seantime

• The other day, while heading from campus back home, I was stuck behind a Porsche Boxster for 2 miles who was driving slower than me.
• I’m sure some people would find this fun, but trying to figure out which job offer to accept, and doing negotiations and stuff is really tiring me out. Waking up in the middle of the night wondering if I’m going to make the right decision kind of sucks.
• Looks like there’ll be an Elana Altman sighting this Saturday. Also, Katita Waldo announced her retirement after this season. Kind of sad to see these principals retire. Reminds you of how short life is, or something.
• It feels strange to say, but I’m really not liking all these three-day weekends while at school. It takes so long to build mental momentum, and the breaks really break it.
• Nearing the 1-year anniversary with ballet. She is a cruel mistress.
• Saw tp girl eating lunch last week, but then a guy sat down next to her.

I think all these posts are now connected to facebook and twitter. The internets truly is interconnecteds.

So I think I’ve settled upon classes for the quarter:

• Stat 217 – Intro Stochastic Processes (required)
• Stat 329 – Large-Scale Simultaneous Inference, taught by Efron.  This should be pretty good material, and since he’s going to publish the material, it’s all typed up neatly, which is awesome.
• BMI 217 – Translational Bioinformatics. I still have no idea what that adjective means, but it seems like it’ll be a great applied bioinformatics class.

Tougher than any of those, though, is back-to-back ballet classes (beginning and then intermediate). I think I might die with that schedule, but I wouldn’t be motivated any other way to build the requisite endurance. Plus, tp girl is in the intermediate class.

I also just realized that I took AP Bio (10 years ago!?) before the human genome was sequenced, so all this genomics stuff is rather foreign to me. I’m trying to refresh myself on the very basics of molecular biology, of which I knew little in the first place. Like, there are now two new amino acids: selenocysteine and pyrrolysine? Craziness.

It is kind of funny to me that the lecture hall in the medical school has hand sanitizer and clorox wipes for the professor, though.

It never occurred to me to look up Sigur Ros music videos on youtube, but I’m glad I did, because this just makes me smile:

Sigur Ros – Hoppipolla

Black Swan (Might be greatest movie ever. At the least, will be better than The Fountain.)

The Time Traveler’s Wife (A pretty decent book, haven’t seen Rachel McAdams in a while.)

District 9 (The premise sounds interesting if done right… hopefully Peter Jackson doesn’t mess this up royally.)

Ponyo (Is this even going to be widely released?)

Romeo & Juliet vs. The Living Dead (This sounds amazing!)

Here’s to a new and glorious morn. *clink*

A movie about ballet, starring Natalie Portman, and directed by Darren Aranofsky? It’s like a triumvirate of awesomeness. I’m pretty excited. Let’s hope this doesn’t turn into The Fountain.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/15/natalie-portman-cast-in-darren-aronofskys-black-swan/

So on twitter, Marit Larsen was all like “I love being 25. I have the advantages of being an adult, but I still get to act like a child whenever I want.”

Then someone responded with a link to this blog post:
http://tomatonation.com/?p=838

Talk about being a serious buzzkill.