My entanglement in the Summers’ fiasco was probably poorly timed as I’m in the middle of reading The Paradox of Choice (nearly finished). I’m hyper aware now of making choices. While I believe that, according to Schwartz, I’m a satisficer and therefore, settle for the good enough, I also believe that I don’t make choices…

Thank you all for your thoughtful input stemming from Summers’ comments specifically on the 80-hour work week required to do science. I appreciate everyone clarifying their points and apologize for misquoting or misrepresenting. As I said in the post just previous to this, this is an emotional issue for me (not sure why, just is).…

There is lots of snow. I like snow, but not when it’s 3 degrees outside and when I have to be at work. The kids have a delayed start this morning. I realized that the whole men and women are different and the work/family balance issues are very emotional for me–in an angry way, not…

Over at Mother-in-Chief, the argument spawned by the Summers’ comments still rages. A commenter there argues all kinds of things about women, like that most want to mothers and are genetically incapable of being scientists. I posted this response to his latest comment. I was so mad, I was shaking. I encourage you all to…

I ended up not writing today. I had to make a trip to the grocery store before the 20 inches of snow settled in. Since I have two books to get through, I decided to do some reading instead. I’m in the middle of Barry Schwartz’s The Paradox of Choice. It’s interesting so far, but…

I have plans to write today. I’m not feeling particularly motivated, but I’m just going to do it. Last time I did this–two weeks ago–I ended up with 27 pages. If I can get the same amount done this weekend, I’d be more than halfway through my rewrite. The goal is to get beyond the…

I didn’t pee until 3 o’clock. That’s what kind of day it was. I like being busy and the kind of things I was doing were interesting (for the most part), but I need some time to sit back and digest everything that happened. At 3 o’clock, right before I peed, my office mate, Web…

I am drowning in laundry. There’s just too much of it. And I don’t really like doing it. Exercise is really hard to fit in. I went for 5 days without exercising, then finally exercised last night only to realize that I probably won’t today. I’m going to be somewhere else until 8. I could…

I wasn’t going to post on the Lawrence Summers fiasco because so many other bloggers have and have done so quite eloquently, but given my own recent personal experience with sexism–my own and others’–I felt compelled to comment. What really prompted me though, was a Echnide’s post on the matter and the resulting commentary, which…

This coming fall, my husband and I are teaching a course together. We’re actually teaching two sections of the same course, but we’ll be using the same readings and syllabus. We’ve been thinking about this course for a while, but just now feel we’re at a place where we can teach it. I originally wanted…