Mountain Progress : On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess

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The Egyptian goddess Isis was celebrated as the ideal wife and mother. The blogger known as Dr. Isis has some fancy-sounding degrees and is a physiologist at a major research university working on some terribly impressive stuff. She blogs about balancing her research career with the demands of raising small children, how to succeed as a woman in academia, and anything else she finds interesting. Also, she blogs about shoes. In fact, she blogs a lot about shoes.

...And behold, he raised the motherfucking Jameson on high as Isis bedecked her feet in glory, and the masses were sated. -- The Holy Gospel According to PhysioProf

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Mountain Progress

Posted on: December 22, 2009 12:57 PM, by Isis the Scientist

Day Two.

Not up the mountain.

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Dr Isis, what's up ? No description or history ?

Posted by: andre | December 22, 2009 1:51 PM

Do it! One foot in front of the other! It's time to climb the damn mountain!.

Mike.

PS What shoes are you wearing?

Posted by: NoAstronomer | December 22, 2009 2:03 PM

Time to step into some not styling, not hot, shoes (I recommend hiking boots as they support the ankles and protect the feet) and get climbing. Hiking up a mountain is great for the calves, thighs and butt. So you will look even hotter in your Naughty Monkeys afterward.

And having conquered the mountain you will have an attitude to go along with the hot legs and stunning shoes.

Posted by: Art | December 22, 2009 2:21 PM

I'm no hiker. what shoes would you recommend?

Posted by: julia aprile | December 22, 2009 2:21 PM

221 BINGO !!!

Posted by: andre | December 22, 2009 2:30 PM

Yo, Isis, you gotta get some vasque hiking boots, or something similar. Just suck it up. The climb isn't that hard, and if you're feet are happy, you'll be happy. If you get high tops, you'll also get a little protection from snakes, scorpions, and thorns, but in my experience in AZ, if you take them off for any period of time, shake them out good before putting them back on.

Posted by: PalMD | December 22, 2009 2:43 PM

None of this is an issue of fitness nor equipment. It's merely an issue of removing oneself from work and family long enough to do it.

Posted by: Isis the Scientist | December 22, 2009 2:59 PM

You need to move some group meetings / family activity time mountain top :)

Posted by: Angela | December 22, 2009 3:37 PM

You know what the alpinists say: Summit or Die.

Posted by: Hel | December 23, 2009 3:32 AM

Take your 3 years old with you, or not?
Once I took my then 5 years old boy and 3 years old girl up in an excursion, that I think is steeper and longer. They enjoyed the mountain and had the energy to get to the summit. The problem was the way down. My 3 years old girl just couldn't stay awake and I had to carry her like 2 km, in the sun, without water, sweating like a horse. So better take Mr. Isis with you too, because no Glorious Goddess shall have that burden. That's the job of macho, strong, profanity prone males, that later collapse at home.

Posted by: cambrico | December 23, 2009 9:24 AM

go! i bet you could use a little time to yourself, playing on a mountainside. i'd go too if i were anywhere nearby. i love that stuff.

Posted by: leigh | December 23, 2009 1:37 PM

cambrico,
Some of my earliest memories are of Dad carrying me back from somewhere we'd hiked. They are very warm, comforting memories. For me. I never asked how Dad remembered those days.

Posted by: John McKay | December 24, 2009 3:14 AM