3 for 3 Friday

Read­ing:

Mama, PhD: Women Write About Moth­er­hood and Aca­d­e­mic Life it was the book I got at the con­fer­ence, they also have a Mama, PhD blog. I have heard and read oth­ers talk­ing about the book & it seemed like it would be right up my alley. It’s a col­lec­tion of essay reflec­tions on aca­d­e­mic moth­ers. With every­thing going on in my life, read­ing it only makes me feel more ambiva­lent about what to do next. Pro­gres­sive poli­cies for com­bin­ing the pub­lic & per­sonal, fam­ily & work usu­ally stop at the lec­ture door in most uni­ver­si­ties & colleges.

Lis­ten­ing:
Grand­mas­ter Flash. ‘Nuff said.

Watch­ing:

Health care dis­cus­sions: is it so wrong to want answers? to want my rep­re­sen­ta­tives who are elected to you know, DO THEIR JOBS AND READ A BILL (any bill) before try­ing to talk about it or worse plan­ning to vote for it? to NOT get talked down to as if I’m an idiot? I don’t know what the answers are to the cur­rent health care sit­u­a­tion BUT I DO KNOW that I DESERVE answers beyond talk­ing points. I didn’t like it when the last admin­is­tra­tion pulled that crap & I don’t like it now. Just talk to me, don’t talk down to me. Any­one else tired of being treated like a child by the gov­ern­ment? Espe­cially given the fact that I (and most peo­ple I know) treat chil­dren as if they have brains.

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