I believe my internship search currently looks like this:

New Urban Learning (charter school management company) -- applied, interviewed, rejected

google internet policy fellowship -- applied, no word, long shot anyway

detroit economic growth corporation -- applied, follow up email sent, reply said they're working on it

city of detroit planning ( Read more... )

Here is what I did do today: parented soothed and fed Sylvia through the night,
cuddled and slept in with my husband,
went to stats class,
met briefly with my Detroit project group,
went to the dentist for a teeth cleaning (no cavities),
parented Sylvia through two naps,
napped during the second nap,
finished my problem set,
had leftovers for dinner ( Read more... )

I reside in my head. Or perhaps I float as a mind above my body, pretending that my body -- it's physical reactions to emotion, it's ability to know in ways that my mind can't -- I pretend that my body doesn't exist.

I struggle mightily with the belief that I'm worthy. Believing that someone will hire me. Believing that I am a good parent to my ( Read more... )

I think it's fair at this point in the birth story to acknowledge that I always had a sort of intuition that my pregnancy wouldn't go to term.
( read more... )

I've been trying to write my and Sylvia's birth story again, this time with compassion towards myself and joy at the outcome. I want to post it on my grown-up blog, but I think my inner editor is keeping from making that easy. The whole point of this rewrite is editing, though writing it in WordPress seems to imbue writing performance anxiety ( Read more... )

Dear Yulegoat ( Read more... )

Dear Yuletide Writer/Stalker ( Read more... )