my Sigourney Weaver impression

This may be the first of many videos of the kid that I find amusing that pretty much no one else is interested in. But what can you do, it's my blog.

Almost ripe

These are sweet million cherries and should be ripe really soon. The tomatoes are nearly a month behind where they were last year.

getting there babywise

We decided to cosleep with the kid-partially because it's supposed to
be good for his psychological development, mostly because cosleeping
breastfeeding mothers get better sleep. But our bed is not big
enough for 3 of us and I'm less worried about rolling over and
squishing the kid if he has his own space. Hence, we made a sidecar
out of a crib. It needs to be raised up just an inch or so and it'll
be perfect. He'll be safely removed from his sleep deprived parents
but still within arms reach.

Green tomatoes

The garden is good but still pretty far behind where we were last year. Someday we'll get ripe tomatoes.

navel gazing

Easier to do these days since it's sticking right out at me. I had an interesting conversation with my PI today about maternity leave and what I wanted out of my career. I was planning on going back to work part time 6 months after the kid is born (because I get 6 months full salary and 6 months half salary for my 1 year of mat leave, crazy good I know). However, PI doesn't want me to come back half time unless I really feel like I can be productive-which makes sense and is fair, but I'm just not sure if I'm going to want to go back if I take a whole year off. Or maybe I'll spend a few months with the little guy 24/7 and decide that day-care cost be damned I have to get out of the house.

I'm not a rock-star, I hate writing way to much to think that I'm going to get tenure at a big university even if I were able to get a job at said big U. I do think that I want to be a prof at a small master's only kind of school but there just aren't that many jobs out there and I'm guessing a large number of other people wanting the same kind of position. I just spend a depressing hour or so looking at academic job postings, there just aren't that many.

It's coming along slowly

We now have little tomatoes for each variety except the green doctor, but both of the very weak plants that we put in are alive and growing.