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Originally Posted by Mastodon
Thank you, wikid - and I'm sorry I called up bad memories. 
Tonight's unsolicited educational snippet: in Swedish, the phrase is "Snuff is snuff, even if it is kept in a gilded snuffbox" (and it goes on: "And roses in a cracked vase are still roses". It rhymes in Swedish.) |
This is a nice phrase, I like it. There's probably some way to make a similar rhyme in English, but I'm too tired to think of it.
Wiki, you rock in so many ways.
Ugh. Vaguely depressed today. Speaking of what we've chosen to do in our careers and our lives, the job I have now has made me actually begin to stop caring about what I do. My advisor all through grad school was a not-so-great guy, and even he could not quash my feeling that I was doing what I loved, and that it was the right thing to do. Oddly, a boss I like much better as a person has managed to do that. Loving science was such a big part of who I was before. It's sad to feel that slipping away.