So the Dayquil kicked in and made me (perhaps appropriately) sentimental.

I got into public health because I had an excellent typing speed* and at the end of my first day working on Communities Putting Prevention to Work, I knew I'd struck awfully lucky. I knew it better at the end of my first week. I know it better than ever now, not quite two years later. As a student, I'd never considered public health, but it blends many of my driving passions: public policy, equity, human rights, systems thinking, research, writing, advocacy. It's more than I could ever ask for to be able to work on something I care about. You bet I feel lucky all the time.

*85WPM: you know you were wondering.