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 […]
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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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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
