I learned medicine–on the internets!

I don’t know whether to get the H1N1 vaccine, and I don’t know whether to get it for The Baby.
Yesterday I went to the GP to get some blood tests (Hi, ridiculously low iron levels!  How are we doing now?) and a flu shot (which they ran out of, so I ended up getting it [...]

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I hate October and other updates.

Hi.
So if what I wrote below is true, and it might be, I’m going to try to undo my bad bloggery by posting every day. We’ll refrain from contemplating my likelihood of success until after I’ve failed.  Here, then, in handy list form, is what I’ve been up to in October (and before that):

I finished [...]

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10 Minute Post #2

Most blogs have a recurrent feature, like a weekly post on music or a book review. On my old blog I used to post photos, but since I’m working for anonymity here, I’ve got to forgo that one.  So I’m going to try out the “discussion post” trope, in part because it ironizes the quiet [...]

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18 Miles of Books

There are two things worth talking about today. No, three. Three things [insert laugh of Sesame Street's Count].

Topic the First: book shopping, and why it makes me minorly panicky and majorly brain dead.

The Second: my dissertation, and why I need to explain to my family what I’m up to these days.

The [...]

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