the chemyst @hafnia@wandering.shop

I've been meaning to update mine for a while anyway, so #introduction part 2!

She/her, queer, Chicana, partnered, feminist. PhD in materials chemistry, now working as a postdoc in materials science and trying to launch a startup.

Hobbies: #crochet #writing #IndieGames #PokemonGo

Loves: good urban fantasy, friendly people

Hates: racists, TERFs/SWERFs, alt-righters (see: first entry in list), people who insist on calling me by my full (HORRIBLE) name

Hi!

She/her, queer, Chicana, partnered, feminist. PhD in materials chemistry. Occasional dabbler in long-form speculative fiction. Hobbies include, "describing self horribly on different social media platforms." Currently rocking that postdoc life. Open to job opportunities, new friendships, and book recommendations. #introduction

Told the partner about the mouse-situation and asked him to take it from her if he sees it.

"Okay," he said, "but you have to know, I still haven't figured out where all her hidey-holes are."

I'm not going to see that mouse for a month, am I?

The little cat has a REALLY GROSS gray mouse toy. She's chewed the ears off, and most of its fur is missing now.

I tried to take it from her this morning, and she ran off and hid it somewhere. SHE KNOWS 😬

"Do you ever wonder what your cat named you?"

I *know* what the Little Cat named the partner and I. She has different meows she addresses us by!

useless things I learned very late in life:

-it's not "modge podge", it's "mod podge"

"solutions that don't work" btw was vaccines, poss. epilepsy medication.

I didn't engage, just flagged the post (it's off-topic for that board) and went on my way, but holy shit it makes my blood boil when people make shitty medical decisions for their children. like, your kid could die, all because you don't believe that epilepsy is real.

Someone posting on the town ad-board wanting to recs for a "homepathic physician who is willing to treat a two-year-old, I am tired of Big Pharma shills and their solutions that don't work"

like, I don't care what you do with your own fucking body, if you think that drinking what is basically water is gonna help you, fine -- but YOUR KID NEEDS BASIC MEDICAL CARE.

as a result of all of this, my cope and deal is at an all-time low. I'm just...tired. Hoping that everything goes well; don't think I can see my dad go through losing his mom right now. We lost my mom's mom last year (and that was fucking devastating); don't think my dad is ready to say goodbye yet.

also I saw what happened to him when we lost my aunt eleven years ago, and...yeah. Nah.

Hey, TPTB? could you cut my poor dad a break?

It is not a good week to be a member of the Chemyst family.

My uncle died on Tuesday, great-uncle died on Wednesday, and my paternal grandmother is now in the hospital and needs surgery. (Fortunately it's minor, but, also, like...she's 94, going to be 95 a week from today.)

A very nice young creature held the door open for me as I walked into the burrito place.

"Thank you!" I told them.

"Of course!" they said, but VERY GRIMLY, and now I wonder if they're under a curse that causes them to hold the door open for every person they run across.