Should Do/Rather Do

By now we all know what I should be doing.  I was actually thinking about the dissertation this morning, too.  I had a thought, a perhaps smart thought that might get me through one of my research problems, or at least provide an arguable route out of one of those problems.  So I wrote it [...]

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Octopus Snowball Fight

That’s kind of how my brain feels right now.  Like it’s under attack by an octopus weilding snowballs in all of its eight-arms-to-hold-you.
Also, remember how I was all magnanimous and shit at the end of that post of confessed smarminess?  It’s okay if you didn’t read it.  I know it was long.  I probably would [...]

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I’m thinking about the dissertation today.

Because I have to.
Yesterday I got the “so, when are you sending me a chapter?” email.  I couldn’t exactly tell the truth, which is “I don’t have a chapter yet,” but I couldn’t lie and say something like “it’s almost done” because then I’d have to bang something out really fast, and I don’t think [...]

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Dispatches from Childbirth Class

I haven’t taken any kinds of classes in about three years, which is probably a lot less than most of the other people in my “weekend intensive” childbirth education class.  This is the class designed for people who can’t manage the normal course of four weekly classes, which means it’s meant for “professionals,” not grad [...]

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Quiz Show!

WTF, WordPress?  I just wrote this whole post about my reasons for and against getting a Facebook account, inspired by this Slate article.  But now the post is gone!  Kerpoof!  I’m not rewriting that whole darned thing, so do me a favor, won’t you, and take my little poll?

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Random Thoughts, Inauguration Style

The inauguration is making me cry, and I can’t pinpoint the exact source of those emotions. I do know that it’s not the usual reasons that are making other people emotional (first African American president, the end of the Bush presidency, the unlikeliness that we’ll manage to dig ourselves out of the hole we’re [...]

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Quick Update, for the Childfree

So I FINALLY told my childfree friend about the contents of my uterus.  For the love of god, it’s the third trimester.  It’s about time.
Anyway, all my fretting was pointless.  Paraphrase:  “I don’t like kids, but I’m happy for my friends when they’re happy with their decision.”  There was a wee “You did plan this, [...]

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In Which I Confess to a Smarmy Habit, Part Two

When last we spoke, wild animals were running lose in my now-husband’s then-and-still-ex’s apartment, and she needed a safe place to spend the night.  Allegedly.
Whoa, now.  Let’s back up just a tad.  Those kinds of requests don’t just come out of nowhere.  Or rather, my subsequent reaction was no non sequitur.  If her actions had [...]

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In Which I Confess to a Smarmy Habit, Part One

Yeah, yeah, I’ll get back to talking about the dissertation when I get back to thinking about the dissertation.  Baby Steps, you know.  I saw my advisor coming my way in the hallway yesterday, so I stopped dead, turned around, and started walking in the other direction.  In the animal kingdom, this is what is [...]

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What I was trying to say before.

I admit to being cryptic in that last post, but not by design. It was more of a cryptic-by-exhaustion sort of thing.
I’m stuck in a state of perpetual in-between-ness. Looking back at the beginnings of this blog, I realized that when I started, on June 26th,I was just about a month away from finding [...]

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