Erluvi - Web Design

I have a lot of work to do and so many things are uncertain now.

I am going to volunteer at a books-for-prisoners program tonight. This is a group which receives requests for books by post from incarcerated persons and then gathers in a room twice a week to try to meet the demand.

Last night I went to the community action board (CAB) meeting for the Seattle HIV trials unit. I originally took an interest in them a few years ago but I could not participate in their trial because I was doing so many other studies at the time. Now that I am interested in participating I do not have time, because it requires a stay in Seattle of a few years. Since I returned from India I saw an ad for them recruiting a recruiter and I applied for the job. At the interview I got news of other HIV-education community activities and am trying to get involved. I talked to Ian Maki, the chair, about joining their group last night and I followed up today with a written email request. I want to get in before a three day conference next week, because becoming a CAB member is the best way I have of qualifying for an invitation to the event.

I had been talking with Nandan for some time about founding a non-profit organization in Benares. The primary suggest I had was for an AIDS information center. I do not know exactly what he thinks about this. He is reserved sometimes and other times I think that he simply does not have opinions at all. In any case, he will go along with it. I have already begun web work on it. I am also almost done with the work I intend to do on the business website which I am making for us. There are things which I do not like about the css template which I am using - in particular, I would like for all information which would ever be repeated on multiple pages to be included in the css - but I have been slack and just copied unfit templates and changed content. I hate the prospects of streamlining my sloppy work later especially when I know that my misunderstanding about the mechanics of css must be trivial, but at this time I do not know how to do what I know can be done.

I am going to be curating an art show of approximately six sculptures for a native American lady named Melody who I met at the research job in Bellevue which I left about a month ago. I like the pictures she showed me of her work but I have not seen it live. I am anticipating about five hours of work prep and about ten paid hours of event monitoring for her. I wish I would have gotten involved sooner because I do not like to have deadlines so close - the show is in two weeks.

A guy from work gave me a copy of a space movie that he made. His name is Dean Keasey and the movie is Planeta Deliria. Visually the movie is excellent background filler and I really appreciate the mood it sets. I have a lot of questions about the video editing because I do not know anyone else who has put so much effort into such a thing.

A few weeks ago when I went to Olympia and stayed at Chez Cascadia I met a woman who worked for the Indian Association of Western Washington (IAWW). I talked to her about getting information about the distribution of AIDS information in segregated tribal communities. I thought that I might be able to find a precedent which could relate to my wanting to distribute AIDS information in India. She suggested spiral.org, which is a site put together by Drexel University. I have checked neither the site nor the university. The woman's name was V. Lee Scharf, mesa(underscore)solutions at msn.com.

I have an appointment with Sarah Carr at the National Institute of Health tomorrow. I sent a complaint about the review board in that medical study which scarred me, and she is going to listen to me or something. I have an interview written and I will be surprised if she makes it to the end because it is thorough. The review board is still short with me. They really must be clueless from their freshness. The researcher is new and the review board is new, and both of them are likely considering all the money they make to be pure profit with no complaints. It seems likely to me that they either have no contingency plan to deal with complaints or that their plan is to ignore or cut short all questioning. I am not sure I want to drop names at this time but I have records online elsewhere.

Lee won his disability hearing October 25th plus he should be getting close to the availability date for his public housing. In the meantime we left Mike and Natalie's house to make room for their winter guests and are living with Larry and Joe, who Lee has known his entire life. They own a farm in Kent but the bus to Seattle is direct and it really is not more time consuming to commute from here than from Bellevue.

I need about $250 to set up some websites for the next couple of years. I am planning on getting hosting from site5 and I would like to learn a little about using ruby on rails if I can. I have not even begun to research the feasibility of that. I hope to have the money paid and the websites completed before December.

I also need to take the GRE general exam and maybe the chemistry exam before December. I have been studying for both.

Tomorrow is Halloween and I do not have a costume. I need something.

I am going to be late for the books meeting. I have to go now.