recent reading

I used to just read the blogs of my friends to keep up with their lives--and I still do. However, lately, I've been enjoying reading blogs that are teaching me things, or that are written by people who are like me or that I want to grow up to be like. Here's a list of the ones I particularly enjoy lately:

twenty two words by Abraham Piper

http://www.twentytwowords.com

All posts are 22 words or fewer. Topics vary, but include: language, parenting, Christianity, random observations.

Sociological Images

http://contexts.org/socimages/

Images for use in sociology courses or discussions. They're interesting and show trends about the way we perceive or portray groups of people.

Geeky Mom

http://geekymom.blogspot.com/

teacher, wife, and mother.

See Jane Compute

http://scienceblogs.com/seejanecompute/

professor working towards tenure, wife, and mom

Yay for kind of connecting with some role models.

I was making tea at one of the coffee breaks today when I overheard a couple of professors talking to each other. One was saying how excited he was that his wife just got tenure, and how he taught at one school, she taught at another, and they were living somewhere about equidistant from the two. The other then said something like, "That's like me and my husband." And that made me smile. I'm forever worried about achieving work-life balance and trying to figure out what it looks like for me to be a professor somewhere and my husband to be working somewhere else and for there to be kids involved in there somewhere. But apparently, lots of people are doing it and are being fairly successful at it. I don't have a clear model of it to work from but at least I know that what I want has to be possible.

All right. Good night. Last day of the conference tomorrow.