@calicovirus – I’m entirely unsurprised. long live bureaucracy, I guess. 😐
@bandana12 – yeah, and that is a totally reasonable security precaution for the Department of Defense. I, however, am just working as a contractor for the NPS, and if hackers got into the documents I wish to transfer all they’d find is a bunch of historical photos of a company of turn-of-the-century soldiers in alaska, some very attractive labels about said photos, and a pie chart that took me three hours.

I have two settings when writing:

  1. staring in panic at a blank screen, wondering how I could possibly write even a single phrase
  2. desperately trying to figure out how to make this sentence shorter than 100 words, while already two pages over the maximum page count

clarenecessities:

there’s something endlessly hilarious to me about the phrase “hotly debated” in an academic context. like i just picture a bunch of nerds at podiums & one’s like “of course there was a paleolithic bear cult in Northern Eurasia” and another one just looks him in the eye and says “i’l kill you in real life, kevin”