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Scorpio
Small, annoying things: the bus that never shows, the canceled appointment, the report due three weeks earlier than the deadline I’d planned for. No surprise: the days coming up to my birthday on Sunday are typically annoying, frustrating, and emphasize anything that makes me wait or ignores my presence – then on the day itself…
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Witness
[Speech for World AIDS Day, 2007] Today is the twentieth World AIDS Day; the first was held in 1988, after the UN named December first as our day to remember, witness, and celebrate the lives of people with HIV and AIDS. Of course, every year World AIDS Day has a theme; this year it’s a…
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W.A.D.
Happy World AIDS Day. Merry World AIDS Day…? Have a very merry, holly jolly World AIDS Day? – hmm doesn’t quite work, does it. We definitely need a different way of talking about our holidays. I am, as anyone might have expected, still fussing over my unwritten speech for today. I was first asked to…
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Oz
A busy, successful two weeks: seminar in London, then here on my home turf; attending several student concerts, one quite inspired, the other beautifully produced – amazed at the capability of our kids, and wish I could have participated at that level at their age; and then tonight was a fine Late Thanksgiving – four…
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A puzzlement
I’ve realized something a bit peculiar about the London responses to my presentation about music and AIDS. One of the questions – really a sweeping statement – was from someone who said they had a friend who hadn’t liked to tell people he was HIV+. (Amusingly, I could figure out from his elaborate circumlocutions that…
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In Train
Headed home on the late morning train – pretty crowded but I can still manage a pair of seats to myself. (Hmm, that may be a fairly selfish choice; but I’m feeling tired/wonky enough (gastro again) that I think I deserve some space to myself (especially after the shared bathroom at the hotel – which…
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Paul Attinello 