Every time I log into my work email

The world is on fire. I've been angry about it for hours. I would give anything to go back to the old way of ordering books, you know before we decided everything is digital and fucked up useless.

So my answer to yesterday's question is if I could tell young me (who is unlikely to listen) I'd say go harder. You see, I had very little in the way of help back in the 80s applying to medical school. Nothing. My advisor wanted me to go to marine biology phd programs. I had to go to the school libraries and look up schools to apply to. I wish someone had said to me go harder, apply to as many as you can. I only applied to PA and Marshall in WV. It wasn't arrogance as much as naivete. No one who SHOULD have said apply all over did. (granted I think in many ways they didn't want to encourage a female to go into the program and I wish I had known I was in for a decade of being called a token, right to my face).

I also wish I had done the same when it came to looking for a residency (though I did get better at apply and even better when I got to the applying for jobs thing) . I was still too young to realize how little women were wanted in medicine in the 80s and 90s. Even just before I got hurt I was still facing hiding my gender on applications and hang up phone interviews when they realized I was not a male Dana.


But Tuesdays are for fannish things so let me get to that. I'll talk about Legend of Vox Machina next week (I've finished both seasons) and I'm almost done with S1 of The Sandman. Let me say this, I have been a fan since day one. I spotted the first issues in 89 and never looked back. It is the only comic I had the entire original run for. I have the Sandman collector cards including the chasers. I've cosplayed Death.

Needless to say I love this thing (and honestly screw you to the racists decrying Luciene, Death and Rose because of the casting. Neil loves it and that should be enough for everyone but naturally he had a lot of White angry bros telling him go woke go broke)

As for me, the first seven episodes of the show have been everything I could have wanted. As I said yesterday The Sound of Her Wings absolutely slayed me. No, seriously, ugly cried through half of it. Then again that might disappoint Death. She doesn't want us fearing her. Loss and change can be frightening and that's what I truly loved about Neil's Death. She acknowledges that. I also liked we didn't really get to see her true form or what really comes after other than we know a Christen type of hell exists.

I love everything they're doing with the series. It's lush and lovely to look at. And of course, I'm getting an even bigger taste of one of my all time favorite villains The Corinthian (fan art by Ponderosa 121). I can't wait to finish this out.

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I've started Carnival Row (can't remember which of you recced it) I will like the mystery but I'm not sure I can get past the racism. I see enough of that in the real world. It's like staring at a Trump rally.