Wednesday, April 30, 2008

 
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.
  - Faith Whittlesey

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Some quick snapshots from this weekend's wedding... I hope everyone has as good a time at ours!




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Saturday, April 26, 2008

I've been doing a lot of traveling lately. I'm in a Hampton Inn down in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, up, sitting at my computer because I'm writing up my final paper / take home exam for BUS640 Process Management. If anyone wants to know about lean manufacturing principles, just ask.

Glen and I are here to attend his cousin's wedding tomorrow. It's funny because we almost chose this very date for our wedding because this weekend is our sixth anniversary as a couple. It's weird to think that we could have been getting married tomorrow... and still pretty weird that it's only 8 weeks from tomorrow that we'll actually be saying our vows.

A lot of wedding loose ends have been getting tied up. The invitations went out and my mom received her first response today!!! (We know about lots of people who are coming, but it's not official until we get the little card back. Plus, we have to know your dinner choice!)

So, basically I've got a lot of wedding on the brain, and it's very very exciting. We're not really doing anything for our anniversary because the wedding stuff is really overshadowing it... it doesn't seem as important when we're about to set a new date to celebrate. Plus, once you hit six years it's kind of like, OK, let's get on to the next step now!

I really have to get back to this paper which is only a third done so I can get some sleep tonight. I wonder if the bride and groom are able to sleep.


P.S. If you didn't get a response envelope in your invite, let me know. We had some issues stuffing those in. Some people got multiple.

P.P.S. April 26, 2008 is also the date that Elliot names in an early season of Scrubs as her future wedding day as she has booked the reception hall years in advance. I'll work on finding a YouTube of that.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Glen and I made it into the Widener Business School newsletter:
http://www3.widener.edu/SiteData/docs/April08SBAnewsletter/b74c4ac2fb5d44f165d59c03d6ecf065/April08SBAnewsletter.pdf

We're on page 4.  It's cute, but why are we so fuzzy?

And, for clarification, we' re actually not the married couple on page 6... they're undergrad juniors.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

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greetings from Harrisburg. Glen and I are here for a mtg of the PHC4 technical advisory group. They're in charge of deciding how to present all the data on hospital acquired infections and the like in PA. Anyway, the capitol is gorgeous and I thought I'd share a pic.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

BZZZZ Time Is Up.

The contest is over because it has proven ~impossible~

As Mindy mentioned in her comment, it is the only post office in the country that does not fly an American Flag because there was no American Flag when it was founded. So why should I have thought they would have had a telephone?!

(just kidding, I'm pretty sure they have a telephone just the postal service is kinda of full of too much red tape)

My mother had a similar postal adventure today -- how can three different post offices tell you three different prices to mail an envelope? Is it really a matter of opinion? Do they take their best guess? They've made it an art and not a science? Nonetheless I believe our wedding invitations are actually going to go out (and possibly even arrive at their destinations).

People are going to come to our wedding!
We're actually getting married!!!

Monday, April 21, 2008

Contest!!! Win a prize!!!

I'm holding a contest.

The first person who can provide me with a working phone number for the B. Free Franklin post office will win a fabulous prize.

I'm not going to make this any harder than it already is, so here is the address:
316 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106

The catch is that a human being, preferably who works at the post office, has to pick up the phone at this number.

GO!

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Multimedia message

My wedding countdown chain is getting shorter and shorter! 65 days left!

How the Flu Virus Trots the Globe Each Year [click here]



flu

What Does Martha Stewart Know About Caring for the Elderly? [click here]

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

JHU Reunion by the numbers...

$46,133,559 raised by Reunion classes.
4,151 Homewood Alumni back on campus.
2,856 Crabcakes served at the pre-game lunch.
70 events from Alumni Colleges to reunion dinners.
15 Reunion classes spanning 70 years.
A 10-4 Blue Jay victory over Maryland.


...never making it to Bmore because you stayed in DC and hung out with your friends: priceless.

Sorry, that was corny.
$46 million from one reunion???  Why did I have to pay any tuition at all?

If homecoming was this past weekend, does that mean Spring Fair is this coming weekend???
I will nix the 17 things I planned for this weekend if someone will join me for some deep fried oreos, strawberry smoothies, and meat-on-a-stick!!!

Monday, April 14, 2008

Geriatric Care Is Facing Crisis [click here]
Surge in Training
Called for to Meet
Exploding Demand
By THEO FRANCIS and VANESSA FUHRMANS
April 15, 2008

Internists who go on to specialize in geriatrics end up taking a pay cut.

Sunday, April 6, 2008



It's 18 minutes long but it's amazing!

Friday, April 4, 2008

Opinion
Campaign Stops: Calm — and Hope — in Indianapolis [click here]
By Ron Klain
Published: April 3, 2008
Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the death of Martin Luther King during a campaign stop in Indiana still resonate today in this primary season.

"Forty years later, whenever I hear people say that a politician’s speeches don’t matter, that campaigns are a waste and that the sort of conflict we have in the 2008 Democratic primary is “destructive,” I think of Robert Kennedy’s words in Indianapolis that night — a speech that would have never happened but for the hard-fought, highly competitive 1968 primary campaign — and the millions of people like me who were inspired by them and their impact on that city."

and..



sorry about the subtitles.

Wardobe Malfunction

I try to keep it clean on this blog, but I have to tell this story.

My favorite bra since I bought it a few months ago has been the Victoria's Secret 100 ways bra. The straps are completely adjustable so you can perfect the bra for the shirt. It's held together in the front by a small rubber strap in between the cups that I guess gives it some flexibility and versatility.

Last night I was driving us to class down at Widener and SNAP. I felt like I had been flicked with a rubber band. The little strap broke! I wasn't even doing anything!

It was fine because I just kept my coat on for the rest of the night (of course the classroom had to be hot for the first time in two semesters), but what if it wasn't coat weather? Or I had been somewhere that people could actually see me? I wore that bra to my shower when one million photos were taken!

I am definitely making an angry phone call, but in the meanwhile I just wanted to warn every one... and share my kind of humiliating story, haha.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Published: April 1, 2008
For doctors there can be a fine line between good Samaritan and busybody when it comes to offering unsolicited medical advice.