Me at beginning of sem: If I can get through IRB this sem, I'll be good IRB: We'll ask for a bunch of minor revisions, but we'll spread them out over several submissions, each of which will take a month+ for new revision Me now: Maybe next semester? IRB: So naive! (evil laugh)

This is right on. All the time

Working on a grant app, & 3/4 of the multi-k total would go to childcare costs (the rest to housing)

Trying to make a cake at my brother's house gives me sympathy for people on baking shows. All the tools are just different & unfamiliar enough to make everything take twice as long and come out wrong

Now that I've finished my roundtable, I can finally sit back and enjoy LA...by finishing the web content for a book so that I can pay my bills & then planning my fall social problems course

Traveling to a conference with family is the epitome of grad school with kids. I want to spend the whole trip with the family AND at the conference simultaneously and feel sad/guilty about missing either, even while attending to the other #ASA2022

Well deserved; he's also a great adviser!

I noticed a dead fly on the sill yesterday but forgot to clean it. Our 1yo has started climbing chairs, & this pm, I caught him with a chair against the window, lips puckered & fly gone. My wife & 4yo said they didn't clean it. So it looks like our 1yo cleaned up the fly himself

The compact nature of summer session teaching is a reminder that I need to think more about the energy that I & my students will have at the middle/end of the semester when designing a course, not the energy that we have before it starts

Is this is like an academic version of those movies where people dream something & then realize that they actually did part of it in real life?

If so, how do I (roughly) remember the content of the 2 articles that I read carefully and added to the manuscript (& how are these articles highlighted up in Mendeley)?

Perhaps the most frustrating thing is that my safeguard--Box--failed too, with the last revision it recorded coming Wednesday despite my work on Thursday & Friday. Did I just dream working for several hours over the past two days?

Me passive-aggresively creating a new to-do (AGAIN) list

Word just closed & lost two days's worth of work, despite my saving repeatedly. The manuscript was on the verge of ready-to-submit. It's not the end of the world, but I now find myself searching for a reliable alternatives Word

Every time I make a tres leches cake

My wonderful advisor wrote an excellent and important book!

My 4 yo pronounces my profession as “sociogoly." It’s super cute. But being the goofy linguist that she is, she intentionally mispronounces her own mispronunciation as "sasaogoly" and then giggles about it, which is even cuter

Writing With Kids: Me at 4:53am: I'll get up early & write before everyone else wakes. Daughter at 4:54: Papa! Me at 5:50: Too tired to write now. I'll grade now and write tonight. Me tonight: I'm too tired to write tonight. I'll do it tomorrow early. Repeat ad infinitum

I think that I'm going to have to budget in time alongside grading for "mindlessly scrolling social media to distract myself from grading." Why not embrace the inevitable and schedule it, right?

A few grad students have been asking me about postdocs, so I want to share a brief thread about them here. There are basically 3 kids of postdocs: (1) research, (2) teaching, and what I call (3) hanging out.