News:

  • I’m playing the Heavenly Friend and doing some crazy ballet and carnival tricks in Narberth’s Carousel, March 12-27! Tickets are actually seat-specific, so you can reserve yours and get good ones up front!
  • Grad school is rolling me, but I am happy that I am learning =)

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If I’m doing anything exciting, I’ll be sure to post it here.

6 March 2010
Oops, guess I forgot about this page for the past seven months. Lots going on; lab is really busy but it’s okay cuz I’m doing really cool stuff! Theater-wise, I’m playing the Heavenly Friend and doing some crazy ballet and carnival tricks in Narberth’s Carousel, March 12-27! Tickets are actually seat-specific, so you can reserve yours and get good ones up front!
4 August 2009
Heidi asked me to be part of her Walnut Street Theatre class showcase as an alumna. I was nervous because I haven’t done any theater for almost a year, but I took the chance to sing “Too Much For One Heart,” a beautiful song that was written for Miss Saigon but was cut before the show was finalized. There is always room for improvement!
26 June 2009
Partly as a reward for finishing clerkships, I got a tattoo of a dragonfly on my posterior shoulder. Yep. It rocks. I LOVE IT!!!
22 June 2009
Finished with the medicine clerkship, I am now officially in grad school! Sweeeeet. My PI is Jim Gee.
31 May 2009
Nuclear medicine rocks. I may have found my chosen career.
30 May 2009
I got my navel pierced =D
1 May 2009
The past several months have whizzed by. I just finished my first month of Inpatient Medicine at HUP, am now at Pennsy, and will do Nuclear Medicine in June!
28 March 2009
I did the honorable thing and sacrificed my study time for the Psychiatry shelf in the name of Spoof. Remind me not to do a ballad next year.
9 December 2008
After a two-year hiatus, I am back in med school with the current MS2 class!
28 November — 13 December 2008
You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown runs in Berwyn!
20-22 November 2008
Penn Players presents A New Brain on campus at the Annenberg Center. I helped make some of the props, including the neck brace and the posters on brain anatomy, “fluid in the brain’ and “eating myself alive!” I also helped a bit with set construction, but the wood shop tools kind of scare me.
22 October 2008
Ticket info for You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown is now available. The box office says we are getting more reservations for our show than for the one that is currently onstage!
3-18 October 2008
Godspell runs at Bridge Players Theatre in Burlington, NJ. I will be singing “Learn Your Lessons Well” and the upper harmony on “By My Side.”
16 October 2008
I finished developing the site for Taggle, a company that produces fun handmade cloth nametags for kids!
14 October 2008
A site I had built for Strathmore University Foundation was launched.
29 September 2008
I finished developing the AgriTrace Kenya website.
19 September 2008
I finished developing the Locust Capital Management website.
10 September 2008
A dream come true: I (perhaps a little too excitedly) accepted the role of Sally in Berwyn Footlighters’ production of YAGM Charlie Brown!! EEEEEEEEEEE!!!! (I could go on, but I don’t want to be too annoying.)
3 September 2008
Due to some casting changes, I get to sing the duet “By My Side” in Godspell! It is an eerily beautiful song, I love it and I’m pumped!
29-31 August 2008
My brother, mom and I stayed in Annapolis for the holiday weekend (Labor Day). It was all about the crab.
29 August 2008
I developed the template for Moving Healthcare Forward
2 August 2008
I just finished developing and launching The Spirit of Cape May’s new website :)
22 July 2008
I got a role in The Bridge Players Theatre production of Godspell! I’ll be singing “Learn Your Lessons Well.” The show is an unusual piece in that the script is extremely flexible, and so the director has lots of creative freedom. It’s going to be fun =)
4th of July weekend 2008
I went to see my brother and took him to Phillips, a well-known seafood chain in Maryland. He eats like a horse. And he was thrilled with the buffet. They should give him a supersized pail for all the snow crab he can eat.
19 - 28 June 2008
Final Respects runs at the Burlington County Footlighters! I play Verna, a crazy Japanese woman who provides comic relief amid the drama. There’s a picture of us in the Inquirer!
20 June 2008
Working under GiantSky, I completed the web development for the new Independent Hotel blog
6-9 June 2008
Time to visit my buddy Ingrid in San Fran =D
3 June 2008
Summer musical theatre class starts!
31 May 2008
A few seasons ago, I played soccer with a rec league. I stopped playing to do other things, but a few weeks ago the team needed another girl, so I started subbing for them. Today, we placed second after two games, a round of OT, and PK’s, ending the day in a warm rain.
30 May 2008
Working under GiantSky, I finished up developing the site for the Simeone Foundation Museum, which houses a collection of historic racecars. I’ve never been there, but they look really cool! Plus, the site has a content management system (CMS), which enables the client to update site content without knowledge of programming languages. Kick ass!
23 May 2008
Tickets for the play I’m doing, Final Respects, are available online!
7 May 2008
The website for Pokie-Pokè the Jongleur, which I designed and built, was finally launched.
19 March 2008
My little brother is District III Player of the Week! (He plays baseball.)
Player of the Week
16 March 2008
I’ll be playing a comedic supporting role in an original play that goes up in June. Stay tuned!
29 January 2008
Musical theatre class starts!
27 January 2008
A funny link pertaining to the time breakdown of modern web design

site updates log

Changes to the site will be posted here.

6 March 2010
I decided I’ve had enough fun programming my blog from scratch and switched to a software package to enable all the interactive goodies blogs can do. It pretty much looks the same. Now I just have to actually start blogging!
1 November 2009
Ithought I’d have more free time in grad school. Harumph. On the up side, I did pull an all-nighter to make my halloween costume! Here are some pix of Chris and me in our pirate gear.
23 August 2009
I’ve been spending several summer weekends with Chris and his family at the Jersey shore, and I finally got around to taking some pix of the beach. Hurricane Bill passed by this weekend, so I was hoping for pictures of some crazy waves. But pictures of a typical day are just as good =)
16 August 2009
I added a clip “Too Much For One Heart,” a quote from Chris, and a picture of Allison, Mital and me.
31 May 2009
Here are some photos in the new grad school section. I know, I know, I’m not in grad school just yet.
1 May 2009
I added a quote from my attending, Dr. Stern.
17 January 2009
The YAGMCB dvd’s arrived today, so I uploaded some of my favorite clips.
4 December 2008
I’m renaming the site to Worldwide Penguin! Now comes the not-so-fun part of updating everything…ugh.
2 December 2008
Some new quotes =)
29 November 2008
Pix from preview/final dress rehearsal for YAGMCB!
21 November 2008
Here are some more photos of YAGMCB rehearsal. I made some revisions to the blog on the back end, mostly isolating common functions and calling them as a separate included file. It should make updating the blog a lot easier! I also revised the archive so that it is 2009-ready. Before, it would have required manual updating each year, but now it can pull the year automatically =)
10 November 2008
In my debut as a videographer, I created a video montage of Prescott saving the puck. I figured I might as well make a page just for him, too. Enough about him, though. I added some photos of YAGMCB rehearsal!
21 October 2008
Prescott decided to play hockey again this fall after a hiatus of over four years. I went to his first game and took some photos.
20 October 2008
Hooray for photos of Godspell!
20 October 2008
Hooray for videos of my songs in Godspell!
19 October 2008
Inspired by Facebook, I added an RSS feed of my blog and created a separate version from which Facebook imports my entries as Notes. I didn't want Facebook to pull all the past entries, just the ones from here on out.
14 October 2008
I decided to add a Google ads banner to the right, as well as a “donate” button on the auditions page. I want to learn more about e-commerce, so where better than right here in my web lab =)
7 October 2008
Here are some photos from the many birthdays over the last few weeks =) I also updated links in old blog entries (that are now defunct with my current structure) and added some links and lists to ease blog navigation. Each category page now displays a list of all its entries.
27 September 2008
In light of the massive amounts of guestbook spam I receive, I added pagination to the guestbook spam log. I calculated that I receive, on average, 34 spam attempts per day. Fortunately, they haven’t really been a problem since I implemented tighter controls :)
19 September 2008
I added a quote about acting in slow motion :) I also enabled pause/advance on the rotating quotes.
27 July 2008
I added a background to About and created landing pages for Musical Theatre and The Web. Since I’ve been using the blog more frequently lately, I created an archive that uses Ajax (whew!) to populate the page.
25 July 2008
In addition to adding some photos (really screen grabs) of Final Respects, I’ve been working on the blog, automating html quotation marks and displaying source code. I also updated The Web Resources.
15 July 2008
Tons of stuff done, as you can read in my blog. Added an interface for authorized users to upload to my server. Added some dynamic JQuery cycles in Quotes and Home. Added icons in the blog; not sure how they’ll be used yet but for now they’re just fun. I also did some troubleshooting around MySQL escape and security against injection. Finally, I added some video clips of Final Respects.
9 July 2008
I added all the photos in the Yale section and Family section. FINALLY finished migrating everything from the old site!
8 July 2008
I’ve been tinkering around a bit more lately, especially with database-related stuff. I revised my blog, refined guestbook spam detection, and added some password-protected pages…Not that I have really important stuff behind the password, I’m just experimenting to learn more about how that sort of encryption works.
13 June 2008
I uploaded a few pictures from my trip to Berkeley, and I’m trying to decide between the slideshow and the lightbox displays. For the lightbox, the thumbnails take a lil while to load because they’re not really thumbnails — I cheated with the large files
10 May 2008
I added some videos of my little brother playing baseball
15 March 2008
I added a few functions to the auditions database:
  • a button to send an email with a link to the page to whomever you’d like, and
  • a form to sign up for email alerts whenever new auditions are added.
27 February 2008
In an ambitious venture for a Wednesday night at 8pm, I decided to create a database of all the area’s musical theatre auditions I could find online. I also added a CSS section to the Web Help page and fixed some header issues in IE6 with the Holly hack. Meanwhile, I’d like to issue a PSA to the IE people of the world: Download Firefox and you’ll never go back. (Although I must admit, IE7 is pretty decent.)
2 February 2008
I redesigned some headers and added photos for Penn MS2. I’m perty webbed out after pulling three 12- to 14-hour days in a row at work, helping to put up the new C2 Education website.
27 January 2008
I thought it would be a fun challenge to build my own blog from scratch, so here it is. This MySQL stuff is nuts! I also added a custom error (404 - Not Found) page and a Sitemap.
25 January 2008
Everything in the beta stage has been migrated to the top level! Now I just need to get those pictures and videos from the old site, and we can say PEACE! (As Prescott says.) I also edited the image clearings on the Home and Guestbook pages, and I added a favicon (the little “a” that should be appearing to the left of the URL in your browser navbar).
24 January 2008
I tweaked the opening flash sequence a little bit. The graphics are still large for a low-res monitor...I forgot that my monitor is high-res and displays things on the smaller side. I also added that Web Help page.
21 January 2008
After having pondered and scrutinized php variables all day, I finally got my guestbook database to a satisfactory stopping point: I can send and retrieve data, and it’s guarded against hijackers. i think i should start a “web stuff” page, if only to keep a log of what’s helped me along.
20 January 2008
Oh, the things you can do with Photoshop
13 January 2008
added a collection of slideshow photo albums
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