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Changing PhD
Many people warned me that my PhD thesis would be much more of an evolving process that a static, three-year project, but for the most part I tended to listen to their well-meaning advice and pretty much ignore it.
What's the big deal about an ear infection?
This week was a bit of a challenge for me. My nine-month old daughter picked up a bug from her play date at childcare. Our midwife and other parents have warned me about this of course, but there鈥檚 nothing like experiencing it all for the first time. I don鈥檛 know why I thought she鈥檇 never get sick. I tried really hard though. She鈥檚 up-to-date with all her immunisations, she鈥檚 had the flu shot, and she鈥檚 been having a healthy amount of probiotics in her well-balanced diet.
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The loch ness monster
I recently went down a rabbit hole looking at the evidence surrounding the Loch Ness Monster. I probably should have been doing something more productive and useful, but monster hunting on the internet proved too hard to resist.
How I de-stress in a just a few minutes
Sometimes I forget that the North terrace campus is just across the road from the best de-stress space in the city, the Botanic Gardens!
Of health week and the journey back to true strength
Spring is here, and so is Health Week! I have been talking about getting back into shape for months and now I have run out of excuses. Lots of my friends have also started their fitness challenges and I鈥檓 finding a whole heap of interesting things. There are the eight-week fitness gym challenges which would be great. A couple of years back I would get up at 4 in the morning to meditate, scribe, and be mindful of all the things I am grateful for. After that it would be an hour鈥檚 workout in the nearby gym, before getting ready to head to work in the city. I don鈥檛 think I could commit to going to the gym as regularly as I used to given the demands of studying full-time, working part-time, and caring for my amazing nine-month old offspring.聽
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