WWC Publicity

Unbeknowest to me, Whisking with Chlamydia has received its first radio spot! And it shows. Before the radio spot there were .2 downloads of WWC per day. That number went slightly up to 1 download per day before regressing back to the mean.

But, yes. My good friend Alex Sergay performed two outstanding readings from WWC when he filled in for the radio show Pandora' Lunchbox on WCBN Ann Arbor. This marks the fourth time I've been featured in some way on that radio station. (Those poor, poor listeners.) The first time, I was wished a happy birthday by Alex and a cute co-guest. The second time, I played a wonderful mix of opera, Vietnamese V-Pop, and Rilo Kiley the likes of which have never been seen again. Then, last December, Alex put up part of my Ultimate X-Mas playlist that included such hits as Christmas Smorgasbord and The Hat I Got for Christmas is too Big. I'll have to post that one of these days. But this, the fourth, has to be my finest hour or something. Maybe I will go ahead and do that cooking podcast after all while my celebrity is high.

Anyhoo, here are clips of Alex reading my recipe for burgers and how to boil pasta. Thanks, Alex!

April is Indeed the Cruellest Month

I was e-mailing this rant to a friend when I remembered: I have a web log that I hardly post to anymore. People complain on their web logs. I can complain on my web log!!!

But like the great poet himself said, April is indeed the cruelest month. Hierarchical linear modeling final tomorrow morning at 10 AM, fly to Salt Lake City (ugh!) at 2:15 for NCTM, attend boring keynote, finish stats homework that night, give presentation on Tuesday afternoon, attend boring sessions on Wednesday, fly out Thursday at 7 AM, not back in Raleigh again until 4 PM. Two stats lectures will also have been missed due to this great trip to the Mormon state. Group meeting on Friday to discuss book chapters. Have I started writing my book chapter? Well of course not, that would be useful! Why did I decide to go to grad school again?