Didn't I just get here ( Read more... )

It's amazing what a break from craziness can do. While my January trip to Africa was not necessarily calming and relaxing, it was a break from the rough-and-tumble fall semester that tested my sanity. I enjoyed a lot of fall--especially traveling for my recruitment job--but on top of everything else that was going on it ended up being highly ( Read more... )

( Why my life is ridiculous, or, an exercise in procrastination )

You know how sometimes people on your friends list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER? since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed ( Read more... )

I was very excited yesterday to receive the entire series of Six Feet Under in the mail, which I ordered from Amazon.com for about $100 (too great a deal to pass up, given the show normally sells for somewhere in the $225 - $250 range ( Read more... )

Tonight, in the midst of working on my weekly readings and response paper for my Community Economic Development seminar, I clicked over to CNN to see Burruss Hall from Virginia Tech back in the prime slot. A bit about the families of the victims of the VT tragedy getting settlements from the university. This got me thinking about last year, and ( Read more... )

So, I find that on many of my trips, I end up with a signature song that I connect with the trip. Sometimes its a song I hear on the radio or the plane, and sometimes its a song I put on a mix disc for the trip. I'm curious if other people end up with these songs too, and if so, what are some of your travel songs ( Read more... )

The First Newspaper Article on AIDSIt's too late to write much about this, but I thought this article, the first newspaper article ever written on AIDS, was worth posting. It must have been terrifying to watch this unidentifiable disease spreading through your community, dropping so many people you know. For many reasons--most notably, I would ( Read more... )

I'm feeling very discontent being in New Jersey right now. I was just looking at pictures from the AIDS Life/Cycle this past summer and I kinda want to do it again. Unfortunately, it's a little late to be raising money and to be training for it, so alas, not this year. I do, however, think it would be a lot more fun to do with a friend or group ( Read more... )

I don't really know what to do with this article...it's always amazing to see how well Baltimore Sun reporters capture the Hopkins spirit.

I've highlighted the best parts in the cut in bold...

( Johns Hopkins to retake Friday )