Usually for gatherings with GF folks I make toasted nut crusts (luckily we don't have anyone with a nut allergy). Almond goes well with apple IME. My fave is pumpkin with hazelnut crust.

food52.com/recipes/8380...

My husband loves taking our kid to the store. He says it's a fundamentally different experience because everyone smiles.

My tiny human has a whale shark stuffy and it's one of their two favorites ❤️🦈

It's also no longer a viable option to have a single income household for most people. You need both incomes to stay afloat even WITHOUT kids in many places. So they can mock all they want, it doesn't change the reality that this country is just not affordable.

Refreshments of some kind provided by the trainee were definitely an expectation in my program. As if prepping for a committee meeting wasn't already sufficiently anxiety-inducing.... There were definitely last-minute runs to the nearby grocery store by helpful lab mates. So unnecessary.

Maybe committees do different things, but even questions to ask/ who can answer would be helpful. Does student schedule meetings? When? Are they expected to bring refreshments for the committee members, which shouldn't be allowed IMHO but is still expected many places

As someone who was once a graduate student, please also include logistical things. There's a lot of "hidden curriculum" around things like thesis meetings and it would have been super helpful to have something formalized.

I'm an avowed zucchini skeptic, but I tried this last year and loooooove it ❤️

My Mom likes to reply to the "this is the IRS and we're sending police to your house" types by saying "does your mother know you scam people for a living? Is she proud of you for being such a scumbag?" And that also tends to really piss them off

One of those books I *really* wish I could go back and read again for the first time.

This also has me confused. Along with the "lots of hot tubbing with bros" one....

We've started getting kisses back at bedtime 🥹 just fills your heart right up.

Tetrad dissection (S. pombe) was one of those things I found to be super cathartic. I got my time down to 11 minutes per plate, but I did usually have to take Dramamine 😅

Is this one going on your shop? I may have to recklessly buy myself an advance birthday present...