Yes, that's right - if you watched the Daily Show last night and caught that Stephen Colbert's wife who turned into a pillar of salt at the beginning of This Week in G-d was named Rebekah, it was actually inspired by me, as per a lovely voice-mail I received this morning from my friend Rachel, who was one of the two writers of the segment. (They ( Read more... )

Well, since it's been two and a half weeks, it seems like time to post. Amazingly, I now have only a week left in my summer term, which means I'm almost 20% done with my program. As always with time, it doesn't seem like it's been nearly that long, and yet some times I feel like it's been years since I was in NJ and especially since I was in NH ( Read more... )

So I've done extremely well on my first two exams, including epidemiology which actually involves math - never my strong point. (And I am so glad I just took stats recently instead of in college - it's amazing how frequently statistical concepts come up, especially p values.) This is a good thing, more because it means I have a good grasp of what ( Read more... )

Since I'm never really quite sure who's reading this, I'm posting the e-mail update that I sent to some people today about my first month of school. That way my journal will be relatively updated, and I can start trying to post updates more regularly ( Read more... )

I really have no time to write right now, as I prepare to move to Baltimore for good tomorrow and have about a million things to get done before then, but I'm freaking out about Sandra Day O'Connor resigning from the Supreme Court - why the heck can't it be Rehnquist? This is going to change the balance of everything on the Court and continue to ( Read more... )

Just wanted to assure my five loyal readers that I'm still alive and am just in the throes of moving to Baltimore, which is why I haven't written in so long. Trip #3 takes place tomorrow with one more to go and then moving for good on July 2nd. So all is well - I successfully turned 28 a few weeks ago, fell in love with the iPod Mini (blue) that ( Read more... )

Very quick post because I can't resist. This is an actual exchange from last Thursday's briefing by Scott McClellan:

Q There are news reports this morning that parents and children who were ( Read more... )

From the lack of new postings on my friends list, I'm guessing many people are away. I, on the other hand, try not to travel on holiday weekends if I don't have to and have been home in NJ. Though I did have a lovely visit from Amy and Tom, down from NH for a graduation party this weekend. We played mini golf, which I haven't done in years, and ( Read more... )

More twists and turns from NH on whether or not the Attorney General will be reappointed and how it will affect the Supreme Court appeal with quotes from my old boss Jennifer and old colleague Liza. (I know this is mostly only interesting to me and maybe a few other select readers, but it's my blog, right?)

Also, the NH House passed the EC ( Read more... )

Random rant that I have to get out of my system first: I hate TV news and try to avoid it as much as possible. But I admit my curiosity was piqued when I saw an ad talking about how more teenage girls are going on the Pill but not because of sex. So I just watched 30 minutes of the local Fox news, which had all kinds of "scary" reports about ( Read more... )