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Fall Semester 2008: Research and Scholarship Ethics - M 2:00-3:40p Advanced Topics in Molecular Biology - MW 4:30-5:45p Advanced Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology - TR 9:30-10:45a, F 9:00-9:50a Physiology of Human Systems - TR 2:00-3:50p Colloquium in Molecular Biology Research - R 4:00-4:50p 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. Blockbuster Total-Access DVDs
Week of 6/30/08: - Tokyo monogatari [Tokyo Story] (1953) Week of 6/16/08: - Akira (1988) - Habuah [The Bubble] (2006) Week of 6/9/08: - Prime Suspect 4, including: - The Lost Child (1995) - Inner Circles (1995) - Scent of Darkness (1995) Week of 5/26/08: - Like Minds [USA: Murderous Intent] (2006) Week of 5/5/08: - La Strada (1954) - Black Orpheus (1959) - Le Notti di Cabiria [Nights of Cabiria] (1957) Week of 4/7/08: - Cleo de cinq a sept [Cleo from 5 to 7] (1962) - Det Sjunde Inseglet [The Seventh Seal] (1957) Week of 3/24/08: - Prime Suspect 3 (1994) Week of 3/17/08: - Funny Face (1957) - Lalechet Al Ha'mayim [Walk on Water] (2004) - Charade (1963) Week of 3/10/08: - Yossi & Jagger (2002) - Mists of Avalon (2001) - Blow Up (1966) The *New* Reading List
Since June 2006... - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Dead Emcee Scrolls by Saul Williams [61.3%] - - 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%] - - - - - - - - 1984 by George Orwell [18.8%] ClustrMap
So THAT'S where all the people reading this come from... | Le sigh. Thursday, April 5, 2007 @ 4:20 pm Now is as good a time as any to get a start on everything I have to do this weekend. It's the perfect time actually: I just got home from the movies with my sister and everyone is going out to a party except for me because any situation where I am placed in a room with lots of children who get excited over cake and game tokens is indubitably a bad one. Without anyone to bother me, the work should go by quickly. That's the plan, at least. My schedule is complicated by an unexpected obligation that just cropped up yesterday. The PI of my lab at NASA has enrolled me in a three hour lab safety course. Please. Like I don't know lab safety. All of my previous jobs have been in the damn lab. The last time I didn't work in a lab was when I was working as an office assistant/film archivist... in 2003. What is there to learn? Don't drink chemicals, label all your shit, wear gloves, a lab coat, condoms when you're fucking--and you'll live. Hooray, life! I wish there were some sort of certification of lab safety--a worldwide standard that assures that you have a documented minimal level of safety competence that you can add onto if you're working with things which require special attention, like dangerous microbes or radioactive material or human bodily fluids. Just so I wouldn't have to go through the same basic training every time I take a job at a new institution. Don't use the centrifuge if it isn't balanced, don't sniff fumes without wafting, don't burn yourself on an open flame. Got it. Three hours. Three hours I could be using to get acquainted with the PI's projects. In addition to springing the lab safety training on me all last minute-like, he sent me a 35 page manuscript and a 30 page proposal to read. "Take a look at them and see what you can make of them." Well, Dr. Summers, they appear to be thick. Yes, very thick. And also full of references to techniques I am only obliquely aware of. Oh, and this one over here--this is a graph that plots UV absorbance vs. wavenumbers... is that GC/MS? Now, I remember reading about that in o-chem... let me get my notes.... *chokes* 3 Comments. ha ha... Yes... taking a look at your lab notes I think you are qualified to waive that 3 hour class and just get certified. hee hee. Well, the worst part is over right? This is suppose to be the fun stuff. » kKAma67 on 2007-04-05 08:09:29 Little in life is more tragic than an unbalanced centrifuge. » Zanzibar on 2007-04-05 08:25:54 Three hour Lab Safety Training. WTH? My gosh, if I didn't no better, I'd think they thought you were inhumanly clumsy and dumb as a doorknob. Wait, I probably don't. You didn't give them any ideas, no did you? 0.o If you did, then serves you right! XP *flees* » Silver-dot- on 2007-04-05 10:42:39
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