Accidentally in Code

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    Rediscovering Balance

    My life has been out of balance for as long as I can clearly remember. And I know, the most successful women embrace that imbalance but my feeling is that mine has been too far out of balance, or perhaps just too imbalanced in the wrong way. Last semester, I was in so much pain…

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  • Week in Brief

    For this week: First day as ski instructor! Banff film fest. Create more graphs. More work incorporating papers into thesis. Have an evening of “Cate-time”. Meeting (will reveal details if it goes well!) Write Science teacher talk – content written, just adding some examples. Create abstract and register for Science teacher talk. Create proposal for…

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    The Gap Between The Possible and My Imagination

    This is where I live. In this space between what I could achieve in a given day, or week, or month… and what in my imagination I’m capable of. Of course in my imagination I never kick back and watch a movie with my friend and a bottle of wine (honestly, this rarely happens in…

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  • Week in Brief

    For this week: Write up Science teacher talk idea. – unsure what to talk about, met with prof to clarify. Now have plan, just need to write up. Create bio and register for Science teacher talk. – delayed by above Go skiing, sort out forms for ski instructor job (if not too late) – I…

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    Smart Calendars

    Below is a picture of my schedule for this week: Bear in mind, that the scheduled times are typically those when I am not working – yes I am a little stressed, and incredibly unsympathetic to people who tell me they don’t have time to do things because they are “too busy”. I’ve had to…

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    What’s Your Natural Advantage?

    The first year I worked at a summer camp, it was nuts. Three instructors (including me) took a trip to the hospital, a child ran backwards into a pole, a bridge collapsed, an instructor got fired, as did the woman running the cafeteria that was the cause of one of the trips to hospital, and…

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  • Week in Brief

    For this week: Exchange drivers license for Ontario one. Sort out insurance. Collect car. Finish incorporating papers into thesis – about 1/3 of the way through with this. Embed applets – made progress, demo applet embedded. Regular ones have small bug. Decide which course to take. Go kickboxing twice – sick, only made it once…

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    A Diet of Live Frogs

    Monday: Going to the DV and exchanging my license – surprisingly painless. Tuesday: Going outside. Wednesday: Laundry, paying bills. Thursday: Dealing with insurance people. Friday: Going to Carleton How Was It? Not as bad as I thought it would be, most things were less awful than anticipated (apart from going to Carleton). Even though I…

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    Experimenting with Delegating

    Sacha wrote a lovely post recently about delegating. It’s been sitting open on my computer since, because I need to delegate more if I want to do more – because I’m hitting capacity. I do want to do more, so I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about what I can delegate and even…

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