tiny braveries: a miscellany
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kaberett- Today was our first lab meeting with the new students, and we ended up going around the room doing brief introductions: name, years through degree, rough thesis area. So I gave my pronouns like it was no big deal and moved calmly on to making the room laugh by giving a deadpan explanation of being in my sixth year of PhD (three to four years is normal). Nobody else followed my lead on that, alas, but I did it and the world didn't end.
- I've dealt with all the necessary paperwork (bar actually showing up with proof of address) to regain Reader status at the BL, in order to place a request for a 1966 paper published in the Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Section II, which has not at all been digitised and exists online only as a citation. The BL, bless them, apparently have a copy in their off-site stacks, so on Thursday I get to go in and find out how little of it I can read. (It's almost certainly almost entirely in, well, Japanese, but I am mildly hopeful that table headings will be in Roman script such that I can extract the two bits of data I want with minimal additional screeching.) I feel Awfully Grown Up to be requesting materials delivered to SCIENCE - 2.
- Rather to my own astonishment, I am impatiently looking forward to my supervisor meeting on Thursday. I've not Finished All The Prep For It, even, and yet I want to Talk Science instead of mostly experiencing a creeping sense of dread. (It's a sense of dread that's much reduced since 2011, which is a victory in itself.)
- I have, in the past week, experienced two buses breaking, of which one went entirely out of service, during "normal" operation of the ramp. I managed, at least outwardly, to behave as though this was not in any sense my fault, and as though I was at least as inconvenienced by the failure of the bus company to adequately maintain their fleet as everybody else who was taking the bus. I am particularly proud of myself for this one. (I didn't apologise to anybody.)
- I did a small social during the tea break at orchestra on Monday night. I! Chatted to people! And enjoyed it! I've been being standoffish and withdrawn and Defensively Reads A Book with two Very Small exceptions basically since I started going, but all of a sudden this week I... socialised??? WELL DONE ME.
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Date: 2019-10-01 11:58 pm (UTC)This was making me giggle a bit: “It's almost certainly almost entirely in, well, Japanese”!!
Why do you need this paper?
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Date: 2019-10-02 08:58 am (UTC)Thank you! I will bear in mind.
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Date: 2019-10-02 09:00 am (UTC)That is all quite splendid stuff.
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Date: 2019-10-02 09:40 am (UTC)(also i have a very small amount of japanese if you need a last resort XD)
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Date: 2019-10-02 10:12 am (UTC)Thank you! Will bear in mind :-)
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Date: 2019-10-02 02:15 pm (UTC)This is excellent. VERY well done you.
I've not Finished All The Prep For It, even, and yet I want to Talk Science instead of mostly experiencing a creeping sense of dread. (It's a sense of dread that's much reduced since 2011, which is a victory in itself.)
So cool.
I managed, at least outwardly, to behave as though this was not in any sense my fault, and as though I was at least as inconvenienced by the failure of the bus company to adequately maintain their fleet as everybody else who was taking the bus. I am particularly proud of myself for this one. (I didn't apologise to anybody.)
HELL YES. And also woooow re the going out of service entirely, wtaf. You deserve to be particularly proud of yourself for this one. Not least since all that bravery was also in the context of being Outside for longer than expected because they broke their buses.
I! Chatted to people! And enjoyed it! I've been being standoffish and withdrawn and Defensively Reads A Book with two Very Small exceptions basically since I started going, but all of a sudden this week I... socialised???
This is great and also reassuring, as an example, to hear that you've been sustaining orchestra for this long within that comfort zone.
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Date: 2019-10-02 02:57 pm (UTC)And a wtf for a company that doesn't keep its ramps maintained to the point that trying to use one can put an entire bus broken.
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