Quick Cop-Out Post

Now that I’ve moved from high-level “baby’s gonna die” worry back to the normal low-level “hope baby comes out okay” worry, I’ve got to get some work done.  Namely, I’ve got to teach a real class tomorrow instead of doing my usual tutoring sort of gig.
I’m used to teaching. That’s all cool.  Problem is I’m [...]

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Photo Friday

This is where I’d post the picture of the baby–who is, at this moment in time, PERFECTLY NORMAL–were I ready to do things like post pictures of my uterus and its contents.  So for now you’ll have to make do with this artist’s rendering of the lovely fetus who is not so lovely as he [...]

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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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Wolf Blitzer: Fetishizing Children Since 2008

I was passively absorbing The Situation Room yesterday when I was caught off guard by Wolf Blitzer’s intro to a story on the Obama girls.   He was describing a story about “the changes in store for those adorable little Barack Obama children.”  Most of the squishy emphasis was on “adorable” and “little,” so it [...]

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9 Reasons my Mother-in-Law Freaks Me Out

Thank god for this list thing.  It is making my Monday morning, which will be spent with students who insist on correcting grammar mistakes in papers that make less sense than the success of Vh1’s The Pickup Artist, slightly more livable.  So, picking up the thread of yesterday’s post, this list contains more details on [...]

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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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Timezones

I have a feeling I’m going to mess up the “post a day” thing because my clock thingy posts as GMT, not the timezone I’m actually in.  So even though I’m doing my duty, this fact might not be reflected in the date/time line.
That’s why I can justify posting about nothing and calling it “doing [...]

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I hate my co-workers.

They are not technically “co-,” since I “manage” them.  Yet without the power to fire those I hate, what good is this title, anyway?
This fulfills my blogging requirement for the day.
ETA:

I ended up yelling at the despicably happy young people and not feeling bad about it.  Not even embarrassed, which is my usual M.O.
At least [...]

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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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