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The adventures of a woman in computing.
Jane is an assistant professor in a computing field, and a new mother. Join her as she navigates the tenure track, deals with gender issues, figures out how to be a parent, and tries to have some semblance of a life.
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Category: work-life balance
Um, hi. Apparently I've been gone for a while. Yeah. Sorry about that. Life's been a bit crazy around here lately, and I feel like I'm barely keeping my head above water. I'm not sleeping. I'm not taking care of...
Posted by Jane at 10:43 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: work-life balance
I don't normally ask you, my dear readers, for help, but this time I think I need some. You see, my motivation seems to have taken a loooooong vacation. (I mean, who can blame it, really---it's February, which is a...
Posted by Jane at 10:49 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: work-life balance
Sometimes, when I look at Toddler Jane*, my heart aches over how beautiful she is, inside and out. Nothing in the parenting books, nor the advice and stories from other parents, can prepare you for what that feels like....
Posted by Jane at 11:16 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: work-life balance
Well. It certainly was not my intention to go more than a week without blogging, particularly with all that's been going on around here lately. I'm ok. I'm coping. I'm still micro-managing everything way too much (out of necessity, unfortunately)....
Posted by Jane at 10:16 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: gender
I'd really like a do-over on this week. This was probably the least productive, worst week I've had in a long, long time. It started with this lovely incident, and went downhill from there. Astute readers may recall that I...
Posted by Jane at 10:34 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: work-life balance
I did something this weekend that, to be honest, I'm not sure I could afford to do: I took the entire weekend off. Now, lest you get the wrong idea, I have a ton of work that I could be...
Posted by Jane at 9:52 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: tenure
Text messages from numbers I don't recognize. One of them was creepy enough to put me on edge for the rest of the day. This is especially annoying because I don't have a text plan, so I end up...
Posted by Jane at 11:45 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: work-life balance
No, really, I have been boring lately. No drama (well, unless you count the day one of my senior colleagues came into my office to announce that he had nothing to do....as I'm in the midst of slogging through my...
Posted by Jane at 10:57 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: tenure
Prioritizing is good. Prioritizing is absolutely necessary in this job. But what do you do if you have time this month to do X projects, but X+1 projects are "high priority"? Is cloning legal yet? Number of high priority...
Posted by Jane at 11:19 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: work-life balance
Mr. Jane and I are so, so fortunate that we have good quality, affordable daycare for Baby Jane that we absolutely, positively love. It is so wonderful to drop Baby Jane off in the mornings and know that she is...
Posted by Jane at 1:16 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
