Things Are Getting Better All The Time...
Category: Blog I Am Reading Today
Really, they are. Read this to see just how much better!
Posted by Zuska at 6:10 PM • 40 Comments •
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Zuska is the kick-ass alter-ego of Suzanne E Franks. When not dispensing Zuska's wisdom, Suzanne can often be found gardening, reading, or having one of her thrice-weekly migraines.
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- What's So Great About Your STEMmy Lifestyle Anyway? Inquiring Minds Want To Know!
- This Just In: Scientists Discover True Nature Of Bullying!
- Hilariousity Break: Buying Phish Tix
- The Differential Impacts of Sexist Gender Role Expectations
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The place where I come from...is a small town. Coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains
You will be wanting to read my excellent essay, 'Suzy the Computer' vs. 'Dr. Sexy': What's a Geek Girl to Do When She Wants to Get Laid? in She's Such a Geek! Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff.
If you have not yet figured out why you shoud not be using terms like "hard science" and "soft skills", then you absolutely need to read Telling Stories About Engineering: Group Dynamics and Resistance to Diversity in NWSA Journal v. 16 No. 1, 2004 (Re)Gendering Science Fields.
You should also read They Blinded Me With Science: Misuse and Misunderstanding of Biological Theory, an excellent critique of Thornhill and Palmer's nonsense about rape as an evolutionary strategy. You can find it in Burack and Josephson's must-read tome, Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives.
Support the Mautner Project for Lesbians With Cancer! "The Mautner Project improves the health of lesbians, bisexual, and transgender women who partner with women, and their families, through advocacy, education, research, and direct service. [The Mautner Project envisions] a healthcare system that is guided by social justice and responsive to the needs of all people."
Daily Struggles:
Work-Life Balance 2: On Stepping Up To The Plate
Category: Daily Struggles
Even if fifty dudes got together and wrote A Post, on the same day, about balancing work and family, it would still be like that Special Section on The Rare and Strange Creatures Known as Women-in-Science published annually by Glamour Journal.
Posted by Zuska at 9:03 AM • 53 Comments •
Rearranging Pipet Tips...
Category: Daily Struggles
A friend of mine (maybe YOU are that friend?) will be soon be leaving a job at Wackaloon Scientific Enterprises where said friend is supervised by sadistic OCD micromanaging douchebags from hell with poor reading comprehension skills.
Posted by Zuska at 2:38 PM • 5 Comments •
How to Feed 4 On a Food Stamp Budget
Category: Daily Struggles
Sixty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents is a small sum of money. I am impressed that any of the three were able to come up with 84 meals for anything like that sum.
Posted by Zuska at 9:33 AM • 58 Comments •
If The Force Actually Existed...
Category: Daily Struggles
I'm not sure if the force is that strong, but I think that would count as good times AND making a difference in the universe!
Posted by Zuska at 9:59 PM • 32 Comments •
How We Are Surviving Snowpocalypse 2010
Category: What They're Saying
Arborvitae, you will recall, are supposed to be upright, hedge-like critters. Not waving their evergreen arms all about in frantic desperation.
Posted by Zuska at 6:12 PM • 9 Comments •
For My Friend With The Douchey Boss
Category: Burns My Shorts
You, my dear friend, have been EXCEEDINGLY ill for weeks, but still making sure everything at work gets covered, via arrangements with colleagues and telecommuting despite being on strict bed rest orders from your doctor. You're getting slowly better and...
Posted by Zuska at 2:40 PM • 5 Comments •
Things You Just Shouldn't Say Even If You Mean Well
Category: Burns My Shorts
I'm speaking from experience, people, having had most of these lobbed at me one time or another. Please feel free to add to the list in the comments section. 1. "When is the baby due?" I'm not pregnant, you douchebag....
Posted by Zuska at 4:48 PM • 52 Comments •
Fitness for the Aging Body Charged with Elder Care
Category: Daily Struggles
My fitness program the last 3-4 months - or reasonable facsimile thereof... Monday: go to gym, half hour on elliptical, half hour doing weights routine picked up at last stint at physical therapy for excruciating neck pain developed over several...
Posted by Zuska at 10:00 AM • 13 Comments •
All I Want For Christmas Is A Pair Of Swim Shorts
Category: Burns My Shorts
It's that time of year again - the time when I begin to contemplate swimsuits, and curse under my breath. You see, the last several years, Mr. Z and I have sworn off birthday, anniversary, and Christmas gifts for each...
Posted by Zuska at 4:34 PM • 36 Comments •
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