Volunteers Needed! Compensation is a Warm Fuzzy.

For those who didn't receive my mass facebook message last night:

I'm part of a group in my Research, Design and Analysis class, and for our final group project, we're conducting a study on the correlation between fast food consumption, frequency and motivation for exercise, and overall happiness/life satisfaction. As such, we are in need of volunteer participants. All that is required is that you complete a short, anonymous survey, which will take approximately five to ten minutes. Anyone who has a few minutes, and hasn't done so already, please take the time to complete the survey so we will have enough of a sampling to calculate some statistics and make inferences about the population. We need participants of several demographics, so anyone is invited and encouraged to participate. It's painless and easy, and then you can say you were a participant in a psychological study!

Survey here.

Thanks everyone! I'll be sure and post some of the results, if you're interested, including what we've hypothesized, and how the results compare to our predictions. Yay for school.

If anyone deserves to be parents...

...these two do.


This is my younger sister Emily and her husband of 2 1/2 years, KC. They have been trying for years now to have a baby and, for many reasons, aren't meeting success. Emily posted this on her blog last week about their hopes for future adoption. If you read or follow any of my family's blogs, you may have read about this already, but I wanted to help spread the word. Apparently the adoption process is very expensive and difficult, and even the most capable and qualified parental candidates have trouble starting a family. They say word-of-mouth among the best ways for these things to happen, so please read Emily's blog and let me or her know if you know of any adoption possibilities.

Like I said, if anyone deserves to start a family, these two do. They are financially stable, morally sound, and want only to raise a family to the love of God. Honestly, in these days when moral-less he-shes can be inexplicably impregnated and become celebrities on top talk shows, and when skanky teenyboppers can get kicked off their highly-rated kids' TV show because of their unplanned pregnancy and then be featured on a sickeningly and inappropriately adorable People cover, it is just painful when people who are ready, able and willing are unable to start a family.

Emily and KC, I know this is going to happen for you, I just feel it. Somehow, it will happen.