It’s the fourth week of the semester and I’m hanging on pretty darn well.But it’s late, so my updates will be quick here.

• Met with my sociology professor from the spring who was her usual constructive yet critical self. She gave me a lot to chew on. Again, less details the better, but she did say she’d do whatever she could to help me get through the program. That gave me the lift I needed to hit the semester running.
• While at first the idea of having a whole class on HR theory was a total bore, it is so not. I think it helps that my professor has a huge passion for HR theory, but is not 100% settled on where he actually stands on a few issues. So he is willing to assign readings that contradict each other and allow good discussion in class. In other words, I’ve been my usual feminista self and haven’t gotten the eye roll yet. I did ask about pay equity and he responded with a brain teaser about what is “equity.” To be continued!
• My research methods course is going well. I came in ahead of the curve since the first month is about questioning how science is done. That is the basic foundation of feminist science studies, so while we are not reading feminist science studies per say, the themes in what we are reading are all about objectivity, bias, who gets to ask the questions, on and on.
• I’m still reading “The Gifts of Imperfection” and loving it. I wish this book existed when I was in high school. But as I said elsewhere, I doubt I would have read it. Maybe if a few certain teachers had given it to me. Hell, it would had helped anytime between ages 14-24. But then I wouldn’t be here in this moment, would I? The Goddess gifted this to me now for a reason. 
• Work is always hard the first month due to getting things rolling. Being short staffed has made it difficult, but I also turned down the expectations in bit too. See, I’m being imperfect! But so far, so great at work. Now if only I could find a big grant to land!
• The kid is in her second week back at school. In some ways I am happy our calendars are not in sync. While I’ve been fearful of how intense third grade would be for her and us, it’s been pretty good so far. I don’t feel like we were thrown into hot grease with a nice beer batter on us like last year. Or maybe I’m just in a better place. Who knows, who cares, we’re doing good.
• Oh! Did I mention that my husband & I are coaching the kid’s soccer team this year? Yup. I scraped off a tiny space on my plate to be assistant coach or else there might not had been any soccer. We had our first game on Sunday. We lost, but not for a lack of passion and eight super aggressive girls. Don’t believe the hype that girls can’t play aggressively at this age. ROWR! 
• And since things are going pretty good now, I’ll be on the look out for any and all wheels to fall off this ride.

That’s it for now. Thanks for reading!