A super-quickie

Just dropping this off. Hopefully will have time to be back later today and update as to what's been going on 'round these parts over the last few days. Hopefully.


Beyond Superwoman: 25 Top CEOs Show Us How To Get a Life is based on candid interviews Karin Strasser Kaufman and Peggy Downes Baskin conducted with 25 top Silicon Valley executives, including Donna Dubinsky, founder of Palm Pilot; Kathy Levinson, president of E*Trade; M.R.C. Greenwood, chancellor of University of California, Santa Cruz; Kathleen Sullivan, dean of Stanford Law School; Susan Hammer, former mayor of San Jose; Jackie Speier, California State senator; and Ann Livermore, vice-president of Hewlett-Packard.

Strasser Kauffman and Downes Baskin discovered that without exception, the Silicon Valley CEOs did not attempt to achieve a balance between their personal and professional lives. Instead, they sequenced their lives, concentrating on doing one thing at a time, and doing it well.

The authors are speaking on campus next week, and I'm thinking about going. If nothing else I may try to pick up a copy of their book.

treading to stay above water

The brief recap: Hadley came out for sort of an emergency I-need-to-be-in-the-US! visit and stayed with us. We ran errands and did not much of anything of note, but got to reconnect and spend some quality time together. Damn, I love that gal. She left yesterday, and as much as I would have loved to spend more time with her, I'm completely exhausted. And after I got home from last night's class at around 7:00 I heated some leftovers for dinner and worked on the computer until Bryan got home (late community meeting in LA for a project they're developing on Sunset Boulevard) somewhere around midnight. And for some reason B was Mr. Chatty last night when all I wanted to do was sleep.

So, so, SO tired. All I want to do is go home and nap for a few hours. Can't, though, because I have far too much work to do.

Sen. John Edwards is speaking on one of the campuses this morning, and I'd really like to go to it, but I have far too much work to do.

I'd like to be just be able to catch up on everyone's journal, but can't, because I have too much work to do.

I think I could figure out a pattern given the time, but I can't. Because I have too much work to do.

Argh.