This, from BitchPhD is just so very true.

But the truth, I think, is that part of what's so painful about "leaving" academia is that we usually aren't leaving by choice. More often, academia is leaving us, and all we're doing is having to slowly come to the point of acknowledging that we've been left alone in this big apartment full of books, ( Read more... )

(and it's not just because I live in Detroit)

"Although the Detroit Three directly employed about 240,000 people last year, according to the industry-allied Center for Automotive Research (CAR) in Ann Arbor, Mich., the multiplier effect is large, which is typical in manufacturing. Throw in the partsmakers and other suppliers, and you have an ( Read more... )

( Small rant about taxes under cut (read at your own risk)... )

More reasons why I love our small town.

Yard ornaments moved

Police were dispatched to a resident's home on Winchester Drive about a suspicious circumstance that the resident believed occurred between 9 p.m. Aug. 31 and 10 a.m. Sept. 1. The man said he awoke on the morning of Sept. 1 to find that several lawn ornaments in his yard had been moved. ( Read more... )

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So funny!

Yard Sale or Freecycle? 

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