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January 15th, 2006
09:57 pm - from beth
i couldn't resist
1, 2, and 6 make me particularly happy.
- The word 'samba' means 'to rub elusivepaolo'.
- Native Americans never actually ate elusivepaolo; killing such a timid prey was thought to indicate laziness.
- If you drop elusivepaolo from more than three metres above ground level, he will always land feet-first.
- Forty percent of the world's almonds and twenty percent of the world's peanuts are used in the manufacture of elusivepaolo!
- You would have to dig through four thousand kilometres of elusivepaolo to reach the earth's core.
- Elusivepaolo once came third in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest!
- Grapes explode if you put them inside elusivepaolo!
- According to the story, Pinocchio was made of elusivepaolo.
- In Eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from elusivepaolo.
- Elusivepaolo is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
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November 4th, 2005
07:49 am - and i wanted indiana jones
 | You scored as James Bond, Agent 007. James Bond is MI6's best agent, a suave, sophisticated super spy with charm, cunning, and a license's to kill. He doesn't care about rules or regulations and somewhat amoral. He does care about saving humanity though, as well as the beautiful women who fill his world. Bond has expensive tastes, a wide knowledge of many subjects, and his usually armed with a clever gadget and an appropriate one-liner.
James Bond, Agent 007 | | 96% | Maximus | | 83% | Batman, the Dark Knight | | 83% | Captain Jack Sparrow | | 79% | Lara Croft | | 75% | Indiana Jones | | 71% | The Amazing Spider-Man | | 67% | William Wallace | | 63% | El Zorro | | 58% | Neo, the "One" | | 54% | The Terminator | | 42% | </td>
Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0
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Current Mood:  my shoulders hurt
Current Music: none
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October 25th, 2005
09:47 pm - from Cat
(i'm totally digging that you're digging a DDR song, Cat... anyway -)
List ten songs that you are currently digging... it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're no good but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the ten songs in your blog. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.
1. The New Pornographers - Jackie, Dressed in Cobras
2. Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!
3. The Cure - Picture of You
4. Dungen - Panda
5. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Details of the War
6. Bright Eyes - Lua
7. Dogs Die in Hot Cars - Apples & Oranges
8. Manu Chao - Luna Y Sol
9. Elvis Costello - That Day is Done
10. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home On Ice
Tag: cerealgirl, simienwolf, danismyfriend, idolfan71, berkhunt
Current Mood:  hating syphilis
Current Music: bright eyes - i'm wide awake it's morning
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October 19th, 2005
12:06 am - amy's birthday
surprise!
Current Mood:  surprised
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September 30th, 2005
12:39 am - best show ever
Sons and Daughters and The Decemberists
hands down best show ever. wow. words cannot do justice. you had to have been there. it was both the little things like the absence of the token drunken idiot who felt the need to crash into everyone, and leaving the tabernacle not smelling like smoke or weed, and the big things like petra haden from that dog and the rentals! and colin who does not sound anything like a donkey contrary to the imbeciles at blender but is really frenetic and cool, and the giant whale jaws, and the banter between band members, and for singing all my favorite songs, and for their first encore song they covered mr. blue sky!!!!!!
yeah...
destroyer and the new pornographers next.
Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: The Decemberists - i was meant for the stage
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September 22nd, 2005
11:33 pm - future plans update
the more and more i think about it, the more and more i want to go to europe for a dphil.
here are my top picks in order of favorite to not so favorite:
1. andrew read, university of edinburgh.
research agenda: ecology and evolution of infectious disease, virulence, and transmission. more recently evolution of immune systems and responses.
model system: malaria
pros: amazing scientist, highly prolific, innovative in approach and method, relevant system and research, plus he's in edinburgh
cons: funding may be a problem, large lab and large number of applicants whom i may have to fight in order to win a spot in andrew's lab
2. jacob koella, imperial college london
research agenda: host-parasite interaction/co-evolution from the within-host and epidemiological perspectives.
model system: malaria parasite and mosquito host
pros: super interesting questions, again very smart, only person doing malaria-mosquito interactions, highly recommended as well
cons: so he moved from U of p. and m. curie in paris (he should've stayed!) to imperial college london (better school!) but he's at the sillwood
park campus in ascot, berkshire. where the hell is ascot, berkshire?
3. francois taddei, INSERM necker-enfants malades
research agenda: mutagenesis, molecular and evolutionary mechs controlling variability, error, survival, and adaptation
model system: e. coli
pros: again, very interesting very broad questions. part of a larger network of labs doing similar stuff, including miro radman who discovered SOS
repair. and if i worked with francois, i'd live in paris.
cons: though francois' work is arguably farther reaching, it's not as sexy as malaria and not as applicable. doesn't have the versatility of read
or koella who both address basic and applied scientific problems.
4. dieter ebert, university of fribourg
research agenda: host-parasite interaction, adaptive significance of virulence, adaptive significance of variation and sexual recombination
model system: daphnia
pros: again, i love the stuff he does. not as established as andrew but very daring in his approach, will be open to me exploring ideas on my own.
it will require lots of trips to the daphnia colony located in a rockpool in FINLAND.
cons: daphnia's not a very medically significant model. he's in fribourg, switzerland. which would be cool if you like the outdoors.
so yeah. jacob has gotten back to me and said that he'll be ready for applicants later in the year and that he'll let me know when that happens; also he asked me to say hi to bruce and rustom (booyah for connections). andrew hasn't replied to my email yet, bugger it. just emailed francois and dieter today, we'll see what they say.
according to rustom the chance of me getting in to any of these places is very high so hurray. duke can go fuck itself with it's 17 (17!!!) essays they want me to write for the md/phd application.
Current Mood:  not bad, bit tired
Current Music: clap your hands say yeah
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August 22nd, 2005
09:51 pm - what i am listening to
because my sister asked, in case anyone else is interested,
my current 5 and why:
1. Bebo & Cigala - Inolvidable; Spain's greatest flamenco singer + Cuba's greatest afro-jazz pianist = Lagrimas Negras, one of the best albums i've heard this year.
2. Maximo Park - The Coast is Always Changing; I usually run out of steam for a song after a month but this Newcastle band just keeps growing on me. My favorite for this years Mercury Music Prize.
3. The Go! Team - Ladyflash; 5 MCs from all over the world stopped turning tables to pick up instruments and came up with a combination of funk, schoolyard rap, and 70s TV theme songs. Music made for the sole purpose of making you smile. Also up for the MMPrize, I'm torn.
4. British Sea Power - It Ended On an Oily Stage; Brilliant first single from an amazing album. They also dress up in World War I uniforms and surround themselves with taxidermised animals. In my opinion, Britain's most distinctive rock band.
5. The Decemberists - Eli, The Barrow Boy; I really didn't like this song on first listen, but after I got the lyrics it suddenly all clicked and I'm in love with this song. Blender said that their songs are drowning in their own wit and their lead singer sounds like a donkey. This from the same mag who said Sound of Silence was one of the 50 worst songs of all time. Go figure.
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Maximo Park - Postcard of a Painting
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August 21st, 2005
04:29 am - kim's birthday
today is kim's (the other lab tech) birthday so we all (and i mean ALL = 20+ people) went out to IBA for bowling, skeeball, dance dance revolution, and karaoke. it's 4:30 and i'm about to collapse but i just wanted to say that if you didn't already know, germans gravitate to karaoke like ducks to water. from now on, germans will be at the top of my party invite lists.
Current Mood: quite pleased
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August 14th, 2005
03:14 pm - meh
wisdom teeth are all out in one go. not too much swelling or pain, i just have this flap of scar tissue hanging from one of my gaping holes and it feels like food trapped between my teeth so i'm constantly annoyed.
life is going well. the lab folk and i stole bruce's favorite 1950s spectrophotometer and took it around atlanta taking pictures of it in famous spots - alon's cause we needed coffee, cnn, vortex cause bruce loves 5 points, we got lost looking for northside tavern, the varsity, and ikea because we needed meatballs and scandinavian furniture. we are holding 'old blue' for ransom until bruce gets us new lab gadgets. i am most excited for a new plate pourer/stacker, camera scope, and a supply of squid and diapers for the trained penguin colony which will be doing our pipetting from now on.
really psyched about a bunch of concerts i got tickets for:
sigur ros at the symphony hall! montreux jazzfest! bloc party! the decemberists with sons and daughters! coldplay eh ok but not too excited. still need to get tix for destroyer and the new pornographers. any takers?
life would be perfect if someone could write one more med school essay for me. or conversely, give me an acceptance letter to andrew read's lab.
http://readgroup.icapb.ed.ac.uk/gallery/party_pics/blue-juice-2.jpg.html
and funding would be nice too.
Current Mood: numb jaws
Current Music: The Decemberists - Los Angeles I'm Yours
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July 23rd, 2005
01:26 am - recycled from bethykins. merci beaucoup, cherie
the Wit
(60% dark, 34% spontaneous, 22% vulgar) | your humor style:
CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK
You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're
probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean you're
pretentious. You realize 'dumb' can be witty--after all isn't that 'the
Simpsons' philosophy?--but rudeness for its own sake, 'gross-out' humor
and most other things found in a fraternity leave you totally flat. I
guess you just have a more cerebral approach than most. You have the
perfect mindset for a joke writer or staff writer. Your sense of humor
takes the most effort to appreciate, but it's also the best, in my
opinion.
Also, you probably loved the Office. If you don't know what I'm
talking about, check it out here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/.
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My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 68% on dark | | You scored higher than 14% on spontaneous | | You scored higher than 20% on vulgar |
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Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: the go! team - ladyflash
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