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@a_space_person wow I haven't thought of 2Fort in like 5 years. what a blast

Someone is monitoring the NHFP e-mail helpline tonight -- 22 hr before the deadline -- and for that I'm so grateful!!

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That bell jar in Beauty and the Beast was invented to stop this kind of behavior >:(

@toomanyspectra Maybe not what you're looking for, but I've heard good things about being a camp counselor at AstroCamp in CA.

does anyone know of any like. summer astronomer in residence programs. i know about the grand canyon one. are there any others?

We've hit our 11th month of negative pregnancy tests. No fun.

Teaching students to observe is so fun, but the 14-hour days are kinda terrible. On the other hand, giving up work time for sleep would also be no fun!

@whereisyvette Wait, not to say an R1 is a cold unpleasant place, just the volume of admin stuff they have

@whereisyvette I've been reminded of this lately as I've been updating my syllabus to teach class in a new place (from SLAC to R1). The R1 has sooo many more rules and boilerplates to include. That's just the tippy tip of an iceberg! A cold, unpleasant one!

@a_space_person All the light coming in the windows today was so ORANGE! Because there were so many leaves!

@a_space_person What a pretty cluster though!!

@a_space_person Feels like Nobel Prize committee was paid off by Big Tech...

Our quince tree is making quinces!

Anyway, for all the curious folks who've asked what feels different about not being on T, ^that's it. Everything is just not quite right, in this strange, subtle, undefinable way. I really thought it was my clothes. (also not passing/blending, of course)

For the past ~1.5 years I've been off testosterone. Also, side note, for the past ~1 year I've been having a fashion crisis. Today it finally hit me that these issues are one and the same. It's not my clothes!

@aussiastronomer Someone call up Peter van de Kamp! I think I can hear him rolling over in his grave

Proposals are DONE! And today is Mountain Day! (Smith College gives everyone a spontaneous day off)

NOIRLab proposals are due tonight and NASA ADS isn't searching or generating BibTeX entries right now 😅 it's fine, everything's fine

@PlavchanPeter It's the Hale!!

Before I had children, I took pictures of telescope domes. Name the Observatory...