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Over the past couple of months, DH and I have been hanging out more often than usual with some couples who do not have kids. For many, it’s a choice; for a few, unfortunately not. What’s curious is that all of them have said how not having kids enables them to travel, along the lines of “Since we don’t…
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I caught an interview with Max Frost on the radio the other day and have been listening to some of his songs ever since. He’s a kid from Austin, TX who started playing the guitar at 8 and was already performing with bands at 12! In the interview he also shared a cool story about…
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I recently came back from a conference in a big European city that is on everyone’s list of top three cities to see on the Old Continent. Anyone who heard where I was going went “Wow!” so I had to assure them that it all sounded much more glamorous than it would be, as I had a lot of…
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I stumbled upon a great comic, 9 Chickweed Lane. For all I know, it could be a pop culture classic, but to me it’s new and I have wasted a shameful amount of time going through the archives. The lead characters are three generations of Burber women (Edda, her mom Juliette, and grandma Edna) and a Siamese…
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One of the things that annoy me most about collaborating are collaborators who operate on the timescales much different from mine, usually because our priorities aren’t well aligned. I have already written about this particular issue before, but as it periodically resurfaces, I periodically get re-irritated and thus have to periodically re-vent, and reposting old…
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My Eldest, now a teenager, is a sensitive and dreamy kid, always with his nose in a book, and generally more interested in the imaginary than the real world. In contrast, my Middle Boy (MB) has his feet firmly on the ground and his head very much out of the clouds. He’s very curious, adventurous, and, at the ripe old…
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I haven’t been blogging much as I am a) recovering from the semester and b) writing technical stuff 24/7. So I am a little tapped out. As I am thinking about writing, it’s fitting that I write about writing. Perhaps I should go full-meta and write about writing about writing… For now, I give you a few technical writing…
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Over the decade that I have spent in my home department, I have witnessed several faculty colleagues retire. A number retired in their 60’s or 70’s; they had been active in research and faculty governance till the very last day, but were forgotten soon thereafter and are hardly ever mentioned today. Their labs were given to…
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A day in the life: 6:30-8:30 Morning routine (lunches, drive Eldest to school, wake/feed the Littles, make self presentable) 8:30-9:00 Morning commute (w/ possible drop-off of 1-2 of the Littles) 9:00-5:30 Work 5:30-6:00 Evening commute (w/ possible pickup of 1-2 of the Littles) 6:00-7:00 Dinner prep, dinner 7:00-8:30 Playtime with kids (DH is the bomb!) 8:30-9:30 Bedtime…
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I am bracing for a summer of proposal writing, paper writing, and conference travel. Proposals that are going out in the fall are important, as are the papers that will enable me to write a competitive renewal for another agency about a year from now. I am very excited, but also twice as anxious. I…
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