Okay, guys, I know there are some artistic ones among you. And I am respectfully requesting your help and/or general advice.
You see that banner up there? The one with all the grungy old books? It’s a template that came with the WordPress design. I’m over it. Plus, I just ran across a boring blog about [...]
Entries from October 2007
October 31, 2007
Who’s good with Photoshop?
October 31, 2007
Confession
I bake cupcakes as much for the enjoyment of my friends as I do for the sheer unadulterated pleasure of licking the raw batter from the bowl with my fingers. And the great thing about vegan baking? No salmonella.
Helllooooo chocolate mint cupcake batter.
October 31, 2007
Highlights
My biostats exam, it is done. Now I’m about embark upon that painful process whereby I go back through my notes so I can catalog all the things I got wrong. Why? Because I think I still actually care about learning it.
On the upside, our professor arrived to class wearing a bright orange shirt and [...]
October 30, 2007
El Rescate!
Please take this as evidence that grad school warps your mind. Fellow grad student Maisa sent this to me earlier today. I find it inexplicably humorous. DO NOT JUDGE ME, I JUST SAID GRAD SCHOOL WARPS YOU. And let it be said that while I do not condone such rescate, I do condone diversión.
If my [...]
October 30, 2007
Another provocative study
Before I forget and lose it again, I should post this link to yet another thoughtful, observant, well-researched critique of the media’s potrayal of fat.
Good God, the Fat Acceptance Movement is my new best friend.
October 29, 2007
Blog one-liner of the day
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of reading about the Fat Acceptance Movement, partly because it’s brilliant, and partly because I’m toying with the idea of studying some facet it of it for my dissertation. I know, I’ve changed my topic again, can you just STAND IT?
Anyway, there about a trillion blogs up and running [...]
October 27, 2007
Ask and ye shall receive
Last week, I was lamenting to my friend Katie in Atlanta about how desperately I am NOT getting the biostatistics I am supposed to be learning. I have an exam on the material Tuesday, and there are about twenty intervening things I’m supposed to get done before then. I am SERIOUSLY STRESSING about all of [...]
October 25, 2007
Helpful career advice
Highly intellectual conversation this morning at a coffee shop.
Me: Sighhhh. God, I’m over this department right now.
Megan: Oh! You should totally do geography.
Me: What? Why?
Megan: Full of boys. I asked this girl in my class right now, “Are there always this many boys in your classes?” And she was like, “Yeah, it’s all guys.” And [...]
October 25, 2007
Dear Health Sciences Library,
Given that you are, in fact, a library devoted to the health sciences, I imagine that you have heard about the MRSA crisis. Yes, that one. The one that’s the latest in a long line of crises that serves to freak us all out sufficiently to deflect attention from the decrepit state of our nation [...]
October 24, 2007
Why not here too?
Okay, okay. So I’ve already sent this to all my friends, but I’m posting it here too. Because, frankly, it fascinates me. And I won’t say what my own BMI is now, because I purposefully haven’t been on a scale since last spring, but I can say that when I was training for a marathon [...]
