A girl judge. Cool! Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure

Whenever I come in, exhausted, from teaching or conferencing or say anything related to teaching, someone around me says, “But you know you love it.” And I always immediately think, “Do I?” I mean, I gave up teaching 2 1/2 years ago. I gave it up and didn’t really look back. But here I am,…

This post is inspired by Echidne’s on the problem of having so few women in positions of power (related to the Harriet Miers nomination). Over the next week, my department will lose two women: one is retiring; one is quitting. That means in one division, we’re down to one woman and in another, zero. I’m…

One downside to having the windows open: smells. Who cooks at 11 p.m.? Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure

Okay, I need a vote from the blogosphere. Below are my outfit options for the jazz cocktail party. There are two basic options. I’m assuming the jacket will be worn to the event and from the event unless there serious climate issues in the venue. Otherwise, I’ll be jacketless. Click through to Flickr to see…

Quick report from the field. My physical inbox is empty. My email inbox is empty! I have a small pile on my desk with post-its that need to be sorted into projects. I have to make a project list. One thing that I realized while going through this process is how much I actually *do*…

I finally bought, and am halfway through reading, David Allen’s Getting Things Done. It’s true I have ambitions, things I want to get done. I have felt like I’m spinning my wheels about half the time and I know that I’m keeping way too much in my head. It’s why I can’t sleep. As I’m…

God, I hate shopping. I totally understand why the people on “What Not to Wear” never make much progress on the first day. It’s just too overwhelming. So here’s where I am so far. I have a chocolate brown camisole with a sheer chocolate brown short-sleeved turtleneck top. I am going to wear that with…

Remember that NY Times story from a week or so ago about women at Yale choosing to stay at home? Well, Echidne points to Katha Pollit’s fabulous debunking of the whole thing. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure

I’m going shopping with my friend Jeanne tomorrow to buy stuff for reunion weekend. Not only am I going to my reunion, but I’m also recently obsessed with clothing. I blame Bitch, Ph.D. and Profgrrrrl. They set pretty high standards. Of course, I must have new things. I’m opening my dilemma up to the blogosphere…