This was my project this week. It took FOREVER but it’s a world of difference. Though I’m moving the bed back to a less attractive spot because it’s now in my head that my kid might jump on the bed and wind up going through the window.

I certainly have enough anxious energy for multiple houses!

Hmm my biggest accomplishment may not sound like much but I am so happy. We finally moved Widdle Pie (almost 9 mo) out of our room and into a real crib in Mini Pie’s (5.5 years) room. And they’ve both done great! It feels amazing to have the bedroom back with Mr. Pie. Not that we’ve done anything but revel in being…

Congratulations!

That is so bad ass! I continued to work on my job talk for the second week straight. I think it is time to start practicing saying it out loud and practicing answering questions I may get! I also channeled my anxious energy into tidying my house vs. anxiously watching TV.

I am a furloughed government employee and I’ve pretty much cleaned everything and have run my dishwasher about 80 times.

Thanks for your kind words! It sucks because I’ve been ready to settle down and start a family for a while now and it took me way too long to figure out it wasn’t going to happen with the ex. I’m trying to stay positive and learn to enjoy my own company, but this is the first time I’ve ever been alone, so it does get…

Well, just make sure you get pajamas for them.  That’s proper animal husbandry right there.

Doing it reminded me that my Asian coworkers once told me and a couple of other non-Asians that one of the traditions surrounding the Chinese (or lunar) New Year is to clean the house in the lead-up. Since for Christians Christmas falls so close to New Year’s that’s not really practical, for me at least, but I think I…

Good luck to you! The power dynamics in academia are the worst.

The Timothy Snyder books (On Tyranny, The Road to Unfreedom) are very brief and pretty great too, if your family needs a Fourth of July top-up on sanity.

I did a major ephemera purge. This sounds like somethng Dr. Oz would recommend but no, ephemera is a good word to describe what I shredded and sent to the recycling room: pay stubs, phone bills, greeting cards, post cards, newspaper clippings, credit card statements, etc.

I am thankful my parents seem to have got more liberal (which, in the Australian context, is less Liberal) as they’ve got older. I was genuinely surprised when I was at home last year or the year before for Australia Day and, when the news covered the ongoing debate about shifting the date out of respect for…

I think it is absolutely incredibly great that you stood up to your father.

Baby goats?!?!?!? Where are baby goats?  I need to see baby goats.

Make sure the bet’s big enough to teach a lesson! Not too bad, just a lasting sting.

My whole life has been a serendipitous experiment in “It’s not WHAT you know, it’s WHO you know”! But it was also always the WHAT too.

An hour is so long to talk! Plus the rest of the two days of the interviews. I'm just so happy to have an interview at all, especially since my postdoc advisor has completely dropped any support of me because he's enamored with the new postdoc.

Technically, that ship has sailed: Norma Desmond is 50.

Oh Madge... How long will it be until you appear in a production of "Sunset Boulevard"?