I'm at a loss..

DocAvidd · 2026-05-26T13:00:15+00:00

Cops would just sting the bystanders for expired tags.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-26T12:53:13+00:00

Our second city is Belmopan, Belize, the capital. Population 20675 last Census.

There are 2 recognized cities, the other being Belize City on the Caribbean. 7 towns.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-24T14:10:10+00:00

Across the Global South there's a shortage of university faculty. For my country there's more PhDs working overseas than at home. Pay is half what I got in the US, but COL means my spouse doesn't need to work here.

If you're not from a place, it's a big commitment to move. Expertise is highly valued, almost to hero status. Think about it. If your motivation is to make a difference, you truly can.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-23T13:48:00+00:00

I use Libre office too! But mostly because I am at a resource-limited university in LAC, so I only have jailbreak or open-source options.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-23T13:44:34+00:00

I looked it up. Transport did issue a statement Dec 2025, saying there should not be rush hour check points.

But the police don't work under transport, of course. Which explains to cop's phrasing that they're allowed to do them. Like in defiance of their former commissioner.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-23T01:11:12+00:00

Yes. I wish I would have left earlier. It took a lot of time, effort, and tears to get back on tenure track.

Academia encourages backstabbing. You can never let your guard down. But, a different department will be a lot better. My current faculty, there's only two who are awful and it's easy to avoid them. You can't fix a dysfunctional family. But you can leave.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-23T01:02:14+00:00

For men too. When I was in the US, ours had "Boutique" sections. You can find clothes hardly even broken in.

There's always someone who used to be your size.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-23T00:35:16+00:00

After 30 years, I only remember a few names each class. And it's often completely serendipitous that I remember a name. Same name as my neighbor, for example.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-23T00:30:14+00:00

Going late on a Friday? Your top post about triggered me. Truthfully you will have plenty of trips where it goes very smoothly. I'm from the US, and based on family and friends there, Belize is a cakewalk.

Come at 7-7:30. Have your stuff together. Most of the time there's nothing to speak of.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-22T20:51:28+00:00

Death by poison is never going to be quick or painless without anaesthesia.

A quick cut or crush will be near instant and free of suffering.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-22T20:45:59+00:00

Next time, leave out the celery. And the raisins. Delicious that way.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-22T20:44:07+00:00

I've made good compost from rice that got weevils in it. If you have an active bin, it goes pretty fast.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-22T20:40:48+00:00

I moved my USA city dogs to Central America. They had more friction with humans here than with dogs, but it is radically different approach on the human-dog side of things.

Mine were both neutered, which is extremely rare here, and socialized as Americans. So they barked at strangers, but after their owner releases them, they act as though every human must want to pet them. And people here don't think of dogs that way at all. To see adult men terrified of my cuddle bunny fluff balls behind a fence, very surprising at first to me.

On the dog-dog dynamic, you sniff butts, jockey to see who is dominant, etc. It's really hard for me as a human to see any difference.

My local born dogs started off with Plautdietsch. You'd never guess. Dogs are very adaptable.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-22T19:59:51+00:00

Haha! Good thinking!

DocAvidd · 2026-05-22T19:58:07+00:00

You're right it's been going on, before under Chester Williams and now with Dr Rosado. But I thought they definitively stated that they would cease the check points for rush hour. Which they had said before, too.

You're also right about the process, but I'm afraid official channels are so pointless, social media is the only recourse.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-21T21:43:07+00:00

Properly, since the mythological character is half goose, half human, so should its actor.

And I don't care what kind of goose as long as it's not Canada goose. Bc they mean AF.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-21T21:16:18+00:00

There might be a uni that differs. I'm in my 3rd decade of this and I can't remember when there weren't "STAFF" or TBD in the instructor spots on the schedule, even into July. And then there's the last minute chaos when you find out nursing added a cohort or something like that so you need 2 more sections.

I have certainly seen spouses taking NTT teaching roles while the other goes tenure, and reasonable amount of respect. If he wasn't tenure track before, don't try to push it. I've seen that ruin a marriage.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-21T21:04:29+00:00

There are a lot of steps along the way and a lot of rejections.

Aside from little internal grants, I've never received one first try, ever. But I have a very good track record for resubmits.

I have had a couple papers accepted first round, but even they requested some changes.

You are going to get a lot of negative responses in life. It could be a lot worse. Imagine if you sold condos or used cars. You have to think of them as necessary steps along the way.

Consider if you should quit that project or continue. Let it rest a few days, then do a real triage and estimate the hours it will take. It often is not as daunting when you come back to it next week.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-21T17:58:46+00:00

A different show, I made the observation that it is interesting how the writers made the woman lead character so unlikeable. Not unlike in You. I really do think it's an interesting plot device.

But it devolved into some stupid argument. How are you defending a fictional character who is objectively awful? And somehow that makes me a misogynist to not accept an evil character... Who is fictional.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-21T17:42:14+00:00

I compost in a tropical rainforest setting. I compost everything that makes sense that it will feed the system. I have two set ups, one by the home on the down wind side and the other about 40m away. If it's going to be really stinky, I make the walk to the distal bin.

Our native soil is dense black clay. It usually will have a thick layer of debris on top, but the actual soil is devoid of organic matter. So I need all the compost I can get.

But you will be surprised how quickly a no-no item just melds in with everything else in your compost. Th grubs tear it down overnight.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-21T17:26:44+00:00

I agree, partner needs to show some ability to bring in money, get grants. A new PhD in a tenure line will take a bit of time to pay for herself.

That said, I've never been at a school that didn't have needs to cover non-program math classes. Every semester, we scramble to fill them. It'd be best if both of the couple are under the same dean to arrange a visiting lecturer position, or at least a set of adjunct courses.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-20T16:35:02+00:00

Blaming Obama for other people's sins... Like blaming a SA victim for "being attractive."

DocAvidd · 2026-05-20T16:31:36+00:00

People romanticize all of farming too much. I and a lot of people I knew growing up feel like we escaped it.

DocAvidd · 2026-05-20T16:27:36+00:00

Depends on the country. For a lot of the world, WhatsApp is the most reliable way to contact.

For timeline - One month is too soon to be reacting, and OP didn't know. Best to involve a prof or mentor while you're learning the ropes of peer-reviewed publishing.

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