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[Nov. 8th, 2007|05:16 pm] |
Getting up at 4:45am is awesome! Not really.
Many hours of journeying on land and in the air finds me in Baltimore, Maryland. Striking feature #1: ubiquitous nature of trees. Feature #2: it doesn't suck like Nebraska does. The last month or two I've tried to convince myself that Omaha really isn't all that bad, but who was I kidding - yes it is. It's spiritually suffocating, suburbian blight, where Super Targets are built directly across the street from Walmart Supercenters and each has a contingent, inseparable residential community attached to it. Part of it. Within it. Oh I'm going to my friend's house. Where does he live? Oh he lives at Target presents Whispering Ridge. Ugh.
No, none of those shenanigans here. Just glorious new englandy goodness in these parts. I nearly cried when I saw all the fall colors, it is so sad. In Nebraska they are harvesting corn and there is a wall of dust in all directions and the earth is barren and raped and a dead thing against which foul winds alien to the human experience blast relentlessly. Here I got excited when I saw a squirrel, yes a squirrel...something I haven't seen in nigh 6 months. "Look mom! Look at it hop!"
But that waking up at 4:45 thing is really starting to take its toll. |
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[Oct. 26th, 2007|04:31 am] |
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I think I'm becoming an insomniac. Or a vampire. One of the two, surely. |
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[Oct. 15th, 2007|12:05 pm] |
So I heard from the NIH for the first time in like 3 months or so mid last week. Interested party working in Immunology/HIV contacted me, and asked if I'd like to do a phone interview. So that just happened today. I'm really interested in the immune system but Colgate doesn't have a course on it, so I literally spent the last 3 or 4 days solid with my nose in my old textbooks and journal articles trying to get myself up to speed. Last night I realized I wasn't really prepared to talk about myself so I busted out my Don't Blow the Interview book and studied its pages closely. That book is such bullshit I can't even believe it. Manipulate all truths and untruths to make yourself look better, makes me sick. I don't buy into the whole selling myself idea because I'm way too brutally honest about that to say the type of crap in that book with sincerity.
So I was dreading having to do that, and was all prepared with notes and such on my bed waiting for the phone call. But luckily I didn't have to jump through any burning hoops or deal with the ritual bs I anticipated. We just talked about the research I did with ken, and then the type of stuff they're going to be doing in her lab. I asked her some specific questions about her research and some general questions about the lab situation and all. Seems like they're trying to get someone in there by the end of November and I will hopefully hear back next week if they want to fly me out there to check out the lab. Hope they're footing the bill! - flying from Nebraska is not the same thing as driving from CT.
I suppose we will see. |
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[May. 2nd, 2007|01:26 am] |
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Starting...to get...delirious. 44 pages of single spaced translations....roughly 16 pages of footnotes and only about halfway done. Then there's an introductory paper to write, and it's already at ~10 single spaced pages, but nowhere near done. This project may be two hundred pages long when I double space it. |
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[Dec. 25th, 2006|03:20 pm] |
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Seems my mom and sister decided to replace my entire warddrobe with the Winter 2006/2007 catalogue from American Eagle.... |
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[Nov. 19th, 2006|01:25 pm] |
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Haha, over 10% of Target's Wii inventory lives in our house. I guess we're not really a "household" by their definition, so it's okay. Right? |
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| A looong night |
[Nov. 19th, 2006|11:04 am] |
Our Wii-acquisition strategy changed multiple times, failed to come together for a long while, and then came together in a unexpected ways. Bottom line: all four of us: Jason, Joe, Mike and myself, got Wiis earlier this morning at the Target in New Hartford. It was a civil, the weather was fine (if not a bit cold), and the wait wasn't too bad (oooh, crossword puzzles passed the time). Joe and I also saw the new Bond movie which is well worth the price of admission. Very gritty kind of movie experience though.
I am tired but I have to do homework now all day. Alas. I am going to be dead tomorrow at this time. |
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[Oct. 29th, 2006|01:09 am] |
Looong day, didn't really sit down much, which is a good thing I think. Highlight was a haunted house outside of town that's run by Kenji Yoshino and his friends. They did an AMAZING job. I highly recommend it, if anyone wants directions, they're running it again Tuesday night.
Jason's mom must be a master seamstress or something - she made excellent Taichou costumes for Shouhei and Jason (characters from Bleach). We did a little photoshoot around school with them tonight, here's my favorite photo. Lot of fun editing this one...
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[Oct. 23rd, 2006|09:40 pm] |
Four years later, is it time to rewrite the Weltanschauung?
Becky? |
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[Oct. 15th, 2006|11:06 am] |
Here's a photo I finally got around to editing, from a couple weeks ago at the bonfire. Kinda cliche, but I like it.
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[Oct. 15th, 2006|01:29 am] |
A couple photos from my latest sketchy photoshoot.
 Orion rising over some farmer's field. Notice the visible nebula, and the Pleiades  "Memories of a Ghost" |
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[Oct. 11th, 2006|11:53 am] |
So, my group had a presentation in Molecular Pathogenesis today, and we had pretty much every technical difficulty possible, but I think it still ended up being alright. But, afterwards a woman representing the Peace Corp came and gave us a short talk about opportunities there (what this has to do with biology is kind of a mystery to me but whatever...). It actually sounded really cool, I'm going to go get information from her at the Coop in a bit. Something like a 27 month committment in a god-forsaken third world country contracting all sorts of diseases. Sounds pretty badass to me.
As I told Justin earlier today, it has the same kind of appeal wandering the world did for Bruce Wayne in that newer batman flick. You know, just travel, get the crap beaten out of you by life and be better for it by the end. Imagine this: the Shikoku pilgrimage immediately after graduation, then two years and change of helping people somewhere in Africa trying not to contract malaria. Also, I avoid the real world...hmm...[edit: and to qualify "real world", I mean the whole job hunting, financial independent track that I've heard so much about...)
On an unrelated note, I seem to be reminiscing (fondly) about EverQuest WAY too much with Jason lately. I want to blame that WoW South park episode, but I know that's not it... Don't want to play an MMO... |
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[Sep. 18th, 2006|05:34 pm] |
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天気は良いさ。ゆっくり遊びたいんだけど．．．グレッグのように未来のことが気になっている。どうすればいいだろうな．．．皆予定がある、僕なんかは予定ない。GPAは良くても、何をしたいかさえ決められなかったらだめだろう。まあ、マックドーでもいいじゃ。 |
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| Hmmm |
[Sep. 5th, 2006|11:22 am] |
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Any of you who have had a chemistry lab have probably accidently inhaled sulfuric/hydrochloric acid fumes at one point or another. You know how it kinda dissolves into the liquid in your nose and wreaks a bit of havoc, doing what acids do best? I kind of have that sensation in my nose right now and I have no idea why. Hm... |
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[Aug. 15th, 2006|02:35 pm] |
That was just about as gross as you can imagine a 4-year-old keyboard to be. After long and arduous battle, I - wielding isopropyl alcohol and a bevy of Q-tips - have claimed victory over the ecosystem that was flourishing between and beneath the keys. Having removed all the keys from the main deck, I would truly not be surprised if I was allergic to my keyboard, all along.
I fear my enemy still ralies forces beneath the function keys and the number pad, but the main offender has been vanquished, and I must reserve the final hour of battle for another time. |
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[Aug. 12th, 2006|11:58 am] |
Well, I spent a good deal of time yesterday working on the following image in photoshop; alas it has received -5 points of acknowledgement from its intended audience at SA.
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[Jul. 23rd, 2006|11:30 pm] |
Just got back from a weekend trip to South Dakota with my folks. Went to Mt. Rushmore, a couple state/national parks, and one corn-covered palace.
( Photos abound... )
Anyway there are tons others and I will weed through them over the coming days. |
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| 全ての漢字を必ず習うぜ！ |
[Jul. 11th, 2006|09:03 pm] |
A few days ago I finally embarked in earnest upon the kanji adventure I promised myself this summer. I've been reading Japanese wikipedia and other internet articles, and more significantly, I've been playing through the Japanese copies of Final Fantasy V and VI which I imported way back in 7th grade when I thought I could handle it (very very wrong). Flash forward about 9 years and I can still barely handle it, but at least I know how to look up what I don't know now...
Every sentence is a new adventure because more often than not I don't know half the words and at least 75% of the kanji I have never seen. But it's getting easier...
( Read more... )
Now if I keep this up every day in July and try to maintain what I know through August... |
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