Home | Join! | Help | Browse | Forums | NuWorld | NWF | PoPo   

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...
Estoy aqu�...
Monday, January 26, 2009 @ 12:08 pm
Contrary to what it may look like from recent entries, I didn't exile myself from the world after a mental breakdown.

First, my angerfrustrationanxiety was due to the fact that one of my cats went missing for a while. He wandered off and I blamed my parents and sister for being so nonchalant about the whole thing, which wasn't nearly the case. They were just as worried, possibly more so, because they understand less about the behavior and biology of cats than I do. After cooking that one night (see last entry), I did end up calming down, and reason started to pipe up over the din of my negative emotions. The cat came back not soon afterward. I told my parents and my sister what I thought went on and tried to give them a little lesson in feline behavior. I should have done that before I even left for grad school, since they're the ones who have to take care of the cats in my absence. Everything's fine now.

Second, about midway through last week, my laptop screen burned out, which is why I wasn't around for a while. My iPhone was my only link to the online world, and entry-typing is such a bitch on that thing that I decided it wouldn't be worth the effort. Now I've got a loaner laptop for teaching and for use at lab while I send my little laptop to my dad for repair through his company's corporate contract with Dell (woohoo, cheap!), and I'm in the process of repairing both of the desktop computers I have here with me. You'd think I'd feel a sense of freedom by not being tied to the Internet for the last few days, but really, I just felt lost and disconnected. I'm happy I have some way to get online now... even if it is a crappy old laptop that takes forever to start up and that stalls every once in a while. But I want my laptop back. This thing is so fucking clunky.

That about covers my life since I stopped posting a few days ago. I teach my first class tomorrow, so I might have some stories about that... eep!
4 Comments.


yay
» Zanzibar on 2009-01-26 09:18:55

I hope you have interesting stories that are not funny because you get humiliated in them. :D (Er... that sounds weird, I mean I hope you don't get humiliated, but they're funny)
» randomjunk on 2009-01-27 12:20:18

Good luck ranor!
» Nuttz on 2009-01-27 05:40:46

I had a dream that we both decided to go to William and Mary for grad school, but neither of us realized that the other was going until we ran into each other when we were moving in, and we were living in the same building and we decided to finally have a can-wire phone. Then later in the dream, I was escaping from this creepy man (I think it was Uriah Heep) and I passed you on the way up out of the theatre walking with your new advisor, and you said, "meep" and I make a sound like a velociraptor and then your advisor said, "Was that a fight you just had?" and I was smiling as your voices faded and I had to imagine how you would explain what had just happened.
» Zanzibar on 2009-01-27 10:49:47

Sorry, you do not have permission to comment.

If you are a member, try logging in again or accessing this page here.

ranor's Weblog Site • NuTang.com

NuTang is the first web site to implement PPGY Technology. This page was generated in 0.032seconds.

  Send to a friend on AIM | Set as Homepage | Bookmark Home | NuTang Collage | Terms of Service & Privacy Policy | Link to Us | Monthly Top 10s
All content � Copyright 2003-2047 NuTang.com and respective members. Contact us at NuTang[AT]gmail.com.