Lisa Rohleder's blog

After reading Nora's excellent post on Myth-busting for May Day, I started searching the Internet for a link that I wanted to add to the comments. It was from a site called "Payday", written by and for people working jobs such as baristas, food servers, etc, and it was titled: "Things you will hear if you try to talk about class". I think there were 25 things, and one of those things that was included three separate times in the list was "Why are you so angry?"  Since it applies to Nora's observation of how resistant people can be to talking about class at all, and since it has definitely been my experience that when I talk about class, I tend to get asked that exact question -- or its variation, as instruction, "you shouldn't be so angry" -- I really wanted to include the link! But I can't find it.

However, I did find this:

So today is the day that we give free acupuncture all day long in honor of International Workers' Day! I am delighted to report that all six of WCA's acupunks graciously agreed to work today (including Moses and Christine, who normally have Thursdays off) and as of last night, we had 98 patients scheduled for acupuncture today!  We're pretty confident that 2 more will probably drop in, and so we will reach our goal of treating 100 patients in a day for the first time ever!

In response to the newly released Clean Needle Technique guidelines (http://www.nationalacupuncturefoundation.org/pages4-1-08/publications.ht...), which replace the earlier rule that acupuncturists may not touch the shaft of the needle during insertion with the new stipulation that acupuncturists may not touch the needle AT ALL  at any time during a treatment, WCA has decided to modify its clinic operations. The new Clean Needle Technique guidelines are similar to the previous ones in that they are not precisely clear how acupuncturists can implement them in an actual clinical setting, with actual human patients, so WCA has resolved to obey the letter of the law and embrace these regulations as an opportunity to create a fully automated clinic.

 The discussion around Ann’s post below, “To the Acupuncture Community”,  got me thinking about a discussion I’ve been wanting to have with you all for a while now. 

This past weekend Skip and I went to New York to do two workshops back to back:  a big workshop at PCOM on Sunday and a smaller one on Saturday for some students from the Swedish Institute who couldn't go to the one on Sunday. We took the redeye flight from Portland to New York on Thursday night and arrived bleary and mostly sleepless on Friday morning to find New York in the grip of what seemed to us (wimps from Portland) seriously nasty weather:  20 degrees, snow showers,  piercing wind. 

But it was a beautiful weekend.

Tonight when I was avoiding doing real work ( answering email, WRITING THE BOOK, finishing up the syllabus for the upcoming OCOM community acupuncture class, argh, any number of other potentially constructive things that I promised Lupine I would do this weekend, argh! argh!) I decided to indulge in something I do every so often, which is using Google's Blog Search to check for mentions of "community acupuncture". This is almost like real work because it's how I often find out about acupuncturists who have started doing community acupuncture without joining CAN -- so when people ask me how many community clinics there really are, I can make semi-educated guesses. I do this every few weeks and as often as not I turn up a couple of new converts I never would have known about otherwise. Tonight, though, I found something even better -- check out this blogosphere ode to the Grassroots Gals!