I just got an email my degree will be sent to me sometime in February. Helllll yeeeeaaah.

If you wanna feel really ugly, try taking some pictures for your CV. Nothing is more humbling. It really remindes me how ugly I am without my signature makeup.
And there is all the deatils and imperfections that I noticed. like why is my right eyelid more hooded and hanging than my left?? If i look right in the camera I look like I had a stroke!!!
Would you hire me like that?

But taking CV pics is also somehow funny: The reality of that person smilig at you professionaly from that picture, was to be kneeling on the floor in front of some white curtains, wearing a neat button down shit and dirty sweatpants with a care bear print.

Hmm either the company I work for has just given me some incredible leverage to practially demand a raise or the whole thing has a big catch and they hope that I am to gullible to see it.

They recently laid off 20 % of the employees becasue of funding problems. Unfortunateley they also fired the person who was appointed officer for biological safetey... Now they desperateley need another employee to become that. But there is only a handfull of people who can thake the position as it has special requirements. Most suitable people don't want it because it is a hassle. I am amongst those few suited ones and they just asked me yesterday if I were interested in getting that extra qualification.
TBH I don't really want the hassle that comes with it and I am planning to leave the company as soon as I find a better job anyway. But the qualification will look very hot on my resume...
I have been fighting for a wage increase. Since I know they are desparate, I could practically bribe them into giving me a BIG fat raise or I will just not do it.
What do I have to loose? They can only say no then I'll also say no too. So what? It is a voluntary extra position, they cannot fire me for declining the responsibility. For me, things will stay same and they'll still have no one to be Biological safetey officer. Their probelm.

But I am not trusting them anymore so I kinda smell a rat (not the cute cuddly kind that smells like love and popcorn)...what could it be???
Will I have to give up my project lead position? Is it a degradation in disguise? WHAt could be the catch???
Time to do some research....

I'm fairly certain the Viet Cong used these in some of their booby traps.

You know this to be true. Just wait until this wkend,, lol
https://x.com/DallasTexasTV/status/2014023491582923129

shaved my Face with some Maids in the Dark

https://youtu.be/wl2JnXjwWBM?si=yaIWP3AdxIRVDuYG

Love it.

Update on the winter storm. New models suggest the low will move further north, limiting the amount of ice and snow. Mainly just a cold rain. If no snow, I'll gladly take the rain over a crippling ice event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBnHF9Lzw24

Common sense, logic, and cool heads need to prevail.

https://x.com/Librechoix99/status/2013226009307263042
Translation:
Giorgia Meloni sets the record straight:
Donald Trump was ready to calmly discuss Greenland.

It’s Europe that messed it all up.
Hostile stance.
Anti-American rhetoric.
No diplomacy, just ideology.

Simple message:
The United States aren’t the enemy.
The problem is those who sabotage dialogue out of arrogance.

Finally, someone speaking with real common sense.