Christmas Eve Eve Eve
The year is coming to a close. There are two more workdays left, including today. The students are gone for the most part. I know of a few that are…[...]
Personal Organization
What it takes to get my job done is a recurrent theme here. We are ending the semester, which marks my time here at a year and a half. This…[...]
Death part 2
We are in the intermission. The death has happened. It was not drawn out or painful. I watched and comforted as the waves of emotion passed through us, first in…[...]
Death part 1
I don't write about death often enough. There is an eminent death coming in the family, which is why I think of it today. The event that started it was…[...]
ELNs, LIMs, and project management
I finally have to jump into a different part of the data management pool--project management. For the past year I have been intermittently asked about electronic lab notebooks and options…[...]
Personal data and health decisions
A few weeks ago I went to the doctor. Nothing urgent. It had been five years since I had a physical and one year since I came in for headaches…[...]
NNWM 2015 Day 4
So I said that I would participate in NNWM this year and I am -- sort of. I always like the idea of this project. This year I have a…[...]
Health
I just took off several days from work. I spent part of it going in for a medical procedure (elective and outpatient) and then spend some recovering. I also had…[...]
Joy and Peace
This is the non-fiction I have been reading for months. Rising Strong by Brené Brown The Sound of Paper by Julia Cameron Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist Big Magic by Elizabeth…[...]
Big Magic
I received Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic when it came out last Tuesday. I had read it through by Thursday. The book was an easy read, similar in style to Eat, Pray, Love…[...]