Hey! I don't know who all still reads this... I don't read it as often as I did out in the field, but I still enjoy it. I just wanted to share a bit of my crazy life. I thought I was done travelling for the summer, but that is not to be. I got a call yesterday from Pat, the wife of a man (Jerry) I taught on my mission (I am close to both of them) who told me that Jerry is getting baptized this Saturday in Independence... so I am off to Missouri for the weekend. I'm leaving Friday evening (after NSO of course) and I'll be back Sunday evening. Hooray for never unpacking my suitcases! And hooray for being in 4 states in less than 2 weeks!! (Eli and those of you who drove through many states don't get to one up me here...these are 4 separate occasions and distant states).
I'm excited to see you all soon!
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Christus Consolator
Here are some photos from around campus. I will miss it here!
There is a Christus statue, a marble replica of the original by Thorvaldsen, in the main entrance to the Hopkins Hospital. While I was taking pictures, I noticed quite a few employees would touch the statue as they left. How fitting to have Christ as a symbol of healing!
There is a Christus statue, a marble replica of the original by Thorvaldsen, in the main entrance to the Hopkins Hospital. While I was taking pictures, I noticed quite a few employees would touch the statue as they left. How fitting to have Christ as a symbol of healing!
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Cohort Picture
Hey guys, so I just wanted to remind you that we need to take a new cohort picture in the fall. I know this is a random post, i just think of it every time i see the picture on this blog, and thought i better post before i forgot... again...
Oh yeah the real reason I am posting, has anyone registered for APHA yet?
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Fall Book List
Does anyone have the book list for our fall semester classes? I want to get my books online, so if anyone has that information, pass it on. If I somehow find it, then I'll post it here. Enjoy your last two weeks of summer!
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Guess what our ultrasound showed?
As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Jenny and I had our ultrasound yesterday to see the gender and physical state of our baby. Jenny didn't really sleep Tuesday night and we were nervous going to the appointment. Fortunately, the ultrasound results were very clear...we're having a boy! I think we were both surprised. We had both reached the point of not caring what our baby's gender was, but I think we were both expecting a girl. We're extremely excited to have a boy and hope for a girl in the future. Starting with a boy is perfect for us and he looks totally healthy too. His measurements put him a day smaller than he should be, so he is pretty much as perfect as we could hope and pray for. We're so happy and excited!
So, I didn't come up with my gender test, but I did do something statistically interesting regarding the gender guesses of other people. The probability of x out of n people correctly guessing the gender of our baby follows a binomial distribution since each person's guess can be seen as an independent trial (assuming they didn't collaborate and decide what to guess beforehand) and the outcome has two possibilities: a boy or a girl. Before I told my family and friends the results of our ultrasound, I asked them to guess the gender of our baby. Eight out of eight people I asked (including Ashley's prediction on this blog) correctly guessed a boy. I'll let you each look up the binomial formula if you wish, but the probability of eight out of eight people guessing our baby's gender correctly is 0.0039! That's incredible! In all seriousness, though, having a healthy little boy growing inside of Jenny as part of our family is beyond incredible! We're just so excited!
So, I didn't come up with my gender test, but I did do something statistically interesting regarding the gender guesses of other people. The probability of x out of n people correctly guessing the gender of our baby follows a binomial distribution since each person's guess can be seen as an independent trial (assuming they didn't collaborate and decide what to guess beforehand) and the outcome has two possibilities: a boy or a girl. Before I told my family and friends the results of our ultrasound, I asked them to guess the gender of our baby. Eight out of eight people I asked (including Ashley's prediction on this blog) correctly guessed a boy. I'll let you each look up the binomial formula if you wish, but the probability of eight out of eight people guessing our baby's gender correctly is 0.0039! That's incredible! In all seriousness, though, having a healthy little boy growing inside of Jenny as part of our family is beyond incredible! We're just so excited!
APHA Conference
Anyone else out there going to the APHA conference?? I am trying to figure out sleeping accomodations and wondering what the rest of you are doing....
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Lunch update... how is it only 12:17
So how is everyone doing? I hope that you are all doing FANTASTIC- it sounds like John is doing great, MaryAnne also sounds like she is doing great… the rest of you… well I have no comment on that (frown smile (if you read seriously so blessed this makes sense). so I thought it would give an update about what is happening here in NYC… pretty much nothing. I am having a really hard time focusing…which is why I am posting on this blog instead of… well anyway. So I have 5 days left of my internship (my little brother is coming tomorrow so I am taking a few days off).. and I am pretty excited to be done- not that CDF isn’t great, but 15 weeks is awhile and I am ready to go home. I haven’t ranted about NYC in awhile and I am sure that you are all feeling deprived . so here goes.
Well this is less of a rant and more of an update. Last week my little sister was in town (which was really fun), we went all over the city - we visted.. basically everything. One day we decided to walk from the staten island ferry (bottom of Manhattan)to central park- that is more than 60 blocks… let’s just say by the end we were pretty tired and grumpy. We also got confused for twins the whole week, which made Emily mad since there is a 7 year difference between us, she kept thinking everyone thought she was old… not sure what to think of that but not dwelling on it. We tried the best sandwich on the planet while she was here… it’s called the bomb, it looks like the deli exploded… it has basically every type of cold cut known to man, I thought I was going to hate it since sandwiches aren’t my thing, and I was a little concerned about the baloney looking meat on there, but it was amazing, and it had something nasty like liverwurst (which the deli does sell) there were too many other things to notice. Hm…. so we are learning to put up with New Yorkers (which means it is time to go) the other day we went to a diner in our neighborhood (one of the few things I will miss about NYC) and our waiter ate his dinner and left, before bringing us our food- 3 weeks ago I would have been outraged, this time I didn’t even notice… time to leave.
Oh yes and the biggest update of all… I think I am going to get malaria. I know I mentioned this before but seriously there are millions of bugs here. My arms and legs look I got some weird type of pox… they are purple and blotchy, someone really should have warned me about this.
I’m not sure how Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, and Joey lived in the city without dying of a tropical illness but I am grateful my days are numbered!.
*did anyone notice we reached 100 posts! YAY!
Well this is less of a rant and more of an update. Last week my little sister was in town (which was really fun), we went all over the city - we visted.. basically everything. One day we decided to walk from the staten island ferry (bottom of Manhattan)to central park- that is more than 60 blocks… let’s just say by the end we were pretty tired and grumpy. We also got confused for twins the whole week, which made Emily mad since there is a 7 year difference between us, she kept thinking everyone thought she was old… not sure what to think of that but not dwelling on it. We tried the best sandwich on the planet while she was here… it’s called the bomb, it looks like the deli exploded… it has basically every type of cold cut known to man, I thought I was going to hate it since sandwiches aren’t my thing, and I was a little concerned about the baloney looking meat on there, but it was amazing, and it had something nasty like liverwurst (which the deli does sell) there were too many other things to notice. Hm…. so we are learning to put up with New Yorkers (which means it is time to go) the other day we went to a diner in our neighborhood (one of the few things I will miss about NYC) and our waiter ate his dinner and left, before bringing us our food- 3 weeks ago I would have been outraged, this time I didn’t even notice… time to leave.
Oh yes and the biggest update of all… I think I am going to get malaria. I know I mentioned this before but seriously there are millions of bugs here. My arms and legs look I got some weird type of pox… they are purple and blotchy, someone really should have warned me about this.
I’m not sure how Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, and Joey lived in the city without dying of a tropical illness but I am grateful my days are numbered!.
*did anyone notice we reached 100 posts! YAY!
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