May 2012
5 posts
“If we couldn’t get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want...”
– John Irving (via middlenameconfused)
“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns...”
– Anne Lamott
Lessons Learned
Shame on the people who voted for and ultimately passed Amendment 1 in north Carolina. Your actions are unforgivable.
However. There is a lesson here. For anyone who thought the 2012 election was gonna be a cake walk. Or that America was finally moving in the right direction, socially. Or that maybe there was good out there despite everything.
Nope. There are still mean spirited, cruel idiots...
“But here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on....”
– Rachel Maddow re: North Carolina
Shame on you, North Carolina.
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Ugh embarrassed for my state but at least I can say I voted against Amendment 1.
April 2012
11 posts
“There’s no competitive advantage today in knowing more than the person next to...”
– Harvard’s Tony Wagner, author of Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World, speaking at Skillshare’s Penny 2012 conference
“There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair,...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Years
“is it by mistake or design?”
2 tags
celebrity closeups tumblr →
this website is kind of great
typical
spent the last few weeks “training” for a fundraiser/charity bike event.
acclimating my hands/back (rheumatoid arthritis) to the miles as much as my thighs.
and the night before the race i severely sprained my finger at target. by dropping a microwave on it. (that’s right folks, target is not only hazardous to your wallet but to your health as well!).
splinted that shit and...
March 2012
16 posts
anthem of bullets (KE3F mashup) — citizen...
burn out
in the last ten-ish days or so i’ve had a ton of work (in addition to normal weekly assignments)
wrote a proposed health behavior intervention to improve adherence to treatment plans for depression (—> using lay health advisors and advocacy to implement the group health visit model)
started the data analysis for an empirical research paper on the impact of patient-centered...
when I see the girls my ex has been dating
whatshouldwecallme has been killing it lately. if you aren’t following this blog, you’re missing out.
merry land
feeling proud of my home state lately.
they have their shit together with the insurance exchanges, they legalized gay marriage, and today the senate passed a ban on smoking in a car with children under eight. the penalty is only a fee of $50, but hey, it’s a step in the right direction.
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lately...
hunting for internships - east coast, west coast, world wide
eating trader joe’s mini mint ice cream cookiewiches
listening to vultures by john mayer on repeat (because absence makes the heart grow fonder // makes the crazy seem more forgivable)
coveting a fabric & handle bag
creating a march madness bracket (duh)
studying, writing, lit reviewing
February 2012
14 posts
The Children of Time
(via I Wrote This For You)
January has issues with her mother, February is always talking about things he wants to do while March does them, April eats sweets and May pays for them, June is the oldest but not the wisest and July always has an opinion on everything. August never stops trying do the right thing, even if he doesn’t always know what that is. September once saw something so sad,...
“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.”
– Jack Kerouac
“Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are...”
– Thomas Wolfe
WatchPREACH.
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via human-voices)
“Remember that the word psychiatry means ‘healing the soul’, not ‘medicating the...”
– Elio Frattaroli (via psychotherapy)
1 tag
“We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least...”
– Tom Wolfe
January 2012
5 posts
France - 1, US - 0
“Under the new law, the French Health Products Safety Agency (AFSSAPS), which came under fire for its role in keeping Mediator on the market, is being overhauled and renamed the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM). Potential new drugs now have to be compared with existing approved ones, instead of just with placebos, if they are to be reimbursed under...
