Ted Gideonse — pronounced gid ee unz. This will be my post for Bloggers Unite for World AIDS Day.

It’s sponsored by AIDS.gov and BlogCatalog. A lot of people across the global globe are running a blog about HIV and AIDS. My addition is a paper I offered week that is last san francisco bay area about HIV, online, and identification in north park.

If perhaps you were after my Twitters and/or my Facebook updates, you realize that the week-end before

Thanksgiving I became in bay area when it comes to United states Anthropology Association’s annual conferences. It will always be wonderful to stay in bay area, but I became therefore excited become here, I attempted to do way too much, see way too many individuals, have actually too fun that is much and do the things I ended up being here to accomplish: attend the darn meetings. And we wound up tired and cranky a complete great deal of that time period. Extremely exhausted. Really cranky. After which, on Thanksgiving morning, we woke up with a karma-rific cold. Still, i acquired one the greatest haicuts of my entire life from Joe, had a fantastic supper with Tom, had a few beers with Mike, had an incredible supper with Chia-Ning, went dancing right here with Kevin, had a few beers having a cheerful Jeff and many more with my other former New Yorker John. And I also surely got to go out with my sister-in-law Laura, who had been additionally in the city for the meeting in accordance with who we shared a couple of accommodations spaces. (we remained in three resort hotels in San Francisco that week. The Marriott is over-priced but damn good. The Carlton is adorable and wonderful. The Pickwick is just a pit of despair.) Oh, yeah. And I also did some anthropology-related things since well. I did son’t get to as numerous panels I networked up the wazoo, and ultimately, that will probably be more worthwhile as I should have, but.

And a paper was given by me at a panel we organized with my friend Cage.Read More