Lately, I’ve noticed that I bring up my juggling act in meetings quite often. It’s as if I’m forcing the issue on people, reminding them that it’s sometimes a struggle to parent and work at the same time. And reminding them that even in our flexible workplace, parents are often asked “just to deal with…

I reported this a while back, but have now seen it in a MSM outlet. NOW is officially backing Alan Sandals. And I say good for them. I wish I had a boatload of money to give them. Here’s the thing I was thinking about when I read that article. Here we are with Rick…

Last night, I was listening to Beijing by Melissa Ferrick The refrain goes: if you can get it grab as much as you can and hide it in your basement for the next disaster It made me think of Phantom and her snack foods for the apocolypse. It’s a great song, Phantom. I think you’d…

I happened to spend all evening reading about audience. I’ll be posting research-related thoughts on the other blog, but all that reading got me to thinking about how I conceive of audience. Plus, I ran into New Kid’s post and this really struck me: when I started blogging, I thought that this blog would be…

I got a lot accomplished today both at work and at home. March has been kind of a hellish month at the Geeky household. At the beginning of the month, I had just returned from my trip to Grad School Town, then the kids got strep, then Mr. Geeky left for a conference, then I…

Down the hall is an air filtration machine, so loud, even with headphones on, I could hear it. So the door is closed. They’ve ripped up all our sidewalks and replaced them with gravel surrounded by those orange mesh fences. FSM forbid you want to wear heels. The stairwell smells like varnish (thus the air…

I’m not sure what to think of this story about a Philadelphia-based religion and science think tank that have given ASU 1/2 mil. for a project to “connect” religion and science. Maybe PZ can cut through the doublespeak. And then there’s this story about the corporatization of Universities and the presidents who love it. Actual…

Blogger is killing me, so I’m using performancing, which I’m always forgetting I have and which is the coolest app ever. Tonights links, related to abortion: Bitch, Ph.D. on the media’s reporting on abortion, mostly by men, mostly pro-life. Susie at Suburban Guerrilla on NOW’s endorsement of Alan Sandals, whom I wrote about a while…

Elizabeth is keeping a record of how much time they spend on housework for a week. I’m just going to give you my day, from 4:45 on. 4:45 Arrive home to meet bus post band practice.4:45-5:00 Check in with blogs and email.5:00-5:30 Round trip to pick up Geeky Girl at after school care5:30-6:00 Make dinner–ravioli…

It’s the first day of spring, but completely freezing. I think they’re calling for snow later this week. I had an exhilerating day at work today. A day in which I watched my boss be the best boss I’ve ever seen her be. Seriously, it was kind of cool. I also got to work on…