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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 / D� H�ng Dēngl�ng Gāogāo Gu� [Raise the Red Lantern] (1991)
- Au revoir, les enfants (1987)
- Chalk (2006)
- Le Samoura� (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 British Invasion, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bottle.
Sunday, July 29, 2007 @ 11:15 pm
So I attempted to write this entry yesterday, to no avail. I felt like I was going to implode at any moment for all of yesterday after I woke up with that giant hangover. (Is it called a hangover if you're still drunk when you wake up?)

Anyway. Friday night/Saturday morning was pretty much the most amazing time I've had in forever. My friend Caroline (now from San Diego) was visiting (pretty much on a whim) and so it was decided--seriously for all intents and purposes mandated--that we hang out in San Francisco on Friday night for sure. So I told Kristi (my other friend, whom Caroline was staying with) that I'd be over at her apartment after I got off of work at 6:00, but I ended up being quite the late one (as usual) because my boss had me working on something while he went over to SETI. But I suppose had I been on time, what follows would never have happened.

So when I got there, we had some dinner and then got a little pre-party going to cut down on drinks at the bar. We went to Vesuvio first--I believe I've raved about that place before--and it was more packed than the last time I was there. (Damn you, Friday night!) We went upstairs looking for a place to sit, settling (but not sitting, as there were no chairs available) temporarily behind a group of three boys sitting next to the opening to the floor below. We had noticed these boys the instant we reached the second floor, and at the very next instant, Caroline turned to me and asked, "Over there. Do you think they're gay?" I delivered the verdict and it was not in my favor: No, I didn't think they were.

A corner booth opened up--my favorite seats in the house. We settled in for a few hours, ordered a few drinks, and progressively got more drunk. And we acted the part--we were somewhat loud, pretty obnoxious, and began taking pictures of "ourselves" to photograph the boys across the way. But then they left, so we followed suit about 20 minutes or so later and made our way to O'Reilly's, an Irish (no fucking duh) place.

It was packed as well. Kristi and Linh immediately made their way to the back part of the bar where there were seats readily available for us. On the way back, I pulled Caroline aside. "Look over there." She didn't know where to turn, so I had to physically move her 6'3" frame in the right direction. "Oooooh."

There they were, the same pretty boys we had tried to snap pictures of, and who, according to Caroline's instincts, may have been gay. (At the very least, the one in the tight jeans. He had to be, she reasoned.)

We retrieved the other two, and while I ordered our round of Sierra Nevada at the bar, they managed to get seats right next to where they were standing. I paid for the drinks and brought them over. I guess that was the perfect dosage of liquid courage we needed because the next thing I know, everyone's talking to each other! And then Caroline began to believe my assessment to be correct: they weren't gay; they were just British. (Which, in her mind, explained the tight jeans.)

So we were about to get another round, and one of our new mates was buying, but it was already time for last call (at the very prudish hour of 1:30 am; sometimes I hate America) so we were fucked. Luckily, the liquor store was open until 2:00, so we scrambled over there to pick up some supplies (several six packs) and headed back to the apartment with three Brits in tow.

What happened over the next few hours was an odd mixture of making out (no, not me, unfortunately), laughter, and talk about world politics, music (they knew who We Are Scientists were!), and plans to head to their neck of the woods for graduate school. Oh, right, and more drinking. (We were so noisy that I'm sure we kept half of the apartment awake.) At one point, a little before in the morning, after we had finished all but one bottle of beer, we opened the freezer and realized we still had about a third of a bottle of vodka left. So what did our new friend Luke decide should be done about that?

Right.

And so we did. John, me, and Luke. Taking swigs out of the bottle of vodka.

So. Classy.

Around 6:45, we all settled down enough to go to sleep. I woke up at 9:30 and couldn't believe what had happened. I looked through the pictures I took (all 130-something of them!) and relived what I could remember while living for the first time what I couldn't. We bid farewell to our new British friends before noon and went our separate ways. A fantastic night (or, more accurately, morning) overall, and all because I arrived late. How's that for good fortune?



And now I need to go to sleep so I can do enough work tomorrow to make up for the fun I had this weekend. :P

P.S. Luke's my favorite. A real pretty lad, that one. You can probably tell which one he is by looking at the collage. Ah, well.
2 Comments.


Sounds like quite the night! Glad you had fun!
» alexsedotcx on 2007-07-30 10:11:59

pllllleaaaaaase tell me that Kristi made out with Luke. She's got to rep for the MOC-Cali chapter!
» Zanzibar on 2007-07-31 12:16:45

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