from the desk of stinkpot

attended our first underwear party ever tonight. (technically, it was a “lingerie + loungewear” party.) confuzzled, i showed up in pajamas and a hoodie. and here i was, thinking that the med students enjoy all the debauchery. (the drinking stories i hear from my friends in med school have convinced me to self-medicate myself and […]

so begins my new life as a real lab rat. christina’s post-bac classes have just started. harvard, manifesting another one of its ridiculous practices, schedules all “continuing student” classes at night (instead of just merging them with the identical undergrad class). that means that christina is booked from 6-10ish every night. which in turn means […]

so lately, i feel like i still haven’t been getting enough work done. actually, i’ve been having this problem all summer. i need to work harder. but, over the past year or so, i’m starting to relearn that old lesson, that devoting more time to work doesn’t produce more results. instead, at least in my […]

golly, ‘been so busy lately w/ TAing and researching and tennis.  thank god the us open is finally over – i can have my evenings back now. still can’t proffer a real post (my code has yet to bloom into the beautiful flower it wants to be). instead, i’ll post a piece of poetry i […]

“did you know that pickles come from cucumbers?” thus spake a genuinely surprised christina this evening, after reading a book describing produce. graduates with highest honors from probably the nation’s top business school – and she thought pickles come from the pickle tree. just adorable [update: christina disavows thinking pickles came from the pickle tree. […]

busy as we were before yet another long weekend we’ll be spending out of boston, christina and i dropped everything when we heard that agassi was in a fifth set; we drove to the nearest MIT dorm and plopped down in a common room showing the match. and what a match!  good lord bagdhatis and […]

things have been very hectic lately. last week, we spent monday through wednesday in new york, sneaking in 2 days of the us open qualifying. (photos forthcoming) this past weekend, we backpacked through the white mountains (the longest 6-mile hike of my life) and slept on awesome swiss-family-robinson platforms on the side of mount libery […]

i thought i’d share some of the photos i took during our camping trip last weekend to rhode island. we spent two days at east beach – easily the best beach i’ve ever been to in new england. the water was warm (a balmy 65 degrees) and the beach was uncrowded (as you can see […]

i feel am so scientifically unproductive. christina and i have just gotten back from a mid-week 2-night trip to NY.  (we went to watch our buddy Cecil Mamiit try and qualify for the US Open, and to bask in the tennis talents of the world’s 100 best players.)  this trip immediately followed the 3-day weekend […]

you might have noticed that a bunch of links around here no longer point to stinkpot.afraid.org … they point to desk.stinkpot.org.  i’ve finally bought a domain name: stinkpot.org. i finally gave into buying it when the free service [freedns] supplying my domain went down last week.   some idiot(s) decided it would be a good […]