Magical Mystery Tour

I will be out of commission for a while, as I will be making several transcontinental flights this week. As much as I'd like to be able to tell my Bangladeshi post-docs idea of having Bush and Ahmadinejad just duke it out in an arena Battle Royal style to avoid a war, or how my next-door neighbor's stomach is revolting against her Indian heritage by making her sensitive to curry and tea, I'm afraid it will have to wait another day.

If you're wondering, I'm going to have a medical school interview at Louisville on Wednesday, followed by a straight trip to the Philippines, where graft and nepotism exist,but it plays in favor for my family.

This is what my schedule will be like for the next week:

Tuesday 9/25/07 4:45PM Leave Boston Logan Airport
6:30PM CST Arrive Chicago O'Hare
7:30PM Leave Chicago
10:00PM EST Arrive Louisville Airport
Wednesday 9/26/07 10:00AM Drive aunt to work
12:00 Noon Sign in at the University of Louisville School of
Medicine Office of Admissions
4:00PM Day of bliss ends
7:45PM Leave Louisville Airport
8:29PM Arrive Chicago O'Hare, again
9:20PM Leave Chicago
Thursday 9/27/07 12:30AM Arrive Boston Logan
12 Noon Leave Boston Logan, getting repetitive
2:02PM Arrive Detroit Airport
3:00PM Leave Detroit
Friday 9/28/07 10:45PM Arrive in Manila, Philippines
Saturday 9/29/07 5:00AM Leave Manila for heart of darkness in the Philippines
7:00AM Arrive in rural, feudal provinces
Thus, if you been adding this up, I'm in the air for over 30 hours this week (42 if you include the 12 hours I lose crossing the International Date Line). Which is probably the reason why I'm kissing sea level right now. At any rate, if you haven't heard any news of me leading a rebellion of syndicalists and getting myself named Grand Moff of the Philippines, I'll tell you guys how my travels went.

The Crazed Filipino Show

Last week, I started working in a laboratory in the Pharmacology department looking at transgenic worms carrying the encoded LRRK2 gene which is tied to ubiquitin degradation in Parkinson's disease. If anyone can point out how this is related to Pharmacology, please tell me.

So I went on a double date tonight: a high school classmate and her date, me and her sister. Hearing she had just gotten into college around Boston, I thought the sister was a freshman, though she turned out to be a junior transfer. Except does it still count as a double date if it was just me, my high school classmate and her sister when the date canceled? Especially since I paid for only the sister? And should I feel relieved and yet unadventurous the sister wasn't five years younger than me?

On for more sitcom situations: stay tuned as Joel has to go to two parties at the same. And the guest he encounters is hilarity!

Damn, I need a theme song.

Born in the Wrong Decade

Line from Pharmacology lecture today:

"Researchers found the receptors for THC, the active substance in marijuana, through active testing."

Another throwback from the 60's is this article from the Onion I keep on reading and wishing I was there when Slaughterhouse Five was first published.


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