Monkey Monday: Readers… 22 August 2011 9:08 am
Posted by Tracy in : eating,events,family,friends,good news,life,monkeys,nyc,photos,pictures,politics,silly,tea , add a comment…I married him.
Photo by the kindness of a stranger and Peter’s iPhone. In case you don’t click through for the caption on Flickr, here it is:
Gay people can, and Tracy and I did!
On pi approximation day 2011 around 4pm, Tracy and I got married at the city clerk’s office in downtown Manhattan. At T+16 hours, we told our families. At T+40 hours, we went to cheer for all the people getting married who previously could not.
And now for some teachable moments! (more…)
Thank You Thursday: Oh. Hell. Yes. 9 June 2011 12:58 am
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Weights are lifted that I did not even know I was carrying, party people.
Big huge thanks and love to everyone who has ever been supportive, including but by no means limited to everybody who sent nice messages on Facebook and/or Twitter when I was being all giddy on said media about graduation-related activities. Steinhardt faculty kickline FTW forever! And so on.
“I act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends/ But I really just have friends.” —Dar Williams, “My Friends”, End Of The Summer.
Thank You Thursday: Tara Parker-Pope 4 March 2010 8:15 am
Posted by Tracy in : diet stress is a health hazard,eating,good news,health,health at every size,media,news,nutrition,thank you Thursday , 2 commentsSeriously, youse guys, I haven’t been following Tara Parker-Pope’s Well blog for the New York Times super-closely or anything, but on several occasions now it’s been hard for me to ignore the fact that her reporting keeps taking a remarkably reasonable view of health and weight, most recently in a post that’s, well, downright critical of the all-too-popular misconception that weight changes are a simple function of calories consumed and burned—especially for a mainstream publication like the Times (albeit only on one of the paper’s blogs, not in its printed pages, but still). Here’s my favorite part, with boldface emphasis from me on the ideas that were SO EXCITING to see:
“I’m not saying throw up your hands and forget about it,” Dr. Friedman [Jeffrey Friedman, head of Rockefeller University’s molecular genetics lab] said. “Instead of focusing on weight or appearance, focus on people’s health. There are things people can do to improve their health significantly that don’t require normalizing your weight.”
What, you mean there might be more to health than body weight? (more…)
What are you up to today, Tracy? 15 October 2009 10:56 am
Posted by Tracy in : books,cooking,culture,fangirl,food as spectator sport,fun,geekery,good news,Harold McGee,media,school,thank you Thursday , 1 comment so farWhy thank you, hypothetical question, I’m glad you asked! Check this out:
The New York University Fales Library,
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education
and Human Development, Department of
Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health;
and Clark Wolf cordially invite you to:
FOOD SHOW
WHEN PERFORMANCE BECOMES LUNCH & WHY WE FINALLY HAVE AN APPETITE FOR A NEW SORT OF COOKING SHOW
Thank you Thursday: ice cream appreciation. 11 September 2009 4:04 pm
Posted by Tracy in : consumerism,dessert,eating,fangirl,food snobbery,good news,milk,news,pictures,politics,school,video , add a commentSo this belated Thank you Thursday is going up Friday, just like Monday’s monkeys were a bit off-schedule. Speaking of off-schedule, it turns out I can’t crash tonight’s Contemporary Issues class, because Professor Ray’s out of town. So much for my cunning plan. On the upside, I’m back to digging the syllabus for Advanced Topics: Food Sociology, and I have written permission to skip the class which overlaps so strongly with the sustainable agriculture course I took at the University of Oregon. Victory dance! Clearly, this calls for ice cream, or at least the idea thereof (it’s kind of cold and wet out for the real thing).
First of all, a little bit of classic Sesame Street:
Yay! Thanks, YouTube! And thank you, ice cream, for being delicious and making me happy. (more…)
