i should be working

my brain has gone on a second lunch break, so i'm going to blog for a few minutes and wait for it to return. today i'm trying to nail-down my research area. obviously it's going to be work and family...um, but that's just a bit broad. i initially started with multiple-job holders and family, but it's shifted. i think i'm going to look at how mothers and fathers experience the intersection of work and family differently. this has been done to death, but we'll see what i can add to that area...idk. maybe how the strategies of negotiating the intersection differs according to sex? i'd love to compare heterosexual couples to homosexual couples, but (surprisingly) there aren't a lot of the latter in our sample.

i've actually been wracking my brain since thursday to come up with something. i need to relax and just write and then look for the holes in the literature. it hasn't helped that i've lost my motivation since coming back from home. on top of all this, i haven't been as successful scheduling spousal interviews which leaves me with half of a family's story. sigh.

i guess this is all to say that i am feeling a little discouraged by research right now.

in other news, i went to a club in springfield this weekend. okay, guys: why do you feel the need to rub against girls while they're dancing, PARTICULARLY when they are giving you the "i don't want you all over me" cues? are you just dense or is another anatomical part in control? either way, take the cues or i might start taking kick-boxing lessons to ensure you get the cues. i'm all for dirty-dancing - it's whatever - but not with someone i have no interest in whatsoever. i also got "goosed" as some asshole was walking outside the club. loser.

church was good sunday. in conjunction with going through the sermon on the mount every week (a different guy has taught each week), they've been doing communion every week. at first i thought i'd just get used to it and it would lose its significance, but it's really been helping me to examine where i am that week and where i need to be. it's been amazing.

i'm planning to work a lot this week in the office because the pioneer valley is supposed to experience a heat wave for the next few days, with a heat index of 100+. as previously mentioned (twice actually) , i do not have a/c. therefore, i will live in my office, starbucks, woodstar, and anywhere else where there is good a/c and/or food.

okay, back to work for me.