It's Alive!!!!!!

Well. So much for "extended work time." I'm just getting back to writing a statement of what I've done over the last four years at the University (my internal cynic has conveniently paraphrased this as "not much")...and...I hear a voice from upstairs: "Is it timetowakeupfrommynap? Is it time to get up Mommy?" Gotta love it. (Seriously. She's my world). I yell up to her the usual, "ComeondownSweetiePie!" And just like that, I guess I'm back to the stay-up-till-midnight-get-up-at-four-in-the-morning plan. Hey--don't knock it till you try it. It's been time tested over three generations. Grandma Wright used it, living in Detroit with four daughters, a son, and a job as a seamstress (on and off the books). Mom used it...studying for medical school while we were teenagers. And now, it's coming in handy for me. We should write a manual and make the proverbial million bucks. There'd have to be disclaimers of course: "use of this work method requires a life time dependency on at LEAST three cups of coffee per day (more for optimum success), which may in turn lead to unhealthy dependencies on Dunkin Donuts." Side note: Blogging is THE preferred method of procrastination for professional procrastinators. And now, back to that statement. To all you pre-tenure mothers out there...wish me luck cuz I'll need it...See you at midnight.