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About Me

I came out to the midwest for three reasons: 1.) be a better chemist 2.) be a better driver 3.) be in better shape. So far I've managed to survive the first year of grad school, drop 60 lbs., and figured out that the gas is on the.. right? I like flame-dried glassware, dirty martinis, and minimal techno.

"Just like a salmon knows not discouragement in its upstream journey, so should it be with every endeavor. One should sense a destiny and relentlessly pursue its realization despite its perceived impossibility."
-daniel dilorenzo

Standing there, holding that dripping dipstick
with a firm grip
yet so delicate.
-atmosphere

My Interests

Firing up the dancefloor, minimal techno, glitchy beats, rallycross, autocross, go-karting, rock climbing, total synthesis, working out

I'd like to meet:

Old friends I've lost touch with. I might not have much time on my hands or live in the A anymore, but that doesn't mean I don't think of you often.

Music:

Techno. The glitchy kind. The tribal kind. The swedish kind. The german kind. The detroit kind. Stephen Lynch. Kelis. Smashing Pumpkins. Hum. Slant 6. Superjane. Protein. Ben Sims. Air. Link 80. Adult. The Sounds. Sahara Hotnights. The Hellacopters. The Unicorns. EPMD. Eazy-E. Tupac. Digital Underground. Naughty by Nature. Squarepusher. Mu-ziq. Cex. Miguel Migs. Diz. Iz. Atmosphere. Moodymann. Etta James. Anthony Shakir. Miss Kittin. John Tejada. Chris Liebing. Daniel Bell. Squarepusher. Italo-disco. Donna Summer. Dubtribe. Tony. Naked Music. Adam Jay. Thievery Corporation. Dan Bell. Matthew Dear. The Cardigans. Stewart Walker. Derek Plaslaiko. Everyone rags on country.. screw that. Country bars are awesome, especially if they have a mechanical bull!

Television:

Mythbusters, Good Eats, Feasting on Asphalt, that Ice Trucker show, Law & Order: SVU, Dirty Jobs

Books:

Reading Lolita in Tehran, The King Must Die, Memoirs of a Geisha, Classics in Total Synthesis I & II, Mao: The Untold Story, PiKHAL, TiKHAL, The Wheel of Time Series, I'm mostly reading chemistry literature these days (JACS, JOC, Angew. Chemie, Org Lett., Tetrahrdron Lett., etc.) though.

Heroes:

Alexander Borodin, Stephanie Kwolek, Scott E. Denmark, and Kristen Bowman-James. Look 'em up and spot the pattern.

My Blog

To-Do List

Academia:-Literature seminar (fall 2008)-Second-year research report + defense (fall 2008)-Oral examination (spring 2008 - holy cArp)-Re-synthesize a* for x-ray analysis, full-paper (spring 2008) - 5/...
Posted by nexa on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:56:00 PST

24 hours of lemons

1.) Look ahead 1a.) Don't get dead 1b.) Don't get peed on by fellow team members Ordered up a suit and picked up a sweet new pair of gloves. This should be hilarious....
Posted by nexa on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:27:00 PST

Hows this for a sappy emo boy post?

In one way or another I've always suffered. I didn't know why exactly. But I do know that I'm not so scared of suffering now. I feel more than I've ever felt and I've found someone to feel with. To pl...
Posted by nexa on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:49:00 PST