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!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

My Favorite Thing About NaPloPoMo...

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... is having posts to read on the weekends!! Oh, how I enjoy that! Often people write in their blogs the most during the week when I'm ...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Five Glorious Years!!

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(laughing) Right... five years of blogging. It's been wonderful, though, it truly has. I haven't really made a "mark" in ...
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Friday, November 13, 2009

I Can't Believe It!

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1. I can hardly believe it, but I've had not one, but three or four Christmas cards ready (designed and saved at the photo site) for a w...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Whoa! Over 900 Posts!! (This is the 902nd)

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I forgot to check this earlier so I could commemorate the event properly (I hope I remember to do it for the thousandth post), but it looks ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Tired...

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This cyber schooling thing is tiresome. I do enjoy it (apart from having to nag my firstborn a lot), but it's still exhausting and all-c...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The Ph.D. Problem (as if there was only one...)

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When I read Laura 's well written and creatively titled post (which it departs from two smart "metaphors" before introducing ...
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The Sweet & Long Awaited Blogger Meet Up

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The sweet part first, if you're wondering what it's about: Now that you're there drooling over those most amazingly delicious an...
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This Just In

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Remember the " life changing possibilities "? Well, last night we found out via email that the concurso (competition for a tenure ...
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Monday, November 09, 2009

The "Window Smile" Boy

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So, this was the second biggest event of the weekend in Montreal (the first will be the subject of the next post) and it happened on Saturda...
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Sunday, November 08, 2009

8 Hours in a Car

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That's what we'll be doing for the next 8+ hours, driving down home from Montreal... Sigh So that's all I can post today, or els...
Saturday, November 07, 2009

In Precisely a Month...

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... the boys and I will be inside a jet plane flying to Brazil. I'm glad we're going, but kind of sad that we'll spend so much t...
Friday, November 06, 2009

Cute Netbook

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I'm blogging from the cutest sleek white netbook and it's not that bad to type in its tiny keyboard after all! It's my husband...
Thursday, November 05, 2009

Ready to Move On

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Late last night, when I was coming and going to partially fulfill my monthly (sometimes bimonthly) janitorial duties at our church* I though...
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Invented

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Just heard from my five-year-old: Mommy, you're the bestest mommy that you invented. Yeah, just as I was thinking that reinventing mysel...
Tuesday, November 03, 2009

The Existentialist

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This afternoon my seven year old suddenly turned to me (at Target, of all places) and said: I'm so glad that I exist! Can you imagine ho...
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Monday, November 02, 2009

Application Marathon (and a gratuitous sad reflective moment about academia)

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I've been falling asleep with my sons several nights lately (which justifies being late half an hour for this daily posting) because K ...
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Sunday, November 01, 2009

NaBloPoMo -- Here We Go Again!!

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My third year of " National Blog Posting Month " is starting today and I'm excited! I really enjoy writing every day and I hav...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Soaking in the Fall

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I've never seen a wettest fall... and a warmer one it's hard to come by as well. I'm not complaining -- I can take the rain, the...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Someday I'll Want a Kindle/ Questions for Users + Possible Academic/Teaching Use

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I just found out that I really want a Kindle, or "will want" as I say in the title. I'll have to wait quite a while, though......
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The Cat, The Car, The... Can this please stop?

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So our cat had been vomiting for three days and after worrying about him quite a bit, yesterday evening I just went and took him to the vet....
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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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