I am not here for the pretty girls

Here's what I *am* here for....

A friend/colleague took this photo of me delivering a PhD workshop a few months ago (my first face-to-face PhD workshop in a long while!)

And while I was so amped about doing this workshop and thoroughly enjoyed being there, receiving and seeing this photo very suddenly quashed all the good-feeling feelings I’d been buzzing with all day.

I hated that my f…