Recently, Sonia learned how to lock and unlock doors. Not terribly surprising, since most kids do this at some point. She had locked herself in her room a few times and took a little while to coax her to unlock the door. So we flipped the lock so that the locking part was on the outside of her door. There's a little pinhole on one side, and a ( Read more... )

So, I think all of you know by now that I am crappy with cell phones. I didn't get one until the end of med school, then got a pay-as-you-go cell phone in 2004 which I'm still using. I let the phone lapse for years at a time. Lately, I've been using it more often, but I still tend to leave it off and forget to check for messages. The only thing I ( Read more... )

So, it seems that I will be coming to Cleveland again in July for a second interview at the Cleveland Clinic. Yay, potential job! We are currently trying to arrange the schedule, so I don't know when it will happen just yet, but seemingly in the second half of the month. In other news, I'm getting a case report published, I'm working on another ( Read more... )

It turns out I have an opportunity to go to Cleveland May 6-9 for a conference, and there is a gala on Thursday night at the Cleveland Zoo Rainforest. Brent may or may not be able to join me for this trip. Anyone interested in being my guest for the night?

The Jingle Bell Run was yesterday, and we finished the whole 5K with a time of 45 minutes. :) Sonia got sick of the stroller half-way through, so I blame my time on a 25-pound weight lifting stint for about 1 mile! However, we made it, and made $185 for childhood arthritis, so thank you everyone for helping out ( Read more... )

Please help us raise money for childhood arthritis care and research! Sonia and I will be going again (hopefully she will stay in the stroller) and we did really well last year with help from everyone. I usually hate asking people for money, but this really is a cause that I believe in (otherwise, what am I doing with this 3 years of my life? :) ) ( Read more... )

School is going well, so is working at Duke. I'm much happier with things than I was last year. :) I'm going to the big rheumatology meeting this next week in San Francisco, so I'll be there from Friday to Wednesday and hopefully won't have too much trouble keeping up in the classes that I'm missing. Sonia is now 17 months old and getting more fun ( Read more... )

Sonia and I are yet again entering the Jingle Bell Run in Raleigh, December 6, to raise money for childhood arthritis. Thank you, everyone, for all the help and support last year - we raised over $2000 for the Arthritis Foundation! If you are interested in helping out this year, my race website is up again:

HereWe will most likely be walking, and ( Read more... )

I find that in my classes, now with the availability of wireless websurfing in every classroom, I have a REALLY hard time concentrating on the class. I'm doing fine in all my classes, but I find this to be a bad thing. However, looking back on undergrad and med school, I was distractible then too, but spent a lot of time sleeping in classes. Which ( Read more... )

I am currently sitting in the UNC Health Sciences Library between classes. Foolishly (or not?) I am now enrolled as a full time student in epidemiology, getting an MPH at the school of public health. I am doing math again for the first time in several years, which is actually kind of fun. Luckily, this is being paid for out of my fellowship ( Read more... )