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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...
Delayed gratification is not for me.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 @ 11:24 am
I'm constantly amazed at those among my friends who can afford to go out a lot, or go on semi-expensive trips during the holidays, or splurge on nearly-$100 theater tickets like it's no big deal. And I can understand if they are working a job that pays semi-decently, or if they are I-bankers (whom everyone should marry, btw, just so when they kill themselves from working too hard, you can get all their money), but when those people are students, it's hard to comprehend--at least for me--where all the money is coming from.

I guess the reason it's hard for me to comprehend is that although I work, there are always things I need to pay for that suck up my money: classes, books, gas--ESPECIALLY gas! (Now that regular-grade gas has reached $3.50/gal in these parts, filling up my SUV costs $80! And I fill up on average once a week because of all the driving I do...) I also spend money on the little things: coffee, a lunch that ISN'T Cup-'o-Sodium (now with noodles and dehydrated carrot slivers!), the occasional ice cream cone.

Sure I save money for things I want, but usually those are things like cameras, a new TV, computer parts, games for my Wii... I do have a Y-chromosome after all. But that happens so sparingly that even when I do spend money on these things, it still doesn't add up to the price of a four-day trip to Cabo San Lucas.

The only explanation I can come up with--barring the parental assistance possibility--is that my friends who are able to do these things with surprising frequency although they are in med school or grad school or law school or whatever deprive themselves of what I consider to me the little pleasures: an almond cappucino, pumpkin flavored gelato, a nice hunk of brie.

I suppose if I didn't have my daily coffee, if I didn't buy a decent lunch rather than bring top ramen from home (ew, salty!), if I didn't spend that extra two dollars on the nice cut of beef from the market, if I didn't buy the always-expensive but always-deliciously sweet Asian pear from the grocer, if I didn't treat my sister to gelato downtown, if I didn't buy fresh flowers from the farmer's market to brighten up the house, if I didn't do any of these things that make me happy in ever so small ways--then I'd be able to afford to jet off to Europe for a week or two... after about 10 months of torture and suffering.

I guess I'm just not good at delaying gratification.

And that's fine with me.

I'd rather have a bit of luxury every single day than have it all at once. I'm just not that kind of person. And I refuse to feel guilty for feeling that way and not going with friends when they want to do something like that. Because the only thing I'm guilty of is treating myself right day after day after day.
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