Wish I could think of a witty title

The adrenaline rush that I seemed to run on for two weeks after DH died seemed to disappear. Then I became sick. The one thing that seems to make a difference between me being sick for ages and recovering well is sleep. Ah, blissful sleep! But also elusive. While I was recovering, that was [...]

The Rug Rat Race

Fabulous title, eh? For your delectation and intellectual stimulation, may I direct you to the working paper of that name by Garey Ramey and Valerie A. Ramey from the National Bureau of Economic Research, published in August 2009. (So it’s September and I’m behind in my reading. I’ve been travelling. That’s my excuse.)
This working paper [...]

Flat out like a lizard drinking

Work is a madhouse thanks to scholarship rounds, results processing, endless meetings that are surely generated in the seventh circle of hell, and the ongoing strain of having to learn how to do new tasks while doing what was already a full-time job.
DD is still unwell. A sort of underlying not-up-to-doing-anything, maybe better expressed as [...]

Mother and housewife

Honestly, if you looked at the duty statement, salary, benefits and key performance indicators and then conducted a full cost benefit analysis, you wouldn’t take on the job. See how my mind works when I’m being snarky?
I read this article by Kylie Orr.
So while we debate what level of qualifications our country’s [...]

Hurry up for work!

That could be my rallying cry most mornings. I may not say it aloud but I’m certainly thinking it when I leap out of bed at 6.30 am and start the juggling process that is called mornings at home. Everything seems to be towards that end goal of being at work before the car parks [...]

A Pink Ban on Vodafone?

This was the term that Eva Cox of the Women’s Electoral Lobby mentioned (I think tongue in cheek *g*).
In an article here, an employee at a Vodafone shop at Geelong’s Bay City Plaza has told a stay at home mum (SAHM) that she can’t buy a new Blackberry Storm. I should add that [...]

Tired

Busy week at work last week, completing the onsite phase of one project. This week it’s the mop-up for that one, all the invoices, blah blah blah. Now another conference has turned up and the disorganisation hurts my brain. How on earth do people think I do this? Do they honestly think I like doing [...]