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[scriver]

Spoiler: Just making some likör (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: And a lil one fer the kid (click to show/hide)

[Iduno]

Spoiler: Just making some likör (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: And a lil one fer the kid (click to show/hide)

Blueberry vodka sounds pretty good.

[scriver]

It's not blueberries, though, it's sloeberries or blackthorn. In the prune family. It's still great tasting though.

I ended up moving some of the berries to different flasks (and cans, had to scarf around a bit for containers) and spread them out a bit, had roughly half of the allotted vodka left over. It looks better with bottles full of berries though.

[Iduno]

Sloe Gin, except with vodka?

[scriver]

I don't know what makes gin gin, but possibly. Unfortunately I had a weak moment in the store and forwent the brännvin for simpler vodka, but nobody's perfect

[Naturegirl1999]

I don't know what makes gin gin, but possibly. Unfortunately I had a weak moment in the store and forwent the brännvin for simpler vodka, but nobody's perfect

I italicized the word I for some reason read as brainwash before reading it again

[Iduno]

I don't know what makes gin gin, but possibly. Unfortunately I had a weak moment in the store and forwent the brännvin for simpler vodka, but nobody's perfect

Juniper berries, apparently. They're what makes it taste like one of those pine cone car air fresheners smells.

[Trekkin]

Also I feel both ok and HORRIBLE about this first bit of a thesis I'm working on because of heavy anxiety vibes running on me. I'm pretty happy I got enough for it and the deadline is Dec 3 but still utterly nervous.

As someone who's written a dissertation relatively recently, I can confidently tell you not to worry about it. My dissertation, in common with everyone in my lab, was the single worst document I've ever written, being a shambolic 400+-page morass of my prior publications linked together by vague allusions to broader scientific goals. It's littered with formatting errors, bizarre sentence constructions, and bad pagination, mostly because I wrote it over the course of a few days while still doing real work.

Nobody cared. It was approved by my committee without revision, the only editing I had to do to get it accepted by the university was to change some margins, and now I have a doctorate. Nor did it figure into me getting my postdoc, my minions, my funding, or literally anything else. It's a titanic waste of time that exists for historical reasons only. What matters is your publication record.

Unless you're a Master's student, I guess?

[Naturegirl1999]

Question, can colleges just choose not to require the relics of old?

[Trekkin]

Question, can colleges just choose not to require the relics of old?

In theory, yes, and in practice many do make significant changes at the level of specific curricula, but in a way this is why they can't do so with the few specific relics that remain, the dissertation and defense foremost among them at the graduate level: the actual graduate school itself serves the needs of such a diverse group of programs that the process itself is the last common thread holding them together, and while it's a burdensome formality for STEM PhDs, that's not true across all doctoral programs. Plus which, even if you could get a whole institution behind discarding those requirements, they'd almost certainly lose accreditation over it.

So no, they probably cannot. They also should not, but that's a separate argument.

[Naturegirl1999]

Thanks for the info

[TamerVirus]

We alive?

[Sirus]

It-IT'S ALIVE!!!

[NullForceOmega]

No, you are experiencing a hallucination brought on by Bay 12 deprivation.

[methylatedspirit]

21 hours and 50 minutes. That's how long it lasted. I was getting desperate by the 6th hour, so I'm probably experiencing some next-level shit right now.