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For some people, parenting is always mostly enjoyable, but for quite a few, parenting can be drudgery more often than not. Or, at the very least, one can focus on the drudgery rather than enjoying the fun parts. I’ve been there. Gretchen Rubin at The Happiness Project offers some tips for finding the happiness in…
I caught this NPR show on the way into work yesterday. The guests for the show discuss a module of a Women Entrepreneurs Class that teaches about work/life balance. I thought this was interesting that the issue would be brought out into the open this way. The thing that struck me the most was the…
The blog has been wonky. Half of the previous post disappeared. And the bar across the top was gone earlier too. Very odd. Anyway, I’ve been doing project 365 again this year. I’ve made it much further than I did last year but not as far as the year before. I’ve missed about 5 days…
Laura at 11d asks about rejections after her oldest is rejected from a school play. We had a similar rejection a couple of weeks ago. Our son was in an essay contest and made it to the semi-finals. He was rejected from the finals because there was a reference to beer in the story. The…
It’s a Friday on a holiday weekend, so I thought we needed some fun. Here’s a LOLCAT, especially for Bryan at Infocult. see more Lolcats and funny pictures Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
Yesterday, after getting through some grading (going faster than before–hooray!) and getting some other work done, I found myself not feeling too good. Being horizontal seemed the best idea. Daytime tv being pretty universally awful, I decided to download some old Looney Tunes cartoons to watch with Geeky Girl. The one embedded here is one…
I’ve declared today grading day. Or really commenting day, as I’m not putting grades on these papers. I’ve been particularly slow at this this semester. I think there are a number of reasons for this. One, this is not a task I particularly enjoy. I have a hard time keeping my comments limited. I’m a…
The kids start spring break this week, which of course, does not coincide with our spring break. On the plus side, we don’t have to get up at the crack of dawn. On the down side, since we don’t have the kind of jobs you can up and leave for a week, we’re just hanging…
So I went to the elementary school PTA meeting on Wednesday night. There were a total of 6 people there including me. I don’t know how this compares to our previous school, but the other parents there said that they’d heard that there are regularly 40 or so parents at a couple of the other…
That’s my new philosophy. Too often, I let a simple thing keep me from doing something. Of course, the something is often something I don’t want to do. At work, whenever a pile of yucky tasks accumulated, I often convinced myself to tackle them first and then move on to more interesting work–as long as…
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