On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess

Dear friend of the blog DrugMonkey has a post/meme up in which he lists the first sentence from the first post of each month over the last year. It's an interesting opportunity to reflect on the last year.  Dear friend of the blog Abel Pharmboy has one-upped DrugMonkey by doing the meme  but also discussing the reasons he began blogging.  I liked the idea of reflecting on the things I've written and why I began the blog in the first place.  So, I thought  I would do the DrugMonkey/Pharmboy meme, with a Dr. Isis twist...here's why I began blogging, plus my favorite shoe from each month in 2008.

Dr. Isis is a relative infant in the science blogosphere.  Dr. Isis has only been the blogosphere's favorite laboratory and domestic goddess for 5 months.  I have blogged under my real name for the last 6 years with an audience that was largely connected via shared connections with my real-life friends.  I decided to close up my non-pseudonymous blog in favor of my science blog for two reasons:

1. I needed an outlet for all of the absolutely crazy things that go through my mind on any given day.   My real-life friends aren't scientists and I wanted a place I could explore my sciencey self and readers who would appreciate my disdain for snaptop cryotubes.  Plus, channeling my snark here keeps it out of the work place.
   
2. In my professional life I have struggled to find positive female role models who are successful scientists while also having successful families.  I consider myself to be a fairly good scientist, and I'm trying really hard at the family thing.   I don't know that I am a great role model, but I thought that if I blogged candidly, people might glean from me what they will and, thusly, I might have a positive impact.  At the very least, you'll see some hot shoes.

Now, with that, here are 5 months of shoes from Dr. Isis:

July 

Would you believe I posted no shoes in July?  Not a single pair.  I think I was still trying to be a serious science blogger at this point and had not yet revealed my florid shoe fetish.  Also, comments from PhysioProf were completely unobscene and entirely polite (check out his first comment here...not a single "motherfucker"...*sniff*).  This is the month I was blogrolled by DrugMonkey.  It was an overall good month, except for the lack of damned shoes!!!

August

 Things went downhill in August and thus began the path to snarkiness and random warring..  Also, this month contains Dr. Isis's favorite shoe of all times, forever and always -- the Naughty Monkey Cherry Pop Pump:

I kept telling myself I was going to buy these, but I never got around to it. Now, sadly, they're gone and I am incomplete.

September

In September Dr. Isis posted these boots and expressed a strong desire to lick them. I still feel said desire:

October

In October I seem to go a little shoe wild. Here's the Headliner Pump by Naught Monkey:

November

In November Dr. Isis moved to ScienceBlogs and, for some reason, got all serious again. There is less shoe goodness over here in the new joint. I assure you, no one made me "clean up my act" -- I suppose I'm just going through a sciencey phase this month. I hope you will accept my sincerest of apologies. I will try to remedy the situation in the future. Still, November had these:

December

I am hoping to be back to my old self this month, posting hot shoes in tandem with hot science. Already, Dr. Isis has come up with this gem:

Not a bad 5 months, if you ask this domestic and laboratory goddess.

[Update] I ought not post at 2 am. When I do, I write things plagued by typos. Will one of you remind me of this next time I am in bed in the middle of the night and think blogging would be a good idea?