Ghosts-and-lovers - Life Worth Living

Fall 2023, Murray State University, taken on a TracFone cell phone camera

Working on drawing animals recently :) here is a picture from googling Meerkat, and my own rendition!

having fun at the biting demonstration

Even sometimes just the mention of where you are from can instantly change someone's value of your opinion. As someone from Kentucky in a scientific field, it is astounding how all respect gets thrown out the window in favor of making fun of where I am from badly veiled as light humor

I think the funniest possible thing to do in a low stakes situation when someone subtly insults you is to ask them to elaborate.

In Seattle I was explaining environmental DNA and a woman said it “tickled” her to hear someone with my accent (rural Appalachia) “talk about science.”

So I said, “oh! 🙂 What an interesting perspective. Can you tell me more about what you mean?”

As you can imagine it went badly for her very quickly.