My name is Jamie. I am married to the handsome and hilarious math geek known in these pages as Elwood P. Gladly. We have four boys, aged 12, 9, 6, and 3, whose noms du blog are Alex, Marty, Joe, and Pete. We also have a little daughter, whom you can call Stella even though that's not really her name, born on the 23rd of December. Yes, we're Catholic.
I started this blog in October 2006, a couple of months into a doctoral program. (I used to write as CJ, which is why you may run across it in links or comments.) Here in April of 2009 I am a doctoral candidate -- I passed my preliminary exam in the 39th week of my pregnancy and plowed into data collection with a newborn on my knee. I am shooting for a complete dataset by the end of June, at which point I will have to figure out what to do with several thousand data points. Eek.
Why "most gladly"? That's why.
Why "light and momentary"? Same book, different chapter.
Why a doctoral program with four five kids? Burning curiosity about my research question, plus a teeny masochistic streak.
Baking, Dickens, running for novices, folk music, and the impact of early fatty acid intake on neurodevelopment. also a painless strategy for keeping four five kids in matching (or at least matching-ish) socks through a Midwestern winter.
