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Current favorite subject lines, dredged from my junk mail:
Important note. You need to read.
Significant letter. You must to read.
Momentous message. You should to read.

Unless you’re dying to hear about survey sampling methods or proposals for increasing teacher quality that are never going to happen, I don’t have a lot to say these days. Still in head-down-power-through mode. But at least I can stick up some pictures from my crazy weekend. Turns out that when I’ve been intoxicated since [...]

I’m three days into one of those several week periods that you suspect might be the busiest of your life. (Until you have a child, evidently, and you chuckle fondly about all those times you thought you had shit to do.) This one is entirely my own fault—I just kept saying yes to things. Good [...]

One of my readings for Cost Benefit Analysis this week was a paper analyzing the cost of the Iraq War, released at the beginning of this year. Just one more reason to thank Republicans for running the country into the ground. It begins with the nostalgic recollection of how one of Bush’s economic advisers got [...]

The professor in my research design class mentioned regression to the mean yesterday, which reminded me of this post about concepts journalism students should be exposed to before they go spewing ignorance everywhere. (I found my way to it, as usual, though WashMo.)
Here’s the list:
1. Institutional culture*
2. [...]

Dinner was becoming a little too complex, so I flaked on the turnips. Though I’m curious, now, because of all the tastes-like-dirt comments. The recipe I was going to try involves braising them in chicken broth, and was touted as “a great recipe for turnip-haters.” So I’ll keep you posted…
The hit of the night was [...]

The leaves have been changing for over a month, a week ago we had our first rain, and now it’s ridiculously warm and beautiful again. Clearly, it’s fall in Nor-Cal. In search of an appropriately autumnal dish, I whipped up this very easy, very tasty cake on Sunday. It’s wonderful warm with vanilla ice cream [...]

Off on a sailing race, leaving me with only memories.

I’m not sure how subversive these actually are, but I do think they’re funny.

Once we got engaged, Bryan and I set our wedding date 14 months in the future—just remote enough that the planning process seemed quite un-urgent. Six months later, we’re finally having to kick it into gear. Over the summer we chose a place, got some attendants in line, and (finally) picked out the official engagement [...]