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What is this “real life” of which you speak?
One of the things about having a baby is that all of this literature for new parents begins to arrive at your house, and you have no idea which of it you solicited and which of it you didn’t. Furthermore, … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, being a grownup, education, education junkie, good things, language, Life, NaNoWriMo, novels, parenthood, research, sleep-impaired drivel, teaching, Torsten, travel
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Week 29: Breasts are boring. No, really…
28 weeks. So yesterday’s 3-hour breastfeeding class was, um, Teh Suck. Sure, I learned a couple of things I hadn’t gleaned from books already, and we were able to ask a couple of other questions that were important to us, … Continue reading
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Tagged breastfeeding, education, pregnancy, things that bore the crap out of me
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Muahaha… total awesomeness!
Today is a day of total awesomeness: The professor for the advanced German seminar I really wanted to take is going to let me in and says there’s no problem. Yayyy! Something else I have really wanted to do but … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, education, education junkie, German, good things, language, Life, pregnancy, religion
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Dilemma of a pregnant education junkie…
So I think I’ve decided I’ll take a course this quarter, even though the baby is due at the end of the quarter and I’ve no guarantee that I won’t go into labor or get stuck on bedrest beforehand. The … Continue reading


