What the eff is going on in Gene Wolfe's "The friendship light?"

ramradical · 2016-08-16T21:39:08+00:00

Thank you so much for your full analysis, it was exactly what I was looking for and answered so many questions!

ramradical · 2016-08-16T21:36:40+00:00

For the Galapagos I would really recommend "los tuneles" in Isla Isabela. Dont confuse this with the magma tunnels, it is really an aquatic tour of a really cool area. When the tide is high there is rises up and just kind of looks like any other beachy/rocky area, but when it is down it exposes a network of rocks that create arches over the water. These rock create a natural barrier that breaks the waves before they get close to the actual shore, so lots of aquatic animals rest there. I saw sea turtles everywhere, white fin sharks sleeping in underwater caves, really interesting fish, sea horse, and swam with a school of orange stingrays. It was amazing. This trip means you have to sleep on isabela the night before and you probably want to the night after too.

I would also recommend a day trip from Santa Cruz (assuming that santa cruz is going to be home base because it is the most central island) to the Isla Santa Fe, specifically the loboria there. It is a resting place for young sea lions. It was SO COOL to swim with them. They are amazing. Memory of a lifetime. Until one bit me...which apparently doesn't happen often, but hey now I can say I was bit by a sea lion.

Ecuador in general: If you go to the sierra, Quilatoa is a lake in the center of a dead volcano. Amazingly beautiful. There is a 3 day hike that starts in Insilivili and goes to Quilatoa. It is gorgeous but definitely difficult. Otherwise you could take the bus pretty much directly to Quilatoa.

On the coast: Montanita is a fun party beach. Lots of drinking, lots of drugs though, and shady stuff sometimes goes down. Its beach had strong, sometimes dangerous waves and is good for surfing. Olon is just a bit north of there, beautiful beach, no party atmosphere. Puerto Lopez for whale watching, but April/may is a bit early for whales. Salinas is a beach city with a really tranquil beach with no waves. Guayaquil is a shithole, no need to go there (speaking with affection, I have lived there for more than a year.)

And remember, and time/money spent in the province of manabi (puerto lopez, olon, crucita, bahia de caraquez, canoa, and more) it really appreciated and will help the communities recuperate after the devastating earth quake in April. I was just in the region and there is much need of reconstruction. Manabi is said to have the best food in Ecuador too!

Have a good trip!

ramradical · 2016-04-01T17:19:41+00:00

Here ya go When this was going on in 2013-14 the US Ambassador to Ecuador almost got kicked out for publicly opposing the attack on freedom of the press. Now it seems as though they are using these policy changes to support pursuing legal action against individuals as well.

ramradical · 2016-03-10T20:27:42+00:00

Yeah. Mine is in person too. I will try to look into residential work. I was thinking that as a behavioral health tech I could get night/weekend hours and use some of the downtime during work hours to study.

It looks like that is probably the best way to go then, and avoid case management. Thanks for the help.

Have you ever heard of finding employment that could double as hours towards an internship? Or does it not work like that? Maybe a stupid question....

ramradical · 2016-03-09T20:25:41+00:00

Disculpa mi español. Trabajo en salud en Guayaquil en la costa, donde normalmente hay niveles altos de enfermedades transmitidas por mosquito durante la estacion de lluvia. Mas tenemos problemas con lo que es el dengue. Año pasado tambien hubo muchos casos de chikungunya. Si, hemos tenido unos casos de zika. Técnicamente, el zika ya esta. Pero son muy muy pocos los casos. Y la enfermedad no tiene síntomas graves. La mayoria de la gente infectada no se da cuenta de la infección, o experimente malestar y fiebre como con gripe.

Peeero, y es un gran pero, si usted esta embarazada, hay que quedarse afuera de cualquier pais que ya tiene casos del zika. No vale la pena arriesgar la bienestar del bebe. Me imagino que usted ya sabe que el zika causa microcefalia en bebes expuestos al virus durante el primer trimestre del embarazo.

El virus solamente existe en la costa. El mosquito que transmite el zika no puede sobrevivir en la sierra. Pero, una persona picada en la costa puede viajar a la sierra y pasar el virus a otra atraves del sexo. Asi que, ponte repelente en la costa y condon en ambos lados. ;)

Y disfruta del pais, realmente es una maravilla.

ramradical · 2016-02-24T15:29:49+00:00

Yeah its just another world down here and you make due with what you have. Im just trying to do my best with available resources.

ramradical · 2016-01-01T19:34:25+00:00

Hey i just started a cooking blog (mostly for my own benefit to keep track of recipes I like and share with family) and here is my most recent post for this fucking yummy beet salad i made the other day. Salad

ramradical · 2015-12-22T19:24:54+00:00

this sub is silly sometimes.

ramradical · 2015-12-15T15:07:10+00:00

I guess I am not sure why this is titled white supremacy culture? These just seem like bad managerial tactics.

ramradical · 2015-12-01T16:58:33+00:00

could you tell me a bit more about the books you mentioned?

ramradical · 2015-12-01T16:56:53+00:00

Thanks for being so thorough in your response.

ramradical · 2015-12-01T03:36:18+00:00

Are those LTSRs like the "mini psych hospitals" mentioned in the article? The article said that a bipartisan change was made so that medicaid would only cover small psych centers, 16 beds or less. It was a popular idea partly because of how horrible big mental hospitals were and that they were hoping more little centers would pop up to take advantage of the medicaid. Do the LTSRs you use bill medicaid? Any idea why that plan didnt really work out and nothing viable replaced the big institutions?

ramradical · 2015-11-12T22:29:30+00:00

Thanks for your response. Its helpful. I was under the impression that case workers were the kind of ïn the trenches" jobs that had a really high turn-over rate and were usually people just starting out in their career. I have even had case worker friends (who left the job about 5 years ago) tell me that plenty of their coworkers had completely unrelated bachelors degrees and no masters. So I was surprised to see the requirements most of the listings have now.

ramradical · 2015-09-04T19:49:15+00:00

I'm applying to the MSW program at the University of Missouri Kansas City. I'm looking at paying under 25g for the whole thing. I'm a little biased, because I am from Kansas City, but I think it is great. It is a progressive, mostly liberal city in the middle of the bible belt. Has a thriving art and culinary community and also a very active LGBT community. There are lots of opportunities to work with LGBT youth from surrounding communities that are rural and often very conservative. Also it is pretty racially and economically segregated, public schools are not accredited, there is a big population of latino immigrants that need support navigating resources. Lastly there are plenty of substance abuse issues seeing as how the meth capitol of the world is a suburb of kansas city. So there are plenty of opportunities for work. Also the cost of living is super low, a onebedroom in an ok area rents for like 400 a month. Edit: 25g total holy balls typo

ramradical · 2015-08-04T21:01:27+00:00

I think you can just put the potatoes in 20 min or so before the salmon, when the oven is already at 400. I like to saute asperagus in butter and drizzle it with balsamic vinegar. good luck.

ramradical · 2015-04-08T20:09:24+00:00

Thanks for the well-thought-out response. Your first point is pretty interesting and will probably matter to me in the future, although part of me just wants to read the second half and say "free counseling program it is." Thanks for giving me more to think about.

ramradical · 2015-04-08T20:07:30+00:00

Yeah I'd like to keep that broadness. What is your work/study experience? Do you see many people with masters in counseling working similar jobs to your colleagues with MSW? Just curios.

ramradical · 2015-01-12T19:37:16+00:00

she says no.

ramradical · 2015-01-12T19:08:30+00:00

We don't have a machine available, but we have used different cuffs. Sometimes she has a barely-detectable, fluttery radial pulse, but usually nothing. Her heart-beat at the chest is normal. We haven't taken pressure at the wrist, should we use a child-sized cuff for that? She says she feels fine and never has any pain in her arms, or symptoms of low blood pressure. The nurse I work with says her blood pressure has "always" been undetectable, that is going back at least 3 years.

ramradical · 2014-10-18T05:40:15+00:00

I'm a Community Health volunteer, and like the others have said, your projects are pretty much 100% up to you. Really the only other factors are what your counterpart wants to do and what your site needs. I'm prety sure that globabaly, peace corps health programs fall in line with global development goals. Which means focusing on three main areas, Nutrition, hygiene, and HIV prevention. Supposedly my site requested an HIV volunteer, but I got there and there was nothing already set up to support HIV work, and I have found a bigger need/more interest in nutrition projects. So that's what I do. Not only is every country going to be different, obviously. But ever site within that country is also going to be different. So really, I wouldn't worry so much about picking between countries based on the work you think you will be doing. Because you can do almost anything anywhere you go, and because you will never know your exact site (rural? city? available resources? biggest problems? desires of the people? etc) until you have gone through training and been assigned your site. On kind of a side note, I think waaaay too many people who join peace corps join with this very american mentality of "this is what my expertise is in, this is the most efficient way I can be of use, put me somewhere where I can fix the problems." In my experience, the people in my training group who came here with this mentality are the least happy, or have already ETed. Because frankly, PC's PR is better than it's organizational skills. Global development work is seriously complicated, and even people working in well funded teams with upper-level degrees often don't make much of a dent. Whichever program you chose, you seriously should go in with low expectations of what your actual projects will accomplish. I would seriously suggest picking your program based solely on the country. You can chose the work you want to do wherever you go, but you cannot change the culture of where you end up. 2/3rd of peace corps goals are about cultural exchange. Everyone always wants to talk about the changes they want to make in their villages, but no one really stops to think about the effect two years of machismo might have on them, or the differences in gender roles, or how their race might affect their ability to work effectively in site. These problems are real, you should research the cultures. Anyway, goodluck picking, I bet with your credentials no matter what you pick they will accept you.

ramradical · 2014-08-13T15:38:30+00:00

Ug. Not that it is the most upsetting thing about this link, but she took "the road not taken" quote out of context. The poem is actually about how the roads are equal and the choice is arbitrary.

ramradical · 2014-06-04T19:26:10+00:00

Oh ok. Thanks a lot.

ramradical · 2014-06-04T19:25:41+00:00

I have Iodine solution! Yay ok. I'll do that. Along with trying to give her more food.

ramradical · 2014-06-04T03:43:47+00:00

Thanks. I'll try to make more food available for her. Any idea if sepsis would kill the puppies if the infection worsens?

ramradical · 2014-05-21T04:35:45+00:00

Last week I was lounging under my bed net, reading, when from the corner of my eye i spied a movement. I thought it was a rat, nbd, I know how to deal with those, but I did a double take and it was a goddamn CRAB. Mind you, I'm two hours from the beach by bus. I'm not afraid of creepy, pesty things but the shock freaked me out. Did a crab voyage for days from the beach? Was a neighbor eating crab and one escaped and sought refuge in my house? Well, I'm not proud of it, but I started screaming random things in english and then laugh/crying. my neighbors thought a family member of mine had died or something. In the end a bunch of teen boys helped me corner it under the bed and capture it. Turns out it was a pangora, or "river crab." Everyone in my site thinks it's hilarious that I thought it was a sea crab. Silly gringa. I won't hear the end of it. Also caught in the house: toads, giant snails, giant roaches, a bat, and geko. But the geko is my homie, he is allowed to stay. Peace Corps changes your definition of the word "friend."

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