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This Is Bat

@batnbreakfast

Woman with a battitude. Connoisseur of cheeses and breakfast foods, lover of gin and tonic, writer of words, addicted to coffee and ao3, theatre queer, holding on to fandom community building with superglue and spite.
Forever in love with Serena Campbell and Bernie Wolfe, struck in the heart by Dulcie Collins in Deadloch. Guess work competent women with messy hair and private lives are my kryptonite.
(she/her, at the end of her forties)
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Went to a restaurant. Expected a good meal and wine.

Ended up singing Sarà Perchè Ti Amo and Bella Ciao with half the restaurant and drinking way too much alcohol. I danced Tarantella at one point. Made friends with an Italian hen night and a group of friends out for a compleanno. The guys started taking the clothes off the line and putting them on. Even the waiters joined in. I got handed a tambourine. I used the tambourine. I had a shot of tequila poured into my mouth while the song Tequila was playing.

20/10 evening, would do it again.

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marine biology is so scary because it’s such a small field. i was giving a talk on cetaceans and afterward a woman approached me with her husband and she said, “you did very well. [husband’s name] actually pioneered the research and published the first paper on that. We were very impressed by you.”

Which is such a scientific interpretation/public education win I will cherish forever but also for the rest of my life any time I give a talk I will be haunted by the knowledge that the world’s leading expert who literally discovered/invented the topic might be in the room,

which is like, the opposite of what you’re supposed to do for stage fright. In fact I never used to experience stage fright but now I will.

There are limitations to the benefits of being a marine biologist

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