That’s it? I’d be able to open one of my body “meridians” and acquire the ability to manipulate time and transcend spatial planes at the highest level. Have you watched Dr Strange? That early scene with The Ancient One where she pushes him out of his body is something like that.
Well yeah, I mean, I do that all the time.
But what I really want is a gaggle of groupies that think I have cool hair, but the only way to do that is to learn to play guitar.
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I like Spotify more since it started telling me how unique and amazing my music tastes are.
I am now working out how to tell my wife how amazing I am for listening to the music I listen to without it being obvious.
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You’re pretty creative with communication. Just let us know how it went once you figure it out.
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Is there no way to have Spotify tell her for you? Maybe let HER listen to your music?
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Here’s a flame free confession:
with his past year being what it was, and just so much real life stuff going on, I haven’t been able to spend as much time online as I used to enjoy doing. I’m not sure if that’s necessarily a bad thing, as you can only discuss the same aspects of training fitness and nutrition so many times
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Me want!!!
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Wrote a post about betting while I was still watching soccer yesterday morning.
Got bombarded by fucking government funded anti-gambling ads on YouTube last night.
All hail our Tech Overlords!
I liked this idea but couldn’t work out how to do it so I went with “Spotify says I’m better than you”.
She said it’s sad that I had to pay an app to tell me stuff like that.
I’ll still take Spotify’s flattery.
I detect some sour grapes in your wife’s tawdry claim that you’ve been paying Spotify to vouch for you, like some sort of audio-only prostitute. When in fact you don’t pay Spotify to play your music, you pay it to stop playing music when you’re done listening.
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I never answered this…I don’t know this particular woman thing. I bake only when necessary, i.e. birthdays and Christmas. OCASSIONALLY we’ll pick blueberries and I’ll make and freeze blueberry buckles. I go through between one and two dozen eggs a week, and my husband keeps a dozen of “his” eggs (extra large brown as opposed to my large white) handy, mostly for pasta. I literally have never felt oversupplied. And nothing in my kitchen has ever made me think “oh gosh, I’d better bake!”
Now dishtowels…
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I’m seriously at the end of my rope with my advisor.
Turns out
- more minor typos (apparently it’s “pre-tax” not “pre- tax”) and UK spellings aren’t okay???
- the stimuli I made won’t work and I need a new section! He could have told me 2 weeks ago
Now project is delayed ANOTHER week. IDK if I’m going to be able to finish it at this point
“Pre-tax” . Yep. Thats what my phone auto filled.
Is formating and spell check really the hill you want your chances at academic success to die on?
“Colour” . Nope. That gets the red line of misspelling on this side of the pond.
I’ll bet this phone could do pretty well at that school! Maybe I should go there too. I’ll sweep floors and empty garbage cans and solve equations late at night when the classes are empty, like a little janitorial math mouse.
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This, but also: Your advisor’s meticulousness and insistence upon precision are of enormous benefit to you. While clearly bright, you apparently 1) are careless in how you write, and 2) lack rigor in how you think. (These are traits shared by most people at your academic level.) In forcing you to up your game–in not allowing you to be sloppy in either your writing or your reasoning–your advisor is slowly but surely transforming you from a potential academician into an actual one. I can’t tell you exactly how many versions of my master’s thesis my advisor made me write, but I’m confident it was at least ten. And my PhD advisor…Everything I submitted to him was blood-red (from edits and comments) and in tatters when I got it back. My dissertation went through at least 20 editions from conception to finished product. My graduate advisors dragged me–kicking and screaming, often–into the realm of academic writing competence.
The ironic part: As I discovered during my 5 years supervising graduate research, the only thing worse than having one’s work shredded multiple times is having to be the one doing the shredding. Editing grad-student writing is an awful combination of tediousness (reading the same stupid paper for the umpteenth time) and exasperation (how many times is this moron going to make the same mistakes?). The point being, it would be a whole lot easier for your advisor to just skim your work, ignore all but the most egregious flaws, and hand it back with an ‘Attagirl!’ You think you’re at the end of your rope? As someone who has been on both sides, I can say this sucks a lot more for him than it does for you.
TLDR Check yourself grrl–by taking the time to read and critique your work carefully, this man is doing you right. Bake him cookies and thank him profusely.
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@SkyzykS @EyeDentist
I agree with you guys
My problem isn’t that he’s nitpicky (that’s one part). Although annoying, I realize that’s a good thing.
THe problem is the other stuff:
- I didn’t know I needed to add an extra section or that my stimuli weren’t good enough. He could have pointed that out 2 weeks ago when I uploaded the first version of the stimuli and survey questions. He got too distracted by missing commas and extra spaces to point those major things out
- The non- responsiveness in general. I posted other stuff about missing deadlines and stuff
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There is a lot to be said about this, but maybe in your log.
I’d be glad to respond further there.
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I confess I have never been more proud of my kid until this very moment.
At their Tang Soo Do class, they were doing a “entire class vs instructors” sparring drill.
The students were trying to come up with a strategy. The strategy session was going about as well as you would expect. Over the din, my kid yells “How about we just charge at them with no plan?”
That one is mine!
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I confess that I believe front squats are superior to back squats for anything other than maximal lifts.
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My thoughts exactly.
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