Feminist pub no 12: The Bluestocking Returns, this time with goats!

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Welcome!

buffy

www.leicestermercury.co.uk/MEP-Roger-Helmer-insists-private-life-s-business/story-23103674-detail/story.html

What a cockwomble

Oh Buffy, sorry to hear about the row and the chest infection. please imagine that this is a cup of something very soothing and aromatic that you like.

You lot are all so lovely, seeing your sympathy on the page really cheers me up. Thank you.

It's pouring with rain here but I am finding that perversely soothing. I hope you all have a good day or as good as can be expected with crap work, chest infections and so on.

(i know it is too early) and for Vezzie and Buffy

"cockwomble". What an excellent word!!

Therapeutic for vezzie and Buffy.

oh no buffy, i hope you are able to find some proper rest time for the chest infection. i especially wish i could take away the work horribleness

I really fancy some cake now - coffee and walnut, preferably. But we only have in the house.

I have just had two Belgian buns for breakfast .

Sigh, another day of me and a paintbrush and roller. I'm heartily sick of decorating the house now. I though it would only take a week, but today is the start of week 2 and we've only done 1 room! Granted, it was the room requiring the most work by far so the rest shouldn't take long. But I'm finding it all very frustrating. It keeps my hands busy but my mind is free to panic about a wide variety of interesting topics such as how long we can afford for me to stay unemployed (and painting instead of job hunting doesn't help with this anxiety) or how my examiners are probably going to read my thesis and declare it such crap that I won't even get a viva. Every time my email goes "ping!" I have a small coronary. I do not cope well with an idle brain.

You say that Buffy, but they happily let me submit my first- and second-year reports and they were ripped to shreds by my examiners and are on my record as being "very poor". As I've said before, my 2nd year report/viva were so bad they downgraded me to an MPhil and I had to appeal to get re-instated on the PhD programme. And as my new set of examiners said at my appeal viva, "We still doubt very much your work will ever be good enough for a PhD, but we suppose there's no harm in letting you try".

So my paranoia is not groundless.

In theory that's how it works in my field too, Buffy. So I (and others, including our Head of Post-Grads Studies) remain baffled as to how my principal supervisor has managed to cock up so spectacularly with me. She's been doing this for decades and has many many successful students under her belt. It really is a mystery.

Just saw this interesting article about gender diversity and happiness. Article has the paper it is based on, linked within the text. Not sure that I agree with what the article is saying, but haven't read the paper within the article yet.

www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/10/06/gender-diversity-increases-productivity-decreases-happiness/dOiNvWK9tj8qJyrKVGp3uI/story.html

Has this appeared in anyone else's Sidebar of Ads on MN? I doubt this is targeted specifically at me as a) I don't buy lingerie, I buy functional underwear and b) I don't shop at Tesco.

But, just, urgh.

Has this appeared in anyone else's Sidebar of Ads on MN? I doubt this is targeted specifically at me as a) I don't buy lingerie, I buy functional underwear and b) I don't shop at Tesco.

But, just, urgh.

Has this appeared in anyone else's Sidebar of Ads on MN? I doubt this is targeted specifically at me as a) I don't buy lingerie, I buy functional underwear and b) I don't shop at Tesco.

But, just, urgh.

Agree with buffy - a matter of supervisor's reputation (but clearly also a little bit important for student .) In fact I can see my reputation going down the drain while my student dilly-dallies over his corrections and goes incommunicado. Clearly it would be worse for him than for me if the thing's not done. But it's still upsetting.

Sorry, I seem to get triple posts whenever I add an image at the moment. Just to make sure everyone is listening!!

xpost.

Really slow interweb today.

"The study also found that employees felt good about working for a company that cared about equality between the sexes — as long as that caring didn’t translate into action."

Hahaha. >

zazzles reading that very quickly, it looks as though the problem is that men don't like having to watch their socialised behaviour around women. basically, being a nice person is hard work

it's a grass roots problem IMO

i haven't read the original research article either btw

from a corporate POV though, if the findings are sound, increased diversity is a good thing (more productivity), which bodes well

I have misgivings about lacy underwear. Don't they scratch? Or am I a princess with sensitive nerve endings worthy of that one who laid on a million layers of mattresses and still felt the pea? (Wouldn't the pea have been squashed? They should try a walnut. And they must have had high ceilings.)

I think it was a dried pea, rather than a frozen one, LordCopper.

But I agree with you on the scratchiness of lingerie. This is why I wear underwear instead.