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Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
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Tag Archives: Life
And of course…
So I was sort of vaguely excited that I would get to start writing earlier than, you know, the entire continent of North America this month (I always try to write a few words around midnight on October 31/November 1st … Continue reading
Mommy Brain. Ugh.
N.B . I make no claims of grammatical correctness in this post – I’m too tired to care! So I still haven’t gotten my slew of Mr. T pictures posted (I have posts nearly ready to go, but things keep … Continue reading
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Tagged evil husband, family, Life, sleep deprivation, sleep-impaired drivel, Torsten
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An exhausting few weeks…
I know I keep promising to get pictures of the kiddo up, but it’s been crazy. I spent the last half of December trying to get some reaaaaaaally important administrative stuff together and trying to meet a code deadline, and … Continue reading
Happy New Year, all!
Happy new year to one and all! I’m still crazy busy, so the Torsten pics and post have been pushed out, but maybe I’ll get to it tonight and you can all worship him in his snuggly glory. In fact, … Continue reading
To all of Torsten’s fans…
So I know everyone has been waiting with bated breath for more Mr. T posts, especially since he just turned a year old and is in the process of taking over the world and all. In fact, I know for … Continue reading
The life of a professional X (for many values of X)
Once upon a time, I was a professional X, where X is a number of different things, depending upon which part of my life we’re talking about and where the jobs were. And now that Mr. T is almost nine … Continue reading
Overwhelmed
So I’ve posted several times about being behind in just about every conceivable way of late (I do appreciate the irony there, by the way), but seriously… there’s just so much to do. We leave for a month in Europe … Continue reading
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Tagged evil husband, family, heat, Life, procrastination, stress, Torsten, travel
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6 months – Losing that little baby look…
(N.B. As always, the pictures are scaled in the HTML to fit this page – to see them clearly, please click on photos to enlarge) Dearest Torsten, The title of this month’s post came from something Mama’s cousin (your first … Continue reading
CELTA winding down, but…
So after many sleepless nights of lesson plans and papers and reading, I’m almost done with my CELTA course. I finally got a reasonable night of sleep last night thanks to the efforts of a snuggly Torsten (who slept in … Continue reading
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Quick update from the depths of the CELTA…
So this CELTA course rocks. Seriously. It’s really stressful, it’s a lot of work, and it rocks. I’m not sure how other CELTA courses are, but I do like the approach to teaching, and our trainers here are pretty amazing. … Continue reading
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