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I am currently a religious studies graduate student at UCSB. In my former life I was the following: a lab manager / research specialist in a cancer biology lab at U. Penn in Philly; a Philly barfly, with an established residency at The Bards, by far the best bar (Irish or otherwise) in that city; a bartender at my friend's Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly (R.I.P. Amare Solomon); a barely useful and/or competent lab assistant in a genetics lab at UNC Chapel Hill; a confused (and often confusing) pre-med undergraduate at Penn; a high school kid that was good at "stuff"; etc., and so on, and so forth. This journal is my attempt to write on a consistent basis, preferably a daily one. My ultimate goal in this endeavor is to improve both my writing and my life/lifestyle. The way I see it, the former is a fairly decent indicator of the general state of affairs that defines the latter. Therefore, as I trudge through this "grad student life" in America's favorite little bubble of blissful benightedness (i.e., Santa Barbara), I hope to use this journal to keep track of the things of interest and disinterest that strike me as worthy of mention, even if the final expository form is incoherent public scrawl. If you find that my mental graffiti tarnishes your own canvas of intellect and emotions in a way that you find displeasing, I kindly ask you to stay calm and not fret - it usually washes off easily if you ingest a half-dozen pints of Guinness and some peanuts.

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