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Being a professor in a research university is different than in teaching universities or colleges. Research is a big or dominant part of our duties. Formally, my current load is 60% for research, 20% teaching and 20% service. In reality, teaching actually takes most of my time and energy.
I love doing research. I enjoy staring for hours looking at random facts and having a never-ending daydream trying to make sense of them. I love collecting stories of people and spend thousand hours trying to untangle knots and to connect …

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Happy super belated New Year!
Yes, it’s too late to wish you a happy new year… I wish you all had a good start of year 2010. And it’s not too late to say: Happy Chinese New Year & Happy Valentine’s Day !
Apology for a super long silence. It’s just hard to go back to blog writing after stopped for such a long time. I am back now. Have many ideas to write but not sure I’d be able to get them written down soon.
So, new year. What’s new? I got …

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Day 7 of Seven: Draw Your Days!
bicycle. good meeting. cleaning up. drawing blood. closing my account. enjoying the friday. grilled steak + bean salad. one fine friday. the end. fine!

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Day 6 of Seven: Draw Your Days!
A visit of an architect friend. Immersed in the organic architecture.
Nature. Maze. Triangle.
Human scale. Timeless.
Taliesin. Frank Llyod Wright.

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Day 5 of Seven: Draws Your Day!
it’s a holiday. morning coffee. miso soup, crab dumpling and edamame for lunch. commenting grad students’ papers. writing my own paper. cycling around the neighborhood. more writing. grilled mackerel and baked acorn squash for dinner. a calm veteran’s day. a quiet wednesday.
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Day 4 of Seven: Draw Your Days!
cycling. leading e-lunch seminar. grabbing a late coffee. teaching senior seminar. finishing some paperwork. teaching graduate seminar. a little evening guitar serenade. what a flocky tuesday — meeting more than 80 people today.