How difficult organ donation can be. The people who handle the donation are supposed to take over any care costs once brain death is confirmed but that doesn’t mean the hospital records it right. After my husband died, it was months and a legal threat before they fixed it.
Hey PhD student!
Academia is *never* your only option as a PhD! You love your research? Awesome! Aim for doing your research with industry instead of the ivory tower! That's what 2 of my friends have done - both enjoyed research way more than teaching, both hated the bs in academia,…
Pick a place you could enjoy just being in, not doing anything. My fave vaca was 2 week solo in London, and my fave parts were chillin' in Hyde Park, strolling Kew gardens, and staring at items for as long as I wished in the V&A museum. No obligations, no time pressure, no one asking…
"Chances are, you're from one of these states: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania." No Connecticut??? (Which is where I'm actually from.)
Leon Vance in NCIS. He's been widowed, kidnapped, shot, you name it. Seems like every season when the writers don't have a good idea, they decide "let's do something serious to the black guy."
"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." Jean Luc Picard, ST:TNG
Even though I'd seen that episode numerous times, seeing it again, hearing that line, helped me understand my husband's sudden death.
A Wrinkle in Time. Meg, the lead, seems so... ordinary! She's not super pretty, she's not the brains in the family (smart, but not like her brother), and she's awkward. Yet SHE is the one who saves the day! And not with any man's help, either! Nope, the help she gets are from some…
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