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I signed up to give a talk at a university event call "Taste of Research." Literally the only reason I signed up was because I thought it would have good food.
Reader, I just found out there will be no food at this event, and it's basically TED-style short talks, which I have to use a specific flaky cloud-powerpoint template for.
I have so many regrets.
@sundogplanets food scarcity has been hard for me too. My partner constantly tells me to slow down eating, tells me I don't have to eat everything, and gives me a hard time about getting free food or what I feel is my getting my value for what I paid for at events. I tend to buy large quantities of staples like 25 lbs/11kg bags of beans and rice or 50 lbs bags of flour when I baked a lot. I shop primarily at costco for myself ...
@sundogplanets retired, financially secure, but I still shop at bulk barn on Wednesday for the senior discount and ask for the coupon off as well. Just having been a self funded student does that to you.
@sundogplanets Where I work all the scientists (mostly astronomers) go running when free food is announced. Must be from similar situations.
@sundogplanets FREE FOOD YEAY
@sundogplanets As a musician, I still can be influenced with a meal. Current economic situation is evidently irrelevant. I hear journalists are the same too.
@sundogplanets can you take food, and therefore have the most popular talk? You can’t be the only one.
re: embarrassing
@sundogplanets
Yet they will learn lots from you! 👍
@sundogplanets you deserve snacks
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@sundogplanets Well you’ve got your amusing intro written for you at least
@sundogplanets the taste of regret has its own flavour. Hope the general digestions goes well.
lol you could shame them by bringing tasty treats for everybody and passing them out as you talk
re: embarrassing
@sundogplanets
No food ?!? That's tasteless!
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...I'll get my coat.
@sundogplanets False advertising! Unacceptable!
@sundogplanets well, that's just rude of them.
@sundogplanets Oh no!
Please tell me the PowerPoint deck is not in pastels...
Also I've been watching Shifting Baselines today! What a powerful movie. It was fun to see you all and the goats -- and the famous llama.
@sundogplanets Food was always a key staple of how we got people out to events. I'm surprised they don't do that.
@mayintoronto Sounds like they just ran out of money 😬
@sundogplanets oooooof why would they name it that if they aren't going to give you snacks 😭
@sundogplanets Perhaps hope for a terrible snowstorm?!
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Good news: there's a special "invite only" reception beforehand and they will feed me!
It scares me a bit how much those years of living way below the poverty line (with a baby) during grad school/early postdoc has made me ALWAYS seek out free food.
Did experiencing that make me a better person? Yeah, probably. Do I think others should go through that to "build character" or something? No.
Academia really sucks sometimes.