January 2012
2 posts
Summer 2012 Internship Search
& thus it begins. From the website of a notable DC health policy think tank:
“Only applicants meeting minimum qualifications for the research position will be considered. No phone calls please. [COMPANY] welcomes resumes from all qualified applicants, particularly women and minorities.”
Thanks for that clarification. As a woman, I had assumed I wasn’t welcome to apply to...
December 2011
6 posts
If Only In My Dreams →
(via nogreatillusion)
What is coming home for the holidays for, if not to remind you that home doesn’t really exist anymore? Or, if it does, it is the tiny apartment you have decorated for yourself, with the slanting floors and running toilet and all the dishes in the sink. Coming home, you discover a new homesickness that exhausts you, and spend half the time napping in a twin bed that was...
“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”
– Truman Capote (via simko)
grad school rant of the day.
five (!) finals down (biostatistics part 1 & 2, regression analysis, healthcare finance, healthcare management and org behavior) and one to go (a basic healthcare structure and policy survey course — looking forward to more policy and research-centric classes next semester). after the policy final tomorrow afternoon, just two short-ish papers (and a few more espressos) stands between me...
November 2011
9 posts
student, ball so hard university
tomorrow is a big day. in addition to a test in the morning, six hours of class, and studying for two finals on thursday, i will be presenting my first policy poster*. to me, this signifies the parallel, but very opposite career leap i took a few months ago from management consulting to academia. i remember walking the halls of NIH in awe of the research posters and publications, while toting a...
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not...”
– Azar Nafisi (via human-voices)
What are you?
One of his students asked Buddha,
“Are you the messiah?” “No,” answered Buddha.
“Then are you a healer?” “No,” Buddha replied.
“Then are you a teacher?” the student persisted.
“No, I am not a teacher.”
“Then what are you?” asked the student, exasperated.
“I am awake,” Buddha replied.
(via human-voices)
“sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think,
I’m not going to...”
– charles bukowski (via thechocolatebrigade)
sunday supper eats.
tri-color pasta, rinsed garbanzo beans, trader joe’s eggplant caponata sauce, and goat cheese. i like a generous sauce:pasta ratio so i supplemented the caponata with some basic marinara. so good. now if only i owned a microwave to heat the leftovers…
October 2011
12 posts
fingers crossed.
just submitted my resume for a little summer internship on pharma outcomes research in germany. this is one of my areas of interest (specifically, mental health pharmaceuticals).
i do not know much about germany, only that i’ve always wanted to visit and i love sauerkraut. should be good, right?
“The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right...”
– Randy Pausch (via human-voices)
“nothing can drag you down unless you’re holding onto it.”
biggest accomplishment.
+ this? decent, but no.
+ getting into the top 2 schools of public health in the country? impressive. but (let’s be serious) not b-school impressive.
+ traveling all over europe with my best friends? pretty cool, in a money-can-buy-you-happiness-and-self-actualization type of way.
+ forcing myself to go out, fueled on a singular vodka soda, and then subsequently dancing for four hours...
World "Arthritis" Day 2011-- The Forgotten... →
(via chroniccurve)
“While I love that this movement exists, I am once again frustrated that Osteoarthritis and Autoimmune Arthritis are being lumped into the same category. It’s true that even when I explain the difference, 9/10 it is disregarded and my autoimmune disease is still misunderstood and mistaken for an elderly “naturally occurring” disease.
The International Autoimmune...
“”For the past 33 years I have looked in the mirror every morning and...”
– Steve Jobs
September 2011
16 posts
in chalk on the sidewalk
bleed love
into this
into this
“we’re just fumbling through the gray, trying to find a heart that’s...”
good things
friday
enjoying cool weather, for now
wearing my favorite pencil skirt again
being inspired by a speaker (re: framing healthcare concepts in a way that gets people to support policy) while commemorating the 75th anniversary of my department
drinking the first fall 2k11 pumpkin spice latte, with an extra shot of espresso to cut the sweetness
seeing mat kearney on sunday
observing cardio...
today i got a letter in the mail about potential COBRA healthcare coverage because i left my job in august. only a cool $473.28 per MONTH. for benefits i was previously receiving at about $120. i am so grateful i have (albeit shitty and overpriced) coverage through my school.
so inevitably people forgo insurance when they leave a job because that is ridiculous and end up getting sick (job...
in your eyes i see the eyes of somebody who could be strong-
tell me if i’m wrong
and now i’m pulling your disguise up,
are you free or are you tied up?
1 tag
After waiting for no less than eight hours at the...
DMV Worker: Your North Carolina license should come in the mail and it should be good for eight years, at which point you should--
M: Oh I won't be here for eight years. I'm just here for school.
DMV Worker: Don't be so sure...John Belushi thought the same thing.
north carolina surprises me a little bit everyday. it can hang. (though, still proceeding with my plan to leave as soon as i graduate. famous last words.) in a one week’s timespan, the following are coming to my area:
mat kearney
fleet foxes
wilco
ray lamontange
and the prices are definitely grad student appropriate. a nice surprise for someone who lived two blocks from the verizon...
now that i finally have a personal computer (but not really, a macbook), going to try to re-commence daily posting of at least one thing that inspires me/resonates with me/represents the day/is funny. (parallel syntax is overrated.)
ok, go.
August 2011
3 posts
“Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.”
– Colin Wilson (via human-voices)
July 2011
4 posts
someday my pain, someday my pain…
will mark you
harness your blame, harness your blame…
and walk through
“The notion that there’s some “right” choice for every life challenge fits neatly...”
– Heather Havrilesky