Banished. Again.

So now that Wizard has successfully defended his dissertation (I wrote “situation” originally.  Am I alone in finding this hilarious?), and is a DOCTOR, but not the kind that makes a lot of $$$, we’ve been trying this thing where as soon as he gets home from work I pass him The Baby, and he [...]

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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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How to Write a Dissertation after Having a Baby

I don’t know how to write a dissertation after having a baby.  I truly don’t.  But I titled the post as such to lure here those of my ilk, the other parents and caregivers of children who have dissertations to write and babies to raise.
See, every once in a while I google that phrase above, [...]

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Look what I did.

Yeah, I know.  But I’ve been absent for a month.  That’s not good.  And as an education professional, I believe in assignments-as-motivation.  Sure, self-motivation is great, but we can’t all be well-adjusted adults.
More later on just what the hell has been going on.

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We’re all Kenleys today.

I don’t talk much about pop culture here, probably because I’m too busy whining about school and work and stuff. On that tip: still working on the diss. proposal. Made it through one “bad” draft which was, I kid you not, faulted mostly for being badly written as opposed to full of bad [...]

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Like, work.

I tried but failed to get this Wordle thing working earlier in the day. Turns out everyone else makes theirs look pretty by using a screenshot instead of the page code.

Word clouds remind me of those games you play when you’re a kid, the ones where you randomly point at a word on [...]

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Further evidence of my ever-deteriorating writing skills: over-reliance on dashes and dots. I don’t seem to pay attention to the “better” ways of linking phrases.  I just represent thinking with an ellipsis, conclusions with a dash. Perhaps it’s the blog’s fault.  I’m “thinking out loud” here in a way I normally wouldn’t (even my emails [...]

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