I got kind of depressed today. On reflection, trying to determine why, I realized that all the news I've seen lately is bad. Dead zones in the ocean, 7-year olds raped, terrorists, etc ( Read more... )

This is a question in general but most specifically for friends who are currently enrolled in or associated with institutions of higher learning ( Read more... )

It's very hard for me to see friends going through hard times and not be able to help them...especially when it's the kind of thing I've gone through in the past, myself. It's a sad fact of life that usually, when we are in a crisis-type of situation - especially emotionally - we can't see the obvious solution, or what might be several suitable ( Read more... )

'Star Wars' goes back to basics ( Read more... )

At work, we are moving through our feelings of grief/anger/dismay/disbelief over our friend and co-worker's death. The anger comes in a large part from the fact that the person who killed him was not (as reported in the press) his "roommate" but rather someone Tyler knew who he had let stay at his place for a couple of days because the man was ( Read more... )

A year ago this month, I tripped over some vegetation and a curb in the Red Cross parking lot. Since my arms were full of blood drive materials I couldn't throw them out for balance or to stop my fall and I went down hard on my hands (partly) and my knees (fully) and ended up prone on the concrete. For a moment or two I did what you do in a fall ( Read more... )

8:20am: One of the women in the office comes by. "Darrin has called an emergency meeting for our department in Classroom A." "What's it about?" "I don't know, we are all supposed to go ( Read more... )

So here's this big shot from SLC...our head graphics guy...I've been working with him via email and telephone for months to get our new campaign materials up and running. He was here to look at our posters and things and work with me on printing quality issues. We go out to the atrium and we are talking about materials/posters/graphics/printing ( Read more... )

What it means: It's never been the Red Cross who's said "Hey, you gay guys can't donate blood." It's the FDA...as I have repeatedly told my gay or bi friends who have come to me frothing at the mouth when they got deferred. Now, the Red Cross and other blood banks have asked the FDA to review that policy and (hopefully) change it ( Read more... )

(backdated to dates given, IC ( Read more... )