Dr. Jen M

Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:03 UTC

A special good night to the Emerald Princess, who’s hanging out in port until almost midnight! If you toot goodbye and wake me up, I won’t hold it against you. Maritime rules are maritime rules., folks! No complaining allowed.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 00:03 UTC

Needs red laser eyes. Then it is a Wee Evil.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:45 UTC

Mango sorbet is the best sorbet.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:27 UTC

Yeah, I thought my commute to work was like a 20-minute bus ride. The irony is that it probably would be with the construction, and it’s like 6 stops. Lol

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:26 UTC

… so my concept of distance around HRM was off by a factor of 10 and not in a favourable way. I thought that part of Dartmouth was like living in London and commuting to Toronto every day. I did London-Sarnia a few times a week and it killed me.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:25 UTC

See? Other people are far more knowledgeable about that side of the pond than I am. Lol. Because I knew I wasn’t moving my car here and wasn’t interested in a 1-hr bus commute I needed to be on the peninsula so I never even considered Dartmouth. Plus my map was WILDLY INCORRECT by scale, …

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:06 UTC

*wrinkles nose* I mean, I like both of those things. But…not with sorbet. Maybe after sorbet. Or before sorbet. But not WITH sorbet.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:01 UTC

Oh, those are two clear and opposite directions. Lol. And from IKEA-ish, hospitals on the peninsula may almost be easier to get to than Dartmouth Gen. But I also…don’t live on The Dark Side for a reason. lol.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:53 UTC

The building I was looking to move to has paid parking (as in, you buy a parking spot and use it for the duration of your residency in the building) and it was $50,000 for a spot. Most of the units were purchased condos; no option of a monthly spot.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:51 UTC

So Dartmouth way out on the other side of the city? Lower rent, but still highly competitive because it’s on a bus route directly onto the peninsula. That area is a car-required area of the HRM…check how much parking is in the building (mine is $175/month for residents, $300/mo for non-residents)

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:27 UTC

I pay a mind-numbing amount in rent for a bachelor (and it’s now way more than I pay because I’m protected with a rent cap) but I have a great view, groceries across the street, and I can walk to work. That’s the trade-off I made and I’m happy with it. Other people spend hours on a bus or in a car

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:26 UTC

VERY difficult. Start with big rental companies (Killam, Templeton, 444rent, capreit, northwest, etc), send out DOZENS of apartment applications, be prepared to compromise: you will either be close to work or have cheap rent, not both. Make sure it’s a yearly lease, NOT fixed term. Parking is $$$$$$

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:00 UTC

D’oh. Fitz and the Tantrums are playing tonight and I forgot so I’m already in my PJs. Ah, well. Maybe next year I’ll be the cool kid singing along outside of the ticketed area 😂 maybe I’ll be lucky and the wind will blow in the direction of my apartment and I can sing along on my balcony…

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:42 UTC

Yes yes! I like these rules. Sometimes when I go out for ice cream I ask for extra vegetables.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:39 UTC

My parents have one, and we used to make an awesome mixed berry frozen yogurt. A+. We tried lemon sorbet and I was underwhelmed.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:35 UTC

And if you can eat it out of a bowl instead of on a stick, it must be health food. I don’t make up the rules.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:26 UTC

I'm tempted to have sorbet for dinner. It's fruit n stuff. Has vitamins. It even has some fiber. Well, you have me convinced. Sorbet is health food. 🍨

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:03 UTC

u sure?

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:02 UTC

I just saw a cross-stitch project that said: "Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup" And now I'm giggling while packing my stuff up to go home. 🧶

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:06 UTC

Square card readers are still free, aren't they? lol. Can you imagine a contractor whipping one of those out of their back pocket like they make candles at a farmer's market? "roof's done, you may see a few nails wash off in the first big rain, that'll be $6,000 minus the deposit. Just tap here"

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:05 UTC

oh if only there was a machine that had been invented to turn those cheques into garden mulch. 😅

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:04 UTC

then coated in a graham cracker crust, deep-fried, and topped with lettuce, tomato, marshmallow (instead of mayo), on a brioche bun. It would be good, I'm telling you!

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:43 UTC

would not, but only because I don't eat beef (it's yucky). But if they somehow put that in a chicken burger (kinda like molé chicken with some 'shmallo?) I'd try it.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:40 UTC

A good account to pre-emptively block! I friggin hate it when people steal photos. I hate it even more when it's a blue-check account on The Other Place because they can actually monetize stealing your shit.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:35 UTC

Can you...ask for a different design from the person writing you cheques? *whispers* why are we still using cheques????? Even buskers take paypal. lol

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:58 UTC

Throwing this into the science feed if any scientists have Presidential Aspirations. lol 🧪

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:44 UTC

Are you currently a Dean, AVP, or another position of leadership & are thinking of making the jump to President? How about at a 220-year-old university that is primarily undergraduate but also has professional business (MBA, MBAN) & other grad (MA, MSc, PhD) programs?
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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:03 UTC

Today’s Thrifty Bits: another Banana Republic dress that retailed for $209 (found one online new with tags) and I got it for $10. It’s one of my thrifted dresses for fancier occasions (and I have A Meeting today…). Thrifted necklace (no maker’s mark), earrings from Splurge!

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 15:55 UTC

there is a 20-something (I think BARELY 20-something) young man that is trying to figure out how old I am to decide if I'm worth flirting with in DMs. Dylan, I'm not worth it. I'm twice your age. Possibly older than your mom. Stop.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

After a while I think everyone would just get along (and maybe turn on me in the process). Sure, there would be fighting. But once everyone was full (had eaten a few rats to knock them down a few notches), I think we'd all just lounge around wherever I was being held hostage with a bunch of animals

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 12:25 UTC

Great. Now the person's husband that is using my email (who's name is Valgarie, it's not even the same name as me...) named John is donating to the Indiana Bar Foundation using my email. He has donated a whopping $4.25 to the Civil Legal Assistance fund. Don't be so cheap, John.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 12:07 UTC

Shhhhhh. *whispers* the workers are working 🤫

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 12:03 UTC

Today’s Thrifty Bits: a BR dress Avec Pockets! At the time this was new it was probably ~ $150, but now with their prices it would probably be more like $300 (they’ve gone bonkers…). I paid $12! Necklace was my grandma’s (unmarked costume piece), earrings from Treaty Truckhouse

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 09:55 UTC

That’s who I’d that the gorillas take out first

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:27 UTC

And now triple-toots! I’m being spoiled by boat toots tonight

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:24 UTC

Volendam says TOOOOOOOOOOT! Off she goes to Bar Harbour. Bon voyage!

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:10 UTC

I'm just waiting for this to progress into various healthcare-related woes. I already know one of the reasons for Divorce Lady for why she's signing the papers is because of infertility. Wayyyyyy too much information to know about someone I don't know.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:46 UTC

I don't know if Debt Buddy and Divorce Lady have ever met, but they both have the same concept of personal issues being aired publicly and I'm sure would get along smashingly well. STOP HAVING PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS IN AN ECHO CHAMBER IN PUBLIC. For frick sakes.

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:44 UTC

oh my god seriously. The common area in the lobby of the floor is not the place to talk about your financial woes. I now have music playing quite loudly (luckily I'm the only person in this hallway & no one is around the corner today...) because I do NOT want to hear about your credit card debt, bud

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 12:05 UTC

Todays Thrifty Bits: a dress! Brand is Joseph Ribcoff, which retails about $175-$225. This one wasn’t new with tags in the thrift store so it was cheap: $9. Still like-new condition! I also have on some wee ice cream cones to manifest lunch…

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 00:15 UTC

purple is my personal favourite, but I find it so hard to find the perfect purple-red. I have...several...in my collection. lol. none of them are the perfect purple that I ran out of a few months ago and the brand discontinued the shade

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 00:07 UTC

That is a GREAT colour!!!

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 23:56 UTC

I did the grand reveal already! Lol. Her name is Gloria Laynor

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 23:06 UTC

Well…Nova Scotia means New Scotland so you were kind of right. Lol

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 23:01 UTC

Oh, I’m sure there are a bunch of people around here that machine knit (I’m in Canada, not Scotland…) but I currently have no interest. It’s rather convenient that my machines are 2200km away. Lol

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 22:54 UTC

what machine did you buy? I have an LK150 back in Ontario (and a Legarre circular sock machine) but have no space for it out here....

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 21:33 UTC

Phone died on the way home, also went grocery shopping, and now I’m home with my feet up and some sparkling water. 8.7km wandered today! 👍

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:58 UTC

Free Willy!

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:40 UTC

Tuuuuuuuurtle!

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Dr. Jen M @awesomebiota.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:25 UTC

The two big squares are successfully up now

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