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Heal it up
Jun. 4th, 2006 05:16 pmI haven’t posted much since Christmas because frankly the past several months have been pretty awful both for me and for some of my dearest friends and because we have been short-handed and drowning at work. But the Pollyanna in me insists that the sun is about to shine again. Thanks to those who have kept my brain from exploding, including one special one who will soon receive the coolest of black t-shirts.
At least I got to spend a few days in Montreal recently, at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), the trade association for my profession. OK, so it rained chats et chiens. Much of the time was spent indoors attending serious presentations and scouting out papers for Public Opinion Pros, the online magazine for which I moonlight as associate editor. But I got to dance with the magazine’s editor at the post-awards dinner disco Saturday night, and I enjoyed a fabulous dinner Friday night in Old Montreal with six work colleagues from CA and PA, including my friend Melissa, who is executive VP of the polling firm we most often use. Ah, the food: filet de boeuf aux cinq poivres and mushroom ravioli fit for the gods!
And on the plane trip, I read a neat crime novel, The Nothing Man (1954), by Jim Thompson, about which I may have more to say later.
I was going to link to a front-page article in today’s Washington Post that discusses the results of a survey of African-American men we did with the Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation. But the website requires registration (not subscription), and I can’t figure out how to link to the article itself for those who are not registered.
This summer we are going to try out a new way to use polls to measure public preparedness in the likely area of landfall for a major hurricane (category 3+) just before the storm strikes. I would prefer that we don’t have to put this capability to the test. But if we do, we hope to be able to feed back information to the CDC and other government agencies in time to get out last-minute targeted emergency preparedness messages.
Gotten a little gabby: that what happens to people who don’t post for two months.
At least I got to spend a few days in Montreal recently, at the annual conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), the trade association for my profession. OK, so it rained chats et chiens. Much of the time was spent indoors attending serious presentations and scouting out papers for Public Opinion Pros, the online magazine for which I moonlight as associate editor. But I got to dance with the magazine’s editor at the post-awards dinner disco Saturday night, and I enjoyed a fabulous dinner Friday night in Old Montreal with six work colleagues from CA and PA, including my friend Melissa, who is executive VP of the polling firm we most often use. Ah, the food: filet de boeuf aux cinq poivres and mushroom ravioli fit for the gods!
And on the plane trip, I read a neat crime novel, The Nothing Man (1954), by Jim Thompson, about which I may have more to say later.
I was going to link to a front-page article in today’s Washington Post that discusses the results of a survey of African-American men we did with the Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation. But the website requires registration (not subscription), and I can’t figure out how to link to the article itself for those who are not registered.
This summer we are going to try out a new way to use polls to measure public preparedness in the likely area of landfall for a major hurricane (category 3+) just before the storm strikes. I would prefer that we don’t have to put this capability to the test. But if we do, we hope to be able to feed back information to the CDC and other government agencies in time to get out last-minute targeted emergency preparedness messages.
Gotten a little gabby: that what happens to people who don’t post for two months.
