I haven't posted about this much in my LJ, but I am currently riding my bike across the country with a group called Ride For World Health (www.rideforworldhealth.org ( Read more... )

While I was in London (at the suggestion of one of my tour-mates), I totally checked out the Broad Street water pump. This pump was made famous by John Snow, an innovative dude who is one of the godfathers of public health as we know it today. If John Snow is a godfather, then the Broad Street water pump is like an epicenter of the genesis of ( Read more... )

I just got back home this morning. My trip to Europe was awesome!!!! I met awesome people, learned awesome universal health care things, and saw awesome, beautiful and really old things ( Read more... )

In a few hours, I'm leaving to on a flight to go to London for what will be my first trip to Europe, ever! In fact, aside from a trip to the Canadian Rockies a few years ago, this will be one of my first times ever being outside of the US.

First stop is Edinburgh, where I will meet up with my friend psycholibrarian and check out castles and winding narrow town ( Read more... )

I am so looking forward to my bike ride! I leave for Las Vegas on April 7th and have a ticket to take me from Washington DC back to Miami on May 23rd. Somehow, in between those two dates, I will find some way to cycle my ass from point A to point B. I am in the process of getting a camera so I can document and share the entire ride. Stay tuned ( Read more... )

I'm waiting for a couple acceptance (or non-acceptance!) letters from schools this week. Two schools that I am particularly excited about. I feel like a little kid every day rushing home from work to check the mail. The info I receive in the mail this week may determine what I do with the next four years of my life! I feel like I'm going to burst ( Read more... )

I had a really touching interaction the other day with one of the busboys at work (the same one who offered to get me $150 grills ( Read more... )

I really want to buy a set of grills so I can be totally pimped out, but I don't know where to buy a cheap set. One of the busboys at work told me he could get me a set for real cheap, but they're still $150!! That's not cheap. I said "I want to get some fake ones," and he looked at me like, "why would you want to do that?"

dancingspork suggested I use tin ( Read more... )

Why does it seem that all German porn involves poop ( Read more... )

I've just been accepted to participate in a cross-country bike trip called Ride for World Health, which I am totally excited about, as riding cross country is something I've been dreaming about for years. We're raising money for two excellent world health funds, which makes the bike ride even more fulfilling, but the only problem I just learned of ( Read more... )