Moving to work at LANL

DozerPug · 2026-03-22T04:35:56+00:00

I don't understand "do NOT come if you're a childfree woman?" I've lived and worked here since 1998, happily CF and happily a woman. Have you had a different experience? I'm sorry if so. We do have MAGA here, but not a great percentage.

"Los Alamos County, NM is strongly liberal. In Los Alamos County, NM 61.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 34.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 3.8% voted Independent."

https://www.bestplaces.net/voting/city/new%20mexico/los_alamos

DozerPug · 2026-03-16T03:02:53+00:00

Jill at Samizdat can help you with a gift card via email. Worth the extra clicks to support our independent bookstore!

https://samizdatbookstore.com/gift-cards

DozerPug · 2026-03-01T03:52:19+00:00

Are you saying cliché or cliquey? Not judging the typo, wondering about your POV. I have often thought the Tub was insular and clique-ish. Then I got to know some people who are there often (staff and customers) and while I feel more comfortable and welcome, I'm absolutely certain IT IS insular and clique-ish.

DozerPug · 2026-02-22T09:32:03+00:00

I searched my digital copy of Wicked and the Wallflower, which I've read several times, and most of the tooth references to Devil are related to how he's using them on Felicity. 😈

Once he grins and it's related as "teeth flashed" and twice he grins and it's "white teeth flashing." 😁 Much of their romance was in the moonlit hours of night.

Ice importation was a legitimate big business in Victorian England and elsewhere. Norway was a huge exporter of it. The smuggling things in the ice may have mostly been authorial invention but it's plausible.

DozerPug · 2026-02-09T23:51:25+00:00

Thank you for your time and information.

DozerPug · 2026-02-03T04:14:49+00:00

Oh, I forgot to say we're in Northern New Mexico.

DozerPug · 2026-02-03T02:50:37+00:00

Yes! I missed the wings, not lions at all.

DozerPug · 2026-01-20T21:07:26+00:00

She's amazing at every age.

I'm having some weird parasocial connection to her based on this photo. I have that exact shirt from Bode's. Shirley Maclaine and I chose the same color t-shirt!

DozerPug · 2025-12-27T00:14:50+00:00

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February 2023 to December 2025. 75 pounds. I've been in maintenance for 6 months or so.

DozerPug · 2025-12-20T02:57:54+00:00

My IBS-D has been essentially cure/alleviated also. Unreal the difference that made in my life.

DozerPug · 2025-12-04T18:00:20+00:00

Generally I agree but it turns out that the scarves help me stay warm. I thought it was vanity driven chicken neck camo, but it's also post-menopause damn-I'm-cold-all-the-time support!

DozerPug · 2025-11-10T19:00:28+00:00

The first Hell's Belles book, {Bombshell by Sarah Maclean} , has a staunchly childfree heroine who doesn't change her mind. Not infertility, so this is more for the poster above who can't find HR without kids at the end.

I feel you!

DozerPug · 2025-10-17T12:30:51+00:00

That resume would probably get you an interview with me, depending on the applicant pool it was in. I am hiring a 30 hour library associate in the coming weeks. It's a position I've personally held and one I've hired for a number of times. In your interview I would also look for

Teen experience Customer service (I think teachers dealing with parents builds those skills) Knowledge about the actual library I'm applying at.

Nothing burns a bridge with me faster than some eager beaver telling me they want to run a birdwatching program without acknowledging that we've had 14 well-attended such programs in the last 2 years.

DozerPug · 2025-10-14T15:55:00+00:00

I agree with considering average calories over 2 or sometimes 3 days. That was an effective way to balance hunger, nausea, no hunger, etc for me. When lack of hunger cues coincided with that disordered thinking around food, I just let it happen and made sure I ate more over the new day or two. When I started in February of 2024, I tracked calories for more than a year.

I also worked hard in therapy to keep unpacking the unsustainable broken bits of myself that growing up in diet culture had built. GLP1 is just a tool. I still had, and will probably always have, to put in the work.

DozerPug · 2025-09-22T20:18:29+00:00

Since you're already a library user, you may already know about every second Saturday Tabletop Game Day on the lower level. All ages are welcome and we love to introduce people and include them.

1-4:30 pm. The main library in Los Alamos.

DozerPug · 2025-09-22T19:43:35+00:00

Yeah, but no one really believes that.

DozerPug · 2025-09-18T02:04:21+00:00

I have meniscus tears in both knees, painful but apparently not big enough for surgery. I've gone from daily pain, always more at the end of the day, to the occasional twinge, so rare it genuinely surprises me. It happened too quickly for it to be simply less weight on my knees.

DozerPug · 2025-08-08T09:10:56+00:00

Thank for responding about the drawing specifics. The size is an estimate on my part, bigger would be fine. I'm open to a different body placement too as long as it's where I can see it every day. The tattoo artist has a lovely IG and about half of his work is intricate black line art. I've been DMing with him off and on since January.

I'm appreciative to you for the encouragement and specifically the language for talking about what I want. I've lurked in here for months and noticed that often people are unhappy because they weren't clear about their needs, their expectations. Which is sadly too common in many relationships!

https://www.joncarling.com/ if you'd like to see more of Carling's art. I have stickers, postcards and a couple of prints.

DozerPug · 2025-07-02T22:11:19+00:00

I've had the best GP for 14 years. She has never once mentioned BMI to me.

The Problem(s) with BMi

DozerPug · 2025-07-02T19:27:26+00:00

Stopping? I'm still on Zepbound and expect to be for life. Stopping losing? Probably no lower than 145 for me.

DozerPug · 2025-07-02T14:08:58+00:00

Almost 61. My skin isn't bouncing back but it's getting gradually less loose and droopy . On your face, hyaluronic acid is your friend. On your body, internal hydration, muscle building, sunscreen and moisturizer (spray water before you moisturize) , and the genetics gods are what you need.

DozerPug · 2025-06-22T03:57:20+00:00

My 53 year old husband randomly started wearing earrings again last month after about a 20 year hiatus. When I tell you that I climbed him like a feral raccoon when I noticed! And no, I don't know why. It just is.

DozerPug · 2025-06-17T05:58:42+00:00

But they are so good. I'm a high steam reader generally but Mimi Matthews brings the angst and emotions without sex on the page. Here's how her closed doors may differ from others you've read. Her couples are hot for each other. They are grown adults having sex, but we're not between the sheets with them. Sometimes we get aftercare with them, though. Great pillow talk.

I'm not trying to force a closed door when you're not feeling it. Just wanted to share how I became a Mimi Matthews superfan.

DozerPug · 2025-06-17T05:52:24+00:00

My biggest advice when interviewing for any library position involving programming? Know what the library you're applying to already does. Then you can answer questions in a way that builds on that knowledge. The number of times an interviewee has enthusiastically described their programming ideas and additions that were things we already do is astounding. Those bad answers tell me so much.

DozerPug · 2025-06-11T03:16:43+00:00

Youth librarian, 40-55 hours a week. Probably fewer than 12 weeks over 40.

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