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Who I am: yarn-wrangler, book lover, head chef for small clan, wellspring of executive function both at home and at work. Working on figuring out who I want to be next.
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I’m not sleeping really well lately, but on the up side…I am totally caught up on my reading target for the year! Today is an “all the coffee” day.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

#showmeyourknits is asking for color work? Yay! I love color work! This is a terrible picture of my Null Hypothesis (pattern credit to Katrina Elsaesser). Took some doing, but I absolutely love it. Got me through a good chunk of 2020.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

The last two months have been two years long. Holding my professional world together as best I can. Learning how to put down my work stress when I log out at the end of the day so I can be my best self for my family. That’s a heck of a thing to have to figure out at over 50.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

submitted 9 days ago • 119 comments

Honestly, if anyone watched that halftime show and didn’t see a clinic on the effectiveness of speaking truth, loudly, consistently, and with no equivocation….you were not paying attention.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

So, on top of just trying to exist in this country…I manage federal grants for a research department at a large university. I am….whatever level looks up toward “despondent” like it’s a fond memory. I love my job. It’s important, and useful, and about to be obsolete…I’m getting ready.

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

This is a thoroughly wonderful thread.

submitted 54 days ago • 8 comments

Epic. This is a clinic in throwing sand in the gears.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

submitted 67 days ago • 828 comments

I manage grants at a large university, so hearing that the idiots shut down all the grant review machinery was terrifying. This morning I’ve reminded myself that my bigger job is to try increase the good in the world. Today is not different. Time to start finding ways to idiot-proof my department.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

I hope to always remember how magical it feels to walk into a coffee shop and watch my kid snap into work mode. Watching him find the magic spells that let him work with his brain instead of fighting against it is everything.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

I made this so long ago I feel silly putting it up for #showmeyourknits , but I loved doing it and wish I had more excuses to fiddle with lace shawls. 🧶 (pattern credit Kashimiya by Diane Conroy)

submitted 78 days ago • 4 comments

Finally getting over the flu that followed the “first Xmas with the in-laws after THAT Xmas” that followed COVID….going to try to come out of lurk mode. Celebrating by baking bagels and bonus cinnamon rolls for my snowbound family. It’s just an inch, but we’re wimps about snow.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Proud that kid is planning out how to get his homework done over break. Proud that he’s hitting it head on instead of pretending there wasn’t any until the last possible minute. Sad for kid that he can’t just have a week off. The obsession with evaluation is counterproductive, I swear.

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments