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[25 Sep 2008|11:28am] |
Some people relax by getting manicures or pedicures the day before their thesis defenses...
I just got a professional tooth cleaning. :)
T minus 24.5 hours...
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[26 Aug 2008|05:07pm] |
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Has anyone found a good Minnesota State Fair Webcam? :(
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[06 Aug 2008|09:26am] |
Yesterday, while being necessarily away from writing on my computer, I decided to write out several figure legends by hand. The strange part was being three legends in and recognizing that after completing each, in my head I said "control S." Worse was after recognizing that I was doing that - I still kept subconsciously doing it, all the while writing by hand.
Now the next big thing is to determine that if i could truly handle (and not fail, spectacularly) going back to the wards starting with the surgical rotation. Many pros - but then also potentially terrible cons.
things that are awesome: KEXP in NYC in the morning (kexp.org) on the radio. coffee.
"control-S; control-p"
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[03 May 2008|08:20pm] |
i really don't post anymore, but wanted to leave a note that by happenstance caught this documentary on PBS last night. one of the most incredible documentaries i've seen in a long time. PSA in case it is still being shown in your area.
update: oh yeah, You Tube.
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[14 Oct 2007|05:00pm] |
Will have to do a full update at some point... we're back from an amazing trip to South Africa. In the meanwhile, my new favorite pasttime is watching penguins walk:
( and more importantly.. )
truly, a fascinating country where I would love to live some day. It would require much more than a two week vacation to even begin to comprehend. At least thus far, after managing to crash an event in which the Rev Desmond Tutu and Graca (Nelson Mandela's wife) spoke, I'm fully convinced that those who managed to orchestrate a relatively peaceful end to apartheid are heroes.
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[08 Apr 2007|12:04am] |
Those who know me know that I am not a religious person - but find cultural/family history fascinating.
Growing up, my family used to make a lamb cake every Easter. If you don't know what i am talking about, here is a picture of one google-image searched. i was always under the belief that it was simply a funny family thing that my funny family did - until my semester in Prague six years ago, when i ended up going to Krakow, Poland over Palm Sunday, a few weeks after i had gotten out of the hospital. The trip was very moving: i was recovering from being very sick, i found my family's surnames in the ledgers at Auschwitz, i was for the most part all by myself and furthermore, very surprisingly, there were lamb cakes in every bakeshop in town. A Polish tradition! My grandfather on my mother's side was the first child in his family born in the United States after immigrating from Poland. Being removed from much of my extended family growing up (due to distance), it took traveling to Poland to learn that family tradition was in fact, cultural tradition.
That's the context. About 3 years ago, my mom had given me my own lamb cake mold. The first Easter that i had it, i made one for PJ's Italian family - and it seemed to go over well enough, but obviously without the significance that i now have for the cake. If you went to the picture attached, these cakes are extremely difficult and time-consuming to make, so last year, i passedover making the cake, and oi, did i hear about it from PJ's family. Therefore, this year, my plan has been to make PJ's family one for tomorrow, another Easter Sunday. However, when i went to unmold the cake, the head fell off. oh shit.
i couldn't make another cake (lacking key ingredients), i didn't want to not bring anything and lacked the mad engineering skillz to re-attach the head. Therefore after the weighing of many options, i chose to finish slaughtering the lamb - its blood was not painted outside my door, but the area of where the shank should be does remain, awaiting a seder plate. With a little Medaglia D'Oro instant espresso, marsala wine, marscapone cheese and sugar my Polish tradition turned into an Italian dessert: Tiramisu! What i feel to be a propos, i have a large casserole dish in the shape of an egg which my mom also got for me at a post-easter sale at Target a few years ago because simply, i had no casserole dish: and it filled a hole for making lasagna. Therefore, my lamb has been resurrected into an egg-shaped tiramisu, and now the only question that remains is whether PJ's family will enjoy it, will be disappointed that there is no lamb, or simply think i'm crazy. i guess it doesn't matter because man, i love coming from a rich heritage.
both my sisters were in town this past week with their respective boyfriends, too. that was quite nice.
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[25 Feb 2007|11:07pm] |
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I have always very much appreciated Spike Lee as a director - but after watching just the first two acts of 'When the Levees Broke,' I truly believe our society is lucky/blessed/etc that he exists and has hence, given so much to the world.
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[15 Feb 2007|07:35pm] |
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Whereas in NY, my large feet almost step on pigeons: in the DR, my large feet almost step on chickens!
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[08 Feb 2007|10:34pm] |
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Long day at work, validates coming home and blaring yeah yeah yeahs. remembering running into their guitarist last saturday at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. hearting New York, but anti-hearting the situation which keeps one there is a tough go.
Leaving for the Dominican Republic on Wednesday to once again present our social medicine course at a conference should be sweet and a nice change of pace.
Since January 1st, I've taken a new and interesting approach to lab and life. On one hand it could be described as "assertive." On the other hand, it could be described as 'f- you, i know my sh--.' Either way. It has helped me get data, and give successful (although fighting!) presentations. At the end of the day, if the senior member of another lab comes up to you to state that if he didn't know better, he would have thought you were a 3rd year post-doc, and that your presentation should be the model of how grad students give a lab meeting - i guess its a good thing. Even if it now seems that the PI of said other lab no longer seems to be talking to you.
but ah - i'm getting ill. luckily, TSkiz teaches well to stock one's fridge with Kombucha.
At the end of the day, at least PJ fights as i fight, and we fight together. And that the monster below loves to snuggle.
zowzers.
ANS died - what?? something is very fishy.
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[23 Nov 2006|02:04pm] |
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Kombucha!!
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[21 Oct 2006|02:25pm] |
interesting but foiled!
The version of Hair seen last night was in fact, a re-interpretation.
All of the cast members had shaved their heads.
Would still eventually love to see a strong staged version of the show.
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[08 Oct 2006|11:20am] |
strange to update, because not much occuring except for work cut with hi-concentrate procrastination.
procrastination? yes. Yesterday, PJ and I went to see another PJ (Harvey) as part of the New Yorker festival. quite pricey, but the music (and not the jabber) made it quite worth it. Wednesday, my mom is coming to town for the first time since i've been at AECOM which should also be fun. She'll be in town for a book makers' guild conference - but should have time between events to check out some of the gastronomically delightful haunts i've amassed since she's been last here. She'll be here through the weekend, and it sounds like Is will make it down from RPI, too - which is pretty awesome. i haven't had a chance to see her since she's moved back to school due to work.
work? 10-12 hour days on an extremely technically challenging project is not good for one's confidence. At the same point, it's amusing to tell myself that only one other group in the world collects my *control* population. needless to say my experimental population is quite a bit more insane. In 2 weeks, I have a work-in-progress for the department, and its not my desire to show slide after slide of degraded RNA. but then, does a single microarray of data suffice? not without significance. hopefully another array will be sent out tomorrow, or 2 next monday - and if that realtime PCR works, that'd be fantastic but in 2 weeks? and what does it mean if it's not the guts of what i want. what does it mean to show that in a presentation?
presentation? well, that's the thing. an hour in front of my scrutinizing department. it will make me stronger, if it doesn't keel me in the meanwhile. it would be better if i could concentrate on that presentation but then there's seattle.
Seattle? yes - the weekend before Halloween in which I am speaking at a session on Social Medicine at the annual American Association of Medical Colleges to tell others how to get a social medicine course organized at their institutions. It sounds like a great opportunity - but still. I have to give a run through of that presentation this approaching Thursday to one of the heads of the Social Medicine Department at Montefiore hospital. This is one of those things where yes, I know that science has to be my #1 priority right now. However, depending how this session goes in Seattle could open wide doors for a future career in social med and future career is very important, too.
oy vey. so i should get back to work. but i miss yoga very much.
Nada - R&R weekend at Kripalu in November??????
also, will be in Minnesota for Txgiving c PJ. (not Harvey). Tanya should have been there. : (
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[09 Aug 2006|11:28pm] |
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Another committee meeting finished, and i owe Tanya a serious phone call.
thanks to all well-wishers from the last post about the new move. it's exciting! if you had the "pleasure" to visit my old apartment, this one is so much nicer. Space is nice - as well are the views. The windows in the living/dining room are still the same high pretty views over City Island which beckon you to gaze and watch the sailboats. The view from the bedroom, where i currently sit, are off towards the Manhattan sky line. The Empire State Building in light yellow tonight! w00t! My illicit cats are taking nicely to the place, and have been generally well received by PJ's gecko and frog. We also actually get TV stations here, which is pretty crazy. i've forgotten how to watch network televison though, so that benefit is still lost on me.
Anyways, call or visit. The phone number from my old apt has switched to this one. If you have my old address, the new one has a building number of 1925 and an apartment number of 28G.
enough about me. Earlier this year, my mom was accepted into a bookbinding course in Rome with the vatican's official bookbinder. (she's a book artist, so this was quite an amazing opportunity for her). She sent me an e-mail from the course this morning stating that she is currently working with reindeer leather for book binding and it stinks more than you can imagine. Her impression is that reindeer leather could give her books a certain appeal as gifts during the Christmas season. I think this would be true if one were perhaps, Jewish.
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[27 Jul 2006|09:31pm] |
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co-habitation: complete!
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[29 Jun 2006|08:32am] |
After a relatively brief, but complicated and violent pulmonary infection my Grandma was taken off of life support last night and allowed to go. June began with my Mom's favorite cat (young, (Snortin') Norton) dropping dead, continued with her job going from bad to much worse, continued with my Grandma going to the hospital, continued to the knowledge that my Dad's job is at risk, continued to this.
Is this the adult life?
Are smaller enjoyments, chatting with Bill Clinton in a Westchester bookstore, viewing Macbeth at Shakespeare in the Park, obtaining VIP tix to see Belle and Sebastian for 4July, A.Rod. 2-run homer in the 12th, just to distract from the more smoldering and grim? Diversions?
Is the adult to find the balance - but then why is the skew towards hard?
I had tickets to go to a family reunion in Chicago this weekend, leaving on Friday. When it became clear yesterday morning that my grandma was falling quickly, with all documentation, I tried to move my ticket up. US Airways told me that (a) you can only fly standby for flights on the date of your travel, (b) to change my flight would cost $800+, due to being sold out of the lower fare class, (c) that in light of the circumstances, they could waive the $100 ticket change fee, but that is all and (d) I really should have tried to give them 21 days notice.
ah - 21 days. I leave on Friday.
Do you like the new userpic? My Dad took it in Colorado - pollen over the forest at dusk. The pretty.
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[01 Apr 2006|10:56am] |
Seattle's Best Organic French Roast coffee tastes the best that i've ever been able to make coffee taste. Granted, my controls are askew because this past week has required me to use heavy whipping cream instead of normal soy cream/Baileys/soy milk, grind my own beans, and use my french press. Still - i think the coffee is partly to blame and its the tops.
Maybe it took a queue from the library, Tanya?
Also, Peej and i saw Cate Blanchett and Mr. Smith in Hedda Gabbler before the party left Brookln a week and a half ago. Additionally tops. If things don't go as planned, maybe i can become an Ibsen scholar? (but i'd hate to abandon Faulkner).
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