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July 16th, 2009
06:13 am, July 16th - Green shirt Thursday
Why wear just the green shirt when you have the whole garanimal set?
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July 15th, 2009
10:32 am, July 15th - 2010? 2012?
Last night, Steve and I went to the LGBT Center for the two-hour "Get Engaged" tour. They presented some indepth polling statistics done in May. A theme of the meeting was repealing prop 8 in 2012 vs 2010.
There were many groups represented, but no particular group was in charge. Those in charge seemed to lean toward 2012. A straw poll was taken at the beginning of the session, and a majority of audience there favored 2010. After some very convincing statements from those in the audience, a few more people at the end of the night were leaning toward 2010. (And then 2012, 2014, etc.) I'm not so sure the representatives from the various groups were convinced.
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July 13th, 2009
02:18 pm, July 13th - Perfectly San Franciscan
I saw one of our patients outside during lunchtime. I know that he is homeless. He was wearing a t-shirt that said "MY CARBON FOOTPRINT IS SMALLER THAN YOURS."
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July 11th, 2009
08:05 pm, July 11th - TABC targets a third DFW gay bar
After a "licensing problem" that was resolved earlier last evening, the TABC later returned to the DALLAS EAGLE grand re-opening and planted an undercover minor to get the bar shut down. The TABC, some with bandana-covered faces, proceed to pour all the liquor down the drain. If you don't care about intimidation of gays (you can go to hell), then surely you should get pissed at the disposal of perfectly good booze.
Please read the comments in this article from eyewitnesses. Some say that the police were "polite." One witness says that it was "funny." Yep, real funny. Other, more observant eyewitnesses explain the intimidation tactics used.
The bar did some stuff wrong, but if that's all you see, then you are really missing the point. It seems like most Texans don't really care, but I'm incredibly outraged.
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01:31 pm, July 11th - Clarke Mansion apartment viewing
 Apartment available in Clarke Mansion.
Unfortunately, they have it listed as $2795 for a 2-bedroom. This is ridiculous. I used to live in #5, and that apartment #6 isn't worth it. It's one of the nicest ones in the building, though. The kitchen is ridiculously small, and all those beautiful windows just overlook a modest backyard. Still, it's worth a visit to see. Open until 3pm today at 250 Douglass Street.
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July 10th, 2009
05:45 pm, July 10th - Fur-lough Friday
The university chancellor is recommending mandatory furlough days to save money. I would have to take 13 days between September through next August. These unpaid days would be about a 5% pay cut. The only decent thing is that these can be scheduled within the department, kinda like vacation days. I couldn't afford to take them all at once, but I do enjoy a day off. It'd be nice to be able to pay the bills, though!
To keep up with Dilbert, they emailed us later in the afternoon to mention that we had record profits this last year. Despite furloughs, they will be paying every employee a (small) bonus. I'm not making this up.
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05:32 am, July 10th - Flash yer fur Friday
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July 9th, 2009
July 6th, 2009
06:55 am, July 6th - Imagine change
Once equality rights (broad range of items) are in place nationwide, can you imagine the money and efforts available to support other causes?
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July 5th, 2009
07:24 am, July 5th - 4th
Had a very relaxing 4th. I went to Starbears and looked over the New England map for our fall trip. Castro Village was pretty deserted.
Steve arrived, then we walked to Chow on Church for lunch. Lamburger for him, hamburger for me. Stopped at the gay Safeway for some Tonkatsu sauce and blueberries.
Walked back to Starbears for awhile. The village was still deserted. Saturday July 4th is the wrong holiday to be unpopular in this City. A fairly sunny Saturday afternoon, and we had the bench to ourselves.
Came home, and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) double_ohsteven made chicken katsu with coconut rice and a salad for dinner. Deliciously patriotic. I contemplated going out afterwards, but the thought of a still-empty village kept me in for the night.
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July 4th, 2009
09:14 am, July 4th - Word meme
Reply to this meme with the comment "words," and I will give you five words that remind me of you. Then, if you'd like, post them in your journal, and explain what they mean to you. Or, if you don't want to play that way, you can just reply here. Or just comment "YOU:" and list five words about me, to which I'll reply here.
From airporter:( Read more after the jump )
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07:04 am, July 4th - FYI to Joachim
No, "Testify" is NOT the medical term used for the FTM procedure.
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July 2nd, 2009
10:22 am, July 2nd - Rhetorical question
Why is it that progressive websites all allow you to make comments on their articles, but none of the rightwing ones do?
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July 1st, 2009
06:11 am, July 1st - Dreamy
Last night I dreamed that I was moved to a new cubicle more suitable for a business office than for a clinical person. My original space had apparently "been a mistake." In the dream, it was a good thing. (I currently have a great corner office. It's often used by doctors as an exam room, but I feel lucky to have the space.)
My boss asked me to attend a 5pm meeting yesterday with some doctors and several management personnel and a vendor regarding new software we have. I was able to contribute a lot to the meeting. These would be the people to impress. Besides me, I think my boss was the lowest person in the chain of command there. I'm glad I attended.
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June 30th, 2009
03:28 pm, June 30th - Marriage Equality in Maine donations
I see that the marriage equality folks in Maine have put up their mainefreedomtomarry.com website today.
You can donate to them via their website. You can also donate via ActBlue.com.
I'm going to send a contribution, but does anyone know anything about either of these sites? I'm reluctant to send my money to a crappy group like I did for the No-on-prop-8 campaign.
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11:53 am, June 30th - Tuesday & Thursday classes
My registration date was yesterday. I was able to sign up for the Chemistry lecture Tuesday nights) and lab (Thursday nights). There was only one choice for the lecture, but there were a few choices for labs. I was able to check out ratemyprofessor.com first. All the lab instructors were listed, and I chose the one who rated far better than the others. The lecture instructor also got great reviews. We'll see!
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June 28th, 2009
09:05 pm, June 28th - Gay bar raided in Fort Worth on 40th anniversary of Stonewall
There are posts all over facebook about this, but I haven't seen any on LJ. If you haven't seen it, check out this despicable story.
I see that only "dozens" showed up to protest tonight. Where is the outrage??? My hate for Texas and most Texans continues.
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June 27th, 2009
11:34 am, June 27th - Whatever Marry
Happy Pink Saturday!(Does it have anything to do with pinkfish?) (t-shirt inspired by enhydrasf)
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June 26th, 2009
08:39 pm, June 26th - Won't be boning up on Anatomy just yet
My registration date for the fall term is on Monday. I just checked, and Anatomy 25 is already closed--yet again. That makes 7 semesters in a row that I can't get in to it. I'm gonna look at getting this at another school.
Chemistry 32 still has two classes open, so I guess that's what I'll take this fall. I suck at science, so I probably won't take any other classes this term. With lab, Chemistry is two nights a week anyhow. I'm dangerous enough as it is.
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10:00 am, June 26th - Back Alley Diagnosis
For the last time, people, "cockney" is NOT a medical condition like "tennis elbow."
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June 25th, 2009
10:57 pm, June 25th - Enjoyable Spam
Spamalot was fun! The first act was like only one hour long. I love that in a show!
The Michael Jackson references were good. The "flying nun" did some moonwalking. The Lady of the Lake incorporated "The Way You Make Me Feel" into her scat.
The Knight of Ni paid a nice tribute:
Looking heavenward:
"Michael, Michael, Michael."
*pause*
*pause*
"You touched a lot of people."
*pause*
*pause*
"...allegedly."
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June 24th, 2009
09:04 pm, June 24th - Pride Sun-day KISS-OFF
Posted from someone on Facebook:  "Many of you have seen this photo of Michael and I kissing near the “God hates fags” people that show up every year at SF Pride (or any other Pride event, for that matter).
While we're not going to go into a long speech about how contradictory their actions are to the dogma that they claim to represent. We believe that our photo speaks for itself.
Further - in our years of attending pride events we have also found that the protesters are closed to discussion or to reason. They are there to incite anger and distract us from the focus of the day- our love, our pride. We have decided to invite our friends, brothers, sisters and supporters to stand with us to “Kiss-Off the anti-pride people”.
This year at 11:30 on Sunday June 28 show them what love is! Hug and kiss, and in the tradition of Christian Dogma, turn the other cheek- and kiss that too. We’re gonna kiss for 10 minutes then turn our backs on the rhetoric and cheer for the parade. If you can’t join us there, kiss where you are.
Also - please forward, twitter, tweet, email bomb, text and otherwise saturate the world with this message of love.
You can't stop the love.
Oh - and to be clear...this is for ALL the lovers; gay, bi, straight...everyone who loves and is loved in return.
PLEASE BROADCAST."
Facebook group: http://tinyurl.com/mufura
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June 22nd, 2009
09:27 pm, June 22nd - Potpourri for $200, Alex
Long day at work today. Especially since I forgot to ogle the clock at the end. I left 6 minutes later than usual. Tragic!
I got home, and double_ohsteven had a surprise for me: he had picked up New England maps at AAA today. Good boy!
Relaxed for a bit, then we walked to Le Mediteranee on Noe for dinner. Dinner was so-so. There were two guitarists. I'm not a fan. Still, I tipped them a couple bucks hoping that will help me remember that I usually don't like musicians in restaurants.
Playing Scrabble tonight, I realized that a NUNNERY and a NOONERY are quite different things.
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