Haha I think it's just a quick check to insure nobody is posting naked pictures of anything. It just depends when the staff are online and have time to check.
yeah me too, makes me all warm and fuzzy. A while ago I looked back on some of my girlfriend and I early conversations and stuff it was cringe haha
Thanks you're all awesome and hilarious and so welcoming! To answer some questions, I love Lego and that would be the dream job (except, they have some iffy Shell partnership, but other than this it's all awesome and I have a lego city sprawling across my apartment - I blame the child but it's completely enabled by me) I haven't specialised as yet, but I like surgery, really like being in theatre, though I didn't think I'd be the surgical type. Need to decide pretty soon. Rana my path/background is similar to yours! I would totally love our hospital! It could be a whole netflix series
Haha my girlfriend also loves Lego and she has a reasonable collection and we don't even have the excuse of having any children haha
We have a guest bedroom that currently houses my Lego collection. I dread the day when my parents send me my tubs of Legos from childhood because then I might never leave that room.
A Netflix series that would last forever- paycheck for years! I mean isn't grey's still on the air? I had to stop watching that show years ago when Izzie attempted to save a deer in the back of a pickup truck. Surely we could do better than that
Sounds like a solid plan! You go girl, way to get your ducks in a row. (side note: you teachers of the world also need a virtual high five. My dad was a teacher, it IS the job that never ends. People think because school ends at 2:30pm ya'll are FREE to chill out. My dad would be grading papers til pretty late in the night!) That's how I feel too! Stick with that Lego. I do have the bunion thing, I'm gonna need a kick ass surgeon to straighten this thing out!
Just realised that I haven't done my stats, so to keep up with you ladies: I'm a vertically challenged 5''2 Have A levels in Art, law and English Literature (I had no idea what I was doing). Worked in insurance, got bored, travelled the world, came back and now I'm an IT Project Manager for Financial Services. Also play the saxophone and am currently working on a Makeup Artist qualification. What a mish mash of stuff...
I'm 5"7. Brown hair but lots of blond highlights. I have a degree in History and French and am a qualified teacher. But due to health issues I had to stop teaching so now I work as a teaching assistant with Special Needs students.
Colorful combination of Interests! Your brain work distribution may be similar. I'm in IT also. traveled a lot and have an art streak and used to play piano. What Really makes me happy is the vertically challenged part.. I came to EC to identify with late in lifers but realizing there are quite several 5'2"ers!
So to catch up with the descriptors: I'm 5'5" (and a half! That's important. ) and shorter than all my kids. My hair has been completely grey for probably 10 years now, but I stopped coloring it about three years ago. I absolutely rock the grey. It's long-ish now, a little longer than shoulder length, but I sometimes wear it incredibly short as well. I have a sprinkling of freckles on my face and shoulders / arms. No tattoos, yet. I have all these ideas and then something happens. I was going to get a tattoo of my husband's name and our anniversary on my ring finger - and then he's gay and we're separated. I wanted a tattoo of my kids' initials - and then my daughter came out (trans) and changed her name. I have a user name that used to be a juxtaposition of my surname (maiden name; never changed it) and my status as a mother that I wanted - but again, my daughter came out as trans. Anyway - today, and for awhile, I've wanted the Malin symbol. It represents the juxtaposition of growth (steps forward, steps backward) and it is originally Swedish in origin, as I am. Oh - I work in admin, and I have a working knowledge of medical terminology from years of being an academic secretary to a group of teaching pediatricians. So, count me in at the hospital! I'm going to jump on the bandwagon and encourage @RJay to go on Friday night. I'm headed out to a Pride festival myself this weekend, with my lovely daughter and a niece or two.
Ahh I had to work with crush person today and I was so pathetic I barely spoke and spent no time at all in their company in a break period, I actually exited the building, because I thought I'd either not be smart enough or funny enough or would forget an important bit of info I should know, or I'd say something stupid like by the way I'm completely not straight and you're so awesome and I am not being creepy but really I think you're awesome. I hardly spoke even when spoken to. I must come across as having less personality than a piece of cabbage. I think the crush level has subsided a lot and they're in a relationship I'm pretty certain so it's not like I'd mean to say anything in a 'omg I love you' kind of way, I have a lid on that. So why am I still so pathetic around them! They were talking about related stuff at one point and I did not react at all. I have this ridiculous urge to just tell them ina 'hey you're gay so am I, I think, probably, maybe bi, not entirely sure to be honest, definitely not straight, way, by the way I love your research and think what you said the other day in that case was fantastic and when I grow up I want to be half as cool as you and can you let me work on a project you're overseeing and Ipromise not to have a silly crush and to get over it. WHICH WOULD BE TOTALLY WEIRD AND INAPPROPRIATE and I am acting like a confused 12 year old. SO embarrassing. Is this urge to tell people a thing other people ahve? I mean sometimes it's the right thing to do. Nobody in my life who is LGBTQ/ has any idea about me unless they can already tell and I am kidding myself. I think I just want someone who 'gets it' to know, but I definitely don't think I should tell someone like her! Then I'm like maybe I should email this other person I know from a previous project who is already kind of a mentor type person who I have been avoiding completely because of the mess my life is in and my lack of input to an organisation Im involved in that I should be much more active in (unrelated activities!) and I should tell her instead. But how on earth do I tell someone in an email & what on earth would she think! On a scale of unprofessional I'm not sure quite where that would fall. Ahhh. Maybe the trick is to write this and then the urge to tell everyone will go away because it's 'out there'!
I mean, maybe people (person in particular who I have this silly urge to tell) can tell anyway. I really don't know how I come across to other people. They kind of hinted that they knew but maybe I was imagining that and drawing inferences that weren't there Maybe I'd say what was up and they'd be like IT'S SO OBVIOUS - and then re telling people, how sure do you have to be? I'm sure I'm not straight, I'm not really sure past that. I think I'm definitely more into women than men, definitely, but I couldnt exactly say hey I might be a lesbian but actually maybe not 100%. That sounds really annoying even to me!
Maybe just write it out and read it. I find when things are confusing to write it down. Usually I can tell after I've written it and read out to myself it becomes more clear if I'm just being nuts or it actually makes sense.
Do you feel better for having written it out? I see your profile says out to a few people, who are you out to?
Gosh yes I feel better writing it here sorry! Thanks! I told my aunt, maybe 2 years ago actually, and she just kind of ignored it. I told someone by accident once in a jokey way (how does anyone do that I don't recall the specifics, but I was glad I said it) no reaction, and told a friend who has said she is pansexual but is in hetero relationship and has previously supported the LGBT society where we are. I think she doesn't believe me, though I do get mocked for my crushes which I also told her about. I definitely do not think she thinks I am serious.
I also think part of my resistance to ths for so long has been my mother 'accusing' me of being a lesbian when I was about 15 and I refused to go on a date with some sleazeball boy/man on vacation (also I told people I was not into guys from about the age of 13 but I think I did it to get them to stop bothering me, and also because it was half true) - I have a bad relationship with my mother so I would have hated it if she had been right, though. Also my kid's father always said he thought I was gay (again, how weird is this written down) - I thought this was because he didn't like me acting like I do, i.e. Not at all 'girly' & at the time I was pretty driven and achieving and independent, which he probably did not like but now I think maybe it was obvious even then
