2008
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By bluerasberry on 2008-07-03
I attended Gay Pride in Seattle 2008 as a presenter in the non-profit section of the expo. I was representing Sanjeevani Booti as an American agent and I was trying to raise awareness and get social support for issues relating to HIV in India. I talked about Benares. I told people that it was the […]
Posted in drug, education, festival, health, HIV, India, Nepal, non-profit, presentation, rights, Seattle | Tagged expo, heroin, Seattle Gay Pride, volunteer, war, women's rights, youth rights
By bluerasberry on 2008-06-05
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 2008-05-30
I really like pudus, which are a type of miniature deer from South America. The exhibit has been off exhibit for about six months due to the installation of a flamingo exhibit, and Lee and I went to see both pudus and the flamingos when it opened. We were surprised to find out that the […]
Posted in animal | Tagged flamingo, pudu, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2008-05-29
I want to make some notes about my last job as a test grader for high school standardized exams. I worked at this mass grading facility for ten days sometime within the last couple of months, and I read essays by kids around 12 years old. I do not know the standards, but the grades […]
Posted in art, education, work | Tagged data, fiction, logistics, pop culture, test, youth
By bluerasberry on 2008-05-07
I do not have a strong work ethic with respect to working for causes for which I am not involved in some decision-making process. I got a new job which starts tomorrow. It is nice for me for several reasons. It is a full-time temporary job. I love temporary work because I get to quit […]
Posted in education, work | Tagged youth
By bluerasberry on 2008-04-23
I do not own much of value other than than some computer files. I have gone far too long without having those sensibly organized online. I decided that since I already have hosting arranged for other sites then it surely must be time for me to start hosting all my personal materials. I moved this […]
Posted in computer, legal, rights | Tagged censorship, computer, jargon, sex
By bluerasberry on 2008-04-12
Seattle has a population of about 580,000. For the Gay Pride festival last summer the recorded attendance was 200,000 with 100,000 from out of town. I know that the organizers always inflate these numbers but still it means that a lot of people are involved in this. Nandan and I are getting more serious about […]
Posted in education, festival, presentation, rights, Seattle | Tagged gay rights, hijra, HIV project, NGO, Sanjeevani Booti
By bluerasberry on 2008-03-31
Never in my life before I was hired as a counselor did I ever expect to work as a counselor, so I can hardly say that I feel a sense of loss. Free and Clear fired me despite their dire need for employees. I feel like everyone there loved me and certainly everyone followed my […]
Posted in drug, health, work | Tagged counseling, smoking, test, tobacco
By bluerasberry on 2008-03-04
On Monday February 18 I started my first full-time job at Free and Clear as a tobacco-cessation counselor. Their business is to make and take phone calls for people who contacted us about stopping smoking. They have an awesome business model because they do not have to advertise to the public, only to the government […]
Posted in health, work | Tagged counseling, insurance, smoking, tobacco
By bluerasberry on 2008-02-12
Nandan and I talk about Sanjeevani Booti continuously. This is the name for the HIV NGO which we are founding. The website is up. Nandan did not know what AIDS was before, and now he knows the basics. He has probed the community for similar organizations and we know what exists. He has talked with […]
Posted in education, HIV, India, legal, non-profit, research, rights, Seattle, work | Tagged AIDS, license, megacorp, Mehdiganj, NGO, PSA, Sanjeevani Booti, survey, tea, tourism, Varanasi