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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: sleep-impaired drivel
You like monkeys, you like ponies…
It’s a really good thing I don’t sing aloud when I rock Torsten to sleep after his 3 am feeding. It was about 3:30 am when I realized that Skullcrusher Mountain by the wonderful Jonathan Coulton (click here to download … Continue reading
The apocalypse is nigh…
So in spite of my near-worship of Dr. Harvey Karp from a few weeks past, young Master Grothoff was not really napping after that freak incident. So when, this morning at 9 after some very stressful tummy time (he can … 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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Apologies from the land of Moo
Ok, stupid Bad Behavior plugin denied me access from my own site. Impressive. So I just wanted to thank everyone for their wonderful good wishes and comments and e-mails – sorry I haven’t gotten back on them, but Torsten’s cluster-feeding … Continue reading
And… done!
Wrote the last essay in English. It’s a little long, but I’m done. Tomorrow I’ll format, print, and take a quick trip to the university to deliver it. And then… naptime, I’m sure. Good night, Internets…
More NaNoWriMo Action!
Well, I’m almost a quarter of the way there in terms of word count. I’m not absolutely in love with my characters yet because many of them aren’t as fleshed-out as I’d like, but I found last time that in … Continue reading
Week 36: Baby, please let me sleep…
35 weeks, 2 days. So we’ve now reached the part of the pregnancy where my belly is so heavy that I simply can’t get comfortable to sleep. I have to build a convoluted nest of pillows intended to support my … Continue reading
Week 23: Enough with the dreams already!
22 weeks, 5 days. Ok, I admit it – me having nightmares is nothing new. I’ve had them for most of my adult life, and most of them are just variations on traumatic situations in which I had no power … Continue reading
Cracking away in the Land of Corn…
Being back at Purdue is always pretty surreal. Every time I come here, I subconsciously seem to utter “returning to the scene of the crime, eh?” – lots of the best things in my life have happened here (including The … Continue reading
