I thought I would try to see if I understand Mark's instructions on providing a link. This is a U of Chicago Polisci grad student who is highly regarded as a blogger. He blogs at his peril. the last 2 U of C bloggers were denied tenure. My favorite--Daniel W. Drezner-- will now be teaching in the international relations grad school at Tufts.
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So today I was weighed hydrostatically. Basically what that means is that I weighed myself and my bathing suit outside of the water...to get my naked weight. And then I sat in a chair in an underwater scale and dunked me head underwater. They wait until you blow out all of your air. What this determines is the weight of you fat free mass: organs, muscle and bones. They use this figure to determine a healthy weight range. It was slightly intimidating, but generally helpful and I'm glad I did it.

We also now have an NFL player here...I didn't even know his team, but apparently they almost made it to the superbowl.:)

Things are going very well for me now that i finished up with the first wave of exams and papers of the term. on top of that yesterday was Undergraduate Break Day so I did not have to go to my one Friday morning class and instead spent the morning catching up on sleep.

The day off is informally known among the students and some with-it professors as "Suicide Prevention Day" since the winter and the school make it an especially tough 11 weeks. This is probably because in the past it has fallen on a day in January that experts have said is the most depressing day.

Spent the day off downtown with Mary my girlfriend getting some new clothes which was something i had been putting off and stopped by in Borders to get a Mocha and ended up entering the raffle there for front row tickets to the musical Wicked, since the drawing was only a half hour away, but we didnt win.