I signed up for an EMT class through North, as well as a First Aid/CPR instructor class through ESAR. The rough theory is to go work for AMR for six months or so after the Burn (funny how the Burn these days is such a time marker) and then go part-time and focus (more) on self-education research (and go off and assist with DR efforts as much as ( Read more... )

I've been going through a mini personal crisis recently regarding The Future. Here are my current thoughts on breaking up the way I think about my time commitments ( Read more... )

I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you allAt the end of the Last ARC Class yesterday, I asked Mary about how deploying volunteers to large-scale/national disasters works. Apparently, everyone is put into a DB and classified by the training they received. When there's a need for folks with a particular level ( Read more... )

Well, it was an even chance.Looked up a song by Amanda Palmer today that I was meaning to add to a CD I've been making, which led to me looking at a video made by John Dixon. Immediately after I wondered how he and Anna were doing, I received a long update-letter from Anna. After having not heard from them for many months. I'm just saying, the ( Read more... )

And sometimes things just work.

To get rid of walls in any effective way, you not only have to be fine with getting hurt, but also with hurting other people. And that... requires a lot of reconfiguration. I've been talking about "no more kid gloves" insofar as my relationships go for a couple of years (the pattern of having to break up with someone before really being able to ( Read more... )

So many half-posts flashing through my head in the past while, but never quite enough time to write them all out. Midsummer Night's Dream. Chemistry, friendship, fondness, and inspiration. How easy it is to make the same mistake with relationships (just because it's interesting doesn't make it joyful) as it is with activities and why therefore it's ( Read more... )

A) Having noticed the things that make me light and the things that do not also makes me notice how freaking hard it is to dump the things that do not make me light and prioritize the things that do. There's a really strong reluctance there to 1) break with an established pattern (a subconscious reluctance; consciously I say fuck the pattern) and 2 ( Read more... )

A penny for the Old GuySaul and I had a conversation the other day about judgment. I'm an advocate of "sitting" with your thoughts, whatever they are - whether or not you pronounce judgment on an idea or experience, don't let this judgment overwhelm you or become more than it is. Let a label be all that it is, without additional connotations. And ( Read more... )

I'm seriously considering going to this. It's an undergraduate bioethics conference where Carl Eliott (the guy who wrote Better than Well) is one of the keynote speakers. I have no idea what to expect from undergrads, but bioethics is fascinating.