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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...
Craptastic.
Monday, February 26, 2007 @ 8:20 pm
So the short of it is: my grandmother has cancer, and I feel like I'm being censored in my own fucking house.

Elaboration:

A few weeks ago, it was discovered that my grandmother had a mass on her liver. The biopsy confirmed that it was not native hepatic tissue; it metastasized from somewhere else. I want to go to her appointment since I'm practically the only one in my family who fluently speaks biomedical science, but I might have to miss it because of my grad seminar. I could miss it, but that would mean being absent from class twice in a row, which is a pretty big deal if the class meets only once a week. Hopefully my dad and my aunts and uncles will be able to understand everything at the appointment, and if anyone has any questions, they can come to me.

Another stressor: my cousin's fiance is here. He seems like a nice guy and I don't want to sound like he's not welcome here, because he is. But I hate having to tiptoe around every single negative emotion, to stifle every expression of dissent because my mom wants to create an air of... fucked if I know what. If he's going to be part of the household for an extended period of time, he'll eventually come to know that not everything is fucking sunshine and fucking flowers.

So now I'm walking around the house holding my tongue and it's stewing inside of me. And I feel a little bad because I'm so preoccupied with NOT seeming angry that I probably appear indifferent or even hostile to his presence. I'm fucking tired of feeling like I can't be myself in my own fucking home when that's the one place in the world where you're supposed to feel like you can say or do anything regardless of whether you do that in any other social situation. I'm supposed to be free to express myself here. What the fuck?

So yeah. Got work to do and all of this to contend with and so generally I'm not a happy camper. Plus, it's raining and everyone on the roads is fucking retarded when it rains. Makes pretty much everything THAT much worse.

GODFUCKINGDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMIT!
5 Comments.


Sorry to hear about your grandmother. I think it's the "you must be nice to everyone" month again? I can't slap the hell out of my youngest brother for being such a pain in the ass because my dad thinks that my youngest brother will go crazy. Yipee! Like I won't.
» Nuttz on 2007-02-27 12:08:37

Awww.. I'm sorry your Grandmother is sick.. *hugs*
» LittleBrit on 2007-02-27 10:01:44

Ha ha ha! I LOVE your drama. what is your mama talking about? She should let you be? Besides if the guy (your cousins fiancee) is going to be a part of the family let's not start lying! You know what I mean?

I am also sorry to hear about your g-ma. I wish you could go to the doctor with her on another appt or maybe she should get a second opinion. That is always good. Then you can go with her on that appt.
» KkaMA67 on 2007-02-27 02:13:09

Prognosis! That's the word. You should be a doctor or something, Mr. Biochem grad student!

btw.. i friended u back!
» KkaMA67 on 2007-02-27 04:09:01

Em... move out?
» randomjunk on 2007-02-27 04:59:46

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