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Calming down a bit….

Posted in Academic life, Graduate school, Perfectionism, Writing on March 19, 2008 | Comments Off

I was totally losing it last night – bursting into tears from stress, head pounding and feeling sick.  My husband put me to bed early and then I called in sick today.
This morning, over breakfast, he finally got a couple of really good points through my stubborn, thick skull.
First, this seminar is a WORKING SESSION, [...]

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New Year, new opportunities to get it right….

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Change, Jobs, Perfectionism on January 1, 2008 | Comments Off

2007 didn’t go quite as I would have liked.

I fell off the exercise and diet wagon, leading to
I gained back about half of the weight I had lost in 2006
I didn’t do as well as I wanted in my multilevel modeling class, which is an issue since that is the technique I will be using [...]

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Too much of a perfectionist…..

Posted in Other, Perfectionism on November 4, 2007 | Comments Off

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Marginalia: Too much of a perfectionist…..

Posted in Other, Perfectionism on November 4, 2007 | Comments Off

My day job for the past 20 years has involved taking big databases and turning the contents into useful reports, so I figured it would be a snore to do so for a local school district in order to earn money to buy a slick new fridge.  And it was.  Until they told me to [...]

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