...wouldn't have said yes to research student that was really too early in their career to get much accomplished. I just spent an hour showing them how to make and pH a solution.
... didn't have to eek out time to train the people I should delegate work to. What a death spiral. Too busy to get help with being too busy.
...didn't feel rushed and then make the kind of mistakes that require a lot of time to correct. What a death spiral.
...had a baby that slept in the late evenings. Girl is awake, very wiggly, and refuses to be left alone from about 8pm -11 or 12. While I am getting sleep (12-3,3:10-7), it wrecks any chance I have of working at home at night.
I am a professor at a primarily undergraduate institution. My spouse is a research professor and works two hours' drive away. This blog is primarily about life at a PUI, but also about our family trying to make the most of an uncomfortable lifestyle.
Birth Story
PUI
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commuter marriage
(40)
research with undergrads
(26)
workload
(24)
work-family balance
(20)
single motherhood
(18)
working while pregnant
(15)
house moving
(14)
just bitching
(9)
self-flagellation
(8)
gym
(5)
self confidence
(5)
Skype
(4)
Tenure Bid
(3)
community service
(2)
science geek-out
(2)
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