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Yesterday was my work friend T’s last day. We were office neighbors, colleagues, team-mates and pals since the day I started at my current job, some nearly four years ago. A quiet-at-first but actually quite hillarious and super-sharp fellow, T and I shared a similar workstyle, sense of humor, and sense of the world, as well as a love for the random and absurd.

One day T, a social science researcher with a quantitative methodological background told me he was conducting a new experiment. “Oh?” my interest peaked, expecting I’d be reading about it in a health policy and public affairs journal in no time. But T’s experiment was following the oyster cracker he’d dropped on the office stairwell a few days back. Read the rest of this entry »

In the movie biz (see below)

movie biz

, when the director gets the shot he wants (not the scene, or even the minute, just that one moment), the crew calls “picture!” I know from my vassssttt recent movie experience (see movie bizzz).

Friday I stayed home to watch the filming. (Did I mention Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck were outside my window? Or than Russell nodded, saluted and said “hey” to me?!).

I went grocery shopping (in the middle of the day!). I worked on my blog. I wrote friends. You came over for dinner. We laughed and talked and snuggled and you opened a bottle of wine. You fell asleep and I tiptoed back out to watch a bit more filming (okay, so I may have gotten a call asking me not to press my face against the glass for the next cut. And yeah, so I might have realized that call came right after I padded out in pajamas. but still).

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Thanks to Meg (“soupisnotafingerfood) and a few other twitter/facebook/networking pals, I’ve decided to make the switch to wordpress from blogger. Also coming soon a few new, more focused blogs. Stay tuned!