The new year is coming...and so is my new blog ( Read more... )

[deep breath ( Read more... )

From a student today (who, by the way, DROPPED the class):

It has truly been a great pleasure learning from you in sociology, you are the best TA I have ever had at UCI!

Tear. They're not all bad. :)

I haven't updated a great deal about religion this year, which is interesting given that it was so central to me merely five years ago and so conflictual for me just two years ago. That said, a friend of a friend posted a quote from Rick Warren (well-known evangelical Christian preacher) and asked for his opinion on it:

"People become atheists ( Read more... )

Thanks to the author (Maira Kalman) and the sender (Kristy) for this great one about our culture, our food, and our health!

"There is no such thing as a bad bug. A plant will protect itself naturally if it is healthy."

And that, my friends, sums up my outlook on life and health in one succinct statement.

I can't believe I haven't written on this earlier as it is an issue I feel more strongly about than almost anything else when it comes to intimate partnerships ( Read more... )

I've probably mentioned this before, but it is with issues of health, predominantly obesity, that I find myself most urgently at war with my otherwise across-the-board liberal mentality ( Read more... )

Here's an interesting op-ed about the efficacy of calorie counts on restaurant menus.

Summative point:
"Calorie posting may be desirable even if it fails to reduce calorie intake. But effective policies to deal with obesity will need to involve much more than posting calories. People eat too much because calorie-dense foods are convenient and ( Read more... )

Will post lots of things and stuff about the glorious nuptials, hilarious road trips, and Superfriendly reuniting that defined ce week-end, but right now I need to get back to business.

When I was 16, I went to college. I left my lovely home in a small, mostly white, middle-class Chicago suburb to go hit it big as an MTV VJ on the West Coast (suppress laughter here). Tired of the "scene" in the Midwest, I left for USC, smack in the middle of Los Angeles and worlds away from what I knew ( Read more... )