Mama(e) in Translation

2 sons, 2 languages, 2 countries, 2 "worlds" (work/home), 2 PhDs. Where translation and "in-between-ness" have become a way of life. Now with 2 cats & 2 Universities!

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Last Day

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K just left for his last day (more like last morning) at Big Pharma. I don't know how I feel about that. Except for the big paycheck and...
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On Being Back

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We've been back since late on Saturday night (K decided not to take his flight back here and drive with us, I was so relieved!) and alth...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

True Get-Away

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(Feed readers: my apologies for repeated edits) This is just to give you an idea of what we're "getting away" from with this t...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

And Then I Drove All Night Long...

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... and got to Boston, I mean, Cambridge. OK, it wasn't all night long, but almost that. When: Sunday night. Time I left home: 6:30 pm T...
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Friday, July 18, 2008

The Flowers? Nah, Just The Irony of Ironies

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Why, oh why did I have to go and cry about the flowers , of all things? So now I feel that a I am the butt of my own joke. [insert sarcastic...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Gutted

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That's how the small bathroom by the our bedroom has looked for five days now. Today our friends began to work there, but not after a bi...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Back on the Roller-Coaster

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And this time, going down scarily fast... Well, it turns out that less than 24h after my husband thought about that optimistic alternative ...
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Test Cleaning!

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For some reason I really do enjoy cleaning the house, although the inertia to get started gets the better of me and I only do it in spurts. ...
Monday, July 14, 2008

Celebrating Birthday and Graduation -- Photos Galore!

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Last Saturday night we threw a party to celebrate my birthday and also my graduation, since I had not been able to do that earlier because w...
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Sunday, July 13, 2008

This Made My Day, I Mean, Night

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I heart parodies, and I'm actually very good at writing them. I used to do it all the time with two of my best girl friends (who happen ...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008

We Have Other Alternatives!

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I am thrilled to report that we are thinking of other alternatives to selling the house. The main one would be refinancing it so we can lowe...
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Unexpected Birthday Present

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No, it was not the camera that K gave me (which did surprise me and we really need one because ours died)... It was my third nephew, who get...
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Monday, July 07, 2008

Birthday Wishes

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We're at my brother-in-law's house, so this will be a quick post. We drove here late on Saturday night and the boys are having a won...
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Friday, July 04, 2008

Enter -- Red Spotted Rash -- What a Virus!!!

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It looks like this is becoming a disease related blog, isn't it, with some house-related angst thrown in for good measure ;-) . Anyway,...
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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Benign Acute Myositis

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Have you ever heard of the condition above? Well, I never had either, until today. Kelvin woke up this morning and told us that he could not...
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Why Can't I Stop Thinking About the Flowers?

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And crying? It's the little, seemingly superfluous things that bring me into a dark place. As for the flowers, well, I know why they bea...
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Sent

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Continuing the subject of the previous post , my husband just sent his letter of resignation by email. That's all I'm going to say a...
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REALLY Big Decisions and Changes

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The previous post about " attitude change " was meant as an introduction to this one, so if you haven't read it, read it first...
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Becoming Jane

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Ah... I really missed continuing to write about the Jane Austen adaptations (I ended up not watching the last two because of the dissertatio...
Monday, June 30, 2008

A Change in Attitude

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You already know that I am a big whiner. And our past troubles haven't helped much with that -- have they? Take typical posts like this ...
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I'm a Brazilian immigrant (used to say expatriate, have problems with this word now), living in the U.S. since 1996 with my husband and two sons (born in March 2002 and May 2004). I'm a mother, first and foremost, -- mamãe in my mother-tongue, hence the (e) of the blog title -- but after "ten years and two sons" I finally finished my Ph.D. in literature in 2008. After six years away from teaching (including a year home/cyber schooling my sons - 2009-10), I'm finally back in higher-education. I've been blogging here for eleven years, so welcome to my site and feel free to stay for a while and look around. Our lives are a roller coaster, never lacking in ups and downs! ;-)
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