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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...
Exhausted.
Monday, April 21, 2008 @ 2:08 am
WARNING: Long, arguably pointless entry ahead.

Aren't weekends supposed to be for resting?

On Saturday morning, on a whim, I decided to empty out my closet and begin paring down my assortment of clothing. I have had enough of the bottoms of my drawers dislodging from the volume of clothes I attempt to stuff into each one. Somehow I always end up with not enough space to store everything anyway. It's not like I actually wear every piece of clothing, either. I've just grown accustomed to having them; some of these things I've had since high school.

I systematically and unceremoniously dumped the contents of each dresser drawer--and of the closet as a whole--onto the floor of my room into two giant piles. By the time I was done doing the rough sort, there was barely enough room to walk through, despite my efforts to maintain a tiny pass between the mountains. I probably would have failed as a pioneer, although to be fair, landslides were not an uncommon occurrence.

Midway through folding the unwanted clothes and putting them into a box, my dad enlisted my help in loading cargo boxes into the car to ship to the Philippines. On the way to the drop-off point, we bought a bright green umbrella from Kohl's for the patio set in the backyard (it looks stunning set against the green of the trees!). We also stopped by my grandfather's house to pick up what I was led to believe was "a few plants" that he had dug up from the backyard to give to us. I guess estimation is not one of my family's fortes, because it took us a good half hour to relocated all the plants into the back of the SUV. We even didn't have space for my deceased grandmother's nearly 40-year-old long-stem rose bushes (which we definitely will have to return for later), although somehow we managed to dig up and cram a few 8-foot-tall bamboos into the car length-wise. The ride home was interesting.

Of course, what goes in must come out, so we spent another half hour moving all the plants around again. By this time, it was getting late, and I hadn't yet purchased my baking supplies. On Sunday, my friend held a fundraiser for her dad who's running for the county board of supervisors, and she had asked me to bake something for a bake sale. I bought everything I needed and started preparing to bake around 10:30. I wasn't completely done until around midnight. I fell asleep on the couch waiting for the hazelnut brownies to cool down. I woke up at 3:00 in the morning to cut the brownies to size and to clean up after myself, which was a soul-crushing experience. There is nothing more depressing than waking up at 3:00 am and seeing a pile of chocolate-covered bowls and saucepans and miscellaneous utensils staring you in the face.

I eventually made it back to my room, where I tripped several times on the way to the bed. I slept for only a few hours before waking up to take care of Sunday stuff, which included cooking breakfast, picking up my cousin's car from his apartment while he's on a trip, and quickly doing some homework. I also managed to stuff more things into boxes, but the task is still far from over and as I type, clothes and other odds and ends are still strewn across the floor.

At around 1:00 this afternoon, I dropped off the baked goods at the fundraiser and stayed to catch up with my friends and help out a little bit. I ended up staying for around six hours, most of which I spent standing which is a hard thing to do when your back, legs, and feet hurt like hell. I don't think it's any surprise that, when I got home, I plopped down on my bed and passed out. I promised myself that it would only be a short nap, and that I'd get up and finish the spring cleaning that I already started, but I completely broke that promise. It will have to wait until probably this evening, although I will be at school/work from 8:00 am-7:00 pm tomorrow, which means I won't get home until 7:30ish. I think it would be safer to say that everything won't be picked up off the floor and organized into my closet/dresser until at LEAST Tuesday night. That's a lot of tripping and slipping and--my least favorite part--falling to look forward to. As for now...

...back to sleep.

OH. Update on my kitty. I called the vet and told her what I thought happened. I visually confirmed it as a bite and she didn't feel it was completely necessary to bring him in, so rather than spend the money for the vet visit, I'm just saving up for more vaccines and licensing. Because apparently, you have to license any cat or dog over the age of four months. Oops. Things I didn't know.
3 Comments.


Silly ranor, didn't you know weekends aren't at all for resting?

I need to get rid of most of my clothes, and buy new ones, but I am cheap and lazy.

Glad your kitty will be alright.
» ikimashokie on 2008-04-21 11:21:04

I dunno, I think a chocolate addict would probably be thrilled to wake up to bowls covered in chocolate.
» randomjunk on 2008-04-21 07:21:22

license ur cats? huh? got such things? i have only heard for dogs.
» renaye on 2008-04-22 01:14:03

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