Over the week leading up to Easter, God stuck a couple things in my face that gave me pause for thought.
First was the recurring theme “if you had one week left to live, what would you do?”
Of course I had the typical “see the world”-type thoughts, but before that I had another thought, one that’s [...]

It’s better to wear out than rust out - Frances Willard
Nice quote! This speaks to how I hope to spend my summer. I won’t be taking classes this summer for several reasons, the primary being I need to the time to build up my school fund for next year. (Xavier’s a bit expensive [...]

It’s two and a half months into the year already. Time’s sure flying by.
As I wait for the UK game to get started (It’s 11:15pm right now, and with the severe weather in Atlanta, the game has been delayed for quite some time, both because of the continuing weather and damage to the Georgia [...]

I’m in an interesting position at work - I’m the last remaining employee that has detailed knowledge of a particular system. Namely, I’m referring to PPD GCL’s Remote Data Access (RDA), which is the website that displays test results online for clinical monitors, sponsors, investigators, etc. to view. This is the job that [...]

I was a little ticked (and it was all I could do to keep it at the “little” level) at the upper management of my company this week.
First, some background. I work at PPD Global Central Labs (PPD GCL), which, along with our sister lab in Brussels, Belgium was formerly MRL International. We [...]

Ready or not, I’m committed now - I just registered for the Flying Pig 10K!
As I mentioned in my goals, I wanted to do three 5Ks or one 10K this year. I decided there’s no time like the present to start reaching for that goal, and I might as well shoot for the moon [...]

Well, another year has come and gone. Wow, where did 2007 go?!? Time flies by ever faster the older I get. A couple years ago, I had an interesting conversation with a friend about this, and she said that time seems to go by quicker because a day, month, year, etc. each [...]

Christmas has come and gone. Now it’s back to work… I’m not very motivated, so I thought I’d squeeze in a quick blog post.
I hope everyone had a great Christmas, enjoyed time with family and friends and took advantage of the days off work and/or school to relax. I had a great Christmas; [...]

Ahhh…one final is over! Woohoo! My other final is on the 20th, so it’s still a ways off - and too close to Christmas. Given how stressed and overwhelmed I’ve felt this semester, it feels good to know that I’m going to come out of it with good grades…and “only” 50 more [...]

…has come to an end! As I wrote about last week, James talked me into growing some facial hair, specifically a mustache for Movember. Well, I gave it two weeks and couldn’t stand it any more. I like a day or two of scruff, but two weeks…not so much.
Instead of growing just [...]