Saturday, March 31, 2012

worried

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My nephew, only 4 months old, is going to undergo surgery in about 6 hours. He has a large abscess in the underarm area, probably a reaction...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Health Care Overhaul: Not Looking Good...

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I was listening to Talk of the Nation this afternoon and cringing as I heard the Solicitor General trying to defend the Individual Mandate b...
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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Africa (and Academia) on my Mind... (A Long Overdue Update)

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Jet leg officially "left me" on Tuesday,* which, coincidentally, was the day in which I most decidedly got back "into the swi...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

The Very Best (not for last)

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I'm just thinking that I'm plain stupid, because I just went ahead and shared the very best photo (for me) of my South Africa exper...
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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Lion

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I wish I could write more, but I have to grade, grade, grade... :( So here's just a teaser from our trip: because I don't have ...
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Anyone can comment (for now)

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Thanks for the heads up, feMOMhist ! Well... I didn't know that people with wordpress/typepad or other accounts had had trouble commen...
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PSA: Dear Wordpress blogging friends...

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... I have been unable to post comments to your blogs! I get an error message saying that my email is connected to a wordpress account (even...
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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Still Jet Lagged

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I just wanted to write another "telegraphic" post... (waitaminute, people don't use the telegraph anymore, so they? do people ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Safe Return

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A telegraphic post just to let you know that we arrived back home safe and sound. And I didn't really want to come back from Africa... s...
Thursday, March 08, 2012

Out of Africa

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The trip is fantastic as it should be, but I already feel like I want to come back to Africa someday and I hope I can. Too little time, obvi...
Saturday, March 03, 2012

17 Hour Flight

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We're about to leave for the airport. I hope we have a good flight, even though it's the 4th longest flight there is on earth. The...
Thursday, March 01, 2012

Because Packing for a 10 Day Trip Is Not Enough...

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... I committed to bringing (home baked [vegan]) cupcakes for my sons's class tomorrow, since he won't be here on his birthday, May ...

Expectant place

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I finished teaching my classes. In fact, it was very weird because it was only one class. For the first time in a long time none of my (six)...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Scheduled Haircut

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I just thought I'd let you know, following our previous " conversation " about this (OK, It was a conversation between me and ...
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"The City of Samba" -- An Amazing View of Carnaval by Jarbas Agnelli

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I have already featured Jarbas Agnelli 's work on this blog (remember the song about birds on wires ? This is well worth checking out i...
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The Grant-Writer Scientist's Wife

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It's only my husband's 2nd year as in a tenure-track job and I'm already getting tired of all the grant writing. And this is bec...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

It's OBVIOUS that a roaring Samba wouldn't win!!!

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I will say one thing about the Oscars... I thought it was ridiculous that only TWO songs were nominated for best songs -- the only "Bra...
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Utterly Frustrated: I CANNOT watch the Oscars

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I guess this is the first time in many years in which I won't get to watch the Oscars. And was almost positive that I'd watched it o...

A Week of Firsts, Part II (Stephen Sondheim!!!)

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I discovered years and years ago... 23 years, to be more precise, that Stephen Sondheim was a brilliant musician* (I blogged about my favori...

A Week of Firsts, Part I

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The first "first" is so prosaic I even considered not blogging it, but... since this is a "mommy" blog, I decided to go ...