us not being allowed to create an account for her so I figured I might as well track that issue down. took three days and at least three other people, but hey - it should all work out now. yay for that)

[foremansleftshoe]

i spent my morning watching house and when i got to work, i asked my coworker to pass my cane to me. he said "i thought you were gonna say vicoden"

[polka-spots]

I can't believe Jon Snow was lord commander at 15. I think about trying to be the manager of my department (there are 5 people including myself and the current manager in the department) and get hives and/or have to take a walk to get rid of the stress.

[spohkh]

emailing a rep from another department bc im hellbent on coordinating them with us and she emailed me back "yes!! amazing! i appreciate you so much"...... okay ma'am.... what are we..

[exeggcute]

I will freely give regular marketers the benefit of the doubt for not totally understanding how our products work, especially given how (1) hyper industry-specific and (2) idiosyncratic (read as: kind of shitty) they are, but the fact that our PRODUCT marketers seem to barely understand how our products function under the hood is ridiculous lol. right now they're trying to push this harebrained product repositioning thing that makes no sense from a technical perspective (and our shit is like, technical to a fault, so this is a key perspective) but they'd rather submit to pressure from sales instead of consulting literally anyone in engineering, product, or customer success. so now I have to be the lone bastion of "hey this has some problems" because I am not rewriting our entire tech docs library, let alone rewriting them to make them worse and more confusing

[indynerdgirl]

Hello, my lovely followers! I hope you're all having a good Monday so far. 😊

I just wanted to let you all know that starting tomorrow, I won't be as active on here during the day as I currently am because I'm starting a new job tomorrow that has much stricter internet use policies on work computers than my current job. Because of that, I expect my active Tumblr hours will shift to the last afternoon/evening (I'm in EST if that helps!).

While I'm super excited for this new chapter in my life to start, I am kinda disappointed that I won't be able to use Tumblr as my daily brain breaks like I currently do and I'll also miss being able to chat via messages.

Anyways, wish me luck and say some prayers for me because I still feel like an imposter. 🙃😆

[july-19th-club]

my awkward politeness, my earnest attempts to inspect everything closely and Do Good Detective Work, my reluctance to break into people's stuff or threaten them, and my sheer and utter sad passing out dehydrated undernourished hungover divorced pathetic-ness seems to have won kim over. he likes me now. he's concerned for me. he was gonna drive me to the hospital. his general demeanor toward me is now 'that's rough, buddy' and in spite of himself. i really think he likes me . he even got excited about my name for the case