2008
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By bluerasberry on 2008-12-20
I live at 7th and 45th in u-district and this picture was taken from the 10th floor of the apartments at the northwest of that intersection. I could not go to work today because of the snow. In the top right of the picture is Queen Anne hill; just to the right of the top […]
Posted in Seattle | Tagged landscape
By bluerasberry on 2008-12-13
Last night I went to see a screening of the 1929 Phantom of the Opera accompanied by live music. Here is the blurb: Phantom of the Opera, film with live accompaniment presented by Aphonia Recordings The 1929 classic silent film “Phantom of the Opera,” starring Lon Cheney (man of 1000 faces) and featuring a live […]
Posted in art | Tagged ghost, opera, silent movie
By bluerasberry on 2008-11-23
This week I went to a conference for Fred Hutch’s HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN). The network has been slow with bringing in new research for the past year because of the disappointing results in the STEP trial and the lack of funding in HIV issues which has been characteristic of the Bush administration. Time […]
Posted in health, HIV, non-profit, presentation, Seattle | Tagged conference, HVTN, jargon, MedRest, microbicide, vaccine
By bluerasberry on 2008-11-02
I met this Indian at a coffeeshop the other day. I was practicing Hindi writing (my tutor Ali at http://www.zabaan.com/ is awesome!) and he came up to me and asked me if I spoke Hindi. I answered him in Hindi and asked him if he spoke Hindi, but he just said he did not speak […]
Posted in education, encounter, India, Seattle | Tagged coffee, Hindi
By bluerasberry on 2008-10-20
I have been at my new job for three months now, full-time. I think that possibly I have put in more hours of non-self-employed work at this job than from every other job I have had put together. I talked to my dear Aunt Vicki a few weeks ago and somehow she had gotten word […]
Posted in education, health, Seattle, work | Tagged grades, insurance, public health, social status
By bluerasberry on 2008-10-02
Since I started my job as a clinical researcher a few months ago I have not done any data collection. I and Danielle, the other researcher, have been preparing paperwork so that we can begin paperwork. Right now the independent reviewers from DC are here looking at what we have done and then they will […]
Posted in education, HIV, India, legal, presentation, Seattle, work | Tagged Ballard, fundraiser, government, hampster, Hindi, library, license, sport
By bluerasberry on 2008-09-14
Yesterday I went out with this woman named Anna from work. She is in her mid-fifties and a few years off a divorce, move, and career change. I am always interested in people who are creating a new life. She met me in u-district and we toured the Ave and the Farmer’s market. We went […]
Posted in personal
By bluerasberry on 2008-08-14
I was in DC from Tuesday August fifth through Sunday the tenth. On the sixth and seventh I was in training for my job; NIDA is in DC so they do their Clinical Trials Network (CTN) training there. The training was boring and hardly anything that could not have done by webcast, but I was […]
Posted in animal, art, museum, religion, work | Tagged capitol, church, library, panda, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2008-07-04
I start a new job Monday 070708. It is as a research assistant at a treatment facility doing a clinical trial for an experimental non-pharmaceutical cessation treatment for stimulant users, meaning meth or coke. It will be my first salaried job so I am making a big jump committing myself to work, but it is […]
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