1/ The day before my wedding, a graduate student presents me with a bouquet of roses -- thorns picked off. Later that night I find a large serrated knife buried among the stems.2/ Three fellow graduate students die in a single year -- two from the same rare cancer and the third from self-inflicted gunshot.
3/ A colleague hurls epithets and a textbook at me at a faculty meeting.
4/ Not one but two graduate student friends get 'A's and pregnant by the same (married) professor.
5/ The day the World Trade Towers collapse, a colleague says with a smile, "At last, the chickens have come home to roost."
6/ A supervisor fails to give me a raise because I am "too happy" every morning when I "sing coming out of the elevator."
7/ A 'mentor' refuses to provide a letter of reference for a grant proposal unless I switch advisors and sleep with the mentor.
I'll drop by a few blogs and pay it forward later this week -- seems everyone's gotten dubbed.
And from Paige in Paradise Valley, warm fuzzies. Send some her way -- she needs some extra loving... damn economy. Live hard, write harder... Peace, Linda
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