I discovered something new about where I live at the weekend. The nearby drugmart doesn't sell bagels. I'd always assumed that they would, but when I tested that theory I found it lacking. Living in a small place, there wasn't anywhere I could continue on to and so I ended up at my boyfriend's apartment ...
Mid- way through June, I paused, and wondered - why was I focusing on little things during a month of big things? I hope that end-of-May-Cate realized that this was something that June-Cate would need to stay sane. This month's focus gave me permission to make time for small, unimportant (but important to me), things ...
I'm a little... tired and uninspired lately. Not at work - but at not-work. Once home, I'm not driven to write, or code, or read that stack of papers. I'm actually reading novels. I've been beating myself up for procrastination. Wondering, how do you tell the difference between being a little burnt out and needing ...
Arriving, stressed, on a Monday morning the other week I decided to shut the mail tab on my browser, with no intention of opening it again. This impromptu panic started a new thing - I'm checking (work) email at most once a day, if I have a meeting. No meeting days - usually one a week ...
When I started work, I set myself a simple rule - one that I'd less deliberately followed last summer. At the end of the day, leave work computer at work. Do not put work email on phone. It works. I enjoy my evenings and weekends. I wake up excited to go to the office. I have ...
Women, especially, seem to talk about work-life-balance - and it's synonym, work-life-integration (a la IBM) a lot. But what does it mean? The cop out, d'uh, answer is, different things to everyone. I've come to think that what it means is that the pieces that make up your life (work, family, friends, exercise, hobbies, etc etc) have ...
Back in March, I had a really terrible week. My paper got rejected and I realized I wasn't going to be able to finish this semester, and the following day, my boyfriend and I broke up. It's not uncommon for a paper to be rejected, however, frustratingly, the comments I got were mostly aspects of it ...
Several months ago, I met someone who had been reading my blog. We had a chat, but from some things that she said I got the impression that my blog made me seem a bit too much like super-woman. I'm not, as you may have noticed, because since then I've tried to temper my writing ...
My life has been out of balance for as long as I can clearly remember. And I know, the most successful women embrace that imbalance but my feeling is that mine has been too far out of balance, or perhaps just too imbalanced in the wrong way. Last semester, I was in so much pain from ...
On Wednesday, uOttawa WISE had the latest talks in our Inspiring Women series. As has happened every time so far, I think this is the best yet. How do we top it in February? (OK I have a sneak preview of what will be happening in February, and that's going to be awesome too). Our speakers ...
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