our lives in small town, East Africa

Thursday, February 22, 2007

busy

I took on too much this semester, and I'll really feeling the crunch. I want to keep up the blog, but can't find much time. I think it'd be a good idea to just put pictures up, but we haven't taken any new pictures. Sheesh.

Here's some of the stuff I'm trying to do:

-get outside comments on and rewrite paper on last summer's research on maternal anemia, with an eye toward publication

-design, get ethical review board permission for (got it today!), and conduct a small study on the effects of changing policies on syringe-exchange in Connecticut

-write a concept sheet (with an eye toward writing and publishing a paper) on health-care utilization, based on a large HIV prevention research study being conducted in India

-work

-keep the house in somewhat decent order

-cook, eat, and clean up

-write a midterm taking survey data, cleaning it up, coding, analyzing, and interpreting it

-write a midterm on the epidemiological associations between religiosity/spirituality and health

-design an (fake) intervention for HIV-positive Jamaican youth to get them to take their meds

-read a Swahili-language novel about prisoners who were jailed (without reason, charge, or trial) after the assassination of the first president of Zanzibar

-pay attention to Juma

-pay attention to Justin

-not go insane

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