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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 - 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) - 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... - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Dead Emcee Scrolls by Saul Williams [61.3%] - - 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%] - - - - - - - - 1984 by George Orwell [18.8%] - - - | Disconnected. Saturday, October 11, 2008 @ 8:10 am My phone and I have had a long and fulfilling life together. It has nearly been two years and in that time, I have managed to keep my phone's lustrous outer surface scratch-free, which is more than I can say about a lot of other people who own this particular model. (Who particularly comes to mind is a girl I worked with at the tutorial center. Her phone was scratched and cracked and all sorts of ugly. And she got hers after I did.) I loved this phone, and I even got it before it was officially released in the US--thanks to the Vietnamese mobile place near my house, which got a hold of the phone from Singapore. It was the best phone I have ever had. The problems started about 2 months ago. My beautiful phone would register a signal from the network, but could not place outgoing calls. Sometimes these spells would last up to an hour, much to my chagrin. It got progressively worse: the no-call periods got longer, and calls that I successfully placed had a habit of dropping in the middle of the call. First it averaged around 20 minutes before the call dropped. Now it is down to about three. I am by no means an obsessive phone user. I don't send out 50 texts a day (I hate texting and only resort to it when I can't actually place a call for one reason or another). I am not constantly calling people (like some kids I see around campus these days), and they are not constantly calling me. But I still feel disconnected, set adrift in a sea of isolation. I am afraid to place outgoing calls when I really want to talk to one of my friends living hundreds or thousands of miles away, for fear that we will be cut off and I will have no way of calling back or otherwise letting them know that my phone has come between us. I haven't received many incoming calls, and I don't know if that's because my phone wasn't working and didn't pick up on the signal, or if my lack of outgoing calls has diminished my social status that much. I'm being overdramatic. But when you don't have many local friends and you're not constantly at a computer for one reason or another, then the mobile phone is the only link you've got. How will I find out if someone local wants to grab a quick bite and perhaps a pint? How will I find out the latest gossip happening on the other end of California, or the other coast of the USA? It's maddening to be driven into further isolation by a malfunctioning piece of technology. Maybe this is psychological warfare--the first phase of Skynet's plan to take over the world and terminate the human race. (Where's John Connor when you need him?) 2 Comments. This is reminding me of those horrible phone commercials with the phone getting mad for the person not switching to AT&T... » randomjunk on 2008-10-11 01:28:07 understand u. i hate changing phone even though mine is due soon after being loyal to me for 5 years. » renaye on 2008-10-12 12:02:57
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