I miss NOLA already.

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I’m visiting St.Louis for the rest of this week to work with our collaborators on acquiring some OCT data. We’re imaging a right-ventricular free wall from a rabbit heart, on the endocardial side, as shown in this picture:

After we were done with work for the day, I took a walk over to the apartment [...]

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There’s a change in my ways of thinking that occurred because of my experiences with Katrina. I know that it has happened to others as well.
It’s not quite post-traumatic stress disorder, maybe a step below. I notice it in little things. For instance…
I had a safe deposit box in the Chase at the corner [...]

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My vacation and my trips to New Orleans and Seattle are are over. I arrived back in Baltimore yesterday, and made my way through the cold, wind, and rain to the lab today.
Hopkins has an “intersession” period at the beginning of January, affording me a brief break from classes. Assuming I passed Models of the [...]

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I’m still in New Orleans until the morning of January 7 2007, and Amanda started classes/rotations again today, so I’m working. I rode my bike down St.Charles for the first time in probably two months, parked it under Stern Hall at Tulane, got some coffee from the PJ’s right there, and am now at my [...]

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