FDA says okay, but depending on the ruling of the ruling made by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, this may not become a part of the Public Health Strategy in some states. And I think we know which ones would rather not, since they’ll consider this another encouragement of promiscuity.
Month: June 2006
Teaching How to Write a Resume
Today I made a crack with my class about my teaching over the last semester. We’d just finished a very detailed examination of two different resume types, and I was asking if they had any questions, and they said, “No.” “Was it all clear?” “Very clear!” a few of them said. When I quipped, “First time all semester, I was finally clear!” A few of them laughed just a little too hard at that. However, it was a particularly good lesson. I handed out two resumes, one using the Experience-Based format, and the other using the Skills-Based format. We discussed …
Woman Marries Snake
No, really. No comment necessary. Via Ritu.
Tight Shirts and the Complainer
Two things from the last week: Very tight T-shirts seem to have become de rigeur on campus. I don’t know if it’s the weather, or whether these young ladies are thinking that wearing T-shirts that show off their chests will help “push-up” their grades slightly (uh, terrible pun), but I have noticed that all of a sudden, show-offy T-shirts are being worn by just about anyone who feels she has something to show off. (The other young women are still in princess garb and plainer, baggier clothes.) It’s not working, by the way. I am nothing if not scrupulously fair …
Once, Twice… an Uncle
My baby sister Annie (“Isabella” is her real name, and what she prefers to be called, but I can’t help but call her Annie) should be giving birth to her and her husband Martin’s baby either sometime tonight or sometime tomorrow, Winnipeg Time. This will mean I am uncle for the second time in the last few years. One interesting thing is that nobody knows whether it’s a boy or girl. Everyone seems to be speculating. My nephew thinks it’s a girl. My Dad expressed the same opinion before he passed on. My mother thought it was a boy, at …