legionnaire

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[Edited on Aug 05, 2004 11:37AM]

its seems that i know a ton of homosexual women scientists, and no men.
i think that's odd.
granted,
im thinking of only top tier schools here.

Considering how I tend to pass out by 10 or 11 pm on the west coast, I think I'll just head over after we get in. We'll be too jetlagged to come back to the city after we head home, so we'll hang til like 9. I'll come in again, I'd just like to at least make the open event and also give a to Sita.

I can't say what it's like in science...and being a social worker meant being surrounded by women...

I think I had a bigger reputation in social work for being a bitch because I wasn't all soft and fuzzy. I have a very strict work ethic and insist on a level of integrity from my co-workers.

I've actually found that men, when I'd have to deal with them, would be much more responsive to that than the women I worked with. I don't allow bullshit and I think they appreciated that. (social workers can be very wishy-washy)

Now...I'm surrounded by boys and men...and I think the same kind of thing applies at first. I'm actually quite easy going...right up until you slack off or don't show me the respect I deserve. At which point I will let you know that you have crossed a line somewhere...and that while we're all casual, fine and good, I'm the fucking boss.

So long as we're understood...we're back to casual, fine and good. Meaning, don't misunderstand my easygoingness as weakness.

I suspect I could run into a bad reputation for being a bitch in this field...with some people...the ones who don't show me respect. But generally, the number of people who DO respect me is higher than those who don't. And it ends up being THOSE guys who develop the bad reputation for being assholes.

Or maybe, it's just 'cuz I'm a very likable bitch?

I've been reading Simon Baron Cohen's book "The Essential Difference", which isn't about monkeys per se but he says something about how sometimes 50% of adolescent male monkeys die in "manhood proving" fights with other monkeys.

Meantime, per your comment in my journal: TheFuckOffGirl wouldn't really join the site, it's not her thing, but she does like me to write about her and for people to comment. She has her own little cult of personality thing at SG without even being a member and she's quite pleased about that.

thanks for the encouragement! between your praise and the new offer of 15 army pts per, it really gives me a reason to stick it to the right! not that my articles aren't fair and balanced, but...

also, you should check out a great book called "The Journey of Man" by Spencer Wells, if you haven't already. he's one of the leading researchers of mitochondrial DNA and how it relates to our evolutionary origins from the first "adam & eve" fascinating stuff. for instance, did you know that the mitochondria in human cells were originally a parasite in the first single-celled organisms? they have been assimilated and now serve as the power plant of the cells. they are also more reliable in tracing back the DNA from us to the original than the DNA strands in the nucleus, mostly because of the lower rate of mutation.

hey, the more you know, right?

cheers...

actually, yeah that would be awesome.

we're still gonna hang out.
cos if we don't i'll have to cry.
well ok. maybe not cry exactly, but i'd be upset!

I've done that a few times. It pisses me off to no end. *sigh*

Gatorade and vodka? Hm....

Is it just me or is there a much higher loss rate of SG members??

I can't say I'm surprised

Not only by the republican machine...but by the fact that they'd refuse to acknowledge the 'smaller' people who help them out.

Seriously, it was stuff like that which influenced my decision to leave the field of social services. I LIKED what I did...I hated the bureaucratic machine...the policy makers who made all the decisions but weren't the ones doing the work.

I was union in my first job...and non-union in my last one. I can't say that the union helped very much in the first job...but it definitely made me feel better to have the bargaining tool there. To have what little protection they offered. I swore, after my last job, that I wouldn't take another job unless it offered membership in the union. Any union...

talk to me about octopi(?)'s propensity for changing colours to blend into their environment.

exactly why i try not to get involved in CE discussions and whatnot. it's just not worth it.

i hope you got some quality sleep!

The show is next Tuesday too ... sans Lanna though as we are off to maine early early the next day

Thanks bunches for reading my story. I'm happy you took the time to respond.

you speak the truth!

No problemo; I actually didn't have very much to say about it and what I wrote was very AP style, very blah. I've been writing a ton about that case for a writing competition, so I was kind of on a roll.

I'm a research assistant for two professors, which means I spend a lot of time in the library reading and writing. It's kind of like classes never ended.

As a future member of the legal profession, I am shocked, yes shocked to learn you wanted to get out of jury duty. Good luck with the medical experiment.

She seems like quite a character. I'm sure she's well known in NY, I've never heard of her before.

i thnk its a physical thing more than anything. growth spurts, hormones, discovering sex, etc. plus then there is the stress of living with parents, or guardians, presumably under certain 'rules' or restrictions, while trying to define your self as an independant adult as well. its a crazy time, and people react in strange ways to the stress, especially if they cant identify it.

Personally, I don't see much difference between people as adults and people in highschool. I think HS is the place where you get stamped for what you'll be in society, for the most part. And most people just go along with what they are stamped as. I just heard a BLOG on NPR, where the guy laments being a sci-fi geek and how people look at him. The man is 30! He still acts the way a HS geek acts. Same thing when I hang out with geeks I know and they CAN'T talk to girls.

Now, when I go into a client environment, like an office, I see the same thing playing out in the adults. Every one seems essentially the same type as they were in HS.

I never went to college, so I can't say about that. But the reason I didn't go, was when I got out of HS, it was like getting out of jail. I hated it so much, I wasn't going back.

But it's like I said, HS is where you get stamped, because now the idea of having a real job ( as opposed to contracts ) is about as disgusting to me as HS was then.