from the desk of stinkpot

i’ve been doing a lot of hanging out with my labmates these past weekends. it’s made me really happy; when i look back, i realize that i didn’t take demographics into account much when i joined the alm lab about 6 months ago. instead, i made my decision on silly things like advisor, research potential, […]

we sold our beloved fish tank today the big tank was getting to be too much work for us. christina and i were both a bit upset; we had raised most of the fish in there since they had been fishlings. more importantly, the fish had all gotten through our bumblings as first-time fish owners. […]

i once asked drew endy what the best thing to visit in boston is.  dryly, he replied, “the airport.” christina and i have been doing a great job these past couple of weekends of getting out of boston.  last weekend, we took a day trip to northern connecticut.  only about 45 minutes away, we had […]

funny – up until several days ago, i was in a bit of a funk.  my research had bogged down and i was a tad glum.  adding injury to insult, i had caught cold. fast forward to today: a great insight by eric has catapulted my work forward again.  suddenly, i’m in good spirits (especially […]

it’s just happened again – some melancholy song randomly starts playing in the background and i can’t shake the feeling of being old.  it’s this sinking sensation in the pit of my stomach; it feels like that terrible homesickness on the first night of college.  maybe more like the despair you get when you see […]

insanely busy – haven’t been sleeping much in weeks. nevertheless, not so busy that i can’t transcribe the pearls of wisdom my adviser eric bestowed upon me a couple of hours ago. 1)  never do anything (even under direct orders from your PI) that will not eventually become a figure in a foreseeable paper. 2)  […]

i had intended for this blog to be mainly photoblog. believe it or not, i’ve actually been taking a lot of pictures lately; it’s the image downloading/curating/editing that i’ve been avoiding. as much fun as a picture-less blog post is, i thought i’d try and work through my backlog of photos. tonight, i finished uploading […]

proctored + graded my first midterm today. i had no idea how much work it was for TAs to help organize a midterm: preparing review sessions, answering last minute questions, helping to draft an exam. strangely enough, i thoroughly enjoyed most of it – i haven’t tutored anything in some time and i had forgotten […]

ah, today i came across this picture i snapped a couple of months ago while visiting friends in new york. funny how even without a single landmark building in it, a new yorker would still instantly recognize that this photo was taken in manhattan. i miss new york – boston is damn lucky they’ve got […]

actually, i lie like a rug. this site isn’t finished – but it’s much closer to where it’ll end up. it took a bit of wrangling, but my tricks and calendar pages now play well with the rest of the site’s theme. i think i’ve also finally migrated all of my blogger posts over to […]