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oddities and coincidences [eyes of the world]
I wasn't really expecting to have the day off tomorrow, but it worked out in the end. So very excited about sleeping in past 6:30 am! So, if I've got the day off tomorrow, that means tonight was my evening to go out and do a thing; it was a ~13 hour workday and exhausting, but Sarah texted asking if I wanted to go out to a show. (With homemade ( Read more... ) -
Suggestions for speakers on LGBTQ health & domestic violence issues? [eotw]
I'm helping to organize UCSF's conference on domestic violence for healthcare students/professionals this year, and we're looking for more speakers. In particular, we'd like to have someone (or someones!) come present on & lead discussion about domestic violence issues in LGBTQetc communities. As medical students, we get very little training on ( Read more... ) -
Signal-boosting: LGBTQ Health Care Fairness Survey
From the Director of UCSF's LGBT Resource Center"The UCSF LGBT Resource Center has partnered with Lambda Legal and other groups to survey as many LGBT people as possible about their health care needs and experiences--as you know, securing knowledgeable, sensitive care for LGBT people is a big part of the LGBT Center’s work ( Read more... ) -
know anyone who's looking for a place to live in Oakland?
Are any of y'all househunting or know someone who's looking for a place to live in Oakland ( Read more... ) -
knitted cat toys and crafty things to benefit animal rescue
signal-boosting for eilonwy, who's got a bunch of her hand-made knit cat toys and other crafty goodness in her Etsy shop:
All proceeds from items sold during the month of February will be donated to AZ RESCUE (a non-profit animal rescue organization which takes dogs and cats off of the kill-lists at other shelters and finds them homes, more information ( Read more... ) -
solstice and sunrise
I'm off to the woods again for a bit, then down to the Gulf Coast. I had a moment of quiet to myself for the solstice, and this year I'll be watching the sunrise on the first day of the new year from a beach on the edge of the Gulf instead of out by the Atlantic. As usual, I've got scraps and threads of thoughts, but haven't been keeping up with lj ( Read more... ) -
an All Hallow's Eve Eve treat
from tamnonlinear, who writes the good kind of stories:
Seven Things That Never Happened to Tam Lin. -
Bay Area PSA: evictions & bulldozers at the Albany Landfill, protest tomorrow
also, before i sleep, this came in from asarwateit sounds like there's going to be a mass eviction and "cleanup" at the Albany Landfill, starting tomorrow morning and running for the next two weeks. there is a protest planned, starting at 9am ( Read more... ) -
and now for something completely different...
for jencallisto, a brief photographic interlude of yaks and other mysterious creatures.
( a tiny herd of purple yaks ) -
Brain Weasel Stomping Day
from tamnonlinear, because i heartily approve of the idea, and because i've definitely got brain weasels that are in serious need of a stompdown.
and dedicated, perhaps, to my good friend emofraggle, who has taught me a hell of a lot about the little pieces of human interaction that make life a better place.
Wow - what is it in the air lately? Post after filtered post ( Read more... )