Late night working, and a great sleep till 8a before a nice fast shower and a hustle to the staff meeting. The meeting was great, as was the one immediately following. My next big thing today is at 3p, a … Continue reading →

I was working until nearly 1a last night, in the office. Very peaceful, but constant background stress of knowing there’s a long road ahead on this analytic project. I smoked some. When I got home, I downed some water and … Continue reading →

Make sure you know who your project partner is. I was given three for this one project– a computational modeler, a statistician and an epidemiologist. We worked hard and long on building a model of a complex system. Then we … Continue reading →

It’s Monday and I’m racing. I had a cold that lingered for a couple of days over the weekend and resulted in some excellent sleeps. The best thing about a cold is the sleep you get. Especially the dreams. Mine … Continue reading →

The last couple of days have been full. I had an extremely uncomfortable experience yesterday afternoon involving conducting a workshop online to a small group of 7 people, and during which the technology mostly failed and left me high and … Continue reading →

“Hi, you might think I’m all cuddly, but in reality I can bite you in half. But I wouldn’t do that to YOU.”

  “I got you this.”   

Hyper busy. Here’s a thing. We had a staff meeting last week that I hated. I wrote a response to it, with the intention that it goes nowhere. Someone came in to talk to us about virtual “badges” we can … Continue reading →