six week checkup
December 21st, 2009 nickHard to believe it’s been almost 6 weeks already. Here’s the latest crop…
about time…
April 23rd, 2009 nickA paper that I’ve been working on for close to two years with some colleagues at school has just been published by Lancet Infectious Diseases. Our review of incubation periods was selected as one of the “Editor’s choice” articles for this month’s issue and is also featured on the podcast. Maybe it’ll even be cited a few times…
spring beginneth
April 7th, 2009 nickCoincidence? You decide.
1605h EDT :: Beckett throws the first pitch of the season for the Sox.
1605 EDT :: I am released from my position as an alternate juror on the murder trial that I’ve been sitting on for six days.
Starting tomorrow, I get a full day to work for the first time since before the trial, before Thailand and before ENAR, i.e. since March 13.
This is really the top news story today?
February 25th, 2009 nick
Google News headlines, 25 Feb 2009
gas prices
January 15th, 2009 nickSome guy (do I know him?) wrote a nice letter to the editor encouraging politicians to consider a gas tax increase and increases in tolls, etc… as a way to help Maryland’s deficit while at the same time encouraging responsible consumer practices. Good ideas!
delillo on obama?
January 5th, 2009 nickThis is my dream team of sorts. Thanks to Johnny who pointed me to this blog of Don Delillo’s on the election. It strikes me (especially when you see that there’s another blog in this series of War on the White House blogs by “Pip Dawkins, 19th Century Street Urchin”) that perhaps it’s a satire of sorts — this could be some Onion hack making stuff up that sounds like DD. But maybe the overblown (and recycled — the first lines of the chronologically first post sound an awful lot like the first lines of Underworld) is just what we have to expect from DD these days.
american tune
November 4th, 2008 Johannacheck out this ad that progressive future, the group that i’m working on behalf of, aired over the past few days on CNN and CSPAN.
i find it incredibly moving.
JN
11 hours…
November 4th, 2008 Johannaour campaign song is death or glory by the clash. we kick off every national conference call with it.
there are 11 hours left until the polls close in virginia…
here’s a snapshot of life so far this morning:
i started my round of wake-up calls to my directors at 5:30am. i got my wake up call from the national director at 6:00pm, while parking my car at walgreens to run in and grab some election day sharpies.
it’s pouring rain in norfolk. flood warnings this afternoon. one of my directors tried to vote this morning in hampton and there was a 4 hour wait at the polls. she decided her time was better spent making it her business to get others to stand in line rather than standing in line herself. so she and her boyfriend have 200 voters that they are reaching out to for the next 11 hours… the rain makes our work to get people to the polls even more important. (on a side-note, i encouraged kasie to phonebank through her precinct while she was standing in line to vote.)
the first crew headed out into the field at 7:30am with a goal of knocking on their first door at 7:45am. now i’m alone at the office waiting to receive volunteers and collect numbers from the field. coffee is in the coffee-pot, clipboards and walklists are prepped. and just as i was starting to feel a little down, and thinking about starting my wrap-up report, i called my colleague liz for a pick-me-up…
not only did she play a song- barack-steady – to me over the phone, but duh… hop on the phones, jojo, and call voters!
so, here i go. phone. ear. glue.
will check in later.
10 hrs 43 mins.
17+24+1 (taking into account daylight savings)
November 2nd, 2008 Johannathat’s how many hours remain until the polls close.
i’m running our get out the vote operation in norfolk as part of the last 96 hour push.
as state director, one of my jobs was crunching the numbers to set goals for our GOTV efforts for each of the four offices doing this outreach in the state. when i calculated the numbers for how many voters the directors and volunteers could reach in the final four days in norfolk, i used rate calculations and analyses that would have made even my biostatistical husband proud… and when it all came around the numbers was… 1320.
for those mayan calendar buffs out there, you’ll say, of course! that makes perfect sense!
for those non-mayan calendar experts, 1320 is the number of galactic synchronicity and harmony. it is the number of nature’s rhythms triumphing over militance. it is the number of barack obama winning over john mccain.
with that good omen out there, i can’t tell if it’s a bad omen that we’re behind on meeting our goal after today. any of you want to come to norfolk and help bring about galactic synchronicity? i mean, we all knew the stakes were high, but this takes the whole thing to a whole new level.
ok. daylight savings time just kicked in. bedtime.
winning in florida
October 25th, 2008 nickTomorrow it’s off to Florida for a little GOTV work (my attempt to not feel too outdone by my wife, or at least to be able to empathize with her when she gets back) before Nationals next weekend. Two interesting articles online today about Obama’s strong ground operation in Florida one from the NYTimes, the other from the National Journal.
Sheesh, this was a busy week! It involved submitting a paper, a last-minute visit from my folks (who did all the small cleaning things that have fallen to the wayside in my bachelorhood like scrubbing the dish drain and wiping down the dust on the toilet tank — thanks, guys!), my computer crashing and having to sent it back to Apple (thank god for Agrippa — the 12″ G4 soldier), coordinating 20+ ultimate players who are volunteering for Obama next week, answering ornery emails from a class of 500+ students whose online submmission and return of problem sets went shall we say not as smoothly as we had hoped, MVP bussing it up to NYC for the last practice before nationals.
If I hadn’t been using Dropbox, the whole computer crashing thing would have been a significant pain in the ass and diversion of energy. Instead, it was taken in stride.
For those looking to follow the action in Florida, follow this link. Yes, we are the 15 seed (of 16). Nowhere to go but up.
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