Paul Attinello

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  • Exaltation

    Perhaps (he said cautiously, looking around to make sure nothing was about to fall on his head) nothing bad will happen around this birthday at all. It doesn’t always; it’s just something I keep as a reassurance in reserve for the Bad Birthdays – which, for me, mostly mean the ones where nothing happens, where…

  • Strength

    On the other hand… The past few posts have been very much about reflecting broadly on my life – as I frequently do anyway (sorry if that gets boring, but there you are). It all makes sense in a context of turning fifty – yet another real turn in my life, from the chaotic turn…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • … 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…

  • 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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