This is starting out to be a great year so far!

- already got one academic paper published, and received word another was accepted for publication

- finished another new publication, and starting another this week to be finished by the end of the month

- got reached out to by a pretty big online magazine for an "unofficial chat" about a documentary ( Read more... )

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What a year!

Academics.  Probably the biggest changes.  My postdoctoral fellowship came to an end in July, and for a minute, I didn't know what I was going to do.  I applied for 20'ish academic positions and didn't get any.  I was so sure I would (eventually) get one, as a few were on the horizon.  However, they'd require me to move, so I steeled ( Read more... )

Wow, it has been a while.  Lots has happened in the last year or so.  I got a faculty appointment as a Research Assistant Professor at Morgan State University.  I work for the Center for Urban Health Equity and will be focusing on issues that speak to socio-cultural issues, particularly for urban African-American and Latino men.

This is a great ( Read more... )

I haven't written here in a long time, so just a broad update:

Work.  Work is going okay.  I have been a postdoc for about a year and a half and it has been valuable.  I've churned out a lot of research- I got 7 papers published last year (2022) and have 7 under consideration right now (one of which was fully accepted for publishing).  It will be ( Read more... )

I hate repetitive crap.  I have my entire life.  One of my clearest thoughts from my childhood is being maybe seven or eight, and thinking to myself "I can't wait until I am out of school and have a job.  People do different stuff every day"!

Meh, in a way that is true.  Life does throw different things at you each day, and there is a possibility ( Read more... )

One of the things that is really freaking me out about the current situation is the economic state of the country.  I'm now at a point that I've (consciously) lived through multiple recessions - the recession in the early 90s, when the "bubble burst" at the end of the millennium, the Great Recession, and now.  But now is...strange.

I am pretty ( Read more... )

I realize that thanks to the pandemic, 2020 was not a great time for a lot of people.  There are a lot of people dead, especially in the US, who didn't have to be if there would have been a proper response to the disease.   I luckily (knock on wood) have not lost anyone because of COVID, but I have at least four cases of "one degree of separation ( Read more... )

It's kind of weird to do an update like this.

School.  I guess this is the last school update I'll make.  The Ph.D. is done, and with it, my role as a student for likely the rest of my life.  I'm finalizing things (e.g. getting my dissertation uploaded) and will officially have my degree "conferred" in about a month, though I am considered a "doctor ( Read more... )

It's been about a week but as of last Thursday, I've completed my PhD and am officially a doctor.  It's still a bit strange to have my doctorate.  Heck, it took a few tries to type that sentence.  Why it is a surprise I don't know - isn't this what I've been working towards for six years?  Why should I be so shocked?  However, here I am, and it's ( Read more... )