“Yes, but what do you *do*?” A new response.
I’ve been spending the past week or two trying to get my groove on with respect to work. I scared myself quite badly with how overwhelmed I got at the end of last semester, and how quickly. I vowed to...
View Article2009 theme: Sustainability
Like many others in the blogosphere, I’ve adopted the profgrrrrl model of defining a theme for each year rather than a list of resolutions. In 2008, my theme was “Seeking Strategies for Survival,...
View ArticleFebruary 13th is my start-over date
According to my self-declared theme, 2009 was supposed to be the year of sustainability. The year when I planned to “focus on trying to live my life that is sustainable in the long run for my body, my...
View ArticleGood grad student advice from the Chronicle
A colleague of mine sent around this link to the Chronicle (behind firewall, boo!) for some advice on how to stay healthy, even perhaps happy, while working on your dissertation. See the ideas after...
View ArticleLooking for some motivating music
Now that the semester is over, I have no excuse not to do a lot of home-maintenance-y things, like: installing a rainbarrel in my backyard installing a dual-flush mechanism on our upstairs toilet...
View ArticleSetting goals for a course on Experimental Design and Data Analysis (Course...
As introduced yesterday, I’m blogging my way through the SERC tutorial on course design, for a new graduate-only course on experimental design and data analysis. Yesterday, I explained the context and...
View ArticleSunday meeting with myself
As usual, I find myself at the beginning of a semester trying to figure out how to balance my life a bit more better, and perhaps contradictorily, how I can structure my days better to be able to find...
View ArticleSunday meeting with myself: hey, I got stuff done!
I just had my 2nd “Sunday meeting with myself.” I looked back at my list from last week, and was thrilled to be able to cross almost everything off. It helped to map tasks onto my available schedule,...
View ArticleGuilt versus intentionality
Hi, I’m Alice. It’s been 11 days since I last blogged. Things have been busy over the last couple of weeks – even more than usual. I started listing out the stuff I’ve been doing, but rather than...
View ArticleWhat I’m working on
I’m not going to apologize about lack of posting over the last month or so, and I’m not going to make any promises for the future. That said, here’s what I’m up to for InaDWriMo this month. Here’s what...
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