I usually don't post here but I wanted write this weird thing down...I doubt if any of you out there can relate ( Read more... )

like a dope I bumped my head in the plane. In the bathroom on the handicapped rail. Seriously, it was right over my head! No, it was! Just believe me ( Read more... )

So...heh...I posted in CC about being traumatized. I went to buy this very nice piece of furniture from an older woman. She was moving out of her house of 30 years. Her husband had died a few years ago and she couldn't keep it up. As we drove up I saw giant pieces of paint hanging from the ceiling of the upstairs room. The smell was a sour ancient ( Read more... )

that Maxwell Smart's apartment from "Get Smart" is like my dream home and I am trying to re-create it. How many people are going to understand this leftover childhood yearning ( Read more... )

Like all mothers I am constantly wondering if I suck because I don't want to spend every waking minute ensuring my baby's blissful happiness. People are constantly telling me that she is the happiest baby they have ever seen, etc. Of course, I know that she was born this way...and that all I can do now is screw it up ( Read more... )

I know that I'm writing journal entries, went back to the WC, started a live journal, buying tons annd tons and tons of shit on craigslist--all cool shit and all cheap but we haven't even moved yet, etc., etc. because I haven't been writing and I'm in that avoidance mode that always puzzles me...because I like the summer when I can do my work ( Read more... )

Someone was doing confessions and I just realized what I have to confess: Whenver I think about my old cars I always feel guilty like I killed them. I am a car murderess...

Sometimes I can't help but believe in fate, kismet, God's blessings...My husband--where did he come from? He is the perfect person for me. He is supportive, an amazing father, calm when I am anxious, understanding, forgiving, loving...what the hell ( Read more... )

So it is interesting that I am having my first semi-parents-ethics dilemma ( Read more... )

Then there would be a thread for postdocs like "Post your postdoc proposals here!" And instead of "my MIL is driving me crazy" we would have "my chair is driving me crazy!"

Ack! But I have to admit other academics drive me crazy sometimes. It's interesting how boring and pompous most professors blogs are...We can't write! Heh.