Red Wine for Long Life
They just keep finding more reasons why it's good for you. Now apparently red wine molecules mimic the life-extending effects of caloric restriction which of course begs the question: as a red-wine wino, why am I not skinny?? Ah well, at least I'll live a long time.
It also helps explain my grandfather. He's close to 100 years old and still has his glass of red wine every day.

Let me get this straigh, according to MTV, Justin Timberlake is better than Johnny Cash?

I hate waiting to leave. The shuttle is picking me up 2 hours before my flight, which I think is a little excessive, but hey. And so now I'm packed, the aparment is clean, and I'm full of nervous energy and wondering what I forgot to pack and what I haven't done.

My cousin took Thrasher out in DC. Apparently they had lots of fun. She says it's too bad that he's going off to school (I think he leaves today). But she's impressed that a "Harvard grad on his way to Yale law wasn't pretentious at all". I'm pretty excited that he actually contacted her. I think any other time I've asked a relative to meet a friend who is new in town it has fallen through for some reason. Now I owe him one, but that's ok.

I got my bid results for fall: 40000 Operations Management: Business Process Fundamentals - Dan Adelman and 42001 Competitive Strategy - Marianne Bertrand. I had Prof Bertrand for Micro, and she's great so that's exciting. I'm not sure that two case-based courses is a good idea for fall, so I may try to swap 40000 for Investments. I'm also told that Strategy is a time-intensive course, which makes me nervous. I'm now at the point where I've taken all the foundation and breadth requirements and have to actually chose a concentration and electives, which makes it harder to figure out which courses to take since there are so many more choices. Both classes have in-class case-based finals. ewwwwww. Also, 40000 meets on Mondays, which is often a day that I'm needed at work later for meetings. So I dunno. I wasn't charged any points, and I will be if I switch, so I have incentive to stay in the ones I got. Clearly my bids on the schedules I wanted weren't high enough, and I can't afford to lose points if I want to take ethics on campus in the winter or decision making in the spring (both with well-loved teachers who happen to have Nobels).

Ran into Ellisa Pichulik at Guthries on Wednesday. Hadn't seen her since the day we turned in our BA papers together. Ah, yesterday. Neither of us could get into the poli sci office so Margo, along for moral support, had to do it for us. It's very odd to see someone who you weren't friends with but didn't dislike and never really thought about. Apparently we've lived in the same neighborhood all year. She's hoping we'll run into each other more often.

My brother is planning a trip to Chicago to visit me. YAY! I'm hoping he'll come when we can see a Cubs game. I'll probably take him to see TMLMTBGB too.

Okay, gotta finish fretting and panicking.
- posted by Heidi @ 8:19 AM