By bluerasberry on 2009-10-09
I went to a conference on eugenics organized by the University of Washington’s department of disability studies. The focus of the conference was the history of eugenics as applied to Washington state law and state-funded projects. The structure of the lecture was that about 8 historians were present on two panels. Each panel was introduced […]
Posted in health, rights, Seattle | Tagged delerium, prison, women's rights
By bluerasberry on 2007-07-10
I have been in England for more than a week now and I still have stomach problems. I have not gone to London simply because I do not want to spend time there thinking about toilets, plus there is something abnormal about my thought process right now. I find myself especially excited and excitable in […]
Posted in England, health | Tagged delerium, hospital
By bluerasberry on 2007-07-01
I came left Benares the night of the 28th and arrived in Delhi Friday morning. It is too hot for touts this time of year. I walked all the way through the train station and no one spoke to me. Nandan told me that I could walk to Connaught Place from the station and I […]
Posted in animal, health, India, museum, religion | Tagged Baha'i, delerium, Delhi, dinosaur, food, map, police, sickness, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2007-06-06
At Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle there is this type of minature deer called a pudu. I watched a pudu baby grow up there and I like the animal a lot. I read in the paper about the baby having been born and that is when I went to the zoo for the first time […]
Posted in animal, Nepal, religion | Tagged Buddhism, delerium, pudu, tiger, zoo
By bluerasberry on 2007-05-31
Chandu, the tout that Nandan used about a year back, occasionally drops by to say something crazy. Usually he says that he much some rich foreigner, and that they want to buy a lot of silk without asking questions. Sometimes he takes about opening a silk shop, which he says is the surest way to […]
Posted in India, religion | Tagged astrology, delerium, morality, sex
By bluerasberry on 2007-01-18
It was certainly the biggest gathering I could possibly imagine, and the only reason I am able to now picture it in my mind is because I went there and saw it with my eyes. So often I get lost here. I am keeping myself in a tiny part of a district in Varanasi and […]
Posted in India | Tagged delerium
By bluerasberry on 2007-01-10
I just woke up. I realized last night at my Hindi class that my water uptake is up to about seven litres a day and still I am thirsty. Abiji told me that I should stay warm so I asked for an extra blanket and I was warm last night. Also I will wear my […]
Posted in animal, India | Tagged delerium, monkey