Women Buying Health Policies Pay a Penalty Women pay much more than men of the same age for individual health insurance policies. Speaking as a woman "of childbearing age" who bought and paid for individual... who are almost all women, arranged for 1) an ice cream potlock complete with special toppings and 2) homemade banana pudding. All the day Aunt Flo came to visit. She was so happy with the treats

Умберто Эко и Лаврентий Берия На днях у нас в университете с циклом лекций выступал Умберто Эко. В понедельник, на обеде, я рассмотрел его поподробнее. В свои 76 он не так уж похож на свои известные...Pendulum." Tакая вот gloria mundi. Правда, среди них не только будущие русисты, но и физики, биологи, экономисты, политологи. Интересно было бы провести такой же микроопрос среди российских студентов

Remember the bodysuit? Fashion designer Donna Karan, who changed the way career women dressed in the 1980s, turns 60 today. Office dress codes have relaxed since then, but every workplace has its...because I don't like casual. I want to be able to dress funky or goth or whatever. And I usually do. And thankfully I only have to wear a suit 1-2 a year for work, for a big presentation or something

Time to catch up on RL stuff: New Therapist, New Center Yesterday I went in to the Emory psych clinic where I get my treatment. They have a new, much nicer and convenient location, and I also have a new therapist, now that my old one has moved on. Like him, she's a resident. Since it was our first time talking, she went put me through an "intake" interview, asking me all sorts of questions about...

Is it just me, or do all software updates show up at the same time? Yesterday I got home and was prompted to update my McAfee suite, Firefox and the entire WinXP OS (massive security upgrade). So I did...computer and was prompted to upgrade Firefox and Adobe. Oh, and Entourage says my Exchange DB is broken. And I had to spend 20 min. fighting with Entourage. Hey, I just want to get back to work

Working at home this morning as I wait for my dishwasher to arrive. I am optimistic the phone will ring any minute now. Meanwhile wouldn't you know that this morning, of all mornings, I have all these things that need to be done at work. I can do most of them from here, but some critical ones, not. I really need to get IT to set me up with remote desktop access. Gah.

Via work I am expose to buttloads of health & medical news and today EXTRA buttloads of such, but this story cracked me up! Chimps can recognise friends by their behinds This article appears in New Scientist, not News of the Weird. It is The Awesome.

There's been a ton of construction going on in this building all year -- it's why our dept. moved to the third floor through next Feb. -- but I was still surprised when this morning, there was banging...quite percussive. My co-worker looked over at me and say "What you doing over there?" It sounded to her like I was kidding my computer. But no. Anyway, it's stopped for now, but I bet it'll be back

...of us being overweight is affecting our ability to start a family. A few weeks ago, our trainer told us about another client of his that has lost weight through a medical weight loss program at Emory University. I spoke with my doctor about this program, and she highly recommended it. According to our doctors, Mark and I are both considered medically morbidly obese (scary, right?). We went to...

...LiveJournal. And yes, that's right, I now have a Twitter account -- userid wcdarling or real name Wendy Darling. Got my mobile web set up to access a lot of useful web sites too -- Cliff Mobile (Emory shuttle locations in real time), MARTA (bookmarking bus schedule, whoo!), NY Times, CNN, AMC Atlantic Station 16 movie schedule, Facebook. Meanwhile here at work I'm producing a whole set of podcasts...