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Mind control
Reading this article in Science magazine about the fact that when the mind wanders, it tends to wander to thoughts that worsen one's mood, dovetailed nicely with a lot of thoughts I've been having lately about mindfulness. In short, my mind races (as does apparently everyone's) but I really want to be proactive about this. One option is to quiet ( Read more... ) -
Why steve is awesome.
Marisa - maybe you should come hang out with me ( Read more... ) -
Free couch ... and loincloth: A true story
Perhaps the truer truism is that there is no such thing as a free couch. Or at least, one that is still situated in someone else's domicile. One you could sleep on for a night every so often. I'm a graduate student in San Diego and once a week my field work takes me up to Los Angeles. To avoid traffic and make sure I can arrive as early as possible ( Read more... ) -
summer vacation
after a long summer of adventuring, independent research projects, friends and crafts, Burning Man is going to be my last shout of indulgence before stepping back into trying to make an academic career ( Read more... ) -
Female friends
Lately, I've been enjoying the luxury of having extremely wonderful female friendships. I was reminded of this today while Chuk and I made a chart of the past four years of our lives while lunching my favorite drive-thru Mexican joint. Starting graduate school in southern California also meant starting my life over, since I knew all of zero people ( Read more... ) -
Spring "Break 2010
Cultural Studies Association/visit to Berkeley ( Read more... ) -
Autism and vaccines...never was?
The last time I wrote about autism and vaccines in this blog, I presumed that there was legitimate scientific debate and their relationship. An article in the recent issue of Scientific American shows that the scientific data never actually was: the article that laid the empirical claim for vaccines causing autism was recently retracted.
Impact ( Read more... ) -
mid-february
It occurs to me that I've been neglecting my diary. I can always tell this is happening because I start to get twitchy with the need to confess. Things I would like to confess:
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Recently
Capped off vacation with a relaxing visit to Truckee, where I got to play fourth daughter for my best friend's mother, a role I've been filling intermittently throughout the past, uh, 8 years or so. Emma and I went snow-shoeing, worked in the tiny subterranean cafe in downtown Truckee, ate too much, read, and went to see her friend Caleb's jazzy ( Read more... )
