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
By bluerasberry on 2008-02-10
I visited Gay City on 500 E Pike last week. I was planning on going there anyway, but then I saw an ad on craigslist looking for Seattle bloggers to write about gay rights in other countries. I saw an opportunity to get publicity for S.B. but when I responded, the guy said it had […]
Posted in health, HIV, non-profit, Seattle | Tagged advertising, AIDS, data, logistics
By bluerasberry on 2008-01-25
Yesterday I went to Lifelong AIDS Alliance to meet with their director of marketing, Asia Rau. I normally do not pay too much attention to any person’s race but I did notice that this girl did not look ethnically Asian. Lifelong has about a hundred paid staff members and goes through about sixteen million dollars […]
Posted in education, HIV, non-profit, Seattle | Tagged advertising, AIDS, logistics, money
By bluerasberry on 2008-01-20
I did great on my GRE. I made 740 on the comprehension section (top 1%), 720 on the math (top 23%), and 5.5 on the writing (top 12%). I am still anxious about applying for and getting in school. My grades in college were lackluster. I do not have any regrets about my coursework, because […]
Posted in animal, education | Tagged grades, pudu, test, university, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2008-01-04
I have been writing content for the three websites I made. It is tiresome and stressful and takes a long time. I feel a lot of relief and pleasure at seeing what is already done, though. All three are live, but none of them is complete. I hope to have them all as complete as […]
Posted in computer, non-profit | Tagged Groovy Ganges, HIV, Sanjeevani Booti, web design
