Author Archives: Amanda

@Doctor_PMS inspired me to start blogging again. In a recent post, she lamented how people have stopped blogging—in favor of tweeting. I’m horribly guilty of this. I’m active (more or less) on twitter, but I haven’t blogged in almost two … Continue reading →

What did you do in 2013 that you’d never done before? Gave a talk at a national conference. Did you keep your 2013 resolutions, and will you make more this year? I did not. I made a general theme of … Continue reading →

With the good news, comes the complication. I was appointed to the T32, which is wonderful, but it spawned a series of errors involving my reclassification that resulted in the loss of my university email for about 30 hours. To … Continue reading →

I keep hesitating about posting here. I feel like I should start with a big catch up post, but I can’t come up with an entertaining way to do it. So, what, you may ask, is the thing that is … Continue reading →

I’m behind on NaBloPoMo already. Oh well. After Friday I needed to take some time off. From everything. Let me set the stage…. After months of working on optimizing this brand new assay, I finally have it working(ish– the assay … Continue reading →

Ack! I completely forgot about NaBloPoMo this year. I really wanted to attempt it this time. Le sigh. I suppose I’ll just start it a day late. I mean, what’s going to happen? Is the national blogging police going to … Continue reading →

I remember reading way back in March a call for posting about logistics for/with working moms. At the time I was falling apart. It was generally a stressful time and I didn’t feel anywhere close to having it together. Now … Continue reading →

I’ve been a parent now for a little over a year and a working parent for about 11.5 months now. I have thoughts on these things, but seem to have a perpetual problem organizing them. Therefore, for the 3 people … Continue reading →

Today Kiddo has been external longer than he has been internal (by one full day). He has passed the outdoor fetus stage, the bump on a log stage, and is now firmly entrenched in the learning to be a small … Continue reading →

Or: Cool things about Kiddo I know that I’ve been complaining a lot recently, but Kiddo really is awesome and I want to share. Kiddo is a natural-born scientist. It is so cool to see him figure things out. It … Continue reading →