The best laid plans...
My plan was to have by now completed at least the rough draft of my PhD dissertation and to be able to spend lots of time blogging my little brain out chronicling the life of my son and all the sights along the way.
Such is not the case...
I'm finding it terribly difficult to find the time to read papers and write my dissertation while taking care of a baby. Not a big surprise to the 'experienced' moms out there. In my naivete, I thought that it would become easier as he got older. Well, some things are easier, but there is less time now than there was before. My day is filled with trying to be a stay-at-home mom and going grocery shopping, finding items on sale (since we are now a single income household -- not that my school stipend was all that much, but it was more than nothing), cleaning the house, laundry, etc. Let me tell you, it is difficult to read scientific articles while breastfeeding a nursing/napping infant!!
So long story short... I have decided to just start blogging in the spare moments that I have before he gets much older.
On a somewhat related note... now whenever I think of the phrase 'the best laid plans of mice and men, often go awry' from the poem To a Mouse by Robert Burns (interesting link... you can listen to it in real audio, which sounds cool and makes it easier to understand-- remember Robert Burns from high school... the unintelligible poems supposedly written in 'english' that only made since when read out loud or translated into 'real english') I can't help but think of Eddie Izzard (a British somewhat cross-dressing comedian who is quite funny, but definitely not for everyone) and his video Definite Article where he talks about the plans of mice and men (click on 'The Italian Job'). The transcript is still funny, but the way he delivers the lines is half of what makes it so funny! But I digress...
Such is not the case...
I'm finding it terribly difficult to find the time to read papers and write my dissertation while taking care of a baby. Not a big surprise to the 'experienced' moms out there. In my naivete, I thought that it would become easier as he got older. Well, some things are easier, but there is less time now than there was before. My day is filled with trying to be a stay-at-home mom and going grocery shopping, finding items on sale (since we are now a single income household -- not that my school stipend was all that much, but it was more than nothing), cleaning the house, laundry, etc. Let me tell you, it is difficult to read scientific articles while breastfeeding a nursing/napping infant!!
So long story short... I have decided to just start blogging in the spare moments that I have before he gets much older.
On a somewhat related note... now whenever I think of the phrase 'the best laid plans of mice and men, often go awry' from the poem To a Mouse by Robert Burns (interesting link... you can listen to it in real audio, which sounds cool and makes it easier to understand-- remember Robert Burns from high school... the unintelligible poems supposedly written in 'english' that only made since when read out loud or translated into 'real english') I can't help but think of Eddie Izzard (a British somewhat cross-dressing comedian who is quite funny, but definitely not for everyone) and his video Definite Article where he talks about the plans of mice and men (click on 'The Italian Job'). The transcript is still funny, but the way he delivers the lines is half of what makes it so funny! But I digress...
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