Introduction

On Sunday I found myself lying around in my room, watching many episodes of Elementary and trying to get some work done, when an idea occurred to me: what better form of procrastination than writing an entry for the blog? So I sat down (ok, fine, I lay in bed) in front of my computer and started to write. I ended up with eight paragraphs, all about different aspects of what I thought was the same thing, but no post. There was no connection between the paragraphs, it was a mass of difficult to read opinions and experiences. It wasn't pretty.

Frustrated by my incapability to write a coherent blog post I went on Facebook to complain. I wished I had a white board, somewhere big where I could map out my ideas the way they seemed to be in my head, to see if that way I could find a thread that ran through all of them. Unfortunately, Facebook is distracting, I don't have a white board, and the ideas just stayed in their jumbled form in the draft for the blog post.

This morning I woke up and after a few events that announced that this week was going to be far from easy (again, check my Facebook statuses, they are full of my whines), I decided to do an eight part series for the blog. One post for each of the paragraphs. That's what my next eight (actually, it will probably boil down to more like four) posts are going to be.

This introduction is the meant partly to explain why the next few posts will be titled "Part I", "Part II", etc. and partly to tell you not to waste any time reading these posts unless you're interested in feminism, parental rights, children and my opinions on all of these subjects. You have been warned.