Customers, Consumers

Tell me this: when did I turn into one of those people who considers college students to be consumers and sees her job as providing exceptional customer service?
Probably since I moved from the classroom to administration. I used to grandstand about the life of the mind and goods and services and commodity culture and all [...]

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Searches!

You’re all doing it, so why shouldn’t I?  Herewith, answers to your favorite search questions:
things to look for when a child falls: Hell. So you’re here because I’m a crap parent, are you?  Well, I’ll redeem myself by offering the following information, all of which has absolutely no medical value, cannot be vouched for, and [...]

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Two Things I’d Rather Be Doing

It’s crunch-time around here, and I wish I could say that the crunchiness was limited to the leaves on the ground.  The weird thing about having a kid (and I don’t know why it’s weird, exactly–it should be obvious) is that downtime is just…gone.  We don’t have it anymore. There’s either work, or dissertation, or [...]

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Nablopomo?

Oh, please. I didn’t pull it off last year, when all I had to do was obsess over the conditional condition and coast along in a dream of success after passing my proposal.
Yesterday I was talking about having another kid.  Another one.  And I’m not even ovulating, so I have no idea what’s up with [...]

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Attention, Academics, and those who are academically-inclined!

Is anybody going to the Narrative conference this year?  It’s in Cleveland, which is close to where I live.  Well, a state away, but closer than Texas, or the UK, which is where it was the last two years.
Anyway, I wanted to put together a panel this year but I got the big “you don’t [...]

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Nine things you learn after your 2-foot-tall child falls from a height of more than 2 feet (but less than 3).

Your mind’s capacity to remember and replay THUMP has not diminished, despite an overall loss of memory since the pregnancy.
Calling the doctor’s office to report that your 6-month-old has jumped off your lap and fallen roughly 30 inches to the ground is much more humiliating than using a breast pump in front of your parents [...]

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Two Days

MIL’s jet lifts off in a little under 48 hours.
Thanks, all, for bearing with my incessant whining.  Since this was supposed to be a dissertation blog, I never spent much time thinking about things like how much overshare is too much overshare or how likely one is to isolate one’s readers via post after post [...]

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Old People Say the Darndest Things

AKA, Somebody stop me before I unleash my pent-up fury on not just the MIL but my own parents as well.
All three of them are in the house.  In the livingroom. Right outside my door, the door behind which I’m supposed to finish at least another quarter of this fucking chapter before I send it [...]

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I learned medicine–on the internets!

I don’t know whether to get the H1N1 vaccine, and I don’t know whether to get it for The Baby.
Yesterday I went to the GP to get some blood tests (Hi, ridiculously low iron levels!  How are we doing now?) and a flu shot (which they ran out of, so I ended up getting it [...]

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Reader Poll

Well, hey everybody!  How are you?
If your answer ISN’T “my mother-in-law has been living with me for the past month,” then you are FINE.
So anyway, you tell me, which of these is more nasty:
“I’ve been through a dissertation with one child. I’m not putting up with it for another one” in response to my slight [...]

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