Tuberculosis

I had to get a physical for my summer job, and part of it is a test to make sure I don’t have tuberculosis. They stabbed me with a short, fat needle and injected something or another that made a bubble under my skin. Now it’s a little bruised hole that makes me look like [...]

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Bananas beget baby boys???

Do bananas beget baby boys? I doubt it…but apparently it’s newsworthy enough to merit a story on NPR.
A British study suggests that what a woman eats while she’s pregnant might affect the gender of the baby. The study, You are what your mother eats, claims it found that women who ate lots of breakfast cereal, [...]

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Unpacking Memories

Unpacking boxes that my mom got out of storage recently has unearthed a plethora of blasts from the past.
I found a lot of my old stuffed animals. Ringo the raccoon, “pretty baby” the cloth doll (made for me by my great aunt when I was a baby and named when I was a toddler), and Tom [...]

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So this is Christmas

“I hate Christmas.”
That’s what I told my mom a few days ago. We were driving home from a long day of hectic last-minute Christmas shopping, and a particularly annoying cheesy commercialized Christmas song had just come on the radio. “That’s sad,” my mom said.
A lot of people would cringe at such a statement, but I [...]

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Home again, home again, jiggity jig

Bianca and I are back in St. Peters once again. It’s nice to be home, even though these days Columbia gives St. Peters a run for its money in feeling like where I most belong. I drove in Thursday night through hard rain and thick fog after unsuccessfully attempting to help Emily replace the battery [...]

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