hey everyone,
am leaving for Baaaaaaaaaahston tomorrow a.m., for 4 days of pain fun. my boss and I sent out the info for our poster today to some company in georgia, in a little bit of a rush, some tense moments, and it will be delivered blown up to 36x48 inches to the hotel tomorrow. there are two posters that I worked on in all, one I will be seeing for the first time in Boston, since one of the other authors wrote it up (a psychologist who used to work at CHOP and now is at Boston Children's and Harvard). I will send you the posters (in powerpoint) attached to emails, I don't think that I can post them here on the blog. very exciting though, especially considering how much work I put into the miserable stuff. My first real scientific achievement. besides your dissertation, dad, I might be the first published researcher in the family...don't know if grandpa did any research.
will try to live it up in Boston as much as possible.
had a good weekend, got some breathing room after having so much company this month. can't believe that it is almost april. that means it's been a year since coming back from my trip. doesn't really seem that long ago. so much has happened, really.
hope everyone else is fine. Dad, hope you continue to feel better.
C, again, it was good to talk in the car. keep thinking about the human response to sudden traumatic events. I was thinking that even from a bio-psychological p.o.v. it would be interesting - overcoming the "fight or flight" response (we'll use that terminology even though it is a bit antiquated) to think about more than just oneself and one's survival. it's really overriding parts of the brain that say run run, or loot, loot, to think about the greater good. almost like tribalism. it would be interesting to put fMRIs onto people who consider themselves group or individual oriented and see what brain areas light up when confronted with simulations of these kinds of situations: terrorist attacks, black out in confined spaces... lots of cool shit could happen. definitely worth looking into.
JP, hope the writing is going well. Buy the newest Rolling Stone magazine... HST is on the cover and there are some amazing articles in there. Once describes how he writes and I think it could help you think about creating an environment that is conducive to writing.
all from me.
love,
H
- posted by H @ 3/28/2005 10:42:00 PM