carnivalofsorts

The other day I started a thread on the music board about the first album you ever owned. MIne was Destroyer, by KISS, which my cousin gave me when I was five years old. I was thinking about how much such a trivial thing as getting a record from my cousin probably changed my life. I was an only child, so as a kid one...
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lastbadger:

Yeah you owe your cousin an amazing debt of gratitude. Just think of the horror you were spared. Kenny Rogers would have just been your gateway drug. Then you would have moved on to the hard stuff, The Oakridge Boys

Dec 5, 2003

Well, back from my Thanksgiving trip home, guess I'll update my journal. Trip was ok, nothing spectacular....got to see my best friend, which is always nice. We went out to a bar in my hometown Wednesday night...saw too many people I went to high school with. I don't really like trying to make small talk with people I haven't seen for 6 or 7 years....most...
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lastbadger:

Why you gotta hate me man? It's just my culture

Dec 1, 2003

One of my best friends is going to be a dad....crazy! I'm sure he'll be a great father and all, but it's really hard to imagine him having a kid....I mean, I've know him since we were 12 years old.
I'm counting the days until this semester's over and I don't have to teach genetics anymore.....not that I don't like teaching, but it takes up...
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lastbadger:

You are 24, a Grad student whose friend is about to have a child, and give speeches entitledElicitation and suppression of Arabidopsis extracellular defenses by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000......?!?

I am such an underachiever.

Nov 24, 2003

Ahhh, seminar over....and quite successful even. Think I'll reward myself and actually take the rest of the afternoon off.

evil:

Lucky!!

Nov 18, 2003

Tried playing volleyball for the first time since my appendectomy this evening....seems to have gone pretty well, I don't see any blood issuing forth from my abdomen. Going to be a work-filled weekend as I have to give a seminar on Tuesday and I've done essentially nothing to prepare as of yet. I once took a vacation....someday I hope to do that again....someday.

vutek:

1. oo. your name is great!
2. seminar on what?
3. this seminar you haven't prepared for...might you just pull a "Lucky Jim" on them? [note: i don't really like that edition's cover.]

Nov 14, 2003

carnivalofsorts:

seminar title=Elicitation and suppression of Arabidopsis extracellular defenses by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000......enthralling eh? It's on my doctoral dissertation research...I study plant-pathogen interactions.

Wish I could claim originality for the name, but it's ripped off from the title of an REM song.

hehe, I haven't read "Lucky Jim", but it sounds pretty good, maybe I'll have some time to read it over the holidays. Or I could read it instead of preparing for my seminar.....but considering that several members of the National Academy of Sciences will be in attendence, maybe that wouldn't be a good idea.

Nov 15, 2003

Ho hum....9:00pm and still at work, life's such a drag these days. Last night a friend of mine called who graduated from college with me.....the guy's got this really great job working for a health insurance company, making tons of money, he's thinking about getting married and shit....it struck me quite abruptly that several people i know are at a stage like that in life...
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