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Biochem
I have been negotiating a large turn of the great wheel of my HIV care… after twelve years on the same regime (Kaletra – which includes a daily dose of that hideous, damned, nasty Ritonavir, that everyone hated so much in the late 1990s; Efavirenz/Sustiva, and Abacavir/Ziagen) – a regime that has become archaically dusty:…
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Not so wrong after all…
Trudy, my student and friend from ten years ago, has grown from a Hong Kong pianist into a New York publisher/performer/gourmet chef, and friend to many people across several artistic communities. Her husband Frank, whom I met for the first time a few weeks ago, is a composer/journalist/intellectual – one who can connect to a…
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NYC – WDC – NYC
A trip to the US: going through New York to get to northern Virginia, for my mother's memorial service; and back to New York for four busy days. From the beginning, the sheer ease of things was startling: the flight to New York, the early landing, an almost unbelievably efficient and relaxed JFK – I almost…
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Database
Finally getting organized to go to New York and Washington next week, for my mother's memorial service at Arlington Cemetary; and staying with my sister in New York, plus catching up with a few old friends. I went through my old addresses database – now increasingly supplanted by the data shared between my phone and…
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Moon
On this night after the full moon… I didn't do much that was useful today; papers and needed actions were before me on the table, but I hardly touched them. Instead I read vaguely, drifted past screens… glowing electronic screens of course, not the rice paper screens of Heian-kyo, but the effect is not dissimilar.…
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Seminars
Liz asked me to blog about what I actually did in Zürich (i.e., studied and heard), rather than about the peripheral experiences (admittedly the latter often make better stories – dinners with the Italians, bars and friends, day outings). Lots of seminars, some informational, some more investigative. A few workshops – these often have a…
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Paul Attinello 