Want to read: Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower by Marc Goulden, Mary Ann Mason, and Nicholas H. Wolfinger 📚
📚 I read only the Introduction to Kelly J. Baker’s SEXISM ED and I’m already seething with rage.
I don’t like to drink rosé but I love the roséwave vibe. I’m trying to figure out what faux-luxe looks like for parents of young children. So far, it’s sipping iced chai by the pool while my kid’s at his swim lesson.
Finished reading: Succeeding Outside the Academy 📚
💬📚 “Why have I surrendered so much of my present self to an abstract future self that may never exist? Why have I made my present happiness contingent on my future happiness?” Joseph P. Fisher in SUCCEEDING OUTSIDE THE ACADEMY
Every time I work on this article revision I end up getting mad at Reviewer 2 all over again, mostly for treating me like a baby, even though it’s merited because I was in fact a babydoc when I wrote the first draft of the paper.
My Kid (4.5 yo): Donatello is playing a video game.
Me: Fun! What’s it called?
Kid: “Science Nerd.”
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🔖▶️ Watched Create Your Unicorn Career from Scratch. Engaging talk from a science communicator/comedian! Don’t throw any part of yourself away! (That’s from Austin Kleon.)
Low-key day today: chilling with my kid in the morning, an adventure with a locked but unoccupied bathroom that resulted in me taking the handle off and then putting it back on, confirming a future client relationship, and fixing my broken ring light stand.
JK, today is a rest-in-bed kind of day now that I’ve done my most important work, registering my kid for the next round of swim lessons. Also read a little bit in Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks but not engaging with literature search today because my brain won’t.