at our university, doctoral candidates’ dissertations must be approved by an outside reader. which approval comes after the committee has reviewed and approved the diss. this can be, as one of m… more →
(another) new kid on the blockcarole wrote 7 months ago: at our university, doctoral candidates’ dissertations must be approved by an outside reader. w … more →
carole wrote 8 months ago: a chronology of freakiness: item 1: in one of the 45-minute naps that passed for a good-night’ … more →
carole wrote 9 months ago: saturday morning i heard mairin making her veeeerrry careful way down the stairs (she likes to run a … more →
carole wrote 1 year ago: you know those hateful, “hey, cute-mama-to-be, here’s how marvelous you should be feelin … more →
carole wrote 1 year ago: it has become clear to me that i am not going to magically find my waistline anytime soon if i don … more →
carole wrote 1 year ago: we are all worked up with no place to go. i occasionally have signs of labor. (crabbiness is a sure … more →
carole wrote 1 year ago: last night i dreamt that three days after gus was born shannon took me to meet him. all grown up at … more →
carole wrote 1 year ago: i’ve been berating myself for weeks now about not posting new photos of mairin to flickr. we … more →
carole wrote 1 year ago: sometime this month dear ol’ dr lum will be joined by his new partner, an apparently sweet, yo … more →
carole wrote 1 year ago: with earl & mairin i subscribed to babycenter.com’s weekly pregnancy newsletters. see how … more →
carole wrote 1 year ago: from our friends at PregnancyWeekly comes this headline: Rekindling the Romance During Your Pregnan … more →
carole wrote 1 year ago: i have been sick since friday, and if i didn’t know better i would say i’m revisiting th … more →
carole wrote 1 year ago: today’s measurements revealed — ta-dah! — numbers in the high-normal range. the do … more →
carole wrote 1 year ago: back in the day, i felt huge. at a whopping twenty-two weeks i was still full of amniotic fluid , wh … more →
carole wrote 1 year ago: yesterday morning after i regaled shannon with a dream-tale — i was a medical doctor in the mi … more →
carole wrote 1 year ago: when i was pregnant with earl in 2005 i didn’t look it. i had gained only eight pounds by the … more →
carole wrote 1 year ago: one of my favorite things about blogging is having friends in the computer who understand me. i don … more →
carole wrote 1 year ago: it has occurred to me in this last week that i may very well be the most monitored pregnant woman in … more →
carole wrote 1 year ago: that’s right yo — my cervix is off the charts. which is a good thing, if you discount th … more →