… it’s month 10 of staying home together with entire family including 3 online-schooled kids… Around March-April, when everything just stared, I savored my unexpected staycation for the whole month. Appointments got cancelled, errands got postponed, I finally didn’t have or need to go anywhere. I settled at home in my favorite leggings, cooked delicious... Continue Reading →

Some time ago I realized that there were two different modes of my existence. These modes seemed to exist separately, did not overlap much, as far as I could tell. And it was becoming very inconvenient. In one state I was very driven, motivated, efficient and productive. I set goals, understood time, and could devise... Continue Reading →

 There I was, finishing the third year of a very competitive postdoctoral scholarship from NASA, getting ready to present an invited talk at a giant international annual geoscience conference about the international project of which I was one of the leaders… and in all this, regularly crying in my office because my work was going... Continue Reading →

Days…  No, like this: DAYS!!!  I have spent trying to figure out why the IDL procedure is not producing the numbers and the pictures it should be producing. Bugging others about how they did it, checking what I thought I had to be checking. blah-blah-blah… Until I remembered something. First, a second of bragging (pure... Continue Reading →

Remember that time when someone asked you for a favor, and you agreed despite that heavy feeling, which hinted that it’s too much for you right now? Or another time, when you did your part of the group project, and then his part, and most of her part, because something else came up for them?... Continue Reading →