I expected pregnancy to be hard. I feel like I went in to it pretty well informed about what would happen to my body. There have been some surprises along the way--like who knew that pregnancy caused so much gas! Gross!

What I really did not expect though is the emotional toll it's taken on me, especially now that I am overdue. 

Maybe I'm just being too hard on myself but I really am not feeling like myself at this point in my pregnancy. I keep overestimating what I can do and then I get super tired or worn out or out of breath and I feel silly becaues I should be able to do it ( Read more... )

I'm a staunch atheist and I don't usually put too much stock in higher powers of any kind but sometimes the universe has a way of reminding me that things might not be completely random--or at least that, if you look closely, you can see a pattern ( Read more... )

Today I am 16 weeks or 4 months pregnant. Anyone who knows me well was pretty shocked to hear this news ( Read more... )

Has it really been eight years? Somehow it seems both a lot longer and a lot shorter at the same time. I haven't written anything non-work-related in a very long time and I miss it. Journaling really is therapeudic. I've had journals in some form or another since I was a child. It's time for me to come back to writing, documenting my life. I don't ( Read more... )

It seems like I only update this blog three times a year but I have not found writing to be very therapeutic for a long time.  I like to keep this log of events in my life because I forget things so quickly these days.  I was just writing a birthday card for my twin cousins and I couldn't, for the life of me, remember how old they are.  Luckily, I ( Read more... )

I suppose I ought to update.  It has been a long time!  My online presence has been pretty limited to updating facebook and reading Shakesville.  For the entire month of August I was pretty much just in survival mode as I finished my thesis ( Read more... )

Made a little trip to Milwaukee this week for a VNV Nation concert.  Even just being there for that little while reminded me of all of the things I love about it.  Definitely need to make a longer trip very, very soon.  Here is a short list of things I miss the most ( Read more... )

This week for class I have to read Fledgling by Octavia Butler.  When I started reading it, the pages just flew by and i was so pleased with myself because I don't usually read that quickly.  It took me a few chapters to realize that I am reading a novel!  It is so different from the theory we usually read in grad school.  I am reading quickly ( Read more... )

I got my MacBook about two and a half years ago and it has held up remarkably well considering how rough I am with it.  I use my computer pretty much constantly.  No joke.  It even sleeps in bed with me.  I almost never turn it all the way off.  It comes to school with me and occasionally to work.  I have done all of my coursework on it, downloaded ( Read more... )