By bluerasberry on July 9, 2010
Saturday July 3 was the Fremont Zombie Walk. I regret not having pictures, but there were three of us together as zombie scientists in lab coats. Here is a picture of me without blood or too much makeup. I participated in a pie-eating contest organized by The World is Fun, and since it was no-hands, [...]
Posted in festival, Seattle | Tagged blood, competitive eating, death
By bluerasberry on September 16, 2009
On Thursday September 10 I had my wisdom teeth removed at the University of Washington Medical Center. Since my current job makes me medically insured for the first time in my life, I went for routine dental care and the dentist recommended that I have a panoramic x-ray. That showed that my teeth were impacted, [...]
Posted in drug, health | Tagged blood
By bluerasberry on May 11, 2009
Actually, this is not a license. It is a medical assistance certification that may or may not have any value. In any case, I just finished a phlebotomy class and got a lot of practice performing and receiving blood draws. As a person who has participated in more than forty clinical trials requiring blood draws, [...]
Posted in education, health, research, rights | Tagged blood
By bluerasberry on June 5, 2008
I live in an apartment building with 100 units. Today I went to the elevator and there was blood spilled all over the floor. I started thinking about what I was seeing and how this looks in the movies. There was a lot of blood there and obviously someone had a really bad time in [...]
Posted in art | Tagged blood, death
By bluerasberry on April 3, 2007
Before I start passing on partly unsubstatiated rumors let me say that my studies are going well and that within the last week I have found a surge of speaking proficiency from within. I have begun daily study with M.N. and he presses me to speak and write without preparation or my books. I find [...]
Posted in computer, India, religion, rights | Tagged blood, death, food, gay rights, Hinduism, Islam, marijuana, ritual, scam, Sikhism, sport, water, youth
By bluerasberry on February 9, 2007
My “disco” teacher, whatever ability he has, is intolerable to me. He is too strange to be my teacher and Nandan says he will find another within a day or two. The last thing I will say about oblivious disregard for the notion of alternative sexuality is a description of something that I saw on [...]
Posted in HIV, India, rights | Tagged blood, dance, gender, sex
By bluerasberry on February 1, 2007
I am learning the routines of my family. Nandan has been minding me for a large part of everyday. I like spending time with him but I am hitting a major bump in that I still do not have a lot of confidence in Hindi and he is able to express any idea in English, [...]
Posted in festival, India, religion | Tagged blood, ghost, money, ritual