I have now had three of my four classes.

The random "this looks cool" elective (Interprofessional Leadership) is focusing exactly on one of my major areas of research interest (how communities can support the transition from adolescence to adulthood). SO MUCH WIN ( Read more... )

If you've ever bought a house, thought about buying a house, or wondered what it would take to buy a house, and you use the Internet as a research tool, chances are you've ended up on Realtor.com at some point or other ( Read more... )

So I'm writing a paper on Medicaid, and I keep thinking of Insuracare.

A lot of my job deals with a Medicaid waiver program, I used to do SCHIP eligibility screening, and I still can't believe how byzantine and bizarre Medicaid rules are. And it's very clear that the motivation is to make sure that only the people who "deserve" it have access to ( Read more... )

The problem is not "depression triggered by addiction triggered by pain ( Read more... )

1) I was down 32 pounds from my end-of-pregnancy weight at my six-week appointment. This is all the better because I only gained 10 from first trimester to the end. 25 more to go before I'm to the weight where the ankle problems usually pretty much go away. 40 beyond that, and I'll have erased the weight the Horrible Job put on me, which I think ( Read more... )

My last bit of stuff to do for the semester is done, and I even finally figured out how to subscribe to the student listserv. :P

Now to begin the semester break for real.

Tori has started recognizably smiling the adorable baby-grins ( Read more... )

I had a kind-of-OK idea for a final project for Human Behavior.

Then, I got a really nifty idea as a spinoff of the kind-of-OK idea.

THEN, I went back and read the syllabus. Really Nifty Idea is not quite within the constraints of the assignment, though I liked it a lot better. Back to kind-of-OK idea.

( a little more about what I'm doing )

Tori's weight gain is back on track - 10lb 6oz, yay! We're doing the one-bottle-a-day trick with her, like we eventually started with Alex. (For some reason, similar to what happened with Alex, that leads to her feeding in reasonable, distinct times the rest of the day rather than unending fussy cluster-feeds that do bad BAD things to my mental ( Read more... )

"Adolescents" and "adolescence" are NOT interchangeable, kthnx.

This kind of thing is why I insisted on being the PowerPoint compiler for my group. It's just so...fingernails-on-chalkboard when I see stuff like that.