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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 end of the weekend.
Monday, April 20, 2009 @ 12:09 am
Cleaning my apartment has become such a gargantuan task that not even a whole weekend was enough to square everything away. I shit you not: I have been putting this off for like a month. Alright, that makes me sound like a giant slob, and I promise to any potential suitors that I am normally not. Well, not anymore. (Nothing really compares to that kiwi incident sophomore year in undergrad, does it Z?) But lately--and by lately, I mean in the last year or so--I've become pretty anal about cleaning. But hey, sometimes life gets in the way, and when your home becomes pretty much a place to sleep when you're not in class/in lab/out illegally drinking by a bonfire at the beach, then keeping it clean goes by the wayside a little.

I did manage to get a lot done, though, I swear. I haven't seen this much floor in months, and I actually managed to get most of my laundry done before running out of quarters. And not only did I wash everything (bedsheets included!), I also folded everything and even ironed out my shirts. (And let me tell you--ironing is a bitch!) I also put everything away in their proper places (rather than in a pile by my bed) and I got started on the kitchen (in which I have not cooked in nearly a month). So all in all, I'm making good progress. By the end of the week, I should have a presentable place again... I'm even planning to break out the vacuum eventually! Then when next week rolls around (Week of Hell #9389583), I won't have any excuse to not do all my work.

The goal here is to have my apartment ready for the end of the semester... I think I want to throw a party to celebrate the end of my first year of graduate school. Alright, that's what I'm going to call it, but really it's just a thinly-veiled excuse to get Nick in my apartment with a bunch of alcohol, haha.

Since I tend to get really bored of doing any one task for long periods of time, I even got myself to get ahead on my school work. Normally, by this time, I would just be beginning to read the stuff assigned for my class tomorrow... but I got that done. Reading review articles on the molecular pathology of Alzheimer's disease? Check, bitches. And I discovered a great way to get through those very dense papers, too! Today was an absolutely beautiful day: sunny, warm, gentle breeze blowing... too beautiful to spend it all cooped up indoors. So what I did was I broke out some beer (alright, a whole six-pack) and sat on my balcony while reading the articles. And you know what? It was great. I got buzzed fairly quickly because I haven't had time to do the groceries and thus haven't eaten all day, save for a couple slices of stale bread. (Breakfast/lunch/dinner of champions!) Plus, I understood everything I read, so I found that balance between being comfortably buzzed and still being able comprehend everything. It made the paper-reading a lot more manageable.

Also got a ton of grading done. It's that time of the semester when there are all sorts of assignments for my micro students, which of course means there's a crapload of stuff to grade. A giant checkmark for that shit, too! There was just an insane amount of productivity this weekend, and I don't know where it came from. Maybe I was still hopped up on adrenaline from all the work before. I hope this next week doesn't kill my productivity with its lack of stuff due. I'll just have to keep busy, I guess. Plenty to do.

Alright. I'm going to bed. I think I want to wake up a little early tomorrow to get some more cleaning done and then I'll go off to university for a very long Monday. Monday means class with Nick. I'm looking forward to it.

Holy fuck, this entry was really long and boring. A thousand apologies if you made it this far!

Good fucking night!

P.S. Look what I found on Facebook:

1 Comments.


I think I just auto-read most of your entry. :S

What is this "kiwi incident" of which you speak?
» randomjunk on 2009-04-20 07:00:19

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