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Going to chicago tommorrow to watch the races and probably do a great deal of shopping (gotta look good for Japan...). Much thanks to everyone who commented on the last post - I really appreciate it! I'm still not resolved as to how I feel about being way up in Ishikawa. At any rate, I'm sure all my feelings will instantly clarify after a few drinks. Will post more then. Now listening to: Me...
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Posted on: 05/31/2003 03:31 PM
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well, the long wait is over. All in the span of a 3 hours, I got my JET placement in the mail AND a nice long e-mail from my predecessor. The verdict? [b][Redacted - 10.03.2005][/b] - prefecture, probably in [b][The City Now Referred to as "The Hood" in this Blog][/b] (as garnered from my predecessor's e-mail). Hmmmm... I don't really know how I feel about this. On the one hand, I'm glad I'm not...
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Posted on: 05/30/2003 03:31 PM
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going to green bay. *shudder* for those of you who have never been there before... be afraid. be very afraid... on the plus side, I'm going to go watch my friend's brother drag race this weekend down near Chicago - her family owns a bunch of race cars and from what she tells me, it's something that has to be seen to be believe. Hope to take lots of pics.(0_O)P Now listening to: "Underworld...
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Posted on: 05/29/2003 03:31 PM
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Thursday, May 29, 2003 Random pictures Click to get a larger image! Now listening to: "Tupac - Me against the world" With all this extra stressin The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath When will I finally get to rest? Through this supression they punish the people that's askin questions And those that possess, steal from the ones without possesions The message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons...
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Posted on: 05/28/2003 03:31 PM
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fu fuuu fuuuuu..... it's a rainy day today. nothing special going on. And I still don't know where I'm going in Japan. The Chicago consulate is so slow! (osoii yo!!! - must be pronounced in a rising, high pitched whine). Hugh G. Rection (should have your sound on for this one. It's a video so it'll take a moment to download) Kids, I know some of you out there are either entering college, or...
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Posted on: 05/27/2003 03:31 PM
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Panda has officially gone mobile! i am writing this entry on my pocketpc in a coffeeshop using a wireless LAN card. now how cool is that...!? :) *gets tired of pecking at a tiny keyboard with a stylus* ahhhh, and thus dies the novelty of m-life. And everyone wonders why I'm always broke... now listening to: "Paul Vandyke - first of four Ministry of Sound Sessions" (but where are the other three? *rummages through...
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Posted on: 05/26/2003 03:31 PM
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So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. Today was a beautiful day, the sort of sun-shiney summer day where waves of grass are tickled by a crisp breeze, fluffy white clouds loft lazily amongst jet streams far up...
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Posted on: 05/25/2003 03:31 PM
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who would have thought that the joys of graduation would be so quickly replaced by the mind-numbing boredom of "real life"? It is memorial day weekend; more pressingly, it is the one-week mark denoting the end of the first five days spent in the "real" world. My accomplishments so far this week? 1. Bought a pack of beef-flavored Ramen noodles at the local grocery store 2. Ate Ramen noodles all week 3. Got sick of...
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Posted on: 05/23/2003 03:31 PM
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I think it is time for a self introduction, for those of us who don't know me. My name is Michael. I am a panda. Like most pandas, I enjoy the occasional snack of bamboo. But what really gets me drooling, Pavlov-style, is that wonderous food of the gods, Tonkatsu. If you don't know what Tonkatsu is, please believe me when I say, your life is a little less bright for want of that knowledge....
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Posted on: 05/21/2003 03:31 PM
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I think I was the only one not wearing an Honors stole. . . So I finally graduated. Four and a half years of hard work (well, only about two and a half years of hard work. I kind of slacked off for the other two) and what do I finally have to my name? An empty diploma cover. (-_^)/ The "actual" diploma is forthcoming, pending a review to see if I have completed...
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Posted on: 05/20/2003 03:31 PM
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Straight up liquor / with no chaser / make your high come quicker the plan? simple the timing? impeccable. the mission? to get utterly and completely smooshed for several days in a row. But before this weekends drunken debacle, let's put up some pictures of random drunkeness at the Essenhaus, perhaps one of the last places in this state were a fellow can get a nice, giant boot filled with beer. Random friends. (Wait, scratch...
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Posted on: 05/17/2003 03:31 PM
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Friday, May 16, 2003 O-wa-ri...! ladies and gentlemen, Panda is done with college. *bows with a flourish to the peals of applause filtering down from the rafters* 9:01 pm...
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Posted on: 05/16/2003 03:31 PM
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sorry for the lack of updates, this final exam week has been hell... i look like i've been stranded on a desert island for a year... anyway, i came home last night from the library around 3am and found that my roommate dave's door was open. I peeked inside and found this: Dave is a great guy. But let's just say that being tidy is not his forte. I just wanted to share this all...
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Posted on: 05/15/2003 03:31 PM
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poor panda!! finals week is torturous!! Now listening to: "Pulsedriver - Cambodia" (where would i be without digitallyimported.com to get me through the long lonely nights at the library?) 1:03 am Tuesday, May 13, 2003...
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Posted on: 05/13/2003 03:31 PM
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I shamelessly stole this off of poopreport.com. Don't even ask why I was surfing poopreport.com..... A Japanese scientist could soon become stinking rich with an invention to be ready by 2005 that would use Panda dung to create electricity. Fumiaki Taguchi, emeritus professor of Kitasato University in Tokyo, embarked on the project five years ago when he asked Ueno Zoo for a bucketful of one of their most popular residents' faeces. The team mixed the...
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Posted on: 05/11/2003 03:31 PM
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we are currently under a tornado warning... whoo hoo!!! *grimaces* if i die, this means no more physics final for panda. Now listening to: "R.Kelly - (Remix to) Ignition" (pedophile or not, still quite the crooner) 10:11 pm...
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Posted on: 05/10/2003 03:31 PM
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Did you know that buffalo wings and beer actually taste really good together? Actually, I suppose probably everyone in Wisconsin except for me knew that. It's odd, even though they always serve buffalo wings in bars, I never actually ate them with beer before. All of which is to say that I am finally, unfortunately, hideously, godsaveme!!! - turning into a pudgy, beer-swilling, greasy-food-eating, football-watching wisconsinite. i must have ingested like 3000 calories last...
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Posted on: 05/09/2003 03:31 PM
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Yes folks, it's finals time again. Which means procrastination of the inevitable studying by any and all means neccessary, including, but not limited to goofing off, excessive drinking, obsessive checking of e-mail (when writing term papers) and arm wrestling. The latter, it seems, was in full force today as we here at the Las Vegas Grande Hotel and Casino proudly bring you tonight's championship match-up between Steph "The Intimidator" and Joe "The Calculator" (a...
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Posted on: 05/08/2003 03:31 PM
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xanga is acting up.... it's going to get an elbowdrop to the dome in a second... *puts on his best lucha libre face* Physics final in 4 days... cumulative, plus I'm 3 chapters behind on the new stuff. conclusion? Must bust ass. Also, just found out my poli sci final consists of 3 essays .... for a grand total of 20+ pages...! (stuff like "reinterpret the sino-american relationship in the wake of september 11th") well,...
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Posted on: 05/08/2003 03:31 PM
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Yes, that is a picture of me passed out on my bed. This is what I did today from 2 pm until around 7pm. Today was such a beautiful day - the sun was shining, the sky was blue, fluffywhite clouds in the sky, yummy tonkatsu in my stomach (samantha janice and I went out to Wasabi.... spent a small fortune on lunch), warm spring breeze blowing through my window. What better thing to...
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Posted on: 05/06/2003 03:31 PM
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paper....finished.... now....exhausted... must..... sleep.... Currently listening to: "Gaball - Channel B.P.M." Picked this album up on a whim at Tsutaya and must have burned it... 5:00 am...
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Posted on: 05/06/2003 03:31 PM
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paper....almost....done.... i'll update in a little while after i get home. 12:08 am...
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Posted on: 05/05/2003 03:31 PM
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oh dear lord, just let me get this goddamn paper done already.... *groans in agony and procrastinates by checking his mail for the umpteenth time in the last 15 minutes* 8:16 pm...
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Posted on: 05/04/2003 03:31 PM
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Peep my sexy desktop. Cleaned, for once in my life. Now listening to: "Sander Kleinenberg - Essential Mix" (is it house? is it progressive? does it matter?) 7:59 pm...
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Posted on: 05/03/2003 03:31 PM
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what can i say, another day down, only SIX more to go...!!! wow, graduation is so close i can almost taste it. of course there is the nasty matter of "finals" but hey, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. Today, I happened to sit down at McDonalds to snag a shake to slurp (because my jaw felt as it had gone 12 rounds with mohammad ali, thanks to my overly-eager dental...
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Posted on: 05/02/2003 03:31 PM
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Problem I. In the Zhong et al paper (organogenesis section), the authors show that the injection of wild-type gridlock mRNA at early stages can rescue the aorta formation defect present in homozygous mutant gridlock embryos. The authors also show that the grl(m)145 mutation results in a change in the stop codon, which extends the protein by 44 amino acids. Wild-type mRNA rescued 26% of genotypically mutant embryos, while grl(m)145 mRNA rescued 55 of genotypically...
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Posted on: 05/01/2003 03:31 PM
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Why, hello Ms. Dental Hygenist!! My, what a shiny titanium pick you have.... hey, why are you looking at me that way.... wait..hold on....AAAUUGHHHHmmpphhhhggrhghhg.....!!!! *trails off in incomprehensible muffled screams of terror* 11:20 am Update: 6:44pm Dear god i still cannot feel my teeth.... oh the humanity....!...
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