Melissa Bartick on Guilt, Motherhood, Anger, and what we can do about it

An interesting take on the topic.

It may be late for some of us, having already endured a scenario different from the first one she describes, to benefit from her call to action, but we can still contribute to the bettering of the experience for others.

 

Blogspot vs. WordPress, the decision is made.

As is my wont, I agonized over which site to use for this new blog.  Because I have kept a very personal (but not very private) blog at blogger/blogspot before, I opted for the clean slate:  total anonymity and a new look and feel.  Also unsurprisingly, this decision had to be made right now.  Yes, today.  Oh, those two bags of writing portfolios and exams to be graded?  Yeah.  And that encyclopedia article due Thursday?  Still only 1/10 done.  And my taxes?  Nada.  That’s due Thursday, too.  But I’ve got this spiffy new blog, so I’ll go to bed feeling as though I’ve accomplished something.

Hard to believe it, but as a doctoral student I never had to pull an all-nighter or really even had to lose any sleep to get assignments done.  Ever.  I’m probably incapable of the all-nighter, but I am perpetually low on sleep.  I’m not sure whether to blame motherhood, the tenure track job, the dissertating partner, or a sudden and unexplained self-discipline problem, but right now I’m thinking it’s all four.