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happy birthday to…
It is admittedly slightly peculiar to make much of birthdays, at my age – I don’t mean how many years (yes, 51 today), but the birthday itself, the person’s own self-celebration. Yet I always have cared about them, mine and those of others – I keep a lot of friend’s birthdays in my running electronic…
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In northern England, on a winter night
After a long day, during a semester with a number of long days; a semester with lots of small successes, and some unpleasant failures; a semester where I was conscious the whole time of aiming towards the freedom of the end of January, when I’ll go on research leave, and won’t let anyone ask me…
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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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Paul Attinello 