That’s when I decided to stop putting everyone above me all the time. Stop swallowing my teeth. Because I refuse to let these people kill me and then get up at my funeral and talk about themselves. How I died for them but without saying it. I refuse.
If you say “NMR machine” 3 times in a bathroom mirror, your institution’s NMR tech will burst through the wall like the kool aid man and tell you it’s an instrument
Now that Biden won, watch me not wear his name on my hat and not put a giant Biden flag on my truck and drive around with it for 4 years like a fucking weirdo.
Practice being comfortable with accepting compliments. You deserve kind words in response to things you do well. It will make you better at giving them, and also at distinguishing them from sexual harassment. Both worthwhile.
Your taxes aren’t high because of schools or healthcare or food stamps. Your taxes are high because of rich people who game the system so they don’t have to pay their fair share.