Chinatown photo fun!

Lets see if I can remember everything.
First of all, me!
Chinatown gate
Gallery place / chinatown metro stop
Urban outfitter (for brit)
German cultural center and across the street is a hooters.
Some baptist churches.
An alley.
Vincent orange for mayor 2006.
China doll restaurant.
Across the street lunch is $4.95.
A federal building.
A suspendedd walkway between 2 bldgs.

These are all things you would see within 1 block of the gallery place /
chinatown metro stop. :)

'Why is Bush awesome?'

i saw the 1/20/06 rocketboom video on Tivo and it was very funny. After commenting to skefnet about it, aaron mentioned that there were more interviews at MNstories.com.

GWM iso well-written fictional man

so i thought of something awhile ago and forgot and remembered and forgot again as you do with somethings and when i remembered it again i decided it's probably true.

now that i've had alot of time off from school and have been starting to feel more like myself, i.e. vivacious, fun, light-hearted, and interested in personal interaction, i've been feeling like i want to meet people and mix with them and see what develops in a romantic sense. well, as i was thinking about that one day and remembering the feeling i'd like to have toward someone i realized that it is the feeling i have for the literary characters that i really enjoy. dr. who, thomas covenant, superman, various other superheroes, capt. picard (of course), and others i can't remember just now.

i want a compelling well-written man! a man of intrigue and charm and maybe a little danger, realized or implied. :)

unfortunately real people are never that, usually. but, what does redeem some men is a good wit, an easy smile, and a fairminded calm. plus, who can refuse a man with compelling features. think about Adrien Brody, who could refuse that nose?

so yeah....

i forget that i don't talk to alot of people anymore. last semester was pretty sucky for more reasons than just the classes i was taking. my aunt died last semester and my uncle has lung cancer. all of which wasn't really fun news.

since i've had so much downtime over this semester break i've started to feel more like myself and have been cooking from time to time and reading books i enjoy and have had time to think. so that news from last semester really sucks.

yet another job update (YAJU)

so i've been emailing recently with the guy that started his own consulting business whose name i got from the president of a local bioinformatics consulting company. after a few emails with him (he has been great with advice) i applied at some consulting co's i hadn't heard of before and thru one of those i've been emailing with another ceo and might have a phone interview next week.

all of this talking with presidents and ceo's sort of fills me with YIPE! but also MEH.

it's nice to have people to talk to though.

plus i've applied for lots more jobs this week, the ones i can remember are 2 NIH jobs and 2 USDA jobs and 2 jobs at janelia farms (the new facility in sterling from the howard hughes medical foundation).

holy jellyfish!

Invasion of the giant jellyfish

Ed helms throwing the shocker

While talking about taint. :)
The daily show is the best!

Obviously I live in the wrong place/time

Todays news is awesome. I'm thoroughly enjoying the headlines as I sit
in murky coffee surrounded by dickhead lawyers-to-be who would probably
blanche and fall over dead if they read about cannibals, men dying on
racks, and legalizing brothels.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/17/britain.brothels.ap/index.html

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/17/dominatrix.charged.ap/index.html

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/17/germany.cannibal.ap/index.html

More job apps

So last monday I applied for >5 more jobs and friday I emailed the
president guy I had talked with all the week before last and he
responded today saying they had filled the part time $20/hr job with a
post-doc. A post-doc??? Are you shitting me??? That's f'ing insane.

He suggested I try janelia farms, which is a good idea. I'd sent them
my resume last year but didn't hear anything so I applied for 2
positions out there.

Tomorrow I want to apply for 5 nih jobs. That'll take awhile because
the gov application requirements are f'ing f'd up. But I'm going to use
the uspo service where you upload the files for them to print and mail
so I don't have to head to kinkos and can just get it all done at my
desk.

Also up for tomorrow is checking on textbooks and buying them either
from the campus bookstore or amazon, whichever is cheaper.

I also checked for jobs at howard hughes medical foundation but there
weren't any I could do. It'd be a short drive to chevy chase, md
though.

8 days

when i woke up yesterday i realized it was only 9 days until classes started. ugh.

so i signed up for classes yesterday, i'll be taking:
microarray analysis
biophysics
biometrics
bioinformatic seminar

the only class i actually want to take is the microarray analysis class, the others i'm just taking so i can get the full stafford loan disbursement. i was hoping to somehow have magically found a job in january so i could start that and drop to part time in grad school. i've been applying like crazy before the semester break and during it but nothing has turned up. so i'm stuck taking 10 credits of what will probably be very hard classes.

suckage.

Diplomatic license plate

Here's a regular dc license plate and a diplomatic plate. See if you
can decipher it. ;)

I r00l da sms!!

I looked at my 4 last tmobile bills and my sms useage has been climbing
each month. :)
I've increased from 2400 sms per month to 4800 last month.

For those of you who don't sms, you should.

Anthony and me :)

Friend anthony from tx is in town visiting so here we are having lunch
:)
And he threw the shocker for me!

New years pics I forgot to post

A headless awesome guy flashing the shocker annd 3 awesome strangers I
met who were kind enough to do the same :)
Plus a drink and me.

Tina and booze

*smile*

Comedy Central cowards

well this is complete bullshit. comedy central pulled the re-airing of the 'bloody mary' episode of southpark where the virgin mary bleeds out of her ass, but the pope determines it out of her cooch and so isn't a miracle since women do that all the time. they pulled it because some obscure religious people who believe in the fantasy of xianity complained to them. meanwhile southpark showcases regular hits against jews, gays, pedophiles, alcoholics, black people, all people, the government, culture, and even the planet routinely, but making fun of some crazy wackjobs who think mary appears to them in toast and makes her statues bleed is somehow not ok? whatever.

religious zealots are getting out of control. why can't the government sanction these religious zealots? they seem to hate the islamic ones, why don't they clamp down on the run away xians? ooohhh, right, because most of the asshats in the government are simpering weak-willed asshat xians themselves.
bastards.

South Park episode pulled after complaints

Panini maker!!

Mom sent one of those single size grills so I decided to try to make
panino with it. Challah, tomato, red onion, smoked turkey, muenster,
chipotle mayo, grill, eat!!
It smells soooo good and tastes 20 times better!
Thanks moms!

Chili!!

@ hard times in clarendon and was waiting for chili.....and it arrived!
Arr num num!

Irex iliad

http://www.irextechnologies.com/shop/products/iliad.htm

It looks very neat!! I hope its not vaporware and that that damn
flexible screen technology moves along so we can have a roll up version
in a decade. (*sigh* hopefully sooner, but the stupid united states
would have to get its head out of its ass and start behaving ethically
and in its citizens best interests.)

Ants in my pants!

I think I have an ant problem. I caught these just today. Is it wierd
that I can identify the different kinds?

holy fucking shit for brains

ok, for those of you who know me, bear this in mind when you pay me the compliment of 'oh, you're so bright!'.

i dutifully wrote notes in and addressed and mailed 26 holiday cards yesterday. and today i recieved 26 holiday cards!

i addressed them incorrectly and they all arrived at thier indicated destination, my house.

FUCKING STUPID!

i never use the physical mail system so i guess it's no wonder i don't know how to address an envelope. it's not like there is error checking and format control on a piece of paper.
but still, i feel SO dumb.

This years anti-xmas cards ;)

The old grannies are SO cool!

Saturday follow up

So I got the news yesterday that I'd failed numerical methods. I loaded
all the webpages in my 'jobs' category and spent 5hrs going thru them
all, updating my resumes, setting the alert frequency to daily, and
applying for jobs. I think I applied for 7 jobs, more than 3, less than
10.

So what are the ramifications of failing this class? Its a core course
so is necessary to pass before taking the comprehensive exam. No comps
mean no phd candidacy, which means no dissertation proposal, which means
no dissertation, which means no phd.

So, I can retake the class, but I don't think that will solve the
problem, just hearing the same bad lectures won't make me understand the
material more.
I could take more math classes to get up to speed with the concepts in
class but that would be overkill I think and also something I would hate
with all my heart.
I could decide that if I actually need to know mechanical and electrical
engineering for the bioinformatics program then its the wrong program
for me. (Yes, his lectures and text was mech/elec eng oriented, no trace
of meaningful biology at all)
Or I could say screw it and just keep taking classes that I thought were
interesting and actually get something out of the experience, if not a
phd. I figure my status would be changed if I chose to do that, I think
there's a specific registration slot for that.

So I don't know. I hope I can find a job so I can have financial
freedom again though have less free time for studying. But being able
to feel secure and chart my own course at my own pace would be nice. My
own pace is in reference to not taking 9 credits a semester and not
having to depend on financial aid to exist.

argh.

well 2 of my 3 grades are in and it's not good. i have an A- in biochemical systematics and a C in numerical methods. that's a show stopper. so i'm combing job sites once again to try to find jobs to apply for that i won't get any responses on.

wow, pandora rocks

Pandora is incredible. you put in the title of a group you like and it finds music similar to it and streams it to your computer. i've really been enjoying it for the last couple weeks. :)

numerical methods final

just emailed my numerical methods final to the professor. i wasn't able to do 1 of the 3 questions so the result isn't going to be good. i think i did answer the other 2 questions fully though. i don't think i'll pass the class by getting a 66 on the final though.

that's all i've done today. next i have a biochemical systematics exam to take at 7pm. that should be easier or at least more enjoyable as i'll have to find information on the spot but it'll all be biology related and so will be more understandable.

then tomorrow i just have to email my biostats final to the professor. oh, i also have to drive out to manassas to drop off the bonus question as it is hardcopy.

Carol flashes the shocker on SNL

I wonder if ppl other than us know about it? What's funier is to wonder
if the fcc watches for it.

shocker

Shocker 4 da psp crazy squirrel!

I love that sqirrel.

shocker

microarray trainer update

ken called back today and let me know they weren't interested, as i thought.

finals

today i'm working on my biostats final and listening to npr. also applied for a couple more jobs at TIGR and posted my resume to craigslist.

meanwhile, i had gotten a call yesterday from ken @ terrapin systems in md about the microarray trainer position i had had a phone interview about a few weeks ago. all he said in his vm was that he had news but he didn't sound upbeat so it's probably not the news i want. i called him back this morning around noon and left a vm for him.

i also called anna @ MSD on tuesday to check if NIAID had gotten back to her about my resume. she emailed and said not yet and she'd keep me posted. i'm a little disheartened by getting the email instead of a phonecall, it makes me think my resume isn't near the top of the list.

Excellent article on security

Its long but well worth reading for more than just the security
criticisms of the government. It talks about a great public alert
system in portland, oregon.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.12/warning.html

TDS r00lz!

Screw you, bush! Goddamn retarded monkey asshole.

saturdays joy

what did i do today? well i did my homework for chapter 11 biostatistics of course.

woops, look what we did.

CDC: Deadly bacterial illness appears to be spreading

hurricane 101 for the new decade

ok, i'm getting tired of hearing about all the new orleans news and whether they should rebuild it etc. a bad design is simply a bad design, why repeat it unless you are blind, dumb, and retarded?

i think these people have to face facts, hurricanes follow a decade spanning pattern of wax and wane. by all reports we are entering an intensification phase which means the intensity of the hurricanes will be greater if not the number of them. though as we saw this year we had to start over and are now at hurricane epsilon.

i've been wondering what is going to happen next year when another strong hurricane (and i think you can start calling them strong at category 3) hits new orleans relatively close or spot on. i wonder if people will learn that idiotic building on coastlines is not a pattern that can continue in the same way as in the past.

revolution of revolutions! you must adapt your building and location choices as the environment changes.

USA behind South Africa, how sad.

South Africa’s Highest Court Rules In Favor Of Marriage Equality

wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a 'democratic, universalistic, caring and aspirationally egalitarian society' too?