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In which SciWo risks coming off as callous...

Category: care and feeding of graduate students

It has recently been brought to my attention that a subset of my department's graduate student population is unhappy with our course scheduling. Some of our part-time graduate students feel that we are not doing a sufficient job of offering...

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Weekend project: overhauling Snow White so that it is suitable for my daughter

Category: motherhood

Don't worry I'll be back to the course design series soon, but I spent yesterday focused on other things (paper revisions, grant proposals) and I haven't completed the necessary work to get the next post up. And it's Friday, so...

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My new goal...

Category: whining

... is to avoid vampire meetings. Which are any meetings which suck out your soul. And perhaps damn it to eternity. Post your horror stories here if you think it will help exorcise the effects. Hat tip to 43folders.com....

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Rash confession made too late at night.

Category: whining

You know, maybe it's just because it is 11:30 at night and I have another hour to wait to pick up my husband from the airport shuttle place, but... ... there are some days I wish I was still pseudonymous....

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Daycare versus tenure versus financial ruin

Category: let's talk about solutions

Money is on my mind a lot this semester. First, there's the grant writing marathon. And then there's the personal budgetary shortfall. Without a second income, we run a several hundred dollar per month shortfall. I've trimmed the fat...

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I just gotta say...

Category: whining

Musings on getting up in the dark

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My timing is off

Category: academic adventures

What meeting? where? what time? isn't that next week?

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Perish the paper

Category: publish or perish

On a day when I am feeling increasingly dismal about the publication prospects of my current project, my mood was not lightened with the arrival of the table of contents for the current issue of a very high impact journal...

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Growlll...

Category: Alice shares...

I am tired. Dog tired. We're nearing the end of the semester, but not so near that I can see the light at the end of my tunnel of meetings. I've been traveling every weekend for the last month, the...

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Vicious cycles

Category: motherhood

First, note the time stamp on this post. I have just now succeeded in getting Minnow to sleep and have sat down with a cup of tea and tomorrow's lecture to prepare. It's going to be a long short night....

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