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Archive for January, 2011

The things I wish I could include on my resume

Posted on January 31st, 2011

I’m preparing to reenter the professional workforce, so naturally I’m gussying up my resume/CV.  The sad thing is that my greatest professional accomplishments don’t fit into a traditional resume.  While I may rock responses to motions for summary judgment and can brag about the amount of certain settlements, you know, anyone could do that stuff.  These things, though?  These are all mine. Like: Worked as network professional in an all-male office and handled nonstop commentary on: my chest size, my gender, and my sexual habits with sense of humor and restraint, with only infrequent recourse to passive aggressive revenge. Didn’t sue that employer.  That took restraint. Did not break the law when instructed to by (a non-law) boss. “Taught” (a different non-law) boss to…

Categories: Advice, Law

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Things not to do on a Sunday

Posted on January 30th, 2011

OK, Costco.  I know our affair is back on, but today was just too much.  Your time limited coupons mean that all of us from the outlying areas (by which I mean city center) can’t procrastinate any longer – we have to get in our SUVs and drive to your door.  Or, in my case, about a quarter mile from your door, because the place was so packed with other procrastinators. So now we have plenty of V-8, soy milk, balsamic vinegar, Saltines, mac-n-cheese (Don’t judge! P eats it!), apples, grapefruit, spinach, edamame, and another $250 worth of food that I somehow managed to fit in our kitchen – kind of.  (And flowers.  Because we need some pretty things, too.) But Costco: I know…

Categories: General Parenting, Routines, Too much to ask?

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Changes on the horizon

Posted on January 29th, 2011

I grew up never feeling like I had any control over my environment, because, well, I didn’t.  We moved frequently and at the caprice of my father.  (This is why I only applied to the one law school that was a reasonable commute away: I wasn’t going to uproot us for grad school, no matter how badly I wanted to study admiralty law at Tulane.)  This is also why the moving/not moving drama was so much of a pain in the ass for me: childhood baggage. But right now, it doesn’t look like we’ll be moving any time soon.   It does mean (as I’ve whined, I mean opined, before) that I have to get with the program.  Find a day job.  Support my hat…

Categories: Epiphanies, General Parenting, Good day

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“You are not the chocolate police,” or: Things I said today before 8 AM

Posted on January 28th, 2011

Admittedly, one or two of these were not directed at P. I do not like waking up to screaming. You may not have any milk until you get control of yourself. You are not going to put that back in the drawer after using it, are you? Someone left an iPod in the bathroom and nail clippers on the floor. Did you want to take your backpack with you? You are not the chocolate police. No, I will not eat ALL the chocolate. Please put the toothbrush in your mouth before you hit the on button (x5). Yes, you may hold a baby triceratops if we can find one. Yes, we can go to the Triassic, just as soon as the Dinosaur Train builds…

Categories: General Parenting, Not crazy...yet

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And they have rockets?

Posted on January 27th, 2011

I took P to IKEA and Target today.  I know, I’m insane.  No, really, after an hour of P going down the slide in the kid’s section at IKEA, I’m mostly insane.  (But I had a lovely conversation with a – yes, you’re surprised – Swedish mom for about 45 of those minutes.)  It’s nothing a beer and a nap can’t handle, though. Further proof of insanity: I spent less than $16, not including lunch.  One blanket, two baskets, and paper napkins, (a gauche but necessary evil of having a 3 year old).  That was it!  And then, as we’re getting into the car, two F-15s flew overhead.  (IKEA and Target are by the airport.) Now, the first time P was exposed to F-15s,…

Categories: Epiphanies, General Parenting, Not crazy...yet

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Thursday Haiku

Posted on January 27th, 2011

Thursday. Feels like spring. We need to have some down time. Our goal: just the store.

Categories: Routines

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The crush

Posted on January 25th, 2011

P and I went out today, after she finally woke up (at 10:30 – seriously!).  Our mission was to get a book about eggs, because that is her new obsession. We walked a few blocks then took the streetcar (it was arriving just as we passed the stop) the remaining four.  We ate lunch (mac & cheese and most of my chicken from my salad for her, and the salad leaves and a few bites of chicken for me), then went to the famous bookstore.  And we found the book about eggs, and a book about dinosaurs (yay, used Scholastic books = dirt cheap) and she tolerated going upstairs to British history long enough for me to find a used copy of Jenny Uglow’s…

Categories: General Parenting, Good day, Reading

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Tuesday: still better than Monday

Posted on January 25th, 2011

A massive, ugly-ass warehouse near me (three blocks? Four? Does it count as a block if you have to cross a street?) is being retrofitted for a business.  I am all about this project since the thing really is hideous and is part of my skyline – and at least it’s not being torn down and a condo tower put in its place.  (Full disclosure: I live in a former ugly-ass warehouse myself.) However.  Jackhammers (or what I, who am tool-challenged, assume are jackhammers) get started every day before 8 AM.  And even as wonderful as double-paned windows and concrete walls are at blocking sound, that’s a sound that carries. And it’s a day when my beautiful and charming P decided to start at…

Categories: Good day, Too much to ask?

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Excuse me while I tempt fate

Posted on January 23rd, 2011

More or less, P seems to be settling down.  The stuttering that accompanies her developmental leaps is vanishing, she’s happier, her syntax is more sophisticated, and she is getting better at keeping it together longer.  (That is a lame phrase, but it’s the best I can come up with.)  I even got a spontaneous “I love you, Mommy” today.  (Fortunately, it was after I was over being body slammed.) One of the more useful things I got out of the “Raising Your Spirited Child” book was an analogy for how kids’ brains develop.  Imagine they have five blocks, and a new block is going to be added.  Instead of just being dropped onto the top, the entire block structure gets torn down and rebuilt…

Categories: Epiphanies, Not crazy...yet

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Good news, bad news

Posted on January 23rd, 2011

Good news: I had a nap! Bad news: So did P.  She’s been out for four hours and WILL NOT WAKE UP. (It’s almost 4.) Worse news: We can probably expect she’ll stay up ’til midnight now. UPDATE: I had her help me vacuum, took her on a walk up (the stairs) to the seventh floor and around on the roof, and she voluntarily chose to put on her PJs.  This night may be salvaged.

Categories: Naps, Weird day

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