Okay you guys, I know it's Seattle and we don't see that much sun here, but our chances of getting skin cancer aren't really reduced. Skin cancer is the kind of thing that can be very very easy to treat if it's caught early enough.

You may be aware I work for dermatologists now. :)

We are having a FREE SKIN CANCER SCREENING a week from tomorrow. That's FRIDAY JUNE 1ST. This is a great chance to have a professional look at your skin and check out that mole that you've always wondered about but keep forgetting to mention to your doctor. The screening is from 1-4pm at our clinic in the U district on Roosevelt. If you're interested just give me a call to schedule a time - my work # is 206-543-5290.

You are at higher risk for Melanoma and other Skin Cancers if you:

have ever had a serious sunburn
have fair skin or blue eyes or light hair
especially if you have all three of those
are outside regularly, like for work
don't wear sunscreen
don't have medical insurance, and do not receive regular preventative care.
have a family history of skin cancer

This is free, please take advantage of it! Feel free to spread the word.

What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Literature Nerd   Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you can read for hours even when your eyes grow red and dry and you look sort of scary sitting there with your insomniac appearance? Then you fit this category perfectly! You love the power of the written word and it's eloquence; and you may like to read/write poetry or novels. You contribute to the smart people of today's society, however you can probably be overly-critical of works. It's okay. I understand.
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"There is no liberation that only knows how to say 'I'; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through."

"A movement for change lives in feelings, actions, and words. Whatever circumscribes or mutilates our feelings makes it more difficult to act, keeps our actions reactive, repetitive: abstract thinking, narrow tribal loyalties, every kind of self-righteousness, the arrogance of believing ourselves at the center... It can be difficult to be generous to earlier selves, and keeping faith with the continuity of our journey's is especially hard in the United States, where identities and loyalties have been shed and replaced without a tremor, all in the name of becoming "American." Yet how, except through ourselves, do we discover what moves other people to change? Our old fears and denials - what helps us let go of them? What makes us decide we have to re-educate ourselves, even those of us with "good" educations? A politicized life ought to sharpen both the senses and the memory."

-Adrienne Rich, Notes Toward a Politics of Location 1984.

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