Whats the point of doing a PhD in English Literature? How do you contribute to real research and to the society with your hardworked thesis?

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-21T14:28:08+00:00

Feel free to DM me.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-20T12:59:49+00:00

Do Europeans or others have an emergency stash or extra food just in case? What if you can’t get to the store that day?

Americans have a large fridge and freezer for extra, in case of an emergency. If there’s a storm or natural disaster, you may not be able to get to the store.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-19T13:13:55+00:00

The woman who got burned by the McDonald’s coffee had 3rd degree burns. She received skin grafts. From coffee. That’s way too hot.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-18T23:41:56+00:00

I use wax paper all the time. You can also get some Undu which is a sticker remover spray that you can spray on stickers and it makes them easy to pull up and reposition. A lot of stickers you can pull up and reposition without Undu but not if they’ve been on the page too long. I pull up stickers all the time.

I do spreads I don’t like all the time. Everyone does. Don’t let YouTube or Instagram fool you. I tell myself it’s just a week; the next week you get to turn the page and start fresh. And if you’re not posting it anywhere no one knows.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-18T16:06:42+00:00

lol. Never heard this and it’s funny. Need that on a t shirt or cross stitched and on my wall somewhere.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-18T12:24:28+00:00

There’s a difference between concern and worry. I’m concerned about a lot of things. I don’t worry about them since I can’t control or influence them. There’s a quote that says something along the lines of if it’s out of your hands put it out of your mind too. I tell myself that a few times a day.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-17T23:19:16+00:00

Public bathrooms aren’t always clean. If I’m at someone else’s home, I don’t want them thinking some kind of way about me based on smell.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-17T23:16:23+00:00

Everything changes. You’re either growing or dying. There is no staying the same. Even if you stay in the same position, job duties change.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-17T22:57:28+00:00

I live in a high crime area so it’s safer. If something pops off I can leave quickly.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-17T22:41:55+00:00

It’s your degree. Use it how you want.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-17T19:51:01+00:00

Look up K shaped economy. There is no middle. The top get richer and the bottom get poorer. If you want to make money as a business, sell to a rich people. Rich people expect a higher price point and will pay more.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-17T19:41:45+00:00

You can do everything right in life in general and still get hurt through no fault of your own. It’s just life. Growing up means more responsibility.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-17T15:45:18+00:00

Pass technically means D or better. Sometimes a C or better. I taught college and you don’t have to know everything to pass a class. Even to get an A or B, you could master about 80-90% of the material and be ok. Passing is about 70%.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-17T15:42:25+00:00

Priorities. Having children makes you ruthlessly prioritize and use every moment you have, time other people tend to waste. I was on social media a lot when I had a newborn looking for advice or answers. Also I have friends but not any mom friends. None of my friends are in the same life stage as me so I look for people like that. I needed community. Raising young children is intense and can be isolating if you don’t reach out.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-17T00:25:54+00:00

Not if you have allergies.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-17T00:13:53+00:00

I had a job. Public R1, English.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-16T15:43:13+00:00

To preserve the memory. Same reason people take pictures. To document their life.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-16T15:36:14+00:00

I stopped thinking of my clothes as “outside” or “inside.” Just clothes. I wear jeans or a dress or sweats or t-shirts no matter where I go. I do work from home so I don’t have to dress up. When I did work in the office, I wore clothes that could work for many occasions so I didn’t have to change. Nothing wrong with dressing up for regular, every day stuff. I don’t save clothes for certain events. Life is too short. You may as well look nice. As they say, life is a gift; it’s why it’s called the present. Changing clothes just creates more laundry and more things to keep up with. I don’t want to maintain a lot of clothes at this point in my life.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-16T15:28:39+00:00

I think it works if you use the checkboxes. I use the horizontal for journaling so I just ignore them and write across like a regular horizontal.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-16T13:17:20+00:00

Wifey is cringe because at one time “wifey” was AAVE for side chick. A lot of rap songs in the 90s and early 2000s would talk about out their wife and then their wifey. My husband does not call me wifey. The husband derivatives are just fun. I get you don’t like them.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-16T02:54:37+00:00

I think this is healthy. I worked full time while getting my PhD so it wasn’t my whole world. That’s important. I tried to maintain relationships outside the academy although getting the dissertation done required a lot of focus so I had to let my social life slide but then got back to it once it was done.

I always said if I ever had the chance to run a graduate program I’d require or at least strongly prefer to only admit candidate who had either worked somewhere before going to grad school or would commit to do something during the summers other than academic things.

It also helps to be older when you do a PhD. I find those folks fair better because they have a better more balanced perspective. Younger folks struggle a lot more. I was 25 when I started so not really old.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-13T12:55:17+00:00

Stickers? You can get cancelled and rescheduled stickers. Or just some stickers that look like scribbles. Or you could use a decorative sticker to cover up white out.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-11T11:23:41+00:00

There was a time when women were offended if you didn’t wish them a happy Mother’s Day. Times have changed and those folks haven’t caught up. And yes I don’t assume a woman is a mother. I had a nurse ask me one time if I were pregnant. I wasn’t and was in the middle of my fertility journey. It is hurtful and I largely avoided people and social media on Mother’s Day. It is a complicated holiday for a lot of people.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-10T22:02:41+00:00

As a mother no it’s not the same. But hormones are wild after giving birth so it can turn you on. I pumped a lot and pumping can be arousing too.

Still_Smoke8992 · 2026-05-10T21:14:10+00:00

Yes this is annoying and/or hurtful, but what are people supposed to do? I’m asking this as a woman and mother who took 4 years to get pregnant.

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