I only blog when I’m busy because that’s when everything is popping and flowing all at once. Right now I’m writing an abstract, shopping for Christmas presents online (thank you Cloudscome for the great links on responsible shopping!), reading email, and listening for danger noises from the next room. ADHD is funny because sometimes lots [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Finding myself at 30. Again.
Posted in I'm not supposed to blog about my family, Planet Sster on November 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
birthday
Posted in The Snapper on November 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This time last year…
Posted in Parenting, The Snapper on November 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
…I was fifteen hours into my labor with the Snapper. My water had broken that morning and after a leisurely getting-ready at home and walk down by the river, we’d spent the afternoon walking the halls of St. Luke’s, trying to get those cramps to turn into real contractions. By this time, 9:30, they were [...]
Thankful
Posted in Planet Sster, The Prairie on November 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
that when I was on the way home to Cedar Rapids from Madison, WI, listening to Beethoven’s Sixth and thinking about my life, and saw a sign that said “Welcome to Davenport” (!) I
a) knew where I was and how to get home from there,
b) had enough money to buy more gas,
c) didn’t have a [...]
Weird. Appropriate.
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
No husband.
No baby.
No dogs.
Reading The Feminine Mystique.
Quiz
Posted in Uncategorized on November 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Which is more embarrassing?
a) having mice
or
b) finding their nest in a box of cleaning supplies?
Hint: we have had the mice for a month.
The first correct responder gets a cardboard box with a hole chewed in the bottom.
Not Ready
Posted in Parenting, The Snapper on November 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
How tiny…
Attic Man’s grandmother is ailing and hasn’t yet met the Snapper, so I’m going to see them off on Tuesday morning and not see them again until Sunday. Sigh. I didn’t have enough warning to pump enough milk for the whole trip, and even if I had, the daily ritual of exploration [...]
Good enough
Posted in Parenting, Teaching on November 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m working on a letter of application for a job for next year and I’m in the middle of a section where I talk about all the cool stuff I did when I taught adjudicated teenaged boys at one of those crappy outdoor-adventure, really boot-campy-type places. I am surprising myself with how much passion I [...]
Express Yourself
Posted in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Marriage, Planet Sster, The guys on November 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
OK. Now I have clean pants. But I did miss another day of NaBloPoMo. I could feel guilty about it or I could say, “oh, well, at least my kid is clean and fed and I paid my rent” and let it go. I choose the second. I am posting more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am drowning in my life right now. I was really hoping that NaBloPoMo would get me writing well again and bring my readers back but then this sucky having-mice-and-living-in-chaos thing started (it’s not the mice. they’re just a convenient target). Working full time and trying to write a dissertation, despite the seemingly, on-paper-perfect schedule, [...]
