Incubating vs. procrastinating from skippyclese, and something I've been calling 'the assumption of competence' from ovrclockdI'm thinking that I'm very much an incubator, since stuff regularly pops up completed from the depths of my subconscious - if I try to force it, it doesn't work at all, or comes out messy and I have to re-do it anyway. This is true with ( Read more... )

Most of the time, I feel like an ordinary person, with my kid and my husband and my ordinary house and so on. But then at other times, I go to places where I feel like I'm way more accomplished than those around me. This morning I went to the orientation and benefits program for Duke University regular employees. I took my knitting, because I ( Read more... )