Jun 28, 2007 8:27 am | 1 comment
“What is the German word for ‘Western Blot’?” I asked Valerie, the Bavarian PhD student in our lab. We were working at the same lab bench and I’d been pipetting for most of the last hour. My mouth was dry from the sheer concentration it took to stare at a little drop of liquid come [...]
Jun 19, 2007 3:16 pm | 1 comment
Not to be a Debbie Downer or an impenetrable black cloud of negativity or anything, especially since it’s my second day here, but I have to get this one out of the way and off my chest–especially since it’s my second day here.
I’m a little disappointed. Not hopelessly so, nor bitterly so, nor even irrevocably [...]
Jun 18, 2007 4:50 pm | no comments
Everybody who hates neutral states, that is:
In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. (Too [...]
Jun 04, 2007 1:02 am | no comments
So I know people all over the blogo-critico-media-sphere have been talking about how darkly gorgeous and life-affirming this movie was, but I have to be honest, I think I may have missed the point. Maybe I do remember perceiving a point along the way, and maybe I actually felt it hit me. It was somewhere [...]
Jun 02, 2007 11:13 pm | no comments
Playing a campus-wide game of online Risk.
Hunting down spies from other houses and disseminating propaganda during a campus-wide game of online Risk.
Not studying for finals during a campus-wide game of online Risk.
Watching The Good Shepherd.
Being nervous.
Watching Spiderman III.
Being riveted.
Watching Volver.
Being scared during really harmless scenes.
Not reading poetry. Improving productivity. Making lists.
Watching 28 Weeks Later.
Being scared [...]