Prospective Winter Quarter Schedule

Monday:
4:00-5:30pm Neurobiology of Disease
6:00-9:00pm Beginning Fiction Writing

Tuesday:
3:00-6:00pm History and Philosophy of Biology

Wednesday:
4:00-5:30pm Neurobiology of Disease

Thursday:
1:30-4:30pm Autonomy and Medical Paternalism

Friday:
12:00-1:00pm Lab Meeting

I find myself deeply affected by red today. Most of the trees turn yellow here -- not a golden, crisp yellow that makes you think of ripe fruit and dry autumnal breezes, but a burnished golden that turns quickly into brown. But red. Red leaves are what one searches for on a true New England leaf-watching tour. Don't settle for any coppery ( Read more... )

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/Living/health.jsp

Not the permanent link yet, but we're on the internet! and on television this morning! Yay!

I love my job. It's a sort of guilty pleasure to live your life vicariously through the successes of those you admire, like your boss. But she's the one who hired me, so I guess I'm allowed to enjoy it. I catch myself wishing that this job wouldn't end, except that I have to keep reminding myself that, really, it's not my job that I'm enjoying so ( Read more... )

As a rule, there is no reason to think that life works itself out. Every shift that I make closer to that moment where what I am and what I have, what I need to survive and what I strive for are all lined up in this perfectly balanced wheel that is going somewhere, that has somewhere to go. At the end of the day, I know, that I am really, truly ( Read more... )

I'm going home in two days -- what? you expect me to care about anything else right now?

I always feel awkward when I have to give my age. Not because I'm ashamed of it or anything, but mostly because it's simply embarrassing how often I forget and how difficult it is for me to remember. Like, I'm twenty? Really? I'm still that young? It's not as if I feel old or older or anything, and frankly, I'm not looking forward to feeling ( Read more... )

what I have been up to lately ( Read more... )

I can't quite get her face out of my mind, the slight tilt to her brown leathery head, her affected way of speaking, which really is her true way of speaking, I suppose, which also has a tilt and makes me wonder what it is that she is on Social Security for. Was there an injury at the factory that she worked at for so many years that now she can no ( Read more... )

The room is darkened because we turned off all the lights so that we can all see the projector screen. But no one's actually looking at the projector screen now, and it's not actually that dark because the sun is still shining right through the window, the light is shining right into my eyes and I reflexively feel as if I'm in the spotlight, as if ( Read more... )