Just when I think...

I am catching up I fall behind again! Little T is sick - sore throat and fever that keeps spiking up t0 104.5. It's not strep luckily but of course Mr. T is out of town for training. He is coming home tonight and taking off tomorrow so I can get some writing done. If I am to finish in a month (which has to happen if I want to defend in the Fall) I have no choice but to get my revisions finished.

Tiger Dreams

Mr T and I had a conversation the other day and I told him that I hoped that I can take off part of my summers once I become a prof so I can hang out with our kids more while they are out of school. I know this isn't likely but I want to think that it is. He seemed to think that even if they don't teach classes, most profs are super-busy in the summer (he is right of course), but maybe I can have a less crazy summer schedule?

A TigerMom can dream, right?

More on Academia and Babies

I've been M.I.A. for a while...TAing a summer class and working on some research. But I have been trying to keep up with reading various blogs and a while back something I wrote inspired this post by Profgrrrrl.

I found her post and several of the comments interesting and it made me think about how much I talk about Little T and what types of school situations do I talk about her and what types I do not talk about her. I've started trying to take note of whether it is other people bringing her up or if I am bringing her up. I've found that I bring her up about 50% of the time when the other person has a baby or toddler. The other half of the time they bring her up and ask how she is. Sometimes I wonder if they are asking to be polite or if they really want to know how she is (another issue I think). However, I rarely bring her up if the person doesn't have young children or if they don't ask (people without babies still ask about her). We have a very family friendly program and have several events in which all family members are invited so Little T is known by many in the program. Plus we are friends on social networking sites and they see pictures of her frequently. The people that know her and always want to hold her tend to be the ones that ask about her.

write revise write revise

this is what I am focusing on right now...I am revising my first few dissertation chapters to get it ready to send to my major prof in about a month. Trying to stick to a reasonable timeline.

Mr. T is home but is still traveling for training purposes. It is nice to have him home some of the time though! Last week was so wonderful!

Little T is just amazing.

Mr. T is coming back soon!

He finished out the project in Workville last week and is in TrainingTown this week and after that he should be back in TigerTown working!!! I am trying to imagine what life will be like with him back and can't really. He has been traveling in some form since we moved to TigerTown. I imagine that I won't be as exhausted because I will have help - or if I am exhausted I will at least get much more done! I will probably start cooking again. We will have our weekends free to do stuff we want to do rather than stuff we have to cram into a weekend because we couldn't get it done during the week (run errands, etc). A romantic life outside of the weekends ;-)

I will have my friend and husband back. Little T and Furry T will have their daddy home.

I am so happy!