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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: good things
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
Tricky baby…
I am so… freaking… tired. Day five in the “Papa is out-of-town” marathon, and let me just say that Mama is glad tomorrow is the last full day of it, because… cripes (N.B.: I can’t believe that just came out … Continue reading
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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
Ahhhh… the CELTA is over!
(“Knowledge” picture from Scott Meyer’s Basic Instructions comic strip) So the mind-blowing month of CELTA is officially over, and it was totally worth it. It was stressful and intense, and I learned so much I think my head may yet … Continue reading
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
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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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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Super Baby!
I’ll get around to the 3-month post soon, but I just want to say that yesterday, not only did Torsten finally hold his head up while lying on his tummy for a really long time, but he rolled over (twice!) … Continue reading
Short updates
NaNoWriMo – Ridiculously, I won. I told Karen – who deserves big congrats for finishing her novel days ahead of time, btw – that I had a great story for why I wasn’t going to finish, and then somehow, magically … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, breastfeeding, family, friends, good things, hospital, labor and delivery, Life, NaNoWriMo, novels, sleep-impaired drivel, stress, Torsten, writing
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Serendipity…
So when I’d planned out all these curtains last year, apparently I made a mistake in calculating for cloth – I picked a very nice denim fabric for the bedroom curtains, but I didn’t get enough of it. I suck. … Continue reading
