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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So…how’s it going?

I’ve written a page in a week.  I cannot work in short bursts.  I cannot.  I try, but I can’t write.  I can think, and jot, but not compose.
Translation: I am seriously fucked.
My advisor, bless her “no babies before dissertations!” heart, has been nothing but absolutely supportive.  She’s a feminist theorist, so I had every [...]

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Code Name: Mona

My mother-in-law is here, and will be in-residence through the middle of October.
Ahem.
I don’t go in for the classic MIL hatred partly because it’s a bullshit girl-on-girl crime sort of thing, a relationship shortcut that refuses to recognize the reality of female relationships in their full range of animosity/love.  Partly I just don’t have that [...]

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Is it still a swing when it crashes to the ground?

I am so royally fucked, and I’m depressed about my state of affairs, which makes me want to crawl back into bed, which has necessitated the drinking of coffee, which I feel bad about because it’s bad for the baby.
So I have two major problems.
Problem One:  We are completely unprepared for the possible impending I-hope-so [...]

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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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It’s five o’clock somewhere.

When I realized I missed my daily post due to both napping and family togetherness, that line above is the first one that popped into my head.
You can decide for yourselves what that says about me.
Anyway, tomorrow today a few hours from now is the big day.  Either we get bad news, or good news, [...]

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Who’s afraid of her childfree friend?

Her childfree friend, her childfree friend?  Who’s afraid of her childfree friend?
Me. Me. Me.
Lemme explain.  I have a friend who is avowedly Childfree, which is not just an idea but a movement.  I’d say it’s the exact opposite of Quiverfull except that it’s not.  While Quiverfull folks seem to limit their notion of what a [...]

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Fail? So soon?

I’m too boring a diarist to write a post a day.  I should have realized that.
Today was spent cleaning/resting/cleaning/eating chips/cleaning.  I don’t know if this is early-onset nesting or late-onset prep for the mother-in-law’s visit.  But my MIL isn’t one of those. She’s not someone who would call me out for the glaring lack of [...]

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On Being Pregnant and Pro-Choice

Happy Election Day.  I’m going to rant.
I like to think of myself as an informed voter who weighs the issues, but the truth is that I ultimately vote on one issue, and that issue is Choice.  I don’t care how good a candidate might seem otherwise.  If he (oh, it’s always he) wants to rummage [...]

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I hate October and other updates.

Hi.
So if what I wrote below is true, and it might be, I’m going to try to undo my bad bloggery by posting every day. We’ll refrain from contemplating my likelihood of success until after I’ve failed.  Here, then, in handy list form, is what I’ve been up to in October (and before that):

I finished [...]

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