So over the last couple of days I've been thinking about "having it all".

( a busy few days, recounted at tedious length )

36 weeks today; 4 weeks to my due date, 2 more weeks of work to go, 1 more week until Sprocket is officially at term (not to be confused with 'term' in the Oxford sense, though I think it is 8th week) -- any time before 37 weeks she'd be considered 'premature'.

( Long ramble about how I'm feeling, the latest ultrasound scan, my big baby, homebirth assessment, work... as much for my own record as anything else )

I had my 34 weeks appointment with the midwife on Monday. ( Nothing seriously wrong but some niggles )

I suspect this won't apply to many of you, but you never know, and it may be interesting anyway: here's the job advert for my maternity cover. So if you fancy having a go at being me for a year, you know what to do ( Read more... )

There's feeling full of fail, and then there's feeling full of existential fail. I've spent most of today wanting to curl up under the desk in a little ball and howl like an over-tired toddler. I was working for the Department of Fail, which always saps my will to live -- they're not really inherently full of fail, but I and my colleague J. are ( Read more... )

Last night I had a variant on the "late for work" anxiety dream, a more specific one in which I was late for the meeting I was supposed to be going to this morning. ( classic anxiety-dream nonsense )

I took Friday and Monday off work with no more concrete plans than "catch up on sleep and chill out a bit". ( so how did that work out? )

I'm going to try to post every day this month again. I mean, I'm going to try again; I failed to do it last year, because of fail. In the past I've called this attempt NaBloPoMo, but it's not really a National blog-posting month, it's a Not-very-national-at-all blog-posting month: hence NoBloPoMo. In fact, I'm also probably not going to write very ( Read more... )

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