I used to be a grad student. And now I'm not (thank goodness). I spent a year as a post doc in industry in Baltimore before starting a "real" job with the same company. These are my tales of science, food, travel, and life.
Showing posts with label wtf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wtf. Show all posts
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Seven
Make that seven jury duty summons in 10 years. I got another jury duty summons in the mail yesterday, for the same week as Friday's summons! This one was for federal court in Tucson. (Friday's was for Baltimore City County court.) Obviously I'll be excused from the latest summons as I've moved out of state, but what I don't understand, is how they mailed the summons directly to my Baltimore address, but still think I'm a resident of Pima County in Arizona. We're not talking mail forwarding by the postal service, this was actually directly addressed to me in Baltimore. The logic amazes me. What also amazes (and irritates) me is that even after filling out the juror questionnaire online and responding in about 4 places that I've moved out of state, the system still told me to call in on my assigned date to see if I'm needed. Totally absurd.
Monday, June 18, 2012
The "C word" is back.
In December my uncle died of pancreatic cancer. He was 55 and left behind a wife and three awesome (mostly grown, but still way too young to lose their dad) kids. In March my grandmother died of just-about-everything cancer, just a month after diagnosis and the day before my flight home. She and Grandpa were married 55 years. Needless to say everybody in my family has been hoping we're done with the "C word" for a very long time.
Well, it's back. Just not in the family this time. One of my grad school friends, who you all know as my dissertation date buddy, has just been diagnosed with cancer. Not that cancer is ever cool, but she's 27. WTF. She should be editing her dissertation and planning for her awesome teaching post doc, not planning chemo treatments. She was supposed to defend her dissertation July 5th, which is obviously unlikely to happen any time soon now.
She just went back into surgery this afternoon. For any of you who are into this sort of thing, she could really use some prayers.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Speechless
The front page of the student newspaper on April 21st (i.e. not April Fool's Day):
http://wildcat.arizona.edu/news/oral-sex-linked-to-cancer-1.2186851
http://wildcat.arizona.edu/news/oral-sex-linked-to-cancer-1.2186851
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