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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 power of Place.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 @ 2:03 pm
Place is more than just a physical location--it is history, it is memory, and for those reasons, it is deceptively powerful. Physically being at a location means nothing more than standing at a series of arbitrarily-assigned spatial coordinates. Place seizes your emotions, forces you to feel things you didn't think you'd feel again. The power of Place controls you.

By chance, I came across a job listing at the Joint Science Department of the Claremont Colleges. They are looking for a research technician in molecular biology that will both carry out research and supervise undergraduates in the lab--something I thoroughly enjoyed doing last summer. Although I am very happy interning at NASA, and while I know in my heart that things won't be the same if I took up a position in Claremont for a year or two, the mere possibility that I could get that job... that almost makes me want to quit and take the chance. Because Claremont is more than just a location--it's where I grew up (from a stupid teenager into a slightly-less-stupid twenty-something). It's where I learned to be an adult. It's where I made friends with some of the most intelligent, quirky, and most importantly HOTTTTTT (personality-wise, though for more than a few of those people, physically as well) human beings in the entire fucking world. How could I NOT want to go back to that place?

But I know it's all memory's fault; it's all history's fault. And if I were to go back there--to live in the city of trees and Ph.D.'s, to walk the streets of the Village, to eat almond drops at Some Crust and drink hefeweizen at Hero's--it would be at the very least a little saddening. The memories would remain, but the experience would undoubtedly pale in comparison, and I'd be like a strung-out drug addict chasing the high but never attaining it. The chemistry just wouldn't work anymore.
5 Comments.


Ah...
Yes, I know what you mean. I am stuck between staying in the city for college or running out into the world, er, another state. Hmm...
» Silver-dot- on 2007-05-16 05:55:20

As much as you would want it to be the same, it won't be. I hate that.
» Southern on 2007-05-16 09:55:25

i actually would leave the place i grew up in for another place.
» renaye on 2007-05-16 11:20:16

:
» Zanzibar on 2007-05-17 10:20:08

It was my life and it was fun
Another season of my life was done
Another race I'm glad I got to run
Another chapter of my life, it's over
No, I'm never going feel like that again
Time's rushing by me like the wind
I'll never be as young as I was then
No, I'm never going feel like that again.

:(
» Zanzibar on 2007-05-17 10:21:00

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