I’M BAAAAACK!!!
Zombie blog back from the undead! Watch this space for more than just the rare Zombie Yeti sighting!
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Blog | Featured | Professional
You Impostor!
Hey, you. You’re an impostor. Me? Yeah, you. I know it, you know it, and soon, everyone else will know it too. What are you talking about? You don’t belong here. You’re not smart enough, you’re not strong enough, and people don’t really respect you. Sound familiar? Those nasty internal arguments seething with contempt, reminding…
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Better Days
It seems that everyone is posting some form of “what I accomplished in 2020” bit. Some are railing against the year in review practice, because this year was such a dumpster fire that merely surviving should be enough. Others are stating that they are proud of learning to gratefully accept what they have. As for…
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Work Sanity Kit
We all know that stuff happens at work that has you saying “Dang, I wish I had a…” Time to remember the Girl Scout/Guide motto of “Be Prepared” (or “Always Ready” for my francophone and hispanophone friends) and make a sanity kit for your desk. This kit can be made small enough to fit in a…
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Build Your Own Planner
It’s the beginning of the academic year, time for refreshing the office supplies, stationery, and planners. A while back, I realized that my planner situation just wasn’t cutting it. Commercially produced planners were inadequate for my multifaceted life, and the ring planner system was too expensive (IMHO) to start up. I had failed with Franklin…
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Limitless
Talk delivered at Girls Inspiring Girls virtual conference, 08/21/2020. Who first put a limit on you? Who first told you that you couldn’t do something? Was it a kid at recess saying “You can’t catch me!” Who first told you that you couldn’t do something of measure? Was it a teacher saying “You can’t…
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What Is Validation?
Several friends have asked what is it that I actually do for a living in engineering. It’s not a “normal” engineering job, it’s definitely niche. I straddle the line between engineering and law, in a field known as Validation. Per Wikipedia, “Validation is the process of establishing documentary evidence demonstrating that a procedure,…
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You’re Invited to a Masque
All right everybody, hear me out. I don’t care what your political affiliation is, what brand of science you believe, or where you get your news. The fact is that there is a highly contagious virus going around, and its effects are not pretty. Regardless of whether you are in a high risk group, COVID is…
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Quarantine Projects
We get it: you’re bored. What’s an engineer to do without projects? And how can we get stuff done without materials when all of the materials are “non-essential purchases”? There are still plenty of relevant projects that can be done that do not involve full household organization or repainting. Here are fourteen ideas for things to do…
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Finding Sanity from Quarantine Insanity
Many people have asked me, “How are you doing it — Staying sane in quarantine with triplets?” The reality is, I’m not doing anything special. I’m still going to work, no different than before. My husband is still the primary caregiver of our kids, as he has been from the moment of their birth. The madness of three…
