One of the team that put this amazing community health exhibit together came and spoke to one of my classes . It's called Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health. It's great and includes ACT-UP and other topics and folks that one is amazed they got into a government museum. I mentioned to her that I'm a medic and she said she would ( Read more... )

monarch of the glen never fails to make me happy.

i think the internet in my house should go away again. i'm not getting any work done.

i'm planning on making one of those arm rest things so that i can be more ergonomic when i type  and i'm wondering if folks have any advice for a good filling. regular batting seems like it will be too squishy or if stuffed to be firm too big so any advice? i'm thinking that some sort of bead or grain would be good but i've never worked with such ( Read more... )

Dear All,
I've gotten a lot of requests for my experience living in D.C. during the inauguration so I thought I'ld send a group email to you all (/post this on lj). I'm starting writing this a week in advance so you can hear about some of the pre inauguration craziness and how it felt here from the start. It will be in prose and bullet form. This ( Read more... )

Twelve roofs teaching
Eleven sideshows writing
Ten crls a-cuddling
Nine bonxies cooking
Eight trowies a-reading
Seven cities a-traveling
Six puns a-medicing
Five la-a-a-abour songs
Four utah phillips
Three old movies
Two red-diper babies
...and a holyoke in a geography.
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thought folks would like to know this exists

http://www.photobooth.net/locations/

http://www.delocator.net/   is also wonderful for coffee books and now apparently movies!

definitions of home:

Home= Cambridge, 1Frost Terrace: Shady Hill, CRLS, Harvard Yard Child Care Center, the smell of rotting leaves, making rude jokes about mit and harvard, Joie De Vive, Porter Square, Walden pond, revere beach, the harbor, avon hill, dad, emily, 2 frost terrace, Aggazi neighborhood, Forest street, Oxford street, my BTS kids, ( Read more... )

DC can't do seasons, any seasons: they announced on the radio this morning that because of leaves ---yes those things that have  been falling every fall since forever and at least since 1968 when metro opened--there will be delays on metro. now i would not be surprised if other systems have the same issue but i think they have far to much pride to ( Read more... )

First Knit DC Meetup!

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