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So first LG was really sick, and then Tiny Boy was moderately sick, and now I have a cold, which is just enough to feel meh and keep me in bed today, which is thankfully a day I do not have to get dressed and deal with humans directly, other than getting the tiny one to and from daycare.
This morning he woke up and was asking about pie (what the FUCK?) at 5:30 or so and kept me awake and then fell back to sleep. Which wasn't great because I had to wake him at 7:40 and stuff him in a carseat so LG was not late for school. Got him dressed and brush teeth in the daycare bathroom.
I blame the Singulair. He was also talking about blue spiders in his dreams and crying in his sleep. Anyhoo...
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I continue to have more work than time. But apparently this is the post-tenure me, vs the pre-tenure me, and mostly I'm not anxious about all this. I'm just plugging away at it. But man I did not need those two urgent semi-secret committee meetings. I have grading to do! Books to read! Classes to prep! Grants to write! And the email and meeting scheduling....argh!
On Thursday I have an administrator type meeting with other administrators, and then I have a coffee meeting with a colleague from another unit who is a good resource for many things, and then I have a coffee meeting with The Artist and a collaborator to figure out a conference thing we're doing next month. And I'm not really entirely sure how I feel about my infertility life and my professional life hooking up that way, but this seems the direction things are headed, esp. with the publication of the book in Nov (it's been the direction for almost a year...my psychic life is slow to catch up).
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Middle school is turning out to be AWESOME other than the leaving the house at 7:45 thing. LG is ice skating outside of school, and doing math and STEM clubs in school, and a teen advisory board for the library. She reads a ton. She draws anime. She's mostly happy except when she's glaring at me from under her dark floppy bangs, which I make fun of as often as possible. I look at her a lot lately and wonder how it's possible my little 6 lb baby is now 80 lbs of PERSON who is so much like me in many ways and entirely her own self in others.
I just looked at the clock and she'll be home in about 90 minutes, so I really should get back to those books...
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So first LG was really sick, and then Tiny Boy was moderately sick, and now I have a cold, which is just enough to feel meh and keep me in bed today, which is thankfully a day I do not have to get dressed and deal with humans directly, other than getting the tiny one to and from daycare.
This morning he woke up and was asking about pie (what the FUCK?) at 5:30 or so and kept me awake and then fell back to sleep. Which wasn't great because I had to wake him at 7:40 and stuff him in a carseat so LG was not late for school. Got him dressed and brush teeth in the daycare bathroom.
I blame the Singulair. He was also talking about blue spiders in his dreams and crying in his sleep. Anyhoo...
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I continue to have more work than time. But apparently this is the post-tenure me, vs the pre-tenure me, and mostly I'm not anxious about all this. I'm just plugging away at it. But man I did not need those two urgent semi-secret committee meetings. I have grading to do! Books to read! Classes to prep! Grants to write! And the email and meeting scheduling....argh!
On Thursday I have an administrator type meeting with other administrators, and then I have a coffee meeting with a colleague from another unit who is a good resource for many things, and then I have a coffee meeting with The Artist and a collaborator to figure out a conference thing we're doing next month. And I'm not really entirely sure how I feel about my infertility life and my professional life hooking up that way, but this seems the direction things are headed, esp. with the publication of the book in Nov (it's been the direction for almost a year...my psychic life is slow to catch up).
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Middle school is turning out to be AWESOME other than the leaving the house at 7:45 thing. LG is ice skating outside of school, and doing math and STEM clubs in school, and a teen advisory board for the library. She reads a ton. She draws anime. She's mostly happy except when she's glaring at me from under her dark floppy bangs, which I make fun of as often as possible. I look at her a lot lately and wonder how it's possible my little 6 lb baby is now 80 lbs of PERSON who is so much like me in many ways and entirely her own self in others.
I just looked at the clock and she'll be home in about 90 minutes, so I really should get back to those books...
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