I played a little bit of those. I think it was more everyone I used to play with got old and busy. :) I would like to check in soon though, give me a few weeks first to finish everything I need to do lol.

Haha, I played a lot of GW1 and met some of my best irl friend in GW2 in the early days. I basically got the dragon mount and stopped playing shortly after that was released. Sad because I loved, LOVED Cantha in GW1. I should check in again. I have something insane like 4k hours into it. Didn’t feel the need to escape so much after I moved abroad.

Just a shoutout.

It’s an absurdist joke. X)

I cannot believe these people make more than me lol.

Tried and true! I also add a jar because they make me jump, I can’t help it lol. I have had big orb spiders crawl on me in the woods while climbing in the US and we have large spiders here incl. the giant English house spider here. They are both the size of hands. Freak me the fuck out haha.

Thank you fart✨sparkles. You are stunning too.

You can find pyrite fossils in Pennsylvania as well, surprisingly.

https://youtu.be/eueLZrt685I

Me too, they’re so pretty. They basically fall out of the wall in Dorset.

You can see what happens when the wood gets exposed on the little black one. The big guy is clay.

One that’s mostly polished up:

I am saving these for teaching tools. They were collected with help from a good friend of mine that does palaeontology. My research is only Holocene lol.

I posted some snaps here when I first pulled them out of the ground of this batch. I haven’t polished the resin yet on most of the encased ones, but I’ll post a snap after my phone charges a little bit. I have some fossils that turned into clay, ancient wood fragments and belemnites in there too. All are from the Jurassic Coast in Dorset.

They will decay within 2 years after hitting oxygen. Solution: Encase them in resin. Source: What I did with these pyrite fossils on my desk.

Aberdeen and Glasgow too tbh.

I live better and more cheaply here than I did in the US, to each their own.

The world is looking to China too, their sciences are blossoming. Exciting times ahead while Americans decide who they are and want to be and eventually go through their own Enlightenment. Things are bad now, but tyrants always fall eventually. I think we are entering a sort of golden age for science.

Updating, tyvm.

One is! Another has passed the first round, but they are both a bit radical and I cannot include them everywhere. They are theory papers. Just have to finish the last bits of the thesis so I can show off the lab stuff. That is what I am applying on.

For the sleepy brains and ESL-ers: It is an idiom.

None of my stuff is published yet, wish me luck lmao.

College introduces a lot of new words in general. It is what it’s for, plus, she will be in pre-med. Go for the Spanish route. She will flourish. :) Spain is so lovely. I hope I can land something there next.