Post-Semester Angst

Luckily, I’ve been through this enough times that I can diagnose it for what it is, but it doesn’t make it suck less.  I suppose, looking on the bright side, at least I’m not sick, which oftentimes is one of the symptoms.  Nah, I feel fine, except for I’m… ugh. Part of my problem is [...]

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The World’s Best Valentine

Those of you who’ve been reading forever might recall that after my parents’ divorce, my father remarried and had two sons.  So I, an only child for my first 20 years, became a sister at exactly the age my parents were when I was born (which is a bit weird, in many ways, but there [...]

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Seriously? Seriously.

Last night I hung out with CC, which involved dinner and gossip and wine, and then I came home and had a little more wine, which then led to me calling FB and telling him that he should live with me during his sabbatical.  Remember FB?  Yeah, him.  And, no, I am not making this [...]

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Self-Help and the Single Professor

First of all, I’m not in the depths of despair today.  I haven’t been terribly productive, but I feel like the fact that I’m not feeling awful is a good step in the right direction. But so anyway, the details of my current crisis aren’t really important.  The big picture is that I’m turning 36 [...]

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