Met with my advisor

First of all, she's really nice, which makes everything easier. I have a lot of work to do, especially in terms of statistics, but nothing really has to be reworked, which is cool. I am going to ask for an extension, though I haven't quite figured out yet how to do that... As for the results, which my advisor agreed are very interesting, I will only post them after I have turned in the paper (as she instructed me). It makes sense to me anyway...

In other news, for anyone who missed my update yesterday, Nomi can now eat eggs! She is still allergic to sesame seeds, bananas, kiwis and almonds (as far as we know) and is not allowed to have any nuts or peanuts until she's 3, but the two biggies (milk and eggs) are behind us. I think neither of us see it as a huge relief, because we've found so many ways to work around it that it really didn't make things difficult for us and we were never really worried that she had a dangerous allergy. On the other hand, it will be really fun to see her able to eat things that we've had to tell her to avoid for so long.

What's for dinner?

We don't know yet, but it might include eggs...

Results sometime in the next 2 hours.

Update:

After nearly 2 years from discovering Nomi's allergy to eggs, she passed the first part of the test tonight. If all goes well through tomorrow then she's no longer considered allergic! She was rubbing one of her eyes tonight, so we're still not certain it's OK, but at least, even if she is allergic, her allergy is very mild.

I.sent.the.first.draft.

Yes. I did. I really did. I hope my advisor's comments won't be too bad. I'm meeting with her on Thursday.

What did I send? The first draft of my seminar paper on women's estimation of their chances to conceive during their first year of trying and comparing those estimates to actual chances, at set points during that first year. (OK, re-reading that, that's quite a mouthful... Perhaps I should try again... I did research on how women estimate their chance of conceiving during their current cycle and overall during the first year (and some points in between) and then I compared that to the data reported in academic research of time-to-pregnancy.) Feel free to ask questions...

The results are really interesting. I have to find out if/when I can post them.

Woman and person

I may claim to be both, but gawrsh time is something I have way too little of.

In the meantime, Erin wrote this fabulous post... Women are and have to be more than moms. Being a mom is incredibly important, a lot of hard work, very time consuming and sometimes rewarding, but (at least for me) it's not the only thing I want to do and being a mom is not all I want to be.

Back to my paper... (it's going to be done someday soon, it really is)

New blogroll

It's up and it's on the left (scroll down some). What do you think? Too much information about each blog? Just right? Want me to add your blog? Leave a comment...

How Muppets Work

Check out this page.

I think it will really interest bigger kids as well.

More silliness than you thought possible

And hi to Elizabeth who appears in the background - I actually think it's great :-)

And, Grover, if you ever get to reading - Ohad can't believe you forgot to say hi... (BTW, this was the real Grover.)