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Schedule
Spring Semester 2010:

* Teaching: Fundamentals of Microbiology - MW 12:00-2:40p
Medical Microbiology - TR 2:00-3:15p
Colloquium in Cell and Molecular Biology - R 3:30-4:30p
Thesis Research - Identification of T Cell Subsets and Immune Response in Colon Cancer Using Immunofluorescence - FOREVER AND EVER
Old Journal Entries
Or rather, entries from the old journal, as it were...

- An open letter to the College. (August 27, 2006)
- Untitled. (July 16, 2006)
- Haunted (Part One) (May 29, 2006)
- Are we growing up, or just going down? (May 3, 2006)
- I had a dream... (March 19, 2006)
- ... (March 14, 2006)
- Enjoy it while it lasts. (September 12, 2005)
- Scene: 3:27 AM. (September 3, 2005)
- Untitled. (July 26, 2005)

Psst... if you're looking for the academic writings I used to have here, head to my Reading Room.
Rented DVDs
Netflix

- The Rage in Placid Lake (2003)
- Son of Rambow (2007)
- 大紅燈籠高高掛 / Dà Hóng Dēnglóng Gāogāo Guà [Raise the Red Lantern] (1991)
- Au revoir, les enfants (1987)
- Chalk (2006)
- Le Samouraï (1967)
- Empire Records (1995)
- The Bank Job (2008)
- Le Quatre cents coups [The 400 Blows] (1959)
- Love and Other Disasters (2006)
- Friends and Family (2001)
- Sugar [unrated] (2004)
- The Curiosity of Chance (2006)
- Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982)
- Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
- Death Note [anime] (2006)
- Battle Royale (2000)
- Le scaphandre et le papillon [The Diving Bell and the Butterfly] (2007)
- Extras, Series 2 (2005)
- Extras, Series 1 (2005)
- Shelter (2007)
- Metropolis (1927)
- Cashback (2006)
- Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay [Unrated] (2008)
- The Catherine Tate Show, Series 2 (2005)
- The Catherine Tate Show, Series 1 (2004)



Blockbuster

- Tokyo monogatari [Tokyo Story] (1953)
- Akira (1988)
- Habuah [The Bubble] (2006)
- Prime Suspect 4, including:
    - The Lost Child (1995)
    - Inner Circles (1995)
    - Scent of Darkness (1995)
- Like Minds [USA: Murderous Intent] (2006)
- La Strada (1954)
- Black Orpheus (1959)
- Le Notti di Cabiria [Nights of Cabiria] (1957)
- Cleo de cinq a sept [Cleo from 5 to 7] (1962)
- Det Sjunde Inseglet [The Seventh Seal] (1957)
- Prime Suspect 3 (1994)
- Funny Face (1957)
- Lalechet Al Ha'mayim [Walk on Water] (2004)
- Charade (1963)
- Yossi & Jagger (2002)
- Mists of Avalon (2001)
- Blow Up (1966)
The *New* Reading List
Since June 2006...

- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
- Travesties by Tom Stoppard
- The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner
- The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
- Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
- The History Boys by Alan Bennett
- The Dark Child by Camara Laye
- Movie-Made America by Robert Sklar
- Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
- Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
- Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Dead Emcee Scrolls by Saul Williams [61.3%]
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- Junk Science: An Overdue Indictment of Government, Industry, and Faith Groups that Twist Science for Their Own Gain by Dan Agin, Ph.D. [64.4%]
- So Yesterday by Scott Westerfield
- Lucky Wander Boy by D.B. Weiss
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- Doctor Who: The Key to Time: A Year-by-Year Record by Peter Haining
- Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Rhonda Wilcox
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- 1984 by George Orwell [18.8%]
- Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
- Intuition by Allegra Goodman
- V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd (Yes, I realize it's a graphic novel but it still fucking counts!)
ClustrMap
So THAT'S where all the people reading this come from...
The March of Certain Doom.
Monday, January 8, 2007 @ 2:10 pm
So today is the start of classes. Well, except for the grad seminar I want to take at SJSU (it's pretty much confirmed now--my mother is willing to pay for it since it'll get me some credits for grad school). I'm looking forward to breaking out of the biosciences box further. I have always loved "traditional" scholarly subjects--and apparently I'm good at them since I have the ability to bullshit like whoa--but I didn't really have that much time to branch out too far in college. Yay for not working for a year before graduate school. Boo for trying to salvage my academic reputation. Damn you, lack of grade inflation! (Um, and I guess also: damn you, general lack of discipline in all years except for the last!)

I swear I'm making good on my promise to myself. I even got a 4.0 last term. Who the hell does that? Certainly not me since high school. That's something that was virtually unheard of in my major. But I apparently do have the ability to pull it off. If I try. Really hard. So hard that my eyes bleed and my fingers go numb from typing.

So here's to more bleeding eyes and numbing fingers. Here's to actually going to class and actually giving a damn. Here's to bullshitting and saying "fuck it!" to all the reservations that keep me from expressing my opinions in the classroom. Here's to another successful quarter to (hopefully) kick off success in my future. Here's to the hallowed halls of Academia--the bastion of esoteric knowledge and the vanguard of the army of the self-important and the intellectually sanctimonious and the pompous circumstances that govern their lives.

God, how I love it!

9 Comments.


here's to you actually getting what you want! sucks that you have to deal with bleeding eyes and numb fingers, but consequences 'easily' suffered as long as it gets you where you want to be right?
» LostSoul13 on 2007-01-08 05:57:46

You sound like this freaky smart guy I know and it scares me. :0
» randomjunk on 2007-01-08 06:22:03

pompous, blustering old windbags! Here's to being one of them someday!
» Zanzibar on 2007-01-08 07:37:46

Hear, hear!
» ranor on 2007-01-08 07:49:46

ha, here's to turning over a new leaf.
I would reclaim/delete, if I could remember what exactly my username/password/ect was.
» bananaface on 2007-01-08 08:35:59

Hi
Oh yeah - it's sooooo fun, LoL - I hate it to be honest!
» AmbrosiaB on 2007-01-08 09:15:30

Awww
Well thank you for your comment, it does have a nice beach, but that's about all!
» AmbrosiaB on 2007-01-08 09:36:03

don't try and rhyme, 'cause youz is whack.
i'z the rhymin' pimp daddy known as this charmin' mack!
» ThisCharmingMan on 2007-01-08 11:34:58

haha.. i did not know that.
i actually got the peaches and heck thing from a little show called "rocko's modern life"

» ThisCharmingMan on 2007-01-08 11:46:09

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