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[littlefallsmets]

I am, in fact, a fried egg.  However, I am over hard rather than sunny side up.

You see, you're one of the exceptions to this rule.

Because no one can look anything like a fried egg* so I imagine you as your profile blurb:

Bulbous, also tapered.

*...unless you count that Sarah Jessica Parker looks like ET with two fried eggs on his chest.

[wombat]

I don't know why I'm still a robber-baron googly-eye phage, but I've just never picked a good time to stop, that's all.

Maybe I should memorialize my leave of absence from graduate school by becoming V-Adore, The Saddest Purkinje Cell.

What's this about a leave of absence? There must be a story here, did I miss something?

Also can I just say that I hate when people change their avatars.

[V-Adore]

What's this about a leave of absence? There must be a story here, did I miss something?

The story is basically "I got extremely depressed, did extremely poorly at grad school as a result, asked for a leave of absence, got it." Unfortunately, I am now realizing that being in Louisiana living with your parents has not yet proven itself to be an environment more conducive to mental health, although I should probably give it more than two days.

[littlefallsmets]

Yikes, Vee.

While I am not in your exact situation, I know the words of which you speak.

I am not in that store but we will say I am definitely in the same strip mall.

Just remember that you are an awesome person and that things will probably not stay bad for awesome people.

And, moreover, if things stay bad, it's probably because God is an asshole who fucks with awesome people because God is afraid of competition and the jealous nature of Mesapotamian Volcano Deities is not your fault.

You. Are an awesome person.

[oball]

Sadly my avatar is not reflective of my life at all right now.

[MattFish]

I drew mine. It's a quail with a beard

[CortJstr]

I drew mine. It's a quail with a beard

Yet your signature and personal text still refer to the old image.

[nDed]

My avatar is lovingly handcrafted as well. It is a giant landshark, despite that fact that I am not a giant landshark.

[linnea]

V, please take extra good care of yourself. I got hella depressed and had to drop out of grad school.  It happened at a very stressful time - I had just gotten engaged to the Crap Dude, I had a nervous breakdown and got put on a ridiculous amount of meds, he got deployed to Iraq, I dropped out of grad school and moved in with my folks.  I still regret dropping out of graduate school. You guys know the rest of the story...I got better, got a job, he came home from Iraq a year later and broke up with me via telephone while I was at work one day. I got laid off two days after that. Then I moved to Alaska and got involved in Fire/EMS. It's really weird how the cards fall into place. I still really want to go back to grad school.

Anyway, my avatar is a kittyloaf that blinks and meows silently. You can imagine it blinking and saying stuff of your own invention if you like.

[wombat]

It takes a lot more guts to drop out of grad school than it does to mindlessly persist. No one should feel bad about it. The essential problem is that in most cases undergraduate school tells you nothing about whether graduate school is right for you, so the only way to find out is to try it. Which is an inefficient system and it sucks, but that's how it is. So you shouldn't feel like you're a failure, but that you've just been through an unfortunately very involved decisionmaking process. And you should never feel bad about trying something and deciding it's not right for you, or not right for you at that particular point in your life. 

[jaydub]

I imagine your kittyloaf going meowmeowmeow in rapid succession.

[V-Adore]

The one thing that has always confused me about your avatar, linnea, is why it's not a Scottish Fold kittyloaf. Really, shouldn't it be?

Anyway, I hope I will be going back to graduate school. I like doing research -- honestly, that was like the only good thing about it, but coursework blows the goat, is all.

[linnea]

The one thing that has always confused me about your avatar, linnea, is why it's not a Scottish Fold kittyloaf. Really, shouldn't it be?

Anyway, I hope I will be going back to graduate school. I like doing research -- honestly, that was like the only good thing about it, but coursework blows the goat, is all.

If I had any sort of Photoshop skills, I would totally make myself a Scottish Fold kittyloaf.

Ideally I'd have an avatar with TWO kittyloaves, one with folded ears and one with straight ears, as a shout-out to both Lennybruce (who has straight ears) and Milan (who has folded ears)?

each avatar would have to be white....Lenny has black spots and Milan has grey/blue spots:



Do we have any photoshop masters out there who can make animated GIFs? Even non-animated would be hella rad.

[Doc]

My avatar is a yawning horror from the depths of our collective psyche and 70s pop culture.
But I did the black and white bit myself.

[Turbo Ninja]

Crybabies.

No, wait.  That's me.