December 2010
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Wishing you a healthy 2011!
Just in case you’re staying in for New Year’s Eve this year, which we did in ‘09, here are some health-related posts from early 2010 to occupy your aimless Internetting. Most of them contain exciting photos - don’t miss out.
Best Pregnancy Reference
Nastiest Dental Reference
Best Diabetes Reference
Best Vegetarian Attempt
Most Violent Text Message
Best College...
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Gaining 10 lbs. feels less lonely if Kim...
Never weigh yourself after a week long trip home.
I have gained 10 lbs. over the past two years.
BLEH.
Now is the time to follow my own advice and stop huffing Christmas cookies and homebrew.
Double bleh.
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2010 : The Jury Duty :: 2009 : The Prisoner PenPal
On our long midnight drive back from Michigan, I amused myself with deleting irrelevant phone numbers from my cell phone. I had already returned my test-drive smartphone, so it was just me and the dumbphone.
One particular phone number really got my attention as I was cleaning out the directory: Livingston County Jail. (<— their website is a real gem. check it.) I didn’t make any...
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E-M-O-LIA, the most emo Amelia I know.
It seems like pre-teething is causing quite the delicate melancholy for this lovebug.
She’s now part hipster-baby, given her wistful mirror glancing, and part emo-tween, given her fast growing Bieber-esque ‘do.
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Best of 2010: Christmas Cards
Last year I wasted spent a strangely large amount of time creating our holiday cards. Just looking through that post exhausts me. Where did that energy come from last year? God knows. And He’s keeping it a secret because it definitely evaded me this year. My generosity of time and cash was distinctly lacking this year:
I must have been feeling very cocky about the quality of our homemade...
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$h!t my Mom has said
After recently outting my mother’s new romance candidate, I decided to mine through old dusty greenerie pages and review the other nuggets of wisdom that have been recorded here.
It turns out she’s covered many scandalous topics, such as prostitution, pre-marital sex, and her own mortality.
She’s also not shy to comment on my own narcissism, with this blog being Exhibit A. I...
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$h!t my Mom says
(excerpt from a conversation last weekend)
Mother: I went to a party last night!
Me: Wha?
Mother: I decided to take a walk outside at midnight, in my pajamas. I ended up at the trailer at the end of the street, and walked in when I saw a dozen cars parked around.
Me: It's almost like being invited!
Mother: A blind guy started hitting on me. Well, he was paying a lot of attention to me. I got his business card.
(the romance continues...updates to come)
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Darkness Chasers
or: A Midnight Solstice Journey
Jon and I are cruising through Ohio on our way to the mitten-shaped mother land. We left Boston at 9pm, entered New York at 1130pm and Pennsylvania by 530am. It’s now 715am and NO sign of sun.
This may not seem newsworthy, but I assure you that doing so with a tightly caged kitty purring on the lap of the navigator is a Christmas miracle.
Weather and...
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“I try to live my life by lowering my expectations and heightening my...”
– Janelle Monae (via octopusmatthew)
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Eastern Europe says what?
Jon and I will embark on a long drive to Michigan in a few short days. It will be our second annual Christmas without the youngest Collins woman around. Booooo hiss!
That said, I am unceasingly proud of her international pizazz and humbled by her dedication to her recent Peace Corps assignment.
How’s she doing over there, you might ask? And I quote:
I was boiling some buckwheat for my...
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Kitty's First Drugs!
Green(e) Rules Everything Around Me.
The pill bottle really brings out her eyes.
It will also really reduce her consciousness when we drive back to Michigan next week. You’re welcome, Bandit!
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Because you should never have to nerd alone.
Step into the world of Harvard dental students … we’re a verbose bunch:
Download a collection of stories regarding hard work and play
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Text of the Day!
Announcing a new Greenerie feature where I extort the wit and wisdom of loved ones by publishing their terrific texts.
Inaugural feature:
“im going to attempt to drink a glass of wine in the shower. it seems like a good time.”
There were several delightful texts in the ever-distracting inbox today, but this one is a true winner. Keep ‘em coming!
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::chicago boundaries: a taxonomy of racial and... →
This map is RAD. It’s interactive and surprising - play with it!
I’m so happy to see that Uptown (my home for 3 years, and site of our only real estate investment) is one of the only ‘NO MAJORITY’ areas on the map. It’s concentration of dots is very colorful, and the community is truly diverse. This doesn’t mean it’s perfect, but I wouldn’t have...
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Only at Harvard...
could the undergrad Gen Ed requirements make me feel like learning to read at 4 years old was actually quite delayed.
“The General Education Program, known as Gen Ed, replaced the University’s 30-year-old Core Curriculum last fall. In the new program, students are required to take at least one course in each of eight areas of study: aesthetic and interpretive understanding; culture and...
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I never thought I'd meet my match.
Tonight I spent 88 consecutive minutes on the phone with my sister (first 25%) and 3rd grade niece/goddaughter (final 75%). I have never been on a long phone call and been the one to itch for closure. Until tonight.
Exhibit A: Twice this year I have used 999 of my 1,000 daytime minutes. Once in May, and once last Friday. I spent the day at home, and was dying to tele-ramble, but had only 7...
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It hurts so good.
This weekend was spent in the most bourgie New England kind of way: WINTER SPORTING!
It was my first time at a ski hill in 10 years, which meant that risk of a femur fracture or ACL rupture was more than a fleeting thought on the drive up to Vermont.
My Saturday morning snowboarding lesson was such an embarrassing failure, but I was redeemed this morning with a great ski instructor and many...
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money...”
– YEOW!
Maya Angelou (via dinosrawr, positivecollective) (via be-the-change)
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The sound of an elderly Asian lady scraping the hell out of scratch-off lotto tickets is a thought-provoking soundtrack as I sit in this coffee shop finishing my Ethics Term Paper. She’s been at it for minutes now.
It’s a welcome change from the man previously in that seat who continued commenting aloud on the passersby outside. And on the limited originality of Bob Dylan’s...
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WTForecast
This kind of 24-hour temperature drop should not be possible. I taught Earth Science this one time, so my opinion is clearly almost fact.
GREENERIE TRIVIA: Despite the gloom of this weather report, I am reminded of crafting my earliest blog post (the first one doesn’t count). Have the past 1.5 years been A) well-recorded or B) regrettably-exposed? Too soon to tell.
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You know it's going to be an important day when...
Jon’s Important Day: Commuting to New York City from Boston’s South Station for a 1-day synergyfest at an office of his new employer. Who in the world is that valuable that they are put on a train for 6 hours roundtrip in order to spend 6 hours working in a different office? THIS GUY. Ballin’ outta control.
Colleen’s Important Day: I got to spend the lunch hour sitting in...
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"Pro-Marriage"? It must mean that you're in favor...
The 2010 edition of “The State of Our Unions” — a report on attitudes toward marriage — indicates highly educated Americans are “embracing a pro-marriage mindset” even as middle Americans lose faith in the institution. That shift resembles trends normally seen in the poor, where marriage is “fragile and weak,” according to the report, issued...
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Birth of a Bandit: Houdini style
I realized this weekend that we’ve now had Bandit for 6 months.
She’s a continual source of entertainment and stress-reduction.
And never seems to hold it against us when we force her into HILARIOUS situations.
She loves the attention, as do we appreciate hers. All you I’m-Not-a-Cat-Person people out there should adopt her for the weekend and you will see the full...
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What would you say ... you do here?
I am frequently asked about my current studies at the Harvard School of Public Health. In case you’re vaguely curious, I am spending this year in a Master of Public Health program, in the department of Health Care Policy and Management.
Each link will take you to the course description, for those of you wondering what in the world I’m pondering all day. It’s fascinating stuff.
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Globalization is 23 years old.
“I’ll conclude with this charming portrait of a serial killer and a forlorn Dutch boy… oh, wait. That’s Dad and Katie at DISNEYWORLD enjoying the company of several large black disease vectors and a nice and sturdy pair of ropes protecting them from the infectious wildlife. MY HOW SHE’S GROWN! Keep doing your thang, Ms. Katie Ann, and doin’ it well. Me loves you.” 12/02/2009
Last...
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On the verge of becoming impractical AND...
If my mother had never delivered newspapers when I was in high school, I wonder how long it would have been before I got my first cell phone. The only reason I acquired one at a reasonable age (for the time), is because she had a paper route and I was occasionally “contracted” (i.e. coerced) into helping her finish some routes. This involved driving my 1982 Buick Skyhawk around ritzy...