I am most pleased to announce the winner of this year's DASA Alumni Award for Best Paper. The award goes to Amanda Ford, for her project entitled "Examining the Obesity Race Gap Using the 2002 Behavorial Risk Surveillance System" (Advisor: Professor MH).
that's me! i eat demographic and statistical analyses for breakfast!
i allowed myself to get very involved in the kim family's story of survival in the oregon mountains, and i cried when i heard the news that james' body had been found in the forest.
if you are in san francisco, please make an effort to attend this memorial tonight: (reposted from charlie)
Hello everyone,
I suspect that, like Nancy and myself, many you have been affected by the ordeal that James and Kati Kim and their two daughters, Penelope and Sabine, have been through the past week and a half.
James Kim's passing is being felt by so many right now. Nancy and I did not know him, but we had just recently met Kati and Sabine when Kati started carrying the stuffed animals that we make with our friend Jeff, in her store, Doe, on Haight Street in our neighborhood.
We cannot explain how profoundly we feel the loss of this man that we didn't even know.
His courage and determination in the most unimaginable of circumstances is something that we do not want let pass without celebrating.
We got the idea to meet tonight at Dolores Park with brown paper bags and candles to spell out his name on the hill in the park.
We will be there at 8pm until we are done and encourage anyone that wants to help or just witness this temporary memorial to meet us there.
We know that it may seem strange to do this for someone that we didn't even know, but we felt we needed to do something.
Please feel free to forward this message to anyone you think might want to participate.
Sincerely,
Scott & Nancy
Dolores Park is between Church & Dolores Streets, at 18th St. in SF.
The Kim family, owners of the San Francisco stores, Doe and Church Street Apothecary have been missing since Saturday. If you have any information that could help locate them whatsoever, please come forward. Here is the website with more information: the police report.
you're in my thoughts, charlie. keep us all posted.
i know at least several of you are fans out there, so i'll ask: if a person was to read only one joan didion novel, which would you recommend and why? i want to start reading her, but i don't have much free time. thank you.
i got this fancy schmancy very expensive salon haircut this weekend. i had a lot of hair cut off, and i'm feeling a little like samson in that all of my power is now gone. it's not nice and precise anymore, like i like my hair to be. it's messy and rough and "sassy" (as kevin said). then yesterday when i went in to work, the kids kept telling me i look weird, and one girl went so far as to tell me i look like a boy. i hate kids. and needless to say, my ego is a bit wounded. i know hair grows and all that crap, but i feel like i paid enough that i should have gotten a really good haircut that fits me more. this doesn't help that i was already feeling really ugly lately. ok, "enough wah wah poor me" complaining. i'll try to deal as best i can. ( Collapse )
so everyone is talking about blingo now, and i joined months and months ago and never won anything. so, if you haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet, sign up under me? if i win something, you win something! just for using a google search engine, which you all are already doing. yipee!
thanks for making me see there's a life in me. it was dying to get out. i miss you so much, my dear, and i'm so proud of all that you're accomplishing. xo.
i'm trimming my friend's list. a lot. i'm taking everyone off that i don't talk to and don't think i will see ever again. it's really nothing personal. it's just time to move past the life that i'm not going to return to. i've held on to it for long enough. it's time for me to forge something new. it's my time.
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