Funny business, a woman's career - the things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. That's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted. -- Bette Davis in "All About Eve"

Take a minute. Envision a high-powered CEO running a Fortune 500 company...

Summer has now completely fled by and I am stunned trying to determine to where it's disappeared. I had anticipated being quite busy this break, but not this busy -- though the majority of that is due to very unexpected events happening in my life, both good or bad.

That said, the purpose of this blog post is to state the reasons for my continual disappearances this summer. What began as a break simply littered with numerous travel plans turned into something severely more serious,...

I am a weird person.

Before you laugh and agree, let me explain.

A week ago, I was kind of in a bit of a dump. To be quite honest, this marks the longest I’ve continually and actively participated on the site at this high of a level; it’s now approaching 18.5 months of steady playing and nearly matching that with moderation. Most of that was simply because of circumstances in years previous demanding more of my attention than its true fair share; some of that was...

Gah. I've been in the dumps before (spent a week this summer just completely, physically unable to write) but this is just bad. It's been weeks since I last wrote a post where I knew it hit the mark. Lately it's just been rote and boring and terribad and not directed at all.

Thought I hit my stride again the other day, but showed the post to a friend and got the review of, "You sick or something? Not really your usual." Ugh. Guess I'm not back in on the pace yet. ...

I must confess, I gave in to temptation.

The last month has been a series of stress after stress for a variety of reasons in my personal life, my work life, my after-personal life, my after-work life, and literally just everything. When staring a rather busy weekend and 200+ exams to grade somewhere in between all of what I needed to do, I gave in and did precisely what I had sworn I never would -- I posted my depression through...