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Monday, June 20, 2011
Does Anyone Care about Your Work-Life Balance?
Based on my experience, the answer is -- no. No one but you (and hopefully your significant other) cares about your work-life balance.
There is never a scarcity of conversation about work-life balance in the blogosphere, especially for working mothers. There is no shortage of opinion regarding whether it is ethical enough or feminist enough for highly educated women to work part time or drop careers altogether -- people believe that educated women owe it to the society or other women or future generations of boys and girls to keep working; other people believe that women owe nothing to anyone except themselves and their families, and are perfectly within their rights to SAHM their kids and thereby find fulfillment. Whatever your take is on these issues, this post is NOT about them.
I am fairly exhausted by the recent flurry of blogosphere activity on work-life balance that was sparked by a New York Times article written by Dr Karen Sibert. Several bloggers I know have taken a stab at the article (Historiann, Isis, Cloud, and others), and it seems that Dr S does not have many supporters for her "suck it up and keep working full time, you owe it to the patients/society" message. Instead, there is an overwhelming outrage at the thought that doctors should sacrifice personal life for the profession and there are numerous calls for making work hours more humane and general practice more appealing, so the shortage of primary care doctors would not be blamed on female doctors who work part-time.
One reason for my exhaustion (besides obviously reading too many comments on too many blogs) is the fact that all these calls for balance are, when you think of it and with all due respect, painfully redundant, futile, and ultimately irrelevant. All the well-meaning commenters are preaching to the choir; in reality, the whopping 12 weeks of unpaid maternity leave and nonexistent tax-breaks for exorbitant childcare expenses are all you need to know about how much this society really values working mothers. In societies where working parents are considered worthwhile humans and workers, there are accommodations for work-life balance, especially parents caring for small children. Here, it's not the case, and we can all blog our hearts out, it means nothing.
In my experience, the only people who seem to be concerned (or at least say that they are) with anyone's work-life balance but their own can be found in the blogosphere. Certainly no one with whom I am in regular contact in real life gives a rat's ass about my work-life balance: whether I have any, whether I would like to have a different one, whether I face any hardship in achieving any semblance thereof. Everyone in this glorious society is too busy, and presumably too exhausted and overstretched, to think about anyone but themselves.
I am in a medium-size department (~40 faculty) in a discipline that is considered extremely macho. In my department, there are 5 women faculty. Of the 5 women, 4 are tenured: two women are senior to me (full profs), one is roughly my contemporary (we are both associate profs), and one is a few years junior, up for tenure soon (assistant prof). All the women are married. The two full professor women had kids after they had received tenure. I came to the TT with one kid in tow, and I had another one midway through the tenure track. The other two women are childfree.
I remain the only female faculty who has ever had a kid on the tenure track.
I remember mentioning this fact in the presence of the assistant professor woman; there were other people around. She rushed to point out that a male colleague of ours (who has a stay-at-home wife), also had a kid (also No 2 for him) on the tenure track. While new fathers do suffer some sleep deprivation in the baby's first year, it is NOT the same as for a new mother, especially one who breastfeeds. This male colleague had no problem working 12-hour days starting the week his kid was born (perhaps hiding from the baby at work?) I was a complete zombie for many months after birth, definitely not 100% -- physically or mentally. What truly pissed me off was that the first reaction of my female colleague (who btw says she wants to have kids, but is waiting for tenure) was to trivialize my experience. I didn't want to continue the conversation and regurgitate the tired (but true) spiel of how women have it harder than men when the child is born -- whoever does not see that does not want to see it. But I remember this situation as one of many in which I have found the female camaraderie to be completely nonexistent.
My collaborators are overwhelmingly male (95% of them). A number of them are close to my age, having 2 or 3 kids. They all have stay-at-home wives, or wives working only part-time (e.g. giving a few piano lessons per week). My husband works full time.
Over the years, the subject of work-life balance came up a few times with my male collaborators, and after a few sentences I see they no longer want to talk about it. They consider my job and my obligations to be exactly like those they have and when there emerges a hint that they may not exactly be the same, I suppose they want to avoid yet another crazy woman rant/vent/whine-a-palooza and rush to change the subject.
I wish that I could tell my male colleagues that, in addition to all the work at the actual job that I have to do, which is the same as theirs, I am still mommy and do all the non-negotiable-mommy duties that their wives do and a significant load of chores. I don't know how much my male colleagues with stay-at-home or part-time working wives do at home in terms of chores, but I imagine they probably don't do more than my husband who also works full time: my husband mows the lawn/takes care of the yard in the summer and cleans the snow in the winter; he took over a lion's share of vacuuming/cleaning clutter and laundry about a year or two ago, when I simply gave up. He also takes our older son swimming twice a week and packs his lunch. I am the primary breadwinner in the family. I also do 100% of the cooking, washing dishes, and grocery shopping. I also do nearly 100% of playdate organization, immunizations, summer camp tracking, any forms that need to be filled, and communication with the daycare/schools or other parents. I do a vast majority of childcare, especially sick-child care: 90% of the time if someone has to stay at home from work for a sick kid or take him to a doctor it's me because I don't have a boss. I do 100% of middle-of-the night calls for a drink of water, needing to pee, vomiting, or getting another dose of ibuprofen for a feverish kid. Also, I am always on the poopy-underwear and cleaning-the-potty duty because I tolerate bodily excrements better. Only mommy is allowed to get my younger son ready in the morning or give him a bath and put him to sleep, every single day. And my biggest peeve -- I never get to sleep in on the weekends. :-(
That's what I would like to tell my male colleagues if they cared to hear. However, they likely know all this, but simply don't care. Many times I have had to cancel a meeting when a kid is sick; I do not recall any of my male colleagues with kids having ever done that. I have yet to see any of them, whose kids are of similar ages to mine, cut down on the number of trips or meetings because of their kids; they don't have to, because there is always their wife to pick up the slack. But that doesn't matter -- since I have the same job as them, if I cannot cut it, it's my weakness; I should make it work and not whine about hardship or ask for special consideration. Right?
I know people have their own problems. But this society operates with so much stress and fear about the future placed on everyone's shoulders that, instead of listening to one another and hoping to help, what I overwhelmingly see in real life is that any obstacle that a person overcomes becomes a badge of honor and enables said person to look down on all others with "Look what I had to go through to meet these criteria of excellence. You too have to rise to them or go to hell." I admit I am frequently guilty of this attitude myself. We'd all nominally like more of a balance in our own lives, but don't wish for others to have a balance, because then they may drop more work in our lap. This is what I hear or read way too often in regards to maternity leave from both men and women who are childfree or have kids but also stay-at-home spouses: us breeding women should be removed from the workforce because we are such a burden on everyone else when we take a leave to have kids. It is oh so very very unfair that all the righteous workers who don't harbor uterine squatters end up picking up the slack after our lazy postpartum asses.
It's been a while since I stopped discussing work-life balance with most colleagues in real life. And I have stopped justifying why I am missing meetings or trips. But then my current pregnancy became obvious. As my belly grows, my perceived IQ and competence drop -- I become ever less a scientist, and ever more a lower being: just another procreating woman. Who apparently dumps work on others.
So, yes, while it's nice to read all these calls for work-life balance on the internet, when it comes to real life, I fear most of us only care that we ourselves get the balance. If balance for all means sometimes shouldering a bit more because someone else temporarily cannot, and especially if they cannot because of personal choices that we ourselves would not make, then the concept of balance becomes unacceptable; instead, rigid rules must be followed and complete sacrifice at the altar of work is expected. What I see in real life is nothing more than every man and woman for themselves. Until that changes, we're all screwed. But I am totally not holding my breath for it to change in my lifetime. I'd sooner expect to see a real live unicorn.
26 comments:
I can completely relate to most of the two-parents-working-problems you describe above. Me and my wife also work both full time while have two small children. There's however one aspect that you seem to forget: For example you write that you had to call off meetings several times because of sick kids (while complaining that you are the one who has to take care of sick kids 90% of the time). Do you have any idea what the reaction is if you (as a man) call in at work saying that you will not be able to make it today since you have to stay at home with your sick child? That is career suicide! (and an efficient way not to have your contract extended). One of the reasons that my wife (like you) is reducing her work-related duties more often than I am is simply because it seems to be professionally accepted that women do this while men still can't (and believe me, I'd like to help out more)!
- June 20, 2011 at 3:13 AM
- prodigal academic said...
I totally hear you, GMP. And that is (mostly) my experience as well--no one outside of my family cares about my work-life balance (or my spouse's for that matter). It is like anything else personal--I find that no one else cares about your career either.
I find this to be more of a generational thing than a gendered thing. I am really lucky that my current department skews young for our field, so I have many colleagues (tenured and untenured) close to me in age. Most of us are in 2 career couples, and about half have young kids. Most of the men are pretty involved parents too. So while I don't get any special breaks or anything, I am also not the only one unavailable from 5 to 8 pm without prior arrangement or who cancels things due to family obligations. It really helps to feel like I am not living on the Mommy Planet by myself.
This makes a huge difference from my previous workplace, and is one of the things I noticed and liked at my interview here. I suspect this is the only thing that will EVER force change (men and women who work to change their own work conditions to improve balance), but boy is it a slow process. And I really admire the people who joined the department 10ish years ago at the beginning of this hiring wave, swimming upstream against the Dr. Sibert culture to produce the (somewhat) more accommodating one we have now.
- June 20, 2011 at 5:32 AM
Hi GMP. I agree that there is very little to be gained by going on and on about work-life balance. Like you I am the major breadwinner, and have had two maternity leaves during the equivalent of tenure track (Admittedly we get 26 weeks paid over here so there is a small additional value attached to being a mum - we can now share this value with fathers too so that if Mum want's to go back to work but daddy wants to stay home, he can get the parental leave transferred to him. How many people take up this option based on your discussion of the impact of breastfeeding etc etc remains to be seen but it's technically possible).
Where was I... oh yes, I am the major breadwinner even though I work 80% time. Since I work 80% time I also do all the laundry and a lot of the home logistics (that 20% was supposed to be for giving my children quality mummy time but it doesn't really work like that). However, we are looking at a big change next year when son number 1 goes to school and we need to cover the additional hours at home. I was prepared (but relictant) to drop my hours down to 65% to deal with this, whilst husband remains at 100% despite the fact that economically it makes more sense for me to stay full time. Two colleagues (married to each other) then introduced me to the concept of Equally Shared Parenting and I now see that by both dropping some time and by staggering our hours perhaps we can share things a bit more evenly. This will only work if we can persuade my husbands employer to be flexible - mine seem very happy for me to be being paid at 80% (and so they should be as I reckon they actually get 90%...) - but we're going to give it a go.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that talking about work-life balance is only pointless if talk is all you do (and that's all I've done for a long time). Like prodigal acamdemic says the recent support of other young-ish colleagues has allowed me to start thinking differently and I'm hoping our dept is starting a journey towards a better place. It's really hard without that support - maybe that's why there is so much stuff on the blogosphere as people search for it - but it's only support in the real world that is actually useful.
- June 20, 2011 at 7:22 AM
1. You do explain that you weren't 100% for work. And then you complain that people around you see you as less than 100%. Not sure where is the contradiction.
2. Your whatever balance is mainly defined by your choices. Unlike those Afghan women, you chose if and when to have children, what job you have, what husband to marry and how much of the chores to share with him. Unlike those Chinese workers, to whom you (and your new home country) owe huge amounts of money, you chose to have a sabbatical. Your only limitation truly is time, as you afford food and primary education for your children, and everything else is a bonus. (In my birth country, which might be yours too, judging by the Latin in high school story, I never had the option of swimming classes.) The week only has 168 hours, of which you must sleep about 50, commute 5, shower 1 etc. There is a limited way to divide the rest between childcare and work, and that's there, everywhere in the world.
3. True, in some European countries, people give up work altogether to care for children, and the government still gives them 1000 euros a month, but these are desperate places, where people need to be coaxed into reproduction. United States doesn't have that problem. You didn't have that promise. Those Europeans will soon run out of money.
- June 20, 2011 at 7:39 AM
- Dr. Sneetch said...
So true GMP so true. This gets to the heart of the matter.
Also as anonymous notes (who for a moment I thought was my spouse writing in but I have no plans to reduce my work) it is hard for men to call in and say they have sick kids. I'll add that there is a cost to a woman when she does it. It may be more acceptable, but there's a price she is paying -- lower salaries, longer road to tenure etc.
- June 20, 2011 at 8:14 AM
- nicoleandmaggie said...
I'm in a university in a small town in the middle of nowhere and a great spousal hiring program. Almost all of the female professors, of which there are more than average for an R1 (especially among younger hires), even in male-dominated fields, are married to other professors. I would guess across the university that maybe a quarter of the male professors are married to female professors, though that will vary a lot by department.
Women are expected to have babies before tenure. Husbands are expected to do daycare pickup or drop-off and sick duty. My husband and I have managed alternating teaching days so that one of us will be available in case of child sickness.
As time goes on, we see more and more dads out running errands with their kids, and not just on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
I'm not saying we live in paradise (it is a small town in a very red state), just offering a snapshot that some areas do seem to have more reasonable expectations about division of labor, even in a university town. Even at an R1. I'm not sure if the different demographic profile (lots of married women professors) is responsible for that, but that would be my guess.
On another note, you've been talking a lot recently about how unhappy you are with the amount of chores you do compared to your husband. You're obviously very unhappy and stressed about the state of things on this dimension. What can you do to ameliorate those problems? Giving up caused him to step up on the laundry front, what else can you give up on? Can you change your budget around to afford a personal assistant or cleaning person? I know, from previous experience on mother's forums, I shouldn't be asking but I was good and didn't ask the first few times. I just could not stand to live like that.
- June 20, 2011 at 8:52 AM
Who knows the motivations of your jr colleague, but I actually like it when people mention that my tenure-track buddy has had FIVE kids pre-tenure, even though he's a guy and it is different for them. He brings in kids often and is successful in research. Then people here must admit that the model for success need not be 100% work/0% family.
Now to do something about our whimsical, ad-hoc parental leave so there's less uncertainty for the next folks. Cripes, at least we should have a department policy that's written down somewhere.
- June 20, 2011 at 9:11 AM
- Clarissa said...
"The whopping 12 weeks of unpaid maternity leave and nonexistent tax-breaks for exorbitant childcare expenses are all you need to know about how much this society really values working mothers"
-That's exactly it. What else can anybody say on the subject after this? Barbarity is my name for this attitude towards motherhood.
- June 20, 2011 at 9:30 AM
- Alethea said...
Yeah, I'm beginning to think there's no such thing as work life balance, only juggling! I'm a little optimistic about change though, because I see more fathers wanting to engage in family and home-related stuff, and it's become (slooooowly) more acceptable for a dad to take time off, bring kids in, etc. And once the guys are into it, it becomes ok for us too.
I'm only a grad student now, but it's been nice to see how my current lab balances stuff. My PI has his kids in his office after school now and then, doing homework and playing legos. When the post-doc's kid had to stay home from school with a cold, she played in the post-doc office. No one has ever said anything about post-docs or students taking personal time for kids, as long as they're still getting stuff done. We have post-docs in my department (male and female) on a 7-3 schedule, people who work Sunday-Thursday and other unconventional arrangements that help people make life work. I may be in a crazily permissive department, but I'm hoping I can find someplace similarly accommodating when I try to do the postdoc+babies thing.
- June 20, 2011 at 9:48 AM
I had two kids pre-tenure at a R1 university. During my wife's first pregnancy, I asked my department head about paternal leave. He said that the official policy of the university provided none; HOWEVER, he told me that the female professors in the department (which was 50% of the dept.) would kill me if I left my wife home and came back to work any time soon. They re-arranged the teaching loads to give me a semester off. So I would say that the number of women in our department was definitely a driving force in the support of young parents.
- June 20, 2011 at 11:24 AM
You point out two things:
1) Nobody except you will look out for you.
2) The level of work and sacrifice expected in academia is huge.
All of this just reinforces to me that, for good or for ill, the rules for success in academia are identical to those explained by rap group Cypress Hill.
"So you want to be a rock superstar
And live large, big house, five cars
You're in charge!
Coming up in the world
Don't trust nobody
Gotta look over your shoulder constantly."
And later on:
"My own son don't know me
I'm chilling in the hotel room lonely
But I thank God I'm with my homies
But sometimes I wish I was back home."
We pay the same price as rappers, but we don't get the big house and five cars. If we're very, very lucky we get a big lab with five postdocs. What I say is, if I'm going to spend my summer on the road at workshops and visiting and giving seminars, then I want to be able to afford gold chains like rappers on tour.
Or, at the very least, I want a DJ scratching records and a sidekick saying "Yeah! Yeah!" as I present my results.
- June 20, 2011 at 11:59 AM
- FrauTech said...
Couldn't let this slip by. Anonymous says:
"1. You do explain that you weren't 100% for work. And then you complain that people around you see you as less than 100%. Not sure where is the contradiction."
I am curious what 100% "for work" means. Many of the engineers I work with have kids at home. Maybe some of the fathers even know their names. I'm just kidding. But what you DO hear about here are personal hobbies. The guys work on cars or play sports or whatever. Presumably us ladies also have hobbies outside of work. The difference is, when a dude takes a day off to fix his car that is an awesome manly hobby. When a woman takes an hour off to tend to a sick kid, she is suddenly not serious about work. A man's children/hobbies/alcoholism do not make him any less "serious" about work. Versus a woman is probably never serious because she is a woman, but if she has kids by the laws of patrimathematics she apparently can't be serious at all.
Also to the guys who are saying they "can't" cut back to part time or whatever, you know what? Suck it up. Women have been going into careers now for decades where we are not always taken as seriously as the men just because we have lady bits. I'm very proud of the guys where I work who were unafraid and unapologetic about taking off paternity leave, leaving work every now and then to be a part of their kids' lives, and talking about their kids with other parents rather than treating parenthood as a disease we don't discuss in the workplace. There are women pioneers for many things and men can be pioneers for parenting. Is it easy? No. Will you take flack? Probably. Deal with it.
- June 20, 2011 at 12:42 PM
- PQA said...
You sound exhausted, fighting to be recognized and valued is tiring, the beautiful thing about community is that no one person has to be/do everything all the time. So rest up, take care of yourself and your little corner of the world, and let some of us younger folks be the agitators for a while. If I finally do find a unicorn, I will let you know.
- June 20, 2011 at 12:46 PM
- FrauTech said...
Also for my own venting's sake I am the planner in my household. I arrange all our social activities, plan dinner, do the grocery lists, etc. We don't have kids and don't plan to by choice. I can not even imagine this relationship with children present. I'd like to think my husband is pretty pro-feminism on many things and yet I'm the one still cooking dinner every night (we started paying somebody to clean the house so that didn't have to be part of the weekly argument). When I was going to school while working full time I still did the majority of these tasks and when I finished school the implicit assumption was that I "pick up the slack" on these tasks. Maybe I am a bad feminist in that I choose not to fight at home about this. I feel like I have enough to fight about that I don't really care about the cooking and planning.
It's ironic because I now too am the breadwinner. And we're trying to get to a point where he can quit work and go back to schol while I support him. I am totally cool with this if it is what he wanted (I mostly hated school and chose to keep working to keep myself sane, plus we could not have afforded one income living then). So I wonder what my male colleagues really think goes on in my personal life. Do they realize that I, too, do the majority of the household tasks just like their wives undoubtedly do? Do I mention that I'd like to support him while he goes back to school because that makes me more like them, the macho breadwinner stereotype. Or do I not mention it because it's bucking the stereotype for him and they will see him as weak and me as an evil harpy shrew? I feel like there's no winning. Thankfully the men I work with just know all this stuff "gets done" for them while they bring home the money. I suspect they think my husband still earns more than me, and so therefore I make plenty in this alpha-male career role. There's no winning and I wish I had more friends and support who were okay with me being a career-focused female and my husband wanting to drop out of the workforce for a few years to pursue a goal. If our genders were reversed no one would blink an eye.
- June 20, 2011 at 12:51 PM
- Dr. O said...
I've had quite a difference experience so far, in that many people I've worked with care about work-life balance, and even (*gasp*) talk about it. I'm not sure what the difference is, but I also notice that many people I know are much more open about their personal lives than what you indicate for yourself. It's not that we share everything about our lives, but the topic of family, activities away from work, vacations, etc. definitely comes up. I've even heard of people on TT interviews being asked about how they balance their time at/away from work.
I think talking about it is also a good thing. Maybe it feels like it's mostly isolated to the blogosphere in some fields, but I think the more we uncover the fact that scientists have lives, the more the discussion might start to have a positive impact on policy. Pie in the sky, maybe, but I don't see how having the conversation hurts.
- June 20, 2011 at 2:52 PM
- Dr. Sneetch said...
Good analogy by Alex. I want the sidekick and DJ and gold chains too.
- June 20, 2011 at 6:05 PM
SCIENCE BLING IN DA HOUSE!!! I be the opening act at ALL yall's departments! Science tour coming to yo city soon, be knockin' out da mad science beats for my peeps. Peace! Out!
- June 20, 2011 at 6:19 PM
Dr O: I think it may be field dependent. I am (now) a biologist but was a physical scientist in my past life. The department I am in now is decent about work life balance, but one bio dept and one physical science dept I used to work in were very macho and annoying. My guess is that it has to do with the male/female balance (and you can guess which one is which..). Interestingly, my current dept is also the most productive one I have worked in...
- June 20, 2011 at 6:57 PM
i enjoyed reading your post, GMP although it is incredibly depressing. It resonates with me and the experiences I have had so far and I am an NTT without children. As my husband and I discuss when to have kids, it seems there is never a good time wrt my career (and his although it is implicit that I will take on 100% of childcare duties).
I am in a small dept but the only female prof, and my colleagues have/ had spouses who stay at home with the children. that cannot happen for us (and i dont want it!) but the idea of adding even more to what I have now seems impossible.
I agree, the system is broken, no one really gives a sh!t about work-life balance.
- June 20, 2011 at 9:34 PM
- Gears said...
I'm not sure how this is going to make you feel better but there are male scientists/engineers/academics out there that do appreciate the work life balance. Since I'm in academia and my wife is at a company, I expect I will have to do the emergency pick ups, dr's appointments, etc because I have a lot more flexibility being in academia. We also split cooking and cleaning duties 50%ish (depending on travel and whatnot). And since I've arrived at SnowU, I've been open and honest with my colleagues about daycare pickup and raising my daughter. Hopefully, when we bring new people on, both male and female, that can help set the tone for a work-life balance.
I do have a bone to pick though.
"The whopping 12 weeks of unpaid maternity leave and nonexistent tax-breaks for exorbitant childcare expenses are all you need to know about how much this society really values working mothers".
You'll get no argument from me about the maternity leave. And some expensive things like breast pumps should be tax deductible. But I don't think fundamentally think you should get a tax break because you had a kid. I'd rather see that money for those tax breaks go into sex education and explaining to young people how expensive raising kids can be.
- June 21, 2011 at 7:28 AM
- GMP said...
Thanks for all the awesome comments, folks!
I agree, in dual-career couples the men who want to be involved with their families have as hard of a time balancing their obligations as women, and there is often more of a stigma with openly admitting you as a man are a devoted/involved parent. And in couples where one is an academic and the other isn't, I agree that it's often the academic who takes emergency leaves. But I also think it's a generational thing -- it looks like younger men in dual-career couples are more involved in childrearing.
Gears, regarding tax breaks for childcare. If the government wanted to support dual-career couples, one way to do it would be to offer tax breaks for childcare. Another way would be subsidies (they exist for the poor); there are childcare subsidies for everyone throughout western Europe (Sweden and Germany are good examples, also ample parental leave) because the society expects that both parents work. Raising kids is a benefit to society, it's not just an expense like having a luxury car. I will be paying over $30 K in childcare this coming year for having 2 kids in daycare (and it's not even as expensive as it can get) after taxes, that's a huge amount of money, like another mortgage. And it's not like I am buying luxury items with this money. I don't understand why it's OK to incentivize owning a house -- you get a tax break in the amount of interest on your mortgage, so you are de facto encouraged to grease the banking system -- yet it is not OK to incentivize both spouses' continued engagement in the workforce?
Loved Alex's science rapper metaphor! :) I think we need a picture of a scientist with some gold chains and losing his ultralow-rise pants while giving a research talk.
- June 21, 2011 at 1:36 PM
I think we need a picture of a scientist with some gold chains and losing his ultralow-rise pants while giving a research talk.
I nominate PhysioProf to pose for that picture.
- June 22, 2011 at 3:13 PM
- FrauTech said...
I have to agree with GEARS. I'm not a huge fan of the tax breaks for pro-creating (where's my tax break for not adding a strain on society?) True I'm not creating little ones to pay for social security, but I AM paying property and education taxes that I'll never have children to use. Plus soc security will likely be gone when I am of age anyways.
I think the mortgage interest tax deduction is equally bunk. Tax breaks should be used as an incentive for things we as a society want to encourage. Tax breaks for employers who have or subsidize childcare would be a better way I think. Not to mention tax breaks for hiring and increasing workforce rather than sending jobs overseas...but that's a whole 'nother story.
- June 22, 2011 at 4:50 PM
- GMP said...
Tax breaks should be used as an incentive for things we as a society want to encourage.
I absolutely agree with this statement. And it is clear that this society does not want to encourage dual career couples with children to remain engaged in the workforce (or dual career couples to procreate). My colleague from a university in Munich, upon hearing that I am having another kid, said "You should move here, we're dying out." Apparently, we need to start dying out like Germany for parents to start to register on the legislature's radar.
Even if I didn't have any kids, I think I would still be able to appreciate that as a society we need most people to decide to have kids. Do you really feel kids are nothing but strain on society, that people who procreate are all just hurting the society?
As for the tax breaks or subsidies -- my kids will contribute to social security for everyone, not just me. While I am hemorrhaging money on diapers and daycare and school supplies and college (that's hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of one kid's upbringing), a person with no kids can put all that money away for retirement (or exotic trips or whatever they choose). If the social security really goes bust, I may be screwed because I invested in kids instead of retirement, whereas someone without kids has the potential to be in a much better financial shape. I really don't think people with kids end up screwing people without kids financially in any scenario, no matter how you slice it. Kids cost a ton of money to raise and benefit the society at large, so I really don't see why people without kids would be so opposed to people with kids getting some sort of a financial break.
- June 22, 2011 at 7:36 PM
Well written article and so sad that this truly is the state we are in today. Please don't ever stop talking about work life balance because "self care is not about self-indulgence, it is about self-preservation" (Audre Lord). You need a break..whatever that looks like for you. I highly recommend this site for tips/inspiration for reclaiming some balance: www.reneetrudeau.com
- June 29, 2011 at 8:58 PM
- og said...
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A strong, athletic and physically-imposing defensive standout who has the capability to make a significant impact on the Pirates' front seven, but has been limited to playing just 13 career games (one start) over the last three seasons due to injuries ... Hopes to bounce from a back from limited roles in both 2011 and 2012, and an injury-shortened, but productive campaign in 2010 ... Did not participate in spring drills while rehabilitating a right knee injury suffered early during the 2012 campaign, but could be cleared prior to preseason camp ... If full return is realized, will compete as a two-deep member at the field end position ... Stands as one of the strongest members of the program, with a top-ranked bench press of 490 pounds ... Also recorded lifts of 750 (back squat), 363 (power clean) and 385 (push jerk), and owns jumps of 32.5" (vertical) and 112" (broad) ... Enrolled at ECU in the fall of 2009, but was not on the roster and did not participate during spring practice period because of eligibility requirements ... Originally signed a national letter-of-intent with North Carolina Feb. 4, 2009 but never enrolled in classes at Chapel Hill.
2012: Appeared in just two games before suffering right knee injury at South Carolina (Sept. 8) ... Opened season at defensive end against Appalachian State, recording a pair of tackles on running plays ... Followed with another two-tackle performance against Gamecocks before leaving the game with the a season-ending injury ... Earned preseason All-Conference USA honors by CollegeSportsMadness.com (third-team).
2011: Returned to full strength following 2010 injury and experienced action in seven games ... Made year's lone start, and first of career, against UAB ... Did not play versus North Carolina, Houston, Memphis, Navy or Marshall due to coaches' decisions ... Wrapped up the campaign with nine hits (one solo), 1.5 sacks and 1.5 tackles for lost yardage ... Five of year's nine stops were on running plays ... Tallied a pair of special teams' tackles, both on kickoff returns ... Also recorded a pass breakup, in the season opener against South Carolina ... Credited with an assist on the opening kickoff of the UCF contest, bringing down Rannell Hall following a 27-yard return ... Lone tackle at UTEP was first solo hit and sack of the year, an 11-yard drop of Carson Meger in the second quarter ... Credited with an assist on Tulane's final kickoff return of the contest, a 23-yard runback by Robert Kelley ... Booked season's first sack against UAB, combining with Chris Baker to drop Jonathan Perry for a one-yard loss in the fourth quarter ... Stopped Virginia Tech quarterback Logan Thomas after an eight-yard rush in the opening frame ... Tallied a season-best three tackles against South Carolina, booking two and a pass breakup in the first half ... 36.8 percent of career tackles are hits for lost yardage ... Missed spring drills because of a season-ending injury a year earlier.
2010: An impact player on the defensive line whose season was limited to first four games of the year due to left knee injury ... Booked 10 tackles (five solo) before leaving the North Carolina contest on Oct. 2 due to aforementioned injury ... Started fall camp as a linebacker but made the transition forward to defensive end ... Prior to injury, was tied for team lead with two quarterback hurries and topped squad with 5.5 tackles for lost yardage (-39 yards) and 3.0 sacks (-27 yards) ... Stood seventh in Conference USA, and 42nd at the FBS level, in sacks and eighth in tackles for loss before being shelved for the season ... Lone Pirate who booked at least one TFL in the first four games of the season ... During ECU debut versus Tulsa, tallied season-best five stops with two tackles for lost yardage (-14 yards) and one sack (nine yards) ... During a span of five Golden Hurricane plays from the end of the first quarter to the start of the second, collected a sack, a solo tackle and an assist ... Lone hit at Virginia Tech was a five-yard sack of Tyrod Taylor in the third quarter ... In final game of the year, sacked T.J. Yates for a 13-yard loss in the second quarter ... Knocked ball away from Memphis quarterback Ryan Williams for first career forced fumble ... Also against the Tigers, contributed 1.5 TFL (seven yards) and three tackles ... Five-of-10 stops came on rushing plays.
2009: Sat out true freshman season in compliance with NCAA eligibility standards.
High School: SuperPrep All-America choice for coach Anthony Barbour at Smithfield-Selma High School ... Rated as the No. 6 player in North Carolina by Rivals.com and the No. 9 player in North Carolina by SuperPrep ... Also considered one of the top 25 players in North Carolina by The Charlotte Observer ... Member of the Rivals 250 and was ranked as the No. 9 inside linebacker nationally Rivals.com ... Member of PrepStar's High School All-America Team and recruiting analyst Tom Lemming's All-America team ... Earned a national No. 46 billing (linebacker) by ESPN.com ... In addition to starring role as a linebacker, also experienced action as a running back, defensive end and defensive tackle during prep career ... Rushed for 767 yards and nine touchdowns on 160 carries as a senior, helping Smithfield-Selma advance to the first round of the state playoffs ... Defensively, was credited with 160 tackles and one interception as a junior ... Also added 1,589 rushing yards and 17 touchdowns in 2007 as a junior.
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Looks like some of that has already been done. But is is to late when there are already other more popular pokemon sites.
Do I seem like a random guest?
There's nothing stopping anyone joining more than one forum.
i wonder what loser error404 was
UNFRIENDLINESS AND DRAMA lol
By which he means it varies from reasonable to nonexistent ::)
awesome, its ripdo!
epic ripdo
Eh, maybe, if it'll end up encouraging more people to come. However, it should be new members who get to choose who gets cut. After all, they know who's ruining it for them.
Do people openly complain about members on this site? It isn't a very common thing to do.
We do sometimes. I rarely have anything good to say about Kirbx, for example, although I wouldn't want him axed, since he's one of the people trying to do something.
I wouldn't have axed if he is helping out.
something is bugging me, the amount of activity on this site is low. But I feel like there were or there are other members that should be on.
There definitely were other members, and probably are some. I myself was recently missing (presumed not interested). And of course there may be some members who turn up but don't say anything because they can't think of anything worth saying, of which I have been one occasionally.
I personally don't think PD is nurturing the young'uns enough. Hardly any of the newbies have been given good rep, and most of them are chased off the site by certain older members before being given a chance to prove themselves. Most of them are annoying, but most of the old members here were annoying to begin with (at least, that's what I keep hearing).
We don't run off new people.
The only people who've ever been "exiled" from PD have typically been long-time members. Or crazy mods.
rival 173 is aweful
too aweful there are newbs...and then there are noobs... and then there are n00bs
But how do you know he won't get better? It's a little early to be judging him, right? I wouldn't have lasted a week if that was the case.
no one good is ever THAT aweful
I wasn't even that bad and I was pretty bad
and I am still bad
there are plenty of semi aweful people out there they just don't stay we need some metaphorical glue here on PD
Compared to the olden days, current PD is very open to new members. There's no Devil, Mario or Red530 to scare them off.
Of course, CA isn't here to greet every new member and give them photoshopped pictures of cakes and "Welcome to PD!" goodness. But I think new members can deal with that.
I didn't get no cake :'(
Kirbx gets no cake! FORSOOTH


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Or male-friend, depening on your gender/orientation. Anyone got one at the moment? Let KS refresh many memories-
I dated a girl named Megan whom I posted pictures of years ago. I dated her for four and a half years total, from the age of 14. I lost my virginity to her January of last year, three and a half years later, and figured that was all she wrote. Which of course is romantic and fairy-tale bullshit.
We broke up around September because school was taking so much of her time (I already called bullshit), and when I talked to her again she was dating some boy named Nick. Go KS- I couldn't even make her mourn us breaking up. C'est la vie.
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Supernova Quilt-Along: Quilting and Finishing
Unfortunately, we've now reached the part of the quilt-along in which I feel least qualified to be giving out advice. Because the actual quilting? Is so not my specialty. I just don't like it all that much. The more quilting I do, the more tolerable it gets, but I'm still not at the point where I'm like, "Oh, yay, I get to spend an afternoon wrestling this quilt into the machine to be stitched!" Also, I have yet to master free-motion quilting. I'm all about the straight lines, but that's more out of necessity than preference!
However. It's my quilt-along, so I guess I have to say something here, right? Just be advised that at this point in the QAL, it's entirely possible I have no idea what I'm talking about, and proceed with caution. : )
I've had a hard time deciding how to quilt this, and I still am not 100% decided. After all, a carefully-chosen quilting style could take this design in a whole different direction. That's especially true of straight-line quilting. So I pulled out my computer and doctored up a photo of my quilt top in order to test-drive a few patterns. Let's take a look at some options, shall we?
Basic echo quilting. Personally, I don't care for stitch-in-the-ditch. I don't particularly like how it looks, and I find it very difficult to do well. It requires way too much concentration for me, and the needle always wants to pop out of the ditch somewhere. But echo quilting (quilting 1/4" or more away from the seams) is a perfect alternative to stitch-in-the-ditch. And while this style of quilting is quite basic, I really love it. It adds to the twinkly, starry feeling of the Supernova design.
Diagonal lines straight across. This is a very modern look, with much tighter quilting. But it still lets the design of the piecing shine through. If you want to avoid stich-in-the-ditch on this design, you'll need to do some advance planning to figure out exactly where to put your lines, and how far apart to quilt them.
Diagonal lines converging. I love the quilting on this pillow by KarrieLyne of Freckled Whimsy. That pillow was my inspiration here. I think this style of quilting works very well with the Supernova piecing, and I'm strongly leaning toward this one for my own quilt.
Echo quilting plus. This design basically attempts to fill in all the negative space with quilting. This strikes me as the "glutton for punishment" option, because turning the quilt that many times would probably drive me to drink (more than I already do). But I do like how this looks, so I thought I'd throw it out there, in case somebody is ambitious enough to take it on.
Elizabeth and Katie have already finished off their Supernovas that way. Elizabeth had a great post the other day outlining her tips for free-motion stippling, so check it out if you're new to FMQ.
KISSed Quilts. Incredible! It does such fascinating things to the Supernova design! This quilting is obviously way beyond my abilities, but if you've got mad skills like Marlene, go for it!
So without further ado, this is where you can link up your finished quilts. I can't wait to see every single one of them! You can link up a blog post or a Flickr photo of your completed quilt. Everyone who links up a completed quilt by noon Central time on May 12 will be entered into my drawing for a FQ bundle of Castle Peeps. (A completed quilt, in my book, means one that is ready to use—so it must be quilted and bound.) However, I will leave the linky open permanently, even after May 12, so you can link up a completed quilt any time, even if it's months (years?) from now. I hope people will continue to participate in the quilt-along even after it is technically done!
I can't wait to see how you all choose to quilt your Supernovas. And I want to thank all of you for quilting along with me! This has been not only enjoyable for me, but it's such a rush seeing my design completed in so many different and interesting ways. In a quilt-along, everybody seems to bring something different to the table, and that's just so much fun. I feel like I know a little more about each of you, thanks to your Supernovas. How wonderful.
Edited to add: Looking for an alternative way to baste your quilt? Becky's got a great save-your-knees approach to basting—check it out!
24 comments:
- Elizabeth D. said...
Mocking up your quilts before you make them - awesome idea...but mocking up how to quilt a quilt is even MORE awesome! Wow! You showed some super great options, I love the different ideas you featured here. And thanks for showing off my Supernova, it's a super awesome snuggly quilt!! I think the converging diagonal lines look super awesome and so does the simple echo quilting. I can't wait to see what you pick!
- April 28, 2011 at 6:09 AM
- Sarah @ FairyFace Designs said...
I'm so sorry I couldn't do this QAL, all the finished quilts look great! I'm determined I will do it at some point and have been following the posts :-) it's really interesting seeing all the quilting options, they make such a difference!
- April 28, 2011 at 6:18 AM
- Sel's Quilting Blog said...
Hm. I think the echo quilting is about as much as I can bring myself to do... Assuming I'm going to be doing this myself, which, right now, is not necessarily true...
- April 28, 2011 at 6:26 AM
- LynCC said...
Whoa - I really like the Echo quilting Plus. It must have taking a long time to work those photos up!! Like, Sarah, I couldn't do this one right now, but I've got this page bookmarked for when I can. :D
- April 28, 2011 at 6:56 AM
- Marjorie's Busy Corner said...
great idea Lee....they all look super for this quilt..I do like the echoing...and you sound like me with machine quilting....too funny....but your work is fantastic; give yourself the credit you deserve there girl....
- April 28, 2011 at 6:59 AM
- Rachel Hauser said...
You did such a great job showing quilting options. I'm very inspired and I didn't even make this quilt! Did you find an easy way of generating those lines? I have basic photoshop skills, and I've generally had to make lines one at a time...
- April 28, 2011 at 7:52 AM
- Dolores said...
Mocking up your quilting is an awesome idea! How on earth did you do it though? My faves are the Basic Echo & Converged Diagonals. Sorry, didn't have the capacity to do the QAL right now but have enjoyed 'watching' the process.
- April 28, 2011 at 8:07 AM
- Katie B. said...
You make me laugh, Lee. I love your quilt mock-ups, you smart thing you!
I have LOVED every part of this quilt-along, and I can't wait to see all of the finished quilts linked up here!
- April 28, 2011 at 8:21 AM
- Katie B. said...
P.S. Marlene's quilt is a MASTERPIECE!
- April 28, 2011 at 8:23 AM
- kendascrafts said...
I think the diagonal lines converging looks the best for that quilt. Can't wait to see it finished! And I never knew that the 1/4" from the ditch was called echo quilting. That makes sense. Thanks for the lesson!
- April 28, 2011 at 8:30 AM
- **nicke... said...
So, I haven't started mine yet still! I think I can start and finish before May 12th! I think I can I think I can I think I can!
My favorite is the echo quilting! It is beautiful!
- April 28, 2011 at 8:48 AM
- Linz said...
Those are all such great ideas!! They look awesome! Thanks again for doing this quilt a long! It's been awesome!
- April 28, 2011 at 9:08 AM
- Bree said...
Great idea to "test" out your quilting first! Personally, I like the first one the best. I like how it outlines you background & really accents the grey without being over-powering. Any of them will look good though!
- April 28, 2011 at 10:33 AM
- whittle stitch said...
Brilliant idea with the mock ups!
- April 28, 2011 at 10:38 AM
- Susanne said...
Thanks for all of the quilting suggestions!! I'm basting tonight, so I've been thinking about quilting all day.
I really LOVE the echo quilting plus....but, yea..I don't know if I'm that ambitious.
- April 28, 2011 at 2:57 PM
- CityHouseStudio said...
Thank you for this wonderful post!
Seeing the quilting lines mocked up is great --
this definitely helped me decide how to quilt mine!
- April 28, 2011 at 8:06 PM
- Julia said...
I'm so impressed with the quilting possibilities but can't get over that you can even set up possibilities! How did you do this??? I'd love to see a tutorial on that. Oh, and I came late to the party so my picture will have to go late....but it will go up.
- April 28, 2011 at 9:17 PM
I signed up for the Supernova Quilt Along as soon as the information was posted but after my first day of starting we had a family emergency and I never got any further. I have copies all of the instructions so I will finish it but now along with the group which is what I was looking forward to. This was such a wonderful idea and everyone's quilts came out so different yet so beautiful. Do you think you might do this again with another pattern? Sorry to have missed the experience.
- April 29, 2011 at 12:48 AM
- emedoodle said...
I must say that I really love love love the colors of this quilt! :) Great work!
- April 29, 2011 at 2:09 AM
- Dawnmarie said...
I really like how the diagonal lines converging looks. Of course the echo plus was gorgeous too - It really accented the design of the quilt.
Thanks for showing the different ideas - even though I didn't do this QAL, I learned so much from this post. I've only done my own quilting a few times so far. I'm excited to try it again now. Appreciate it so much!
- April 29, 2011 at 7:48 AM
- Scrap,Quilt, Preach said...
Thanks for the QA. I really enjoyed myself. I won't be getting the piece quilted before your deadline but I will be sure to post the final project once its back from the long arm quilter. Thanks again!
- April 29, 2011 at 1:55 PM
- stitchsister said...
Can I just say how impressed I am with your photo editing skills? I didn't zoom in, so from the regular screen view it looks like you really quilted those designs. And the Supernova is a really cool design - well done.
Anyway, thanks for stopping by my blog and it was great to meet you yesterday. I hope you can make it next time we get together.
- May 1, 2011 at 11:38 AM
- Marlene @ KISSed Quilts . com said...
Great ideas for mocking up the quilting. I tend to print a photo of the quilt top and start drawing on it before I get going with my quilting. A bit easier than drawing on the computer I find.
Of your mock-ups my fav is the diagonal lines converging.
Thanks for featuring my quilt with the exploding fill feathers. I did do it on a long-arm and if any of you want yours quilted that way and would rather send it out for hire--I'm available ;-). Just think, yours will be even better since I've learned from my own!
Lee--awesome QA!
- May 4, 2011 at 2:05 PM
- Blue.Ridge.Girl said...
Really exicited to have completed my quilt...and on time for the May 12 deadline, too! I just love this little quilt and thank you so much for sharing with us your great pattern :o) Wonderful instructions throughout. Thanks Lee!!
- May 4, 2011 at 6:24 PM


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