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Taking a meeting
Today I chaired a meeting; it went well enough, as several of the meetings I’ve chaired over the past year. The interesting bits, though – and it’s not the first time I’ve noticed them, but they seemed exceptionally present today – were the moments when I had a relatively smooth, helpful, mature relationship with everyone…
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The Idiot
I have, unfortunately, volunteered to do a presentation on Friday on some materials and a paper I’ve written on Meredith Monk – foolishly, insanely foolishly, given that I must finish the Buffy article for presentation in Liverpool Tuesday, given that part of Saturday is lost to a birthday lunch, given that it was entirely and…
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… sleepy… [and] *click*
Sleepy today. Since in addition to problems with HIV and its medication and HCV, I also have an auto-immune thyroid problem, I’ve been taking medicines for a while now – one year, two years? – that keep my weakened thyroid from allowing me to sleep all the time. Unfortunately, I’ve been a bit careless about…
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Conversations
I neglected to mention the best part about the past week: two sets of casual conversations with wonderful, calm, sensible friends – neither of whom unfortunately live anywhere near me. Such a valuable thing, really the most wonderful thing, and something I miss a great deal: in Hong Kong, Australia, and northern England (that is…
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Wind and rain
Wind down the chimney, pushing against the house, rain on the windows. Next to the two-dimensional, virtual, commercialized world of the computer screen, downloading South Park episodes; and the more three-dimensional, slightly more real, but still rather predictable world of my apartment, with its IKEA furniture, books, foodstuffs; is this passionate, truly real world of…
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Us and Them
[Speech for the third World AIDS Day vigil in Newcastle, UK, on December 1, 2006. The speech for the 2004 vigil is here, and for the 2005 vigil here.] I’m a member of the Newcastle HIV patient group. One of the things we do fairly often is talk to medical students, most of whom look,…
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Paul Attinello 