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For the last week, I have not really left the house–except for work. We are totally out of food, except for hot dogs. My solution? Go to 7-11 and get buns, chips and soft drinks. We also have milk and cereal. It has been freezing and the snow is still around and I’m just tired…

Bitch Ph.D. posted today about the NYT article on parent blogs (or mommy blogs). And Clancy had her two cents to add, which was worth at least a quarter since she was interviewed for the article. I think about this whole mom and dad blogging thing quite a bit. I don’t think they’re narcissistic as…

Jocalo writes today about the problems of the continuing reliance on part-time faculty and how they might be resolved. I have been thinking about this because I have thought every once in a while about going back to teaching on a part-time basis, but then I remember what it was like to be an adjunct.…

Not only did I get to read Paradox of Choice, but I also got to participate in a rather lengthy discussion about it with some really smart people (including Eric Behrens, who organized it). It was kind of like being in a class where everyone really wanted to be there, had done all the reading,…

I got nothing done today! After several emergencies in the morning and a pleasant book discussion over lunch, I got a flat tire on the way back to my home campus and waited by the side of the highway for an hour for AAA. Thank God for AAA! I’m feeling really stressed out now and…

Attend to some administrative Blackboard stuff E-mail someone about a video editing workshop Prepare for discussion about Paradox of Choice (more on this later) Finish re-designing two websites Finalize documents regarding summer program Send out e-mail announcing tomorrow’s workshop Prepare for tomorrow’s workshop Finalize student worker schedule Set up account for someone to use image…

How did I get here? Is this my beautiful wife? I started this post writing about choosing college, a major and graduate school, but realized that though some of those choices had cultural elements to them, they were primarily made separate from those issues. My choice of graduate school I made for two reasons: 1)…

Ok–so things have been pretty serious around here lately–which is fine with me, but I thought I might need to mix it up, lighten the mood a bit before launching back into some serious stuff. So tonight, my body accommodated such a desire for humor. Tonight, as I was coming down the stairs from the…

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).…