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procrastinating again ...
Jan. 13th, 2003 02:52 pm... ok, so I have to write this paper for a conference, and instead, I'm checking LJ and the Quill. How sad.
To be at least a little productive, here's a LJ update.
First of all, pregnancy. So my dear buddy![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
piperx has come clean, and so will I.
My husband and me have been trying to have a baby for 15 months now. For two of those months, we didn't try, because I feared I would be heavily pregnant when I was due to teach at a Summer School (HAH!), for one month, I was sick with bronchitis, and for one month, I was away during ovulation. It's been quite a rollercoaster.
( Baby rant )
We're now planning our vacation of a life time (to Iceland, hubby dislikes warm climates),
and I've just stopped adjusting my life to a potential pregnancy. I submit stuff for conferences irrespective of potential pregnancies, plan holidays, work Sundays again (albeit for 2-3 hours). My friend Mary calls this strategy "tricking fate". My friend Simone fell pregnant when she and her partner were about to move to a new town, and she'd already registered for a course there. They'd been trying to get pregnant for half a year, but to no avail.
I work Sundays because I'm at heart an academic and researcher, but I'm working for an IT company which does not give me time for that. So research is an evening and weekend job. Once the baby's born, this will have to change - in the mean time, one of my major aims for the New Year is to regularly do something productive after work, because my work leaves me singularly empty. (I define reading interesting non-fiction as "productive", because at least I'm learning something new. Which I love.)
To be at least a little productive, here's a LJ update.
First of all, pregnancy. So my dear buddy
piperx has come clean, and so will I. My husband and me have been trying to have a baby for 15 months now. For two of those months, we didn't try, because I feared I would be heavily pregnant when I was due to teach at a Summer School (HAH!), for one month, I was sick with bronchitis, and for one month, I was away during ovulation. It's been quite a rollercoaster.
( Baby rant )
We're now planning our vacation of a life time (to Iceland, hubby dislikes warm climates),
and I've just stopped adjusting my life to a potential pregnancy. I submit stuff for conferences irrespective of potential pregnancies, plan holidays, work Sundays again (albeit for 2-3 hours). My friend Mary calls this strategy "tricking fate". My friend Simone fell pregnant when she and her partner were about to move to a new town, and she'd already registered for a course there. They'd been trying to get pregnant for half a year, but to no avail.
I work Sundays because I'm at heart an academic and researcher, but I'm working for an IT company which does not give me time for that. So research is an evening and weekend job. Once the baby's born, this will have to change - in the mean time, one of my major aims for the New Year is to regularly do something productive after work, because my work leaves me singularly empty. (I define reading interesting non-fiction as "productive", because at least I'm learning something new. Which I love.)
