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Jumping on the bandwagon with some of you out in the blogosphere to spill out the goods...

Missing phone... as it was taking the photo!

My lovely purse is full of many wonderful things. My sweet Staedtler pens, 200C prelim exam notecards, pens and highlighter, Post-Its, iPad (usually in its sleeve), diabetes supplies and ibuprofen kept in a pencil case, wallet, valet key, something sweet, Chapstick, gum, and keys.

Not shown are the random receipts and miscellaneous papers than end up in my bag. This photo makes it look rather clean and organized. Not so.

...and this concludes this procrastination session.

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8. Tie a Baby Quilt

Tying Daphne's quilt in March.

I was reminded that I have been involved in blanket making for Daphne! So, voila, #8 checked off!


1. Leave the country. (Canada!)
2. Go wining in Napa/Sonoma.
3. Go backpacking.
4. Walk across the Golden Gate.
5. Finish my master's degree.
6. Have a gluten-free beer tasting.
7. Buy my first diamond. (Nose stud!)
8. Crochet a baby blanket. (Or... type a baby quilt!)
9. Ride a roller coaster. (Disneyland!)
10. Take a midnight walk on the beach.
11. Make gluten-free pasta.
12. Paint.
13. Take a tap class in San Francisco. (Changed to Davis as I found a class offered here!)
14. Write my own sexual autobiography.
15. Do an entire roll of instant film using strangers as subjects.
16. Get over fear of touching raw chicken. (Rubbed raw chicken down with butter and stuffed it with garlic!)
17. Play the California lottery. (Lost!)
18. Hold a newborn baby. (Held little Daphne Kate!)
19. Create a signature cocktail.
20. Make my own goat cheese.
21. See the San Francisco Ballet. (Saw the San Francisco Symphony with Sean!)
22. Take the train to Reno.
23. Have my photo taken at 1 Infinite Loop. (Snapped by Sarah!)
24. Be a tourist in Salt Lake City. (Showed Sean around my beloved, and sometimes bizarre, hometown!)

Eleven down. Thirteen to go!

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Conference Proposal!

I finished my poster proposal last night... or, well, this morning! Here is the super sexy title (thanks, Scott, for helping me chop it down!):

Yep! It turned out to be a lot of fun. I always forget how much fun I have writing and researching. Once I get past the tiny amount of anxiety, I love it. Anyway, here are some cool pie charts and one neat-o regression table.

Not surprisingly, people tend to date within their ethnic group (or multiethnic group). But still, there are differences in those rates. Also interesting, about 25% of the teens who were dating in my sample were in cross-ethnic relationships.

And my delightful regression table. Quick and dirty how-to-read regression table for my readers! The numbers in the table are slopes. So, for instance, for every one unit increase in peer interracial climate (good!), is associated on average with a 0.41 decrease in reported partner hostility. Isn't that spiffy? If you want to know what's going on with those interactions (exactly same-ethnicity times peer interracial climate -- simple, eh?), I can share. It's surprising!

One last thing, even though being in a cross-ethnic relationship was associated with a decrease in partner warmth, it wasn't associated with a decrease in happiness (not shown) or satisfaction. So while behavior within the relationship is different, teens in cross-ethnic relationships are just as happy and satisfied. Interesting, right?

In the end, better peer interracial climate is associated with less hostility in romantic relationship during late adolescence, regardless of the ethnic make-up of the couple. COOL.

So that's my proposal. This one was much easier to write than the one for SRCD. Practice makes better, I suppose. Well, now it's just me and prelims. If you have fingers to cross, please do so!

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