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when i was in my early 20s people told me pretty often that grad school would ruin my life and you know what they were not wrong woooo boy were they not at all incorrect they should've said it more in fact, like way more way way way more and of course i would not have listened to them (because of my mental illness) and of course they did in fact mentioned that i would be impoverished but to be fair to me they MAYBE should have told me that all universities have functionally identical administrators that categorically SUCK as both people and professionals and they should have PROBABLY i would have to spend a significant amount of my free time that does not exist asking my own fucking university to please remember that i am a Person and as such deserve Compensation for my Labor and they DEFINITELY should have said that PhDs are being valued less and less by the wider public, especially those in humanities and any stem field associated with women, and they really REALLY REALLY should have mentioned that i would have to deal with this shit all while listening to idiots on the internet tell me how colleges these days are way too fucking liberal (HA) and wait where was i going with this

feels like im always recovering. when do i get to live

"it's okay to rest for as long as you need from burnout" how long is it actually going to take though. there's stuff i wanna do.

notice how women never ever get the "what if they're neurodivergent" treatment ever. where were the "before you call that woman in distress a karen, consider she might be having an autistic meltdown!" posts.

American Girl doll wishlists are really funny bc they will go from "relatively normal" to "hyper-specific." Like take mine for example. You start with "I would like Caroline bc I like her character" and "I would like a Sonali bc obviously" and then we move to "I want a Gwynn Tan doll specifically with the purple eye defect that makes her look possessed because I made a theory back in 2022 that she was canonically psychic" and eventually we escalate to "I want an American Girl 116 with the wig removed because I think the skin, eye and facemold combination would be perfect to make a custom of Nancy Wheeler from Stranger Things but I don't have the heart to de-wig a doll myself"

Exactly 💯

Internet hugs for anyone else out there dealing with burn out or other mental and/or physical issues that make it hard to interact right now

me and the mutuals are giving some minor characters rich inner worlds later if you wanna pull up. yeah its gonna be all day.

Maybe I'm depressed because I cannot stand that everyone is so cruel and mean

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tech companies are always like We have just developed a revolutionary new feature that will automatically leak your private information to the entire internet without you needing to lift a finger