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onehundredandonethings: I am finishing my PhD and this post revived me, made my hair shiny, and caused my crops to grow. Thank you ans also yaaaaaaay so happy for you!!!!

I nearly didn’t even publish this post because it felt very braggy and unnecessary but this is exactly why I went ahead with it. I would’ve really liked to know about success stories in my last couple years of school, because it really did all feel kind of hopeless toward the end there. It gets so much better!!

life updates, again

it’s been like eight months but i do feel like i kinda left you guys hanging with that last one lol

I successfully defended my dissertation and finished my PhD. It was kind of a rough experience, because I somehow got the world’s most hellish external examiner, but whatever; it’s over and now I get to check “doctor” on all my paperwork. (Funny enough: my workplace has 3 Sarah’s on staff, and they frequently distinguish me by calling me “Dr. Sarah”, to my great delight.)
Also, my new job is WONDERFUL. I was so worried about finding a decent job after graduating, but it all worked out beautifully. I find my work interesting, and I’m barely supervised, and I love my colleagues, and they pay me well - it’s really just about the best setup I could have imagined.
I was also very worried about making new friends when I moved cities, because there have been times in my life when I found it really difficult to make new friends. But I made a concerted and serious effort to be friendly/social this year, and it really paid off for me; I’ve established a couple lovely little circles of friends already and I’m really happy about it. I do miss my grad school friends very much, though.
I turned 30 last month and I feel good. Really ready to embody the thirty, flirty and thriving thing.
Although for some reason, I’ve been having some problems with binge-eating again lately (a nasty habit that I thought I’d managed to eradicate in the last couple years). I can’t explain why it’s started again, because I’m not under any particular stress right now, but I hope I will find ways to manage it soon.
I’m making my first offer on a house this week! Chances are good I won’t get it, but still, it feels like a really big step and I’m proud to be in a position where I can own my own place.
I have a 2nd nephew arriving in a couple months! I can’t wait to meet him!

In general, I kind of can’t believe how much better life has gotten since I finished school. It’s almost a little funny to me that I had so much anxiety about this transition (although certainly understandable, because it was all so uncertain and it COULD have worked out way differently than it did.) But post-PhD life is good, friends, and I’m very very grateful.

#my job is like kind of research-based and kind of education-based which is perfect for me #but the truly hilarious thing is that i have to be someone's manager #lmaooo good luck me #also them

life updates, because I haven’t even reblogged anything in over a month and i like to pretend y’all are wondering what’s going on with me

my phd is basically finished! I’m done writing my dissertation and have passed through the first-stage defense (within my department). i have my “real”/university-wide defense coming up in july. i’ll be dr. sarah before you know it.
and thank god, because the stress of writing my dissertation + working 3 part-time jobs + being on the full-time job market all at the same time got so bad last term that it actually landed me in the ER one night in april because i had chest pain and felt like i couldn’t breathe. i’m fine, and it’s under control now, but it was pretty scary at the time.
thankfully, the job search paid off: i somehow managed to land myself a really cool-sounding job with awesome people, which starts before i even graduate. (and it’s full-time, ongoing, with benefits and a freaking pension plan - ??????)... anyway, i start next week! after six years of grad school it is really nice to feel valued and respected. i cannot wait.
i’m in the throes of moving! it’s terrible! i’m not going far, but i’m moving back closer to my family, and i’m pretty dang happy about it.
also i’m gonna buy a condo/townhouse soon?? not a sure thing but i think that’s where i’m headed.
only sad note: i have to move away from all my friends. i always knew this was coming... it’s the reality of grad school. but it’s still hard and i desperately wish i could take them all with me.
but overall this update is a big yay and i’m so excited for my post-phd life to finally begin. i’ve been waiting for this for a long time and it’s all working out better than i could’ve hoped for! life is good, friends.

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Game of Thrones | 4x04 — 8x06

#alright listen y'all i actually liked this moment a lot #i keep seeing people on twitter bein all 'brienne doesn't owe jaime shit!'#and like #yes #agreed #BUT #i think this was a service to herself as much as it was for jaime #she wrote him a story that culminated in exactly the kind of ending he always wanted #she turned him from a kingslayer into the most loyal and noble of knights #and i think that's a way of easing the pain #both the pain of him leaving her (he did it to save the city - to save the queen - because he is the ever loyal knight)#and the pain of his death (he died as he would have wanted to)#for brienne i think this was an act of closure and self-compassion #d&d probably never even intended that but whatEVER that's what i'm going with ok #got #gifs #(fwiw i DO really wish she'd started her own page at the end)

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

#I REBLOGGED THIS POST AFTER AN INTERVIEW AND I JUST GOT OFFERED THE JOB #it's my first post-phd job and they offered me at a higher salary than they advertised and i am HAPPY SCREAMING #(also 'post-phd' lol i'm not even done my phd yet)#(but i will be in july)

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

#i am waiting to hear back on an interview and i will try literally anything #please god

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

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mapsontheweb

Most common sources of immigrants by Canadian province.

Source: reddit.com

#this is v interesting

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Canadians right now as Right Wingers take over our provincial governments one by one

Context (in case this post spreads outside of the Canadian side of Tumblr):

Current Ideology of Canada’s Provincial and Territorial Governments:

Blue = Conservative (Centre Right to Right Wing)

Red = Liberal (Centrists)

Orange = New Democratic Party (NDP) - Centre-Left.

Oh and we have a Federal Election coming up in October and the Conservative Party of Canada is lead by a Social Conservative who opposes LGBTQ rights and Abortion, and who openly fraternalizes with White Supremacists and Islamophobes. 🙃

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Two of those provinces went Conservative (blue) in the last ~11 months, which really does not bode well for the upcoming October 2019 Federal election. Under our current electoral system, First Past The Post (FPTP) the votes are counted from East to West, so the election is decided before the (comparatively more left-leaning) West Coast vote is even counted.

Actually 4 provinces went Conservative in the past year:

Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.

http://allthecanadianpolitics.tumblr.com/post/183881859529/list-of-canadian-newspoliticssocial-justice#notes

This post really took off, and I’m pleasantly surprised with the responses of concern from non-Canadians.

I’m not trying to be an asshole but 90% of the important Canadian issues that me and other Canadian Politics bloggers write about get routinely ignored by everyone on this site.

For those that want to prevent a Conservative hell from taking over Canada, please follow this blog and the other left-leaning Canadian Politics blogs below, and boost our content. We are all trying to prevent to worst of this from happening and countering the current Conservatives already in power, but we need your help.

Its hard for this message to be spread on Tumblr because of how US-centric this site is and how unlikely Canadian content is to be shared by non-Canadians.

Follow these blogs, and please help us:

@allthecanadianpolitics

Missed an active Canadian Politics blog on tumblr? Please add it below.

Not on tumblr? Good I have a list of 300+ informational and left-leaning twitter accounts that post almost solely about Canadian issues:

This post is getting reblogged again, which I’m happy to see; and I’ve noticed many new followers, so welcome! :) Please continue sharing.

Unfortunately since I made this post another province has gone Conservative…sort of. The Prince Edward Island election was on April 23rd, 2019.

Prince Edward’s Island’s government is still up in the air because no party won a majority of seats (so a coalition or some other agreement may keep one party in power), but unfortunately the Conservatives in that province won the most seats. The only positive is that the Green Party got the 2nd most seats.

Really hoping for a miracle that we can avoid a Conservative Federal Government this fall. I’ll be doing all I can through this blog to help resist this terrible popular wave of Conservatives and push for the most progressive alternatives.

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At first, I looked at that map and thought, “that’s not so bad,” then I realized that blue = conservative.