It is time to move, once again. Only temporarily though. I would both like to and not, a bit like Schroedinger's cat I imagine. To avoid the usually chaotic outburst that is my suitcase on arrival, I have been packing things in trash bags and labeling them. "Miscellaneous", "Socks", "Scarves" are some of the categories. There is an entire box full of supplements too. Adulting involves a healthy diet and then some. It involves moving alone, yet again, yet again. M has left town and it feels strange, surreal. I think this is the weekend where I am in denial about my trepidation about moving and sadness about people leaving, graduate school and other things ending. I've been really good at keeping it under control, putting out all the fires. But not this weekend. I have spent most of my time in bed this weekend.
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Look no words!
This was the week in which I not only spent several hours on a still plane, I also was on a SuperShuttle, a flight, a train, a taxi, a bus, a MegaBus and an Uber cab in the span of 17 hours to get from Minneapolis to Chicago and back. Now that it is over, I'm still in a little bit of shock and I don't quite have a lot of words. So here's updates in pictures:
This is my absolute favorite picture. This toddler is having a tantrum in the White House. Epic. |
View from a bus stop in Chicago. It was an overcast day. |
Friday, May 22, 2015
Unbelonging
I think there is a moment in which you realize that you
carry your unbelonging with yourself. It is a neat little suitcase that is
invisible, and travels with you wherever you go.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Tarmac Tales
We all have those flights. The ones where you clap when you take off and then when you land. One day after graduation and I am headed to New York for our capstone project presentation. It is exciting but I also really want to nap and figure out the rest of my life. It is a cold blustery day. I decide to take a bus and the train instead of a SuperShuttle to economize as an unemployed student. My suitcase almost gets blown away on the street, my hair is whipped into a tangled frenzy. 'Summer' in Minneapolis is here.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
And just like that, the party is over
Most of my cohort |
Friday, May 15, 2015
I did not know...
...how I would feel this close to graduation; or that the happiness would be bittersweet and the losses would start lining up slowly (as would opportunities). So many smiles for the camera, concealing
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Support Networks of Women in Higher Ed: A Crucial Pit Stop in Busy and Challenging Paths
"Women in higher education are navigating complex paths
in academic fields, paths that see a steady increase in participation by women
but still have more men in leadership positions. Support networks play a
crucial role in helping women advance. Tessens, White and Web explain in
“Senior Women in Higher Education Institutions: Perceived Development Needs and
Support” that allocating resources, setting up of networks and gatekeeping for
leadership positions is considered a gendered activity in academia.
Through my informal conversations with women faculty, staff
and graduate students at the University of Minnesota, I saw how women in higher
education engage with and react to support networks. The focus of my
conversations was four-pronged: why women participate in support networks, what
they get out of it, what makes the groups work and what are some of the
tensions and challenges faced."
Read the rest of the piece here (I am the author :) and thus
the link love) : http://qap2.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/whe.20193/full
Sunday, May 10, 2015
How wonderful
A poem for all the loss and finding and love and longing and the confusion that is growing older:
How wonderful to be understood,
to just sit here while some kind person
relieves you of the awful burden
of having to explain yourself, of having
to find other words to say what you meant,
or what you think you thought you meant,
and of the worse burden of finding no words,
of being struck dumb . . . because some bright person
has found just the right words for you—and you
have only to sit here and be grateful
for words so quiet so discerning they seem
not words but literate light, in which
your merely lucid blossoming grows lustrous.
How wonderful that is!
Friday, May 8, 2015
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Time for Tulips
Bloom outside school |
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Minneapolis,
Minnesota,
Pictures,
Reflections,
Whimsy
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