Priorities, priorities, priorities… Write a blog entry? Clean a bathroom? Try to learn something more about Java or BEA’s WebLogic product? Heaven forbid, spend time with my husband? Nah – I’m a mom with an infant who goes two, maybe three hours tops between feedings, max, round the clock. Priority #1: get a shower. Priority #2: go to sleep. Anything else will either slide into some time slot when I can’t sleep (that whole sleep when the baby sleeps thing works great with the first child – doesn’t work so well when it’s child #2 and child #1 is a toddler) or will just have to slide off the plate together. All brain cells are now targeting pillow territory.

And for that co-worker who questioned my commitment to the company for not coming in for a non-billable meeting on my non-paid maternity leave on the morning when my daughter had a doctor’s appointment that was otherwise keeping me from sleeping??? Pffffffft. Remind me to remind you about your commitment when/if you have children. And should your wife take all the burden of childcare off of your shoulders, remind me to remind _her_.

Upcoming blog entry: thoughts sprouted from reading Fortune magazine’s annual issue on women in business, combined with reading ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It‘, by Allison Pearson. An interesting convergence of reading material, not consciously chosen to point and counterpoint.