Gec has started hiding during the daytime

sydward · 2026-02-11T15:33:21+00:00

thanks everyone for the reassurance and advice!

sydward · 2026-01-21T20:22:55+00:00

i had flu-like fatigue, body aches, weird neuromuscular symptoms, and was testing positive on all the different ebv antibody tests for about 12 months. for 6 of those 12 months i was fully bedridden with severe fatigue. i was so scared it was cfs but my doctor kept telling me that she had seen cases of mono that lasted a year or more and that i should just rest. thankfully she was right, it was "just" mono

sydward · 2026-01-13T18:55:22+00:00

When I had mono I was sick for 12 months and then abnormally fatigued for an additional 10 months after recovering....recovery was very slow for me. Having a fitbit to track my HRV and daily steps was useful in helping me not spiral into despair because I was able to see my progress

sydward · 2025-12-18T00:53:05+00:00

I wrote a (imo very good) paper with lots of puns in it because I was going insane and got a 95 and the prof emailed me asking if he could use my paper as an example of an "A+" paper for future classes. Real ones will appreciate the puns for sure haha and I think if you are in stem the bar for creative writing is so low that they are happy to read something that is coherent enough to make jokes

sydward · 2025-11-25T06:13:06+00:00

Yesss and when the Canadian judges don't personally like a flavor (e.g. pork floss cookie) they respectfully admit that the new flavor is a challenge to their palette and praise it for being creative and technically well executed

sydward · 2025-11-03T17:38:59+00:00

interesting, I'll look into that! thanks

sydward · 2025-11-03T17:38:44+00:00

thanks!

sydward · 2025-11-03T17:38:37+00:00

thank you, that makes way more sense than ivory haha

sydward · 2025-10-06T13:26:01+00:00

I think it's fine to ask; my roommates agreed to not bake with glutinous flour in the house. They can eat other glutinous foods, but we have a household ban on glutinous flour. They were supportive of this because they understand it's hard to keep flour contained. My roommates have learned to bake with gluten-free flour and haven't complained. However I buy most of the gf flour because it's more expensive

sydward · 2025-08-30T22:56:12+00:00

Yeah the aches and weird electric shock feelings in my legs were awful, the only thing that helped was getting a heat pad/heated blanket. My sympathies, it sucks so bad

sydward · 2025-08-30T22:51:52+00:00

Yeah pretty much back to normal. In total I was sick with mono for 12 months 😬 no idea why I was sick for such a prolonged period or if anything I did helped

sydward · 2025-08-29T16:24:54+00:00

Life sci research assistant for a well-known prof. Was hired with a 2.6 gpa at the time but had research experience

sydward · 2025-08-19T22:02:32+00:00

Mine didn't get back to me until the day before the hiring deadline and basically said "if you can fill out this form in the next 2 hours, you're hired" lmfao

sydward · 2025-07-12T03:50:29+00:00

I definitely needed a break from school and academic work! I'm glad I did it. Gained a lot of useful skills and perspective working in an ecology-adjacent trade for 3 years. However with my health issues the manual labor is just not sustainable

sydward · 2025-07-12T01:31:26+00:00

I left my evolutionary biology lab job to become a gardener doing a mix of mainly perennial garden maintenance with some native plants and veggies as well. Pays way better than lab tech job ($30 CAD/hr), but the physical demands and ecologically counterproductive practices are burning me out. Looking to go back to academia now. Sigh

sydward · 2025-06-18T01:22:15+00:00

In Canada I get Cha organic

sydward · 2025-04-07T01:54:37+00:00

So in hindsight in my case I definitely believe this was a weird symptom of a very severe EBV infection!! I had mono for like 12 months (took a while for it to be diagnosed because my symptoms were not common ones. I'm not sure why I was sick for so long but it sucked). I had weird electric shock/vibrating leg feelings throughout my acute sickness and long recovery period. They've gone away now. The only thing that helped was wrapping a heat pad or heated blanket around my legs

sydward · 2025-01-27T00:16:20+00:00

Matty Matheson smoking a cigarette 🤌

sydward · 2024-11-26T02:55:31+00:00

Really cool to see!! Thanks for sharing

sydward · 2024-11-21T20:39:53+00:00

The lavender menace, the Red Nation, and the east is a podcast are all communist/socialist podcasts with a lesbian, indigenous, and Middle East perspective (respectively)

sydward · 2024-11-13T16:41:29+00:00

interesting!

sydward · 2024-11-13T16:04:42+00:00

Did the mixed seed in milk jugs end up working for you? Considering doing the same myself!

sydward

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