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03.01.31 What a week. Work has been too much. but I learned much about where I work including the fact that Yale can face significant budget cuts, too. 03.01.27 At ALA I met Amy Goodman and invited her to speak at the Yale Law Library speakers series. I got approval today to pursue this. She spoke at the President's Program. I got to finally meet Mitch Freedman and he remembered my name from when he appointed me to the ALA Nominations Committee. Damn cool. 03.01.24 I'm at ALA Midwinter now. And will be through Monday. 03.01.22 Oh! a few days of freedom and entrapment among colleagues in Philly! Andrew is returning to Dallas for a week. I am off to ALA to be a committee chair and program planner and ex committee member. I hope that no one regrets the decisions for the ALA election this year. The representation from Texas rocks. But perhaps it is too overwhelming? I take great pride in who I nominated. Vote, Librarians! Vote! Well, in a few months when you get the ballots. 03.01.16 I am not an advocate for abortion rights. The need to kill and destroy is a woman's just as much as a man's but in both circumstances it is horror to me whether in the form of strafing and bombs and carbonized bodies or saline solution and body shredding vacuuming. But 30 years of legality does mean something. The VV also puts in its two cents and compares what we were then and asks how far we have come. This weeks Village Voice has well done article on the Paul Reubens story. "Persecuting Pee-wee A Child-Porn Case That Threatens Us All". In light of our media obsession on the abuse of children it is difficult to know where those lines should be drawn. But I love to venture into porn. I no longer collect, but it is a very fascinating world and not all of it evil, lascivious, or wrong. But I stopped because I was just saddened by what I was viewing. I am ok in regards to the test. I just had a weird flat discoloration the size of a crumb on the inside of my palm. I should bump up my life insurance policy at this rate 'cause the way that I reacted I just wanted to give everything away. At least I know how I might prepare. Who knows what I'll be like in the midst of that kind of change. 03.01.13 Paula Madison, News Director of KNBC out in LA, is the only truly interesting journalist featured in She Says: Women in News, but I'm still glad that I tivo'd it. And she started out in television news in Dallas at WFAA. Her rise came out of the wisdom of Marty Haag. I miss the old Dallas News. Now things have been sweetened up a bit. I really don't understand where women like Anna Quindlen are coming from. They haven't changed news. They have elevated the soft story. I am hoping that I'll find out my biopsy results tomorrow. I am very tired of waiting. But I'm finally healing up. I've removed the bandage and am not favoring my palm as much. I just am ready to know that everything is ok or not ok. I am way overbooked in regards to professional work. I have several deadlines that are keeping my busy past midnight every night. As I prepare for ALA, I'll probably write even less in this little blog. 03.01.12 03.01.07 Yesterday, I went to the dermatologist to get a weird mole on the inside of my wrist (lower palm actually) measured, photographed and documented. And instead of doing that he wanted to lop it off for a biopsy. Damn it, but I wasn't ready for that yesterday. I have vasovagal syndrome and seemingly can faint at the thought of being punctured by needles, much more even by scalpels. So. I decided to give myself a chance to catch my breath and had the lop off done today instead. It is now about nine hours later and it is all fine, but the whole thing sure got me thinking. Yesterday evening, after a long work day followed by a doctor telling me that he didn't like what he saw on my hand, I started thinking about the worst that could be. And then the next least worst and so on. And then I slept like a baby because I ended up thinking that it was nothing. How it all began: last fall I showed the dot to my friend, Sonya, who is a multi-degreed (Ph.d and M.D., etc.) lifelong friend who said, 'you stupid girl! go get that checked out!' The 'that' is (well, was) a small dot on the far end of my palm just up from my wrist. So I waited another month or so after talking to her and went to my regular annual and at the last minute said, 'hey, Doc, look at this for me...' and he made the referral. The 'that' had not been there or at least I hadn't noticed anything a year ago. And within a year or so, it grew to about 1.5mm long and 1mm wide. It was darker than my normal pigmentation (I'm at least half Irish and fair and lightly freckled). So I don't miss the thing. Now I just wait a week or so for the biopsy to be pathologized and the news delivered via phone. And
in the meantime, I'll pretend that I have 'it' and read and research
all that there is out there available on the topic. My goal is to
gross myself out thoroughly and then back off and be relieved with
the news no matter what it is. It is kind of toughening like when
I got my tattoos and was so proud about not fainting (not that I
could have as I had had a Dunkin Donuts frozen fruit drink next
to me and sky high blood sugar levels at the time.) **** 03.01.06 I am returning to work officially tomorrow after two weeks of freedom. I predict that it is going to be hard. oh well. working on handwork around the house. I did finish the crocheted scarf and will be starting a knitted scarf with the lovely vintage wool. Oz has sucked for two years, but they have a sexy new librarian, named Steeeeeellllllaaaaaa! in the cast now. sex, death and reading. and lots of nudity is standard. the Nation has a great little piece that documents conversations with a few musicians about the 'Power of Music'. Featured are Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, and Boots Riley of The Coup (Oakland, CA). I left out Eddie Vedder because I don't think that anything he has to say is worth reading. 03.01.01 my brother returned to me safely today. life returns to normal and not so normal all at once. how can we condemn others? HRW claims that the U.S. must address allegations of torture of al-Qaeda prisoners. The allegations showed up in a Washington Post article in time for Xmas. I went to investigate the continuum of torture. gif files of the CIA Training Manual (1983) shows that there are types of coercion: on
solitary
confinement and from 1963 - the Coercion document provided for training in Latin America:
linked
from the National
Security Archive at GWU
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