from the desk of stinkpot

claudi, a german masters student who’s joining my lab for the next six months, has just moved out of our apartment.  christina and i were lending her a bedroom for these past two weeks, as she needed a place to stay until a reasonable sublet could be found on craigslist. i miss her already.  claudi: […]

chris had a med school interview at u chicago a couple of weeks ago and i tagged along.  we had a lovely time hanging out with her cousin and cousin-in-law who put us up for the weekend.  and, while chris went to sweet-talk the doctors, i walked around town and took some pictures.  in general, […]

in honor of today’s unseasonable warmth (60F!), i thought i’d post some photos taken only about a month ago during a blizzard here in cambridge.  (these photos especially deserve posting, since they were taken with the 35mm lens i slightly maligned in my last post.)  that storm, i should mention, was a complete mess: people […]

our dinner plans foiled by the winter wonderland that is new england this evening, christina and i have stayed in and made sushi.  lucky for us, a terrific fish market is about 3 blocks from our apartment.  allegedly, japanese folks will call in orders all the way from albany and connecticut and then show up […]

1. i saw a remarkable overview talk today about the biodefense labs here at school.  it was given by one of the lab heads — a petite, middle-aged woman in a pretty skirt and wavy hair neatly pulled back in a ponytail. i think i described her to christina as looking like a gracefully aging […]

i tutor biology at the cambridge high school now. for the past semester, i’ve been waking up a little earlier twice a week and helping out a student with her homework and readings. i decided to this for all the usual reasons. feelings of guilt induced by the inherent selfishness of trying to build a […]

while walking past the brain and cognitive science building: dude #1: you’ve been looking sick lately. dude #2: yeah, i’ve got the flu or something — it’s no big deal. dude #1: isn’t the flu at least going to slow down how much work you get done? dude #2: shit, you’re right.  damn.

after going through some more snapshots from honduras, it’s become clear to me what’s holding back our currency: lack of spectacular facial hair.

say yeah! i’ve got a gift for misreading the time and dates written on concert tickets. a couple of years ago, i managed to get chris to show up an entire week early to a rufus wainwright show in new york.  last monday was sort of a mini-reprise: i misread the middle east website and […]

someone‘s going to med school next year!