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Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
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Tag Archives: family
The life of a professional X (for many values of X)
Once upon a time, I was a professional X, where X is a number of different things, depending upon which part of my life we’re talking about and where the jobs were. And now that Mr. T is almost nine … Continue reading
Overwhelmed
So I’ve posted several times about being behind in just about every conceivable way of late (I do appreciate the irony there, by the way), but seriously… there’s just so much to do. We leave for a month in Europe … Continue reading
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Tagged evil husband, family, heat, Life, procrastination, stress, Torsten, travel
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Update on my behind… er, on being behind
Ok, so I did get two of the three e-mails out I intended to, albeit this morning rather than last night, so I think I’m going to work on the two-a-day proposition instead. Of course, this still means that one … Continue reading
Behind in every possible way…
Having fought a life-long battle against procrastination (and I blame educational mainstreaming for this – why start a report 8 weeks in advance if you can start writing it the evening beforehand, spend three hours on it, and still get … Continue reading
Big Day for Mr. T
No, not that Mr. T – though I do pity the fool. Day four in the “Papa is out-of-town” fiesta, and since it was supposed to get into the 90′s here today, Torsten and I went off to the children’s … Continue reading
Aaaaaaargh…
So in order not to scare the parents of newborns off so badly that they all decide to give up before their babies hit three months, I’m pretty sure that society is holding back information, only to be doled out … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, family, parenthood, sleep deprivation, sleep-impaired drivel, Torsten
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6 months – Losing that little baby look…
(N.B. As always, the pictures are scaled in the HTML to fit this page – to see them clearly, please click on photos to enlarge) Dearest Torsten, The title of this month’s post came from something Mama’s cousin (your first … Continue reading
Friday Fun (with the plague!)
Today, thank God, is Friday – a short class day after a long week. We’re all pretty sick. I’m the most obviously ill, but Christian’s been coughing horribly for weeks, and the baby got to visit the urgent care last … Continue reading
Quick update from the depths of the CELTA…
So this CELTA course rocks. Seriously. It’s really stressful, it’s a lot of work, and it rocks. I’m not sure how other CELTA courses are, but I do like the approach to teaching, and our trainers here are pretty amazing. … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, CELTA, evil husband, family, good things, Life, love, stress, teaching, TEFL, Torsten
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Happy Mother’s Day
(to me…) It’s my first Mother’s Day as a mama, and what am I doing? Yup, writing lesson plans in a café, several blocks away from my baby. We don’t celebrate many holidays/occasions as a family, but I have to … Continue reading
